Joe Walsh and Finding Jesus

While listening to a little Joe Walsh tonight on Pandora, a thought occurred to me. As many chemicals as ole, fun-loving Joe has consumed through the years, it is absolutely amazing that he is still alive. I'm glad he is, because he just makes me smile. I then wondered if God has had Joe on life-support for quite some time, because He wants to give ole Joe every possible chance to find Jesus. God loves Joe. ---Then I thought, what if Joe or even one of my friends that have been through what Joe has been through wanted to, but didn't know how to "find Jesus." Well, here you go. You don't have to look far. You see, the God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.---men have missed the signs God has laid out in the past.---but now he commands all people everywhere to repent(this means to turn from something to something else or in this context; turn from this world to Jesus). For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.---The Gospel truth is that all men have sinned. Thus all men need a Savior. Jesus came incognito (kind of: if you want to call making the blind to see, lame to walk, deaf to hear and bringing people back to life under the radar). Jesus was God manifested in the flesh. He was the only One good enough to die for the sin of the whole world. Jesus died publicly on an old Roman cross and was resurrected three days later. Over a forty day period more than 500 people witnessed his glorified body walking and talking and even eating! He died so that we might have life. How can you find Jesus and this great salvation that he offers? The Good News is that it ain't no secret (the whole Bible points to Jesus.). The epic adventure that we call life is the Redemption story recorded in the Bible. The Bible tells us that "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith---and this not from yourselves, it it the gift of God---not by works, so that no one can boast." All who call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. Admit to God in honest dialogue that you are a sinner that wants to be saved. Invite Jesus Christ to take over your life. Make Him the Boss of you. Mean it and receive Him along with the gift that secures your salvation, the promised Holy Spirit.---Find you a good Bible-believing church and grow up. I look forward to hanging with you in heaven one day... and I really hope Joe makes it too.