There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end is destruction
It is said that only a fool says in his heart that there is no God.
I am no fool but then the life I live begs to differ.
I perform the daily rituals, every single day.
I pray every morning but my heart is not in it.
I read my bible but it doesn't make sense,
And no, my heart is not in it.
I go to church, but I don't understand anything they say
It doesn’t touch my life in anyway.
So I try to enjoy myself as much as I can,
I do the things that don't make me feel too bad
Been doing so for a while now
I don't feel too happy and it don't make sense
At least though I understand it
It works and I can see it work.
About my empty feeling, more liquor will fill me up
I can't sleep but that pill should do the trick.
I am beset by thoughts all day long,
Tossed around by desires all night,
I feel am headed to a place I just don't know where yet.
And so I live, doing enough to go through each day
Why? Because nothing makes sense anymore
There is a time for everything,
A season for every activity
I have tried the church, I got nothing
I have tried the world and it still don't make sense,
But at least here I get to do what I want..
True talk yes, you have tried religion,
You have tried the world,
Maybe you should try God.
All the signs point to this.
There is a time for everything, a season for all activities.
The season for this stage of your life is past,
Why hold unto it?
There is a time for everything (Eccl 3:1-8)
You have tried plenty things but you have no joy.
You have tried some more but you have no peace.
Perhaps it is time you got on your knees.
But why kneel? I have been to church,
It didn't make any sense,
It is full of people who are a lot like people anywhere else.
True but there are others you fail to mention
The ones you think take it too far
It is one thing to go to church
It is another matter entirely to seek Him
Perhaps it is time to kneel
You have tried religion in the name of God,
You did not understand
You have tried the world which you did understand
You still do not have rest.
Come to me you who is burdened and heavy laden
Come and have rest.
It is me you need and not church you seek
But I pray, a prayer every morning when I can
And every other time I remember.
Yes you do, but what do you do right after?
God sees the heart, sees the intentions,
He knows those who are His,
He cannot be deceived.
Going on your knees is not just a physical act.
It is a sign of submission, true submission,
A sign of brokenness, a true sign that you are ready
A broken spirit and a contrite heart, He will not despise.
Truly it is time to kneel.
Let it all out and then let Him in.
Most importantly, leave Him in,
You have been here at this point before you know how you got here
You know here is not a place you desire to be in again.
Leave Him in, let Him guide you.
He can’t and will not lead you wrong.
Remember your creator in the days of your youth, but to remember you have to find him first..
Friday, February 26, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Internal Conflicts
The guards at the walls have been posted, but rather than watch, they are looking within the walls and fail to see the enemy creeping up on the city. Creeping up to sack and destroy.
It has been a topsy turvy year, wonderful highs and wonderful lows. God has been faithful even when one has tried to be unfaithful, but then another story for another time. This came to my mind yesterday night and I just thought to share it, before it goes away entirely. Two passages came to my mind yesterday...
Amos 3:3, Can two walk together unless they be agreed? Two different people. One can put a thousand to flight, but two ten thousand. A three stranded cord is not easily broken, these are sayings which we well know but which most times I do not put into practice. Am not talking about your relationship with the 6billion or so people on earth now, am talking about your relationship with you. The parts that make up you, the spirit, body and soul. I am talking about the internal conflicts that go on each day in our hearts and lives. Our wants vs our needs, the secret desires of our lives. Paul spoke of it in Romans 7 and 8, the war between the law of sin and death and the law of God. Now the more we struggle and war within, the more we fail to see the wonderful plan God has in store for us (I am speaking from experience as most of you will probably agree).
Matthew 6:33, Seek ye first God's kingdom and what to eat, what to wear and all will be given to you.
The truth which I fail to see sometimes is that all the things that can be gotten in the flesh can be gotten in the spirit as well, after all God created all things, for His pleasure and for ours. I fail to remember that what made Lucifer sin against God, was impatience and wants, impatience and wants for things that could have been his if only he had waited for God's time. And truly it is the same principle that is being worked out against us in this time . Impatience and our wants cause the internal strifes within us and while struggling we fail to see the enemy creeping up on us, or we fail to see that we are becoming a part of the very thing we are fighting against.
Delve deeper, two words that came to me sometime ago, deeper into the word, dig deep, if u spend ur time digging and spreading your roots out on the word of God, ur tree truly will blossom. Focus on the unseen people, the foundations and roots of your life. The parts unseen will determine what is seen in your life by the world around you.
It has been a topsy turvy year, wonderful highs and wonderful lows. God has been faithful even when one has tried to be unfaithful, but then another story for another time. This came to my mind yesterday night and I just thought to share it, before it goes away entirely. Two passages came to my mind yesterday...
Amos 3:3, Can two walk together unless they be agreed? Two different people. One can put a thousand to flight, but two ten thousand. A three stranded cord is not easily broken, these are sayings which we well know but which most times I do not put into practice. Am not talking about your relationship with the 6billion or so people on earth now, am talking about your relationship with you. The parts that make up you, the spirit, body and soul. I am talking about the internal conflicts that go on each day in our hearts and lives. Our wants vs our needs, the secret desires of our lives. Paul spoke of it in Romans 7 and 8, the war between the law of sin and death and the law of God. Now the more we struggle and war within, the more we fail to see the wonderful plan God has in store for us (I am speaking from experience as most of you will probably agree).
Matthew 6:33, Seek ye first God's kingdom and what to eat, what to wear and all will be given to you.
The truth which I fail to see sometimes is that all the things that can be gotten in the flesh can be gotten in the spirit as well, after all God created all things, for His pleasure and for ours. I fail to remember that what made Lucifer sin against God, was impatience and wants, impatience and wants for things that could have been his if only he had waited for God's time. And truly it is the same principle that is being worked out against us in this time . Impatience and our wants cause the internal strifes within us and while struggling we fail to see the enemy creeping up on us, or we fail to see that we are becoming a part of the very thing we are fighting against.
Delve deeper, two words that came to me sometime ago, deeper into the word, dig deep, if u spend ur time digging and spreading your roots out on the word of God, ur tree truly will blossom. Focus on the unseen people, the foundations and roots of your life. The parts unseen will determine what is seen in your life by the world around you.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Where do you draw the line?
Have you ever caught a child with his hands in a cookey jar? Or caught a child in the act of doing wrong? Don't watch the expression on the child's face wathc the expressions on the faces of all the kids next to him/her. if you know what to look for you may be able to detect how many other kids do the same thing. In so many ways I believe that is what worries a lot of christians in the world today. Not the fact that they don't sin, but the fact that their sins have not yet been found out.
Now the question is, where do you draw the line? At what you do and at how you go about avoiding it. People sleep with bibles under their pillows, sleep with crosses around their necks, people have the name Jesus ready to spill out at the slightest opportunity, the Lord's prayer, Psalm 23 you name it, it has been used as a defense mechanism.
The idea of defending against the attacks of the evil one isn't behind the mechanisms being used, it is the power behind the mechanisms being used, the power of the name of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of God. If you quote the Lord's prayer 50 times for the same sin, it is very likely that long before the 50th time you will have fallen, same with Psalm 23 or any other defense mechanism you have (I have tried it). Now that power ain't gonna work if you don't believe in it. And it most definitely would not work if you don't know how to use it. The bible says that the Holy Spirit will show you a way out before the temptation becomes too much to bear, a fact and a path which can be lost if you are too busy waving a cross or chanting to listen and look. Joseph resisted Potiphar's wife on a number of occasions but he fled when he had to and I am sure he fled for a reason.
The reason why things work so differently nowadays than from the time of the early church is because we now lay stock on the mechanisms rather than the power. For those who understand and believe, it becomes a matter of trying them sequentially... If prayer don't work, lay hands, if that don't work then use some oil, if that don't work then throw some more oil till the situation works itself out... Look at the disciples after the transfiguration, they tried to cast out a demon form a child and the demon just wouldn't come out. I am sure they tried different means but none of them worked and Jesus told them the reason why, and it was a lack of prayer and fasting. Which as we know is a way of edifying yourself, depriving yourself of what the body needs so you can get closer in the spirit.
Where do you draw the line? The truth now is that we as christians have become quite lazy and are quite content with just salvation, that is enough. I mean if I can sneak into heaven based on salvation then why bother? But then it is a different thing to be saved at the last minute and it is another thing to be a lost sheep that just doesn't want to be found. I have several passages which I want to look at in turn...
2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands(NIV). Paul was reminding Timothy about the need to keep on fire for God, not by relaxing or being complacent but by a conscious action. Makes me think of barbecues and roasted corn...
Joshua 1:8, Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Meditate on it day and night, a continous and once again an active undertaking.
Eph 6:18, And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.. Again a conscious effort of constant communication with God.
This is not so we can go to heaven, this is so we can resist all manners of temptation, both from without and from within. Why? Paul warns us through Timothy about the kinds of things that would happen to christians in the last days. The last days are not the last hours before Christ's second coming but is the period between His death and His second coming, which is as I believe right now.
2 Tim 3:1-5, 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
These are qualities possessed by many christians in the church, these are the sort of things we should also watch out for. its not just about salvation or avoiding temptation, not just about getting yourself to heaven. It also about making sure that no sheep including yourself is lost from the flock and also drawing the lost ones back into the fold.
Where do you draw the line?
Now the question is, where do you draw the line? At what you do and at how you go about avoiding it. People sleep with bibles under their pillows, sleep with crosses around their necks, people have the name Jesus ready to spill out at the slightest opportunity, the Lord's prayer, Psalm 23 you name it, it has been used as a defense mechanism.
The idea of defending against the attacks of the evil one isn't behind the mechanisms being used, it is the power behind the mechanisms being used, the power of the name of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of God. If you quote the Lord's prayer 50 times for the same sin, it is very likely that long before the 50th time you will have fallen, same with Psalm 23 or any other defense mechanism you have (I have tried it). Now that power ain't gonna work if you don't believe in it. And it most definitely would not work if you don't know how to use it. The bible says that the Holy Spirit will show you a way out before the temptation becomes too much to bear, a fact and a path which can be lost if you are too busy waving a cross or chanting to listen and look. Joseph resisted Potiphar's wife on a number of occasions but he fled when he had to and I am sure he fled for a reason.
The reason why things work so differently nowadays than from the time of the early church is because we now lay stock on the mechanisms rather than the power. For those who understand and believe, it becomes a matter of trying them sequentially... If prayer don't work, lay hands, if that don't work then use some oil, if that don't work then throw some more oil till the situation works itself out... Look at the disciples after the transfiguration, they tried to cast out a demon form a child and the demon just wouldn't come out. I am sure they tried different means but none of them worked and Jesus told them the reason why, and it was a lack of prayer and fasting. Which as we know is a way of edifying yourself, depriving yourself of what the body needs so you can get closer in the spirit.
Where do you draw the line? The truth now is that we as christians have become quite lazy and are quite content with just salvation, that is enough. I mean if I can sneak into heaven based on salvation then why bother? But then it is a different thing to be saved at the last minute and it is another thing to be a lost sheep that just doesn't want to be found. I have several passages which I want to look at in turn...
2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands(NIV). Paul was reminding Timothy about the need to keep on fire for God, not by relaxing or being complacent but by a conscious action. Makes me think of barbecues and roasted corn...
Joshua 1:8, Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Meditate on it day and night, a continous and once again an active undertaking.
Eph 6:18, And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.. Again a conscious effort of constant communication with God.
This is not so we can go to heaven, this is so we can resist all manners of temptation, both from without and from within. Why? Paul warns us through Timothy about the kinds of things that would happen to christians in the last days. The last days are not the last hours before Christ's second coming but is the period between His death and His second coming, which is as I believe right now.
2 Tim 3:1-5, 1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.
These are qualities possessed by many christians in the church, these are the sort of things we should also watch out for. its not just about salvation or avoiding temptation, not just about getting yourself to heaven. It also about making sure that no sheep including yourself is lost from the flock and also drawing the lost ones back into the fold.
Where do you draw the line?
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