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Greetings, Andy Johnson here. Now lately, I've

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been worried about the bullying and the beating,

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the intimidation and the killing happening here

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in Minnesota by the ICE agents. But I was told

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by a person online that I shouldn't worry. I

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was told that God has a plan. So I decided to

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ask him. I got down on my knees, closed my eyes,

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bowed my head, and said, dear God, most merciful,

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almighty King of all. And that's where God interrupted

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me. Just say what you need to say, he said. Don't

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need all the fluffy stuff. Okay, well, God, I've

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been told that you have a plan for all of this.

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I do, he said. It's for you to get up off your

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lazy asses and do something. Instead, all I hear

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is whining. Do this, do that, bless him, heal

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her, gimme, gimme, gimme, do, do, do. That's

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all I ever hear from you people. You tell me

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what you think I need to do. You ask me for what

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you think is important. You tell me what you

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want, yet you never listen. Who do you think

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I am, he said. The great I am, I asked. Exactly,

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he said, and I am telling you to cut it out.

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I am telling you to stop the bullying, the intimidation,

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the hoarding, the cheating, the lying and the

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killing. We've got policies about those things,

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you know. I am telling you that you are responsible

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for each other, he said. You are to love, nurture,

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share, and take responsibility for everybody.

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Don't come crying to me to clean up the messes

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that you make. I'm not your maid. Don't come

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whining to me to fix all the things that you

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can fix yourself. How are you ever going to grow

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up if you don't start doing some things for yourself?

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And here's a special super secret, holy secret

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that I'm going to share with you," he said to

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me. I don't need your stinking praise and worship.

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I need you to get out there and do something.

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That's my plan. Keep all your holy, holy baloney.

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How about a little helpy helpy? Instead of praise

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God Almighty, how about help people? Gosh darn

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it. Now I want you to get out there and tell

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people what I just said. Excuse me, God, but

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no one's going to believe that I talked to you

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or saw you. Well, what did Jesus tell you? He

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asked me. Well, he said a lot of stuff, really.

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall

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see God. Matthew 5, 8. Yeah, God, no offense,

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but I'm hardly pure of heart. Don't I know it,

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God said. But this speaks to your motivation.

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What's your motivation? Pure in heart. Is it

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to take, to hoard, to glorify yourself, to control?

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Or is it to nurture, to take care of? You've

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been made in my likeness, God said. Listen. to

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the likeness. Listen to the likeness," I said.

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So here's my thoughts. We can see God in the

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actions, interactions, and reactions of people.

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So I say, see God. Listen to the likeness. Matthew

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5 -16, in the same way Let your light shine before

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men that they may see your good deeds and glorify

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your Father in heaven. See your good deeds. God

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has a plan and it's pretty clear. It's for us

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to get up off our ass and do something. Listen

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to the likeness.