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[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I have been experimenting with homemade tortillas. I have found that store bought tortillas have many added ingredients that I’d rather not eat. I have found a very simple recipe that works well for me, and thought you might enjoy trying it 😋

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God is good!

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This HVAC technician went to the wrong house to fix a furnace… and ended up being an answer to someone’s prayer.

He showed up thinking he was sent there, fixed the broken relay, and got the heat working. When he realized he had gone to the wrong address, the woman started crying and told him she had prayed that morning asking God to send someone to fix her heat because she couldn’t afford it.

He told her it was on the house and left her with a warm home. Sometimes God really does work in mysterious ways.

Have you ever experienced something that felt like it was meant to be?

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Life be lifin! Amen!

[Orietta Rose 🇺🇲 @0riettaRose]

Miss Pearl explains 10 small things she does to stay close to God each day 🙏🏽 🙌🏽

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.

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@kenny5alive I’ve been burned more than once BUT I’ve also been blessed far beyond any loss to me. I’ll keep helping when I can. God is faithful.

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[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A man said "I accept Jesus Christ" on his deathbed.

The church asked if he really meant it.

I need to ask you something.

When did we become the gatekeepers of grace?

I've watched Christians dissect Scott Adams' final words like prosecutors.

They parsed his phrases. They weighed his tone. They measured his faith against some invisible scale and found it wanting.

"That doesn't sound like surrender," they said. "That sounds like a man hedging his bets."

And I understand the instinct. I do.

But there's a verse that haunts me. Not because it's obscure—because it's too simple.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."
(Romans 10:13)

Whosoever.

Not "whosoever truly believes in their heart of hearts." Not "whosoever demonstrates sufficient sincerity." Not "whosoever calls early enough in life that we trust their
motives."

Whosoever.

The moment we add prerequisites to that promise, we've traded the Gospel for religion.

We've smuggled works back in through the side door labeled "authentic faith."

I know what some of you are thinking.

But he admitted he wasn't a believer.
He talked about "risk and reward."
He said he hoped he'd "qualify."

Yes. He did.

And those words make us uncomfortable. They don't sound like the confident declarations we want from converts. They sound uncertain. Calculating. Human.

But here's what I need you to hear:

The thief on the cross didn't have time to develop mature theology either.

He was a criminal. Hours from death. He looked at Jesus and said, "Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom."

That's it.

No profession of belief in the resurrection. No renunciation of his former life. No evidence of transformed character.

Just a desperate man, reaching for a hand he wasn't sure would take his.

And Jesus said, "Today you will be with me in paradise."

We have a problem, and it's not Scott Adams.

It's us.

We've internalized a law that God never gave us. A natural sense of fairness that says late arrivals should get less. That deathbed conversions are suspicious. That the math
should somehow work out—more faith, more years, more sacrifice equals more standing before God.

Jesus told a parable about this.

We skip over it because it offends us.

A landowner hired workers throughout the day. Some came at dawn. Some at noon. Some showed up with one hour left.

At the end, he paid them all the same.

The early workers were furious.

"These who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day."
(Matthew 20:12)

And the landowner replied:

"I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?"

There it is.

The scandal of grace is that it feels unfair.

A man who mocked God for sixty years gets the same inheritance as the saint who served since childhood. A skeptic who hedged his bets at the last breath stands in the same kingdom as the martyr who gave everything.

And something in us recoils.

That's not grace rejecting us.

That's us rejecting grace.

Let me tell you what I see when Christians interrogate a dead man's faith.

I see the older brother standing outside the party, refusing to go in.

The prodigal came home reeking of pig filth and poor decisions. The father ran to him. Threw a robe on his back. Killed the fattened calf.

And the older brother?

"Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!"
(Luke 15:29-30)

He couldn't celebrate the return because he was too busy auditing the journey.

Sound familiar?

Here's the truth we don't want to face:

We can't see hearts. We can only see words.

And the words Scott Adams spoke were: "I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior."

Were they perfect? No.
Were they confident? No.
Were they the words we would have scripted? No.

But they were the words.

And the God who receives those words is not checking for tone. He's not running sentiment analysis. He's not grading on a curve.

He's looking for open hands.

Paul wrote something that lands differently now:

"Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand."
(Romans 14:4)

Scott Adams was not our servant to judge. He answered to his own Master.

And the Lord is able—able—to make him stand.

That's not my promise. That's Scripture's promise.

The question is whether we'll submit to it.

I know why we do this.

I know why we parse and weigh and question.

Because if grace is really this free, then we didn't earn our place either.

If the deathbed convert gets in, then our decades of service weren't the price of admission. They were the privilege of knowing Him longer.

And that reframes everything.

It means the faith we've built isn't a resume. It's a relationship.

It means our years weren't buying something. They were receiving something.

It means we were never the workers earning a wage.

We were always the prodigals coming home.

So did Scott Adams get saved?

I don't know.

But I know what the Scripture says.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

I know what Jesus promised the thief who had nothing to offer but a desperate plea.

I know what the father did when his son came crawling home with a rehearsed speech that never even got finished.

And I know what the landowner said to the workers who were angry that grace didn't do math the way they wanted.

"Are you envious because I am generous?"

The gate is narrow, but it's not locked.

The standard is high, but it's not ours to enforce.

The Judge is holy, but He is also the one who ran to meet the prodigal while he was still a long way off.

Stop auditing the dead.

Start marveling at the grace that let you in.

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

Whosoever.

Even him.

Even you.

What saith the Scriptures?

That's the only question that matters.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

This hit a little too close to home... 😭

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@BillBubbaBussey Prayers for complete healing and strength and peace for you and your family. ❤️🙏

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@WilburnJo Happy Anniversary!

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@WilburnJo Happy Birthday Mr. Wilburn!

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@w_terrence I moved this week. Looked at iron/ironing board that I haven’t touched in 10 years. I no longer own one.

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

Here's my take. Those of you who went to college are book smart. Do you have street smarts? You spent tens of thousands of dollars for a career that you spent years to pay back. I obtained my CDL when I was in my early 20s for around $40. I spent the next 10 years working long hours to prove my worth. After that, I bought my own truck and made over 200k a year with no student loans.

Now, I've realized that no matter how much you chase your dreams unless you're a good investor, you'll just survive. So, what are we chasing? The American dream? Or are we chasing that sense of euphoria that we get on occasion when we accomplish something.

My point is this, one can chase "the American dream" all you want. It was a phrase sold to you by people who never had to chase it because they were stealing your tax dollars from underneath you.

Be happy. Make enough to survive. Mist importantly, fight back against the system who seeked to destroy you.

Trump and Musk aren't the enemy. Musk has the benefit of being extremely intelligent, and Trump was given a hand up by his father, in which he made the best of it.

The people you need to be cautious of, are career politicians who were "elected" into office with a net worth of little or nothing and are now millionaires screaming about the corruption that 2 self made billionaires are exposing.

Food for thought.

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@musk_news13 Yes

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@carolmswain Have a happy and blessed day!

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@MrsBevelynW Praise God! Welcome home!

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@bubbaonthelake I’m looking forward to it!

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@NC5PhilWilliams 2020 I saw in real time how msm lies by watching Trump’s press conferences during “2 week shutdown” & then watching the news reports. MSM’s lies are more damaging than any lie Trump may/may not have told.

[Lisa Boothe @LisaMarieBoothe]

Witnessing this as I left the Trump victory party moved me to tears. These people have been slandered and demeaned. They are good people. Patriots of all backgrounds who love this country and came together to make it great again. 🇺🇸

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been https://t.co/MElsQSK1sE