Hello and welcome to my first blog post. In this “Blog” I am going to try to explain why I started a Christian blog, why it is called Get it Graphic, and why my first post is named “Turn or burn.
Ok let me start-off by saying my name is Joe. I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I was raised in a Catholic house but I didn’t go to Catholic school. My older brother and sister started out going to Catholic school, but when it was time for me to start 1st grade, I was three days too young. My father argued with the priest, but he would not let me start school until the following year. My dad didn’t like that answer so he pulled my brother and sister out of Catholic school and all three of us went to Public school. Luckily I made the cutoff date for Public school by one day.
My dad still wanted us be Catholic so we had to go to catechism. Catechism was on Saturday. which really sucked when you were a kid. Catechism is where you learned everything you needed to know to pass your Communion and your Comformation. Once me my brother and sister made our Comformations, we didn’t have to go to church anymore. Well except for Chistmas and Easter.
I drifted away from God and the Catholic church after that. I didn’t like the Catholic church with all their Pomp and circumstance, but I still had a great fear and awe of God. Whether I was “saved Christian” then or not, I do not know. I definately feared God, but I don’t think I knew enough about Jesus and his sacrifice and what that meant to me, to be a “saved Christian”.
After High school I went in the US Navy where I attempted to read the Bible. When your out to sea for months at a time, you try to find things to fill the time, when your not on duty. I would read a couple of chapters, then reread them and still didn’t understand much. I never was a great reader, but the Bible was especially difficult to read and understand. I read “Revelation” again and again and what I did understand scared the shit out of me. I just went on pretending that I knew more than did. I saw “Ben Hur” and “The Ten Commandments”, how much more did I really need to know? Right?
I wasted most of my life partying. I would work all week,get paid, and get wasted. Every once in a while thinking about God, but never committing myself to being true Christian. I was envious of true Christians because somehow seemed happier and more content. Confident in their salvation. I wanted that confidence in my salvation, but I was never willing to dig deep and commit to it. I just kept partying and eventually became a bad alcohalic. And I was terrified of what was going to happen to me when I died.
I am now in my mid to upper 50’s. I have been sober for about 10 years and I hope I’m on the road to spiritual salvation. I am totally committed to my salvation and with God’s help I can help others with theirs. The reason I’m so committed is lately the world just seems to be getting worse and worse. With the Plan-demic, political corruption. Big-Tech sensorship, and all the crazy stuff going on around the world, one thing popped out at me while I was reading something on Facebook. Some company has made a micro chip that they want to put in peoples hands to “make it easier than carrying a credit card” at the checkout line, or something to that effect. That made my hair stand up because I remembered something in the Bible about that same thing. I looked it up in the Bible it was
Rev 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
That’s when I knew that if I didn’t get my spiritual life together, I was going to burn. So I got a Bible and started reading again. I still am not a great reader so I bought the Bible on CD narrated by Alexander Scourby. If you are having difficuty understanding the bible I sincerely recommend it. I am really starting to understand things now . I know I’m saved because the Bible says in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. I do believe in Jesus and I am just starting to understand the sacrifice that he made for all of us.
The reason I started the Blog is this.You cannot be saved by any works. That is to say, nothing you can possibly do is worthy of savior. The only way to be saved is by God’s grace through Jesus. There is no other way. However once you are saved it is your duty to do God’s will. God has given us all certain gifts to do his will and I am trying to find out what my gift is. One gift I know God gave me is music and I want to somehow incorperate music into this blog page. I am very new to this and am still trying figure out just writing for now,but when I do figure it out there will be music.
Now the reason this site is called Get it Graphic is, a while back, I was going to start an online store that was going to sell t-shirts with graphics on them. It turns out everybody had the same idea. So it is almost impossible to do it as a side buisness and make money. But I like the name and I am going to talk about some of the more graphic parts of the Bible. I hope that clears it all up.
In closing I would like to say thank you for taking the time to read the post. I hope you enjoyed it. Please send comments. If you were me what would you write about next?