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FEB 18 2026 Listen to God

And Enoch walked with God. And Abraham was called the friend of God. And Noah alone was found righteous. If you desire to walk with God you're going to walk alone. If you want to walk with the world you'll have plenty of friends. I don't know that they'll all be the kind of friends that you want, but you'll have company anyway. The road to perdition is wide and many follow that road. The road followed by those who walk with God is straight, narrow, and deserted. God told us, he warned us that in the end times men would be cruel and wicked. It would be perilous times, not relaxing times, not joyous times, not happy times, but perilous times. It's because mankind is selfish and violent and cold hearted. What kind of people kill their own babies? Evil people that's who. We deserve everything that's coming, and what's coming is not what people want to see. So the reward of walking with God is the deferred pleasure of being able to spend eternity with God surrounded by his endless and boundless love. As I look back I see how wonderful the Lord has been to me. I see his grace and mercy in abundance. Some of those I know from the past are gone now. They aren't here. They didn't make it. They followed the wrong road. I was on the wrong road for a while. But the Lord was gracious and he brought me home and took me into his secure arms of salvation. God is love and he has been loving to me. A record from the past from many moons ago:
"Tonight I watched a Western with Story and then crashed. Feb 18--Today was a sham. I left school about 9:30 and went out to Monville's with Hall. Grey and Harry were home since they were on leave. At noon Puckett came home. I was drunk and high by noon. I partied at Grey's till 6 and then took Hall back and got high and then went and saw James Bond "For Your Eyes Only" with Willis. Then I came back and crashed."
Those were the days of wine and roses--well another flower. I was young and dumb and so on. I happen to know Monville is gone. Willis is gone. My other roommate is gone. I don't know about the rest of them, but I wonder if they are still with us or not. Did they stay on the wide road? Or did they come to Jesus like I did? I think back and say to myself, "Why was I chosen? Why was God so good to me?" And the only answer I have is that God's word saved my soul. Without God's word and His Spirit I'd never been able to leave the path to perdition. But today was a beautiful day because I know God has blessed me. I bless the Lord oh my soul, because he has healed me, and showered me with blessings, and kept me safe, and removed my sins from me as far as the east is from the west. Glory to God forever! And the best is yet to come! I praise God for his word which saved me!