Saturday, October 28, 2023

WHAT WILL BE?

 


Many are the worldly powers that be.

They take no notice of such as me.

For their cause, they must have victory!

God alone knows the outcome we'll see.


Angry young people demanding their share.

Confused old workers, tired from wear and tear.

They each, in their own way, think that it is all unfair!

It's all really mine; so you best beware!


Feed the hungry, and maybe make a new friend?!

Or, stand at the door, and don't let them come in?!

Where we are now, we really already have been.

You're not my neighbor, and I'm not your kin!


Is the aim of this game just  to hustle and hoard?!

Surely there's a higher way? Please, help us Lord!

Maybe we could finally learn to live in one accord?

Surely that's a train on which we can all get aboard?


Has that train already left the station?





DIFFERENT TYPES OF JESUS PEOPLE

1. Poet/Musician

2. Social Worker

3. Counselor/Therapist 

4. Business Manager

5. Environmentalist

6. Systematic Theologian 

7. Family Man/Woman

8. Social Justice Activist

9. Political Worker

10. Medical Worker

11. Food Supply Provider

12. Educator

13. Military/Police

14. Mystic/Hermit

15. Monastic

16. Rational Classicist

17. Philosophic Moralist

18. Holiness Advocate 

19. Esoteric Gnostic

20. Clueless Observer

21. Complicated Ritualists

22. Simplified Restorationist

23. Charismatic Ecstatic 

24. Progressive Untraditional 

25. Ethnic Enthusiast

26. Disaster Relief Worker

27. Country Clubber

28. Cultish Heretic

29. Ungodly Pretender

30. Humble Seeker

31. Miracle Mongers

32. Cessationist Cynics

33. 





ABRAHAM FAITH

 












The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:1 NLT


That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 NLT


So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

2 Corinthians 4:18 NLT


But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

Matthew 13:16‭-‬17 RSV


for we walk by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7 RSV


The March of Abraham, by József Molnár



WILDERNESS

 He drove them out of the Garden, and cursed the Creation. Thorns and thistles, disease and death ...


But, the "Seed of woman" was mentioned?!


Forty years, until all the faithless fell out, they wandered in the wilderness.

But, He fed them, cared for them, ...


The next generation was not a lot better?! And, the next ...


No generation has been edenic. We are all east of Eden.


But, the Tree of Life is out there!





WHERE AM I?!

 woke up in the middle of the night... where am I?!


Alabama home I'm selling.

Mississippi home I've bought, and am moving into ...

Rented beach condo for a few days vacationing ...


This world is NOT my home ...


East of Eden ... trying to find that Tree!


And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Genesis 4:16 KJV


"Go west, old man"?!










Cain fleeing before Jehovah's Curse, by Fernand-Anne Piestre Cormon, c. 1880

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TRUST

 

"With bowed head," not "with bated breath"?!


"Holding up holy hands," not "holding my breath"?!


Trust, not trepidation?!


Anticipation, not anxiety?!


Faith, not fear!


O Lord, help me to trust You, BEFORE the way is clear!  

Give me peace, THROUGH "the valley of the shadow of death ..."




NIGHT PRAYER

 As I lay here in the darkness, unable to sleep this night, I ask, why do you hide in the shadows? I ask, why do you only whisper rather than write boldly, plainly on the skies? Why is it so difficult for us to follow where you lead? Why can we not see the signs? Why is it so confusing?


We begin to look so much like the world around us. We are not transforming, but rather conforming?! Looking less and less like Him, and more and more like them?! In the name of relevance, we are neglecting righteousness?! Happiness has replaced holiness?! 




SIN

Racism is wrong, in so many ways.

Murder ends the path of jealousy and desire.

Greed is a crippling sin of the heart.

Stealing is selfish, and stirs up rage.

Homosexuality is a perversion.

Abortion is murder.

Lying damns oneself, and, unfairly others.

Adultery is no light matter, but so very destructive.

Arrogance is deceptive and devious.

Hypocrisy is a self-defeating game.

Carnality is the opposite of Spirituality, and it's bane;  and, Spirituality crucifies Carnality.

Time fails to do more than list laziness, gluttony, jealousy, drunkenness, ...

Some distracting. Some destructive. Some deadly.  All damnable.

Matt.15:19

Gal.5:19-21

Romans 1:28-32

I Corinthians 6:9-10

Ephesians 4:3-8


God, have mercy.

*******"

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 15:19 ESV