The story of JoeyJosef

So for the last few months I have been playing a video game Call of Duty 4 and needless to say it is addicting. The cool thing is that you can play online against anyone throughout the world, different races, religions, beliefs etc. I have been verbally shredded with all the bad words you can think of, I have been called the worst of African American slurs, been called female names, you name it and you can hear it all by the guys who wear an earpiece right through your own television!!

But the one thing I always get is either a real positive or big negative regarding my "gaming" name (4GOD)gman71187. What I didn't expect was the following. I was winning a few games in a row and a particular guy was grilling me hard with horrible names particularly racist names, funny for a true white boy! He even sent me messages, right after I won, so it goes like this:

JoeyJosef: you motherf...in ni..er lover

(4GOD)gman71187: wow what a loser

JoeyJosef: ni..er

(4GOD)gman71187: so not only are you a poor loser youre a racist also

JoeyJosef: f..k you b..ch

(4GOD)gman71187: pretty sad dude, it's just a game

JoeyJosef: I am your jesus

(4GOD)gman71187: you should really look into the MAN

JoeyJosef: did that, I was at a pentacostal holy roller for but felt I didn't meet their standards

(4GOD)gman71187: There are only one set of standards to live by HIS

JoeJosef: I dont want to be a liar

(4GOD)gman71187: doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, where did you go to church

JoeyJosef: Assembly of God for 2 years

(4GOD)gman71187: Gotcha, good game

JoeyJosef: :) you too

(4GOD)gman71187: Where do you live

JoeyJosef: gotta go I have been sick all night

(4GOD)gman71187: later

So yeah the story is not finished but look at the progression in just 8 messages, JoeyJosef may not know it fully but God is pulling on his drawstrings hard!!

I often hear people say they don't ever know when God is talking to them.............HELLO!!!

We have a guy in our men's group who once said the following, " I don't think I hear God but I just keep coming to the mens group every Wednesday in hopes of hearing HIM. I don't know why I keep coming but I do in hopes of hearing him"................HELLO!!

I know God was talking to me for sure, in my past I would have lit JoeyJosef up worse than he could have ever imagined in some messages, probably tracked him down wherever he was in the country and beat him down bad (sound familiar Mr. Los Bandoleros biker guy!). So God was definitely talking to me because I had that initial reaction and even my first responses were antagonistic but I realized again to beat him down with kindness.

I will keep an update on JoeyJosef because I just left him a message. I must leave now, I tell my wife I need to play now to help the hundreds of other JoeyJosef's in the COD4 world!!