Friday, October 23, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
A Design For Death: The cares of this world!
How can we live and be free, if we are weighted down by the cares of this world? Debt from a broken down 20 year old car? Rent that is due? Medical bills that are ancient and won't go away? Recurring "things that just happen" that further increase worry? This is all designed to discourage, depress, and distract you....A Christian that has been set free by the precious purchase of your life in Christ. So...how do we rate more than a sparrow? That falls to the earth? Does God really care? And if so why does the Christian suffer these things? ( Or some do) I do not know about those who embrace the prosperity doctrines.
The world and everything in it ( especially Capitalism) is a design for death for us who live marginally trying to succeed in a world designed for material wealth. So many homeless on the corners? We probably made them. Even though we might deny it. Saying quietly to ourselves, " Why can't you get a job?" Consider their life, do you really know it? NO we don't. And so I among probably many do suffer along with questions about all of these things. Paul certainly had reason to worry more didn't he? Faced with death threats and stonings, and beatings all for what? Preaching? Words? But they were not harmless little words were they? They were the power of God, to show all those who were not part of a kingdom what God was really like. And so we suffer yet knowing that we are truly set free when the Son does it and we know with a certain knowledge that there has been a power imparted to us greater than that which is in the world. Still we can be distracted to despair just as if we knew nothing at all! Tha'ts right, and we must resist that type of thinking and it is hard, because we live in a world of requirements,natural ones that take a toll and require a price...Don't pay it with your head hanging low...rejoice in the Lord, again I say rejoice in the Lord....it is our life! This world, look at it....it is passing away right before your eyes...wars, famine, hatreds, separation because of race issues, military incursions that won't go away and dis-ease with sickness prevalent and no way to receive proper attention emptiness in a world full "things to make us happy."
So today do as I do, resist the pressure to cave in and despair. God is greater, and knows what you are feeling. " We have this treasure in earthen vessels!" So if a man rages at you because you owe him (Paper with ink on it.) MONEY... take heed of that attack and know that God cares more about you than that particular issue, even though it screams louder at that moment! But I do not advocate complacency, we still must take care of our lives and do the best we can even though it is sometimes beyond our means to do so on a timetable the world and men set for us.
The world and everything in it ( especially Capitalism) is a design for death for us who live marginally trying to succeed in a world designed for material wealth. So many homeless on the corners? We probably made them. Even though we might deny it. Saying quietly to ourselves, " Why can't you get a job?" Consider their life, do you really know it? NO we don't. And so I among probably many do suffer along with questions about all of these things. Paul certainly had reason to worry more didn't he? Faced with death threats and stonings, and beatings all for what? Preaching? Words? But they were not harmless little words were they? They were the power of God, to show all those who were not part of a kingdom what God was really like. And so we suffer yet knowing that we are truly set free when the Son does it and we know with a certain knowledge that there has been a power imparted to us greater than that which is in the world. Still we can be distracted to despair just as if we knew nothing at all! Tha'ts right, and we must resist that type of thinking and it is hard, because we live in a world of requirements,natural ones that take a toll and require a price...Don't pay it with your head hanging low...rejoice in the Lord, again I say rejoice in the Lord....it is our life! This world, look at it....it is passing away right before your eyes...wars, famine, hatreds, separation because of race issues, military incursions that won't go away and dis-ease with sickness prevalent and no way to receive proper attention emptiness in a world full "things to make us happy."
So today do as I do, resist the pressure to cave in and despair. God is greater, and knows what you are feeling. " We have this treasure in earthen vessels!" So if a man rages at you because you owe him (Paper with ink on it.) MONEY... take heed of that attack and know that God cares more about you than that particular issue, even though it screams louder at that moment! But I do not advocate complacency, we still must take care of our lives and do the best we can even though it is sometimes beyond our means to do so on a timetable the world and men set for us.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Simple pleasures:
Walking through the streets
Seeing and feeling simple pleasures
The fall breeze, it's crispness against the skin
Neighbors, unknowingly being seen as I walk silently by, going about their lives, casual, easy
Quiet streets, dusk arives
My dog and I enjoying private times
Time for dinner, we walk home.
Seeing and feeling simple pleasures
The fall breeze, it's crispness against the skin
Neighbors, unknowingly being seen as I walk silently by, going about their lives, casual, easy
Quiet streets, dusk arives
My dog and I enjoying private times
Time for dinner, we walk home.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
We Cry "Abba" Father
I cry Abba Father because I inow without a doubt that he is truly mine. Paul explains to the early Church of Corinthians that we (those who believe) have the mind of Christ. In other words, we no longer think as we formerly did. In all things Christ emulated his Father as one who " is greater than I." Never taking the approach that he was above the one who sent him on his earthly mission. But, as a Son had all the the rights accorded to him as an heir of his Father's kingdom. That included power in the Spirit. Resurrection power.....
So in these days in which I live I find a split within myself having to be in the world but not of it and living as one who will inherit just a Jesus did, an eternal kingdom devoid of all of the nasty things here on this little blue planet. What are these nasty things? Murder, malice, hate, jealousy, bickering, backbiting, untrustworthy people and betrayers. Have you experienced any of things today? Or are you dull and outside of caring that these things exist and need not to and we can be changed. "In the twinkling of an eye!"
Have your friends deserted you? Your own family also? Do you sigh everyday while watching and reading the despairing news? Take heart then that there is an escape, and a renewing that can be had and obtained. It is thru Jesus and him alone and the knowledge that he suffered for all of those things I mentioned above and he experienced every single one of them and was relentlessly attacked for what? His goodness? Miracles? Feeding people? Teaching another way to ive? The list goes on and on. He did not deserve his punishment, but God made it so we could all be different, inherit life and eternity whthout the evil we are surrounded with every day of our lives.....there is another way, the truth, anf the life!
As Jean-Luc- Picard always said: MAKE IT SO!
So in these days in which I live I find a split within myself having to be in the world but not of it and living as one who will inherit just a Jesus did, an eternal kingdom devoid of all of the nasty things here on this little blue planet. What are these nasty things? Murder, malice, hate, jealousy, bickering, backbiting, untrustworthy people and betrayers. Have you experienced any of things today? Or are you dull and outside of caring that these things exist and need not to and we can be changed. "In the twinkling of an eye!"
Have your friends deserted you? Your own family also? Do you sigh everyday while watching and reading the despairing news? Take heart then that there is an escape, and a renewing that can be had and obtained. It is thru Jesus and him alone and the knowledge that he suffered for all of those things I mentioned above and he experienced every single one of them and was relentlessly attacked for what? His goodness? Miracles? Feeding people? Teaching another way to ive? The list goes on and on. He did not deserve his punishment, but God made it so we could all be different, inherit life and eternity whthout the evil we are surrounded with every day of our lives.....there is another way, the truth, anf the life!
As Jean-Luc- Picard always said: MAKE IT SO!
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