SOLD!

Welcome to all you folks who I emailed this thingie to!

Yesterday evening I got a call from my partner for one of my companies and he confirmed that his other company has agreed to purchase my half of the company for the amount I was asking. It only took them, like, two days to decide which sorta makes me feel like I should have asked for more, but at the same time who cares? I got the deal I wanted for the amount I needed and will now have a little extra dough to help out my baby, Grinn Productions. Now all we have to do is sign the papers and sign the check!

Its really cool how God's timing is perfect. We had already planned on going down to Florida April 6th through the 10th to visit the fam. His company's HQ is in Florida, so we'll be able to stop along the way and take care of all the contracts and stuff and get the company signed over.

Doin' Great, Doin' Good, How Are You?

God has really been blessing April and I's life for our diligence in witnessing to Josh and his girlfriend. Even though Josh has decided to wait until August to take the class, I'm still able to take it, so IN YO FACE SATAN! We're now looking at selling one of my companies, for a pretty penny which will help pay for further developing my other company Grinn Productions (soon to be Grinn, Inc.) and allow me more time to focus on Grinn projects.

Right now I'm not entirely sure what those projects will be. I don't want to jump the gun and invest in something with little or no plan of action. I've always had a project and never had enough money so I'm feeling a little out of place right now with plenty of money and no project! It'll come to me. It always does. Remember that whole digg thing? I thought of that about two months before it came about. I just didn't have the time to develop and market it. Now its caught the millions of some major investors. I've been kicking myself in the nuts ever sense.

For now I'm just gonna focus on developing solutions for my clients. I'm looking at hiring at least one .Net developer. At first just on contract, but eventually we'll stick him in an office. I really need to get moving forward with some advertising here in Atlanta. Right now I don't even have business cards with our new address.

In other nuze: April and I are leaving the ATL for FLA in a few weeks. Both our folks live down there, and my sister and her boyfriend are visiting as well. It should be a hoot. On top of all this, there's a chance my best bud in the whole wide world Ben Dailey (ref. pic) may come down, too. This would be particularly nice since I haven't seen him in several years. Very exciting stuff.

..And then there was one.

2 Timothy 4:1-7

I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished [my] course, I have kept the faith:

My roommate's girlfriend ended up deciding to not take that class my church is running next week. She then proceeded to talk Josh out of taking it as well. Its amazing how our Adversary knows just the perfect way to attack our lives when we try and do His Word. It only took a little misinformation to trick her. It only took two days to trick him.

April and I have really put forth a diligent effort and fought the good fight to encourage Josh to take this class as he had committed, and to build him up in every way we can so he might endure this barrage of emotional confusion. For the little Word he knows he held out amazingly, and we're still hoping he'll come to his senses and takes this thing.

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith [it is] impossible to please [him]: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and [that] he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Angry God

Recently I've had quite the interesting conversation with some friends of mine my wife and I have been witnessing to. It was concerning God in relation to death and punishment.

My one friend has been raised to believe that God punishes us or at least allows bad things to happen to us as punishment for our sins and wrong-doings.

My other friend believes this as well. Additionally she believes that God allows people (including His children) to be hurt or killed so that they or others may learn from their pain or death.

I believe that because God is light and in Him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:5) He is incapable of such things.

The reason I know this to be untrue is because it has no representation, Biblically. Never in God's Word does it say he lets someone suffer or die so that others can be brought to Him - save one, and that is Jesus Christ. That was the purpose of his life, torture, and death -- to be the sacrifice for our sins that we may be held blameless until his return. The Devil is the one that comes to steal and to kill and to destroy. Christ came that we might have a more than abundant life! (John 10:10)

My friend asks the question, "Well what if the only way you can learn something is by suffering?" Well, God never says in His Word that he wants us to suffer. He says many times that he wants us to have peace and life and prosperity. 1 Peter 4:12-16 says if we do suffer, then to make the best of it, but that's not even close to God wanting us to suffer, or causing us to suffer, and certainly not to die.

To say that God would allow us to die for the "greater good" is especially preposterous. Death is the enemy! (1 Cor 15:26) Ecclesiastes 9:2-5 says death is evil and that a living dog is better than a dead lion, and that a dead person can't build rewards for the Bema.

So why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people? Well, there's a lot more going on that what we see with our five-senses. There's a spiritual competition going on in which our Adversary, the god of this world, desires to keep us from the truth. He runs the forces of this world, and everything they do is designed to hide you from the truth. One of the ways he does this is by making the bad look good and the good look bad. He's not stupid. He's going to make his children look like they've got it easy and endeavor to make it look like doing God's will only makes it worse.

In the end, God's kids always come out on top as long as they're walking circumspectly. Not perfectly as that would be impossible, but circumspectly. No matter what our temptation, God always provides a means of escape. He did with Jesus Christ in the wilderness and he will for you!

Ephesians 2 is a good place to read about all this and also learn a little more about Grace.