Where's Waldo?

Oh man! Let's take another stroll down memory lane...

Where's Waldo?

Remember them books? Spending hours at times looking for one lil' dude, Waldo? Man! Those were the days! I'm so excited just writing about it! I mean, who comes up with such genius?! That's what Where's Waldo is, genius!

And how about the entire scene, huh? I mean, goodness! What detail and complexity! I mean, who has that amount of time to dedicate to each individual figure like that? And then there are the other little details that you gotta find, like Waldo's key, or the other characters, a scroll, a pair of glasses,... and the list goes on and on and on; just like these paintings.. I mean, man! This is great stuff!

I get confused by just looking at one of those pictures, you know?

Am I the only one this excited about this?

Can you imagine yourself in one of those paintings? Can you imagine all the commotion you'd be surrounded by? All the noise of people talking, walking, eating, laughing, crying and complaining, singing, burping, and once again, the list goes on and on and on... Matter of fact, NYC has nothing on Where's Waldo, yo!

The crazy thing is that all the commotion and confusion of a Where's Waldo joint is the same commotion and confusion of our world, country, state, city, zip code, block, house, life.

Get it?

The crazy thing is that all the confusion and commotion of a Where's Waldo joint is the same confusion and commotion in our spiritual lives. At least in mine.

You know what I mean? Way too many people talking. Way too many fresh and new ideas. Way too many doctrines. Way too many a lot of things. You know? Way way way too many voices?

1 John 4

Some say more is better. I'll add: not always, in parenthesis. There are so many spiritual voices that at times, it's hard to hear God's voice clearly. Feel me?

Honestly, like on some real stuff, we've filled our mind with so much junk that's it's hard at times to hear ourselves. Imagine having a million flies in trapped in your head, constantly buzzing and buzzing and buzzzzzing. . . How can you hear your own thoughts, or anyone else outside your body talking to you?

It's kinda like that, spiritually. Except that, it gets trickier. A lot trickier.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit..." 1 John 4:1

Straight forward. In other words, "Dudes, don't believe everything you hear, because everyone kinda looks like Waldo, but they're not." It's a stretch, but stay with me.

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1

This ain't no Where's Waldo game. It says here that too many wanna-be's are out there. This is telling me that there are too many posers and pretenders posing and pretending to be what they're not. Things just got trickier, huh?

Check it.

I got this from yesterday's Sabbath School lesson:

"The spirit of the antichrist says that Christ came in a special form that could not sin, thus denying or rejecting the accomplishment of Christ, excusing sin in the flesh, and declaring that nobody but Christ can live above sin since Christ's flesh was different from ours."

Have you ever heard that it is impossible to live a sinless life?
Do you believe it's impossible to live a sinless life?

"These are the foundation stones of antichrist theology, which form such concepts as the immaculate conception or the Arian view that Christ is a created being. With this knowledge, once can not only identify the essential spirit of antichrist but also avoid it... Teachings from God show that because Christ actually came in the flesh, He was able to leave us an example of how to overcome sin...
The spiritual teaching that we can never overcome sin in this life is one of Satan's deadly lies. Overcoming sin is not an option. It is essential to the plan of salvation." Collegiate Quarterly, p. 59, Lesson 6, Monday, August 3.

Can you see it? Can you see how easy it is to misidentify Waldo? I personally believed that it was impossible to live a sinless life, until recently. It's that easy.

"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error." 1 John 4:2,3

Just a side note:

Antichrist, who's that? Well, anti- means contrary to; against; in opposition to; opposing. I'll assume Christ does not need to be defined. So antichrist is he who opposes, is against, is contrary to, Jesus Christ, aka Satan, Lucifer, whatever you wanna call him. Here is what the Bible further say, "And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist." 1 John 2:22

The question is: who are we listening to?--sorry: who am I listening to?

Yo, if you haven't peeped yet, we are living in the final hours--not to sound too biblical. And if we let ourselves get swayed by everything and anything we hear and/or believe, without researching their biblical roots, dudes and dudettes, we ain't gonna go far at all. And that's a bit scary.

Just like always, God never leaves us hanging, you dig?

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them [them meaning the antichrist dudes and any other dudes trying to take our crown of victory away]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.[he! he! he!]" 1 John 4:4

Enjoy "Voice of Truth" by Casting Crowns

Also, enjoy "Where's Waldo"; if you want to kill some time online, you know