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Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!
I have nothing to follow this exclamation, I just felt like exclaiming. So, this morning I ran 16 miles (stupid, I know) and now I know how an elderly woman must feel. Not only that, but I can barely form sentences in my head and getting them coherently out of my mouth is a fruitless endeavor. I told my poor piano student today: “Okay so this means that you do that when it’s before this, yeah, and that’s all the explanation you’re going to get, so I hope you get it.” Seriously, that’s as far as my brain is going today. I saw a snail this morning! And fog. And when I ran through the bushes they got me sopping wet. It was a very exciting day.
Alright, now I have something more serious to discuss with you all. Hebrews 10:26-31 says,

“If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses, How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy this the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ and again, ‘The Lord will judge his people.’ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

Let me tell you something truthfully.
I wish these verses weren’t in the Bible.
Goodness, gracious, they’re just a wee bit forceful, aren’t they? And convicting. Very very convicting. I think these might be rated as a few of the hardest verses in the entire Bible. There’s not much more to be said about them except that we cannot and should not keep on sinning. We have no right to, and we’re not going to get off the hook as easily as we’ve all been expecting. God is Love (and He's always faithful to forgive us of our sins--70 times 7--and He'll never stop loving us--just thought I needed to insert this), but He’s no pushover. So I guess I need to pray that I can obey this verse. And pray that I won’t be anxious about not being able to obey this verse (I was sweating bullets when I read it this morning). “Don’t be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present you requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard you hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7