Monday, July 17, 2017

Do you need my glasses

"Seeking you as a precious jewel Lord to give up I'd be a fool you are my all in all."  Are you seeking or are you sitting on the sidelines?  God wants us to seek him.  Isaiah 55:6-7 "Seek the Lord while you can find him.  Call on him now while he is near.  Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong.  Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them.  Yes turn to God, for he will forgive generously."  We have the technology to make a missile seek a target giving off heat.  In the movie Predator the creature targeted with thermal imaging and infrared.  You and I focus and become obsessed with things.  Things aren't the answer.  When we seek God he shows us help, mercy, love, forgiveness and so much more.  It's time to fix your targeting system.  Why you ask?  I'll let the lyrics from Exalt the Name by Sandi Patty answer that first and then I want to present to you Psalms 130.  

"He rules the universe, yet hears the humble cry.
Bringing comfort to a broken heart.
The power of his word can split the earth and sky.
Yet mend the lives that sin has torn apart."

Psalm 130 

"From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help.  Hear my cry, O Lord.  Pay attention to my prayer.  Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?  But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.  I am counting on the Lord: yes, I am counting on him.  I have put my hope in his word.  I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes more than sentries long for the dawn.  O Israel, hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is unfailing love.  His redemption overflows.  He himself will redeem Israel from every kind of sin."  

You want reasons to seek God there they are right there.  So like the game Killzone always tells me when my shooting is off "Aim straight" or "Do you need my glasses."  

Psalm 63:1
"  O, God you are my God; I earnestly search for you.  My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water."  


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Sunday, July 9, 2017

The Hills Must Be Climbed


The Hills Must Be Climbed

The patrol it is a curse
To some
To him a release
The channel of water
The ships honk their way along
Sleeping pelicans wait for dawn
For their honking song
The man stands
He picks up his tools
A dowel only spelled with two vowels
Lithium ion causes the light beam
To shine on
Rising armed a bit
Like a vigilante
He must ensure Mr. Bunny
Steers clear of the defenses
Turning he sees
The hills must be climbed
For there he finds
Peace for his mind
Overlooking lights of the refined
Starlight shines over street lights
As he ascends the hill
To the moon his eyes do spill
Clouds swim in the sky
Playing as the world
Spins on by
Watching the moon’s trajectory
The hills must be climbed
To remind
God, you hold the universe
You hold everyone on earth
Created by his very word
Man is finite
The hills must be climbed
To remind
God has not left his throne
And the man on patrol
Does not walk alone



About 2 weeks ago a phrase came to my mind.  “Starlight shines over street lights.”  On 7-7-17 I went on my first patrol at work around 1:30 am and I got to the top of a hill and looked up.  I saw the clouds going by.  To my right was a channel filled with water where boats go by.  I looked at the moon and clouds and remembered the earth was still spinning and all of this had been made simply by God’s spoken word.  When I walk these hills at work I am reminded that God is still on his throne and in control.  On my second patrol at 3:30 am I was walking again and this poem started writing itself in my mind.  I had to hurry back and get pen and paper to get it written down.  I tried to exclude as much of myself from the poem because God was the one at work here in creation.   





 

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Dead on the inside

Dead on the inside 

I have seen a lot of memes and posts on Facebook and what they say saddens me immensely.  It will talk about liking something or another or having some emotion or feelings towards something and then end with "But you're already dead on the inside."  The unbeliever is dead in their sins.  God desires better for us.  You don't have to be dead inside you can be alive in Christ!  Romans 10:9-10 "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved."  When Jesus died on the cross he made a way to free you from being a dead man walking.  When you spend time going through the Bible you find God's love story to redeem sinful man. Referring to his purpose and Satan, this is what Jesus had to say.  John 10:10 "The Thief's purpose is to steal kill and destroy.  My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life."  
I have been reading in the book of Hosea and if you've never been through this portion of the Old Testament it is a unique story of God's love.  He told Hosea to marry a prostitute and she was to be an example of the nation Israel constantly forsaking God.  Chapter six is a call to repentance and I believe it's a wake up call to people saying they are or want to be dead on the inside.  Wake up and consider God has and always will have a better idea.  Listen to the passion in Hosea 6:4-7.  "'O Israel and Judah, what should I do with you? Asks the Lord.  'For your love vanishes like the morning mist and disappears like dew in the sunlight.  I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces-- to slaughter you with my words, with judgments as inescapable as light.  I want you to show love not offer sacrifices.  I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.  But like Adam you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust."  Salvation is found only in Christ and he can make you alive and not dead on the inside.  There is no other way.  Let me let the Apostle Peter explain it to you.  Acts 4:8-12 "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers and elders of our people, are we being questioned today because we've done a good deed for a crippled man?  Do you want to know how he was healed?  Let me clearly state to all of you and to the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead.  For Jesus is the one referred to in the scriptures, where it says, the stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.  There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved."  If You want to stop being dead on the inside salvation through Christ alone will make you truly alive inside and out.  See this is what is said of the Christian.  Ephesians 2:1-10
"1Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.2You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world.a He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God. 3All of us used to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else.
4But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) 6For he raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus. 7So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus.
8God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago."
 and Colossians 2:13.  
"You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins."


 Your day of salvation makes you alive and becomes your Independence Day.  



 

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