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God Has a Plan · The Reading Instruction Show

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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.