I was out in the garden today, briefly, as the sun was beating down on this ole body.  I could feel my clothes getting hotter and it reminded me of a lift we gave a man many years ago.

Our family was heading north to visit my uncle’s family in Portland.  It was in the middle of the summer and it was hot.

We were on Highway 26 on the flats north of Warm Springs.  We saw a vehicle parked along side the road and several miles down the road the driver, who was carrying a gas can.

Dad stopped and we gave the man a ride.  Now, this was before air conditioners were in cars so it was warm inside, but when the man got in you could feel the heat coming off his body, and it up the temperatures in the car.

He had walked a few miles (I always wondered why someone else didn’t offer to help him – Hwy 26 is a busy highway even back then) and had several more before he could get to Government Camp, the first place to get gas.

He got the gas and we took him back, but I will always remember the heat coming off him, it was almost visible. 

We will be experiencing that heat, in the hundreds in the garden, for the next several days and probably weeks.  Thus far, though, Carla’s garden is still green and we are getting veggies (although the blackberries have had it.)  It is great having fresh vegetables, but still haven’t had a ripe one to compliment bacon, swiss cheese on a toasted sourdough bread – BUT it is coming!

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“Our God created light and is described as light. His light reveals evil, but illuminates the truth and the way to restore human relations with Himself, each other, and the Creation. His created light gives us color and, for those who have eyes to see, the colorful chameleon points to a wise Creator who desires to make Himself known!”  Answers in Genesis

1 John 1:7 KJV  “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”

Read an article in Answers in Genesis that states scientists are learning from chameleons on how they adjust light on their bodies, changing colors to blend into the back ground.

It is a little more complicated than that, but the bottom line is that it can be copied by man.

To me there are already way too many people that are chameleons in their actions.  They have learned to read people and to change their own actions to make them more acceptable to that person(s).

While politicians are some of the best at doing this, since they can now be recorded by anyone at a meeting – and compared to what they said in other meetings – they are less effective.

We know that there are studies to determine what colors, what music, what sounds are the most effective in getting people to buy certain brands of products, which to me is a form of being chameleon like.

A good sales person does this to an extent also, talking to a customer for a few minutes they get an idea of how the person thinks and changes their technique to do a better job of selling their product.

Con artist have fooled people for thousands of years because they have learned how to give their victims what they want, while stealing from them without really giving them anything.

We see it all around us, actors playing a part that can be utterly different from who they really are – and make it very believable.  They follow a scrip, but real people have learned to create their own scrip.

2 Peter 2:1-3 KJV  “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

² And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

³ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

AND what is truly unfortunate, there are those who pretend to be speakers/teachers of God who lead people away from Him, instead of to Him.

They line up their ‘victims’ and make it sound like they are one of them, teaching things that these people would like to hear, or sounds good but is far from the Word of God.

Instead of salvation, what they are preaching leads to damnation.

They appear to be righteous, but it is only camouflage, they are but chameleons blending in with the back ground so they can not be detected as phonies.

But the Bible can help expose them.  When we encounter someone like that, who seems knowledgeable, we can compare what they say, with God’s Word.  And make our own educated decisions. 

Philippians 2:15 KJV  “That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

While we are surrounded by those that would lead us astray, we can be strong.  We can be God’s light in this world to help others find Him. 

He has always been with those that love Him and wish to obey and follow Him.

We can stand against the charlatans, the chameleons of this world and through Christ be “the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

AND the beauty of this is that we but have to be ourselves in Christ, we don’t have to put on charades, we don’t have to try and dress ourselves in ‘acceptable’ manners to society’s morals, but simply be true to God’s directives.
It may not make us popular, actually it may make people attach us, or at least ostracize us, but it will show God’s light.

Psalm 27:1 KJV “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

Lord, may I always share Your light that others might come to know who You are and how they can receive your salvation.

Later, Art (-: