I find
I find when I listen to music I feel inspired to reflect, muse, look inside myself and ponder. a single word can send me off as if the word looked back at me knowing exactly what I'm thinking or knowining exactly what I need to think about.
"interlude" I hope this is an interlude, I hope one day this weight, this "big round ball of death inside" goes away and I "wake up and realize I'm not sad anymore". Woo-boy I hope that day comes soon!!!!!!!!!There is a quality about sin that is deceiving, mabey thats not news but it is when you experience it. Sin sticks to you and covers your mind and eyes, it feels warm at first but that's only because it's the road to hell and the heat travels far up the road. It also feels warm because at the same time it sticks to you it tells you that "it's ok, there is nothing to worry about, you're fine, you're safe, just stay where you are, keep doing what you do, that's the way it is, that's life, stay, lay down and take it easy you don't have anything to worry about, I'm here to keep you warm and toasty".
Sin only takes away. It has no capacity to give. It's very presence decays. All of creation groans. I groan! The decieving nature of our heart coupled with sin and the devil and his genius, is stagering. Look at suicide bombers, the epitome of deception. One can come to the conclusion that murdering one's self and many others is the right thing to do. How utterly backwards! Yet there are those that beleive that there is no difference between good and bad and that being "nothing" is theanswer to life, how meaningless. And now the ultimate in nonsense: the belief that there is no absolutes. Funny we get told to be tolerant of other people's beliefs, and to believe that one religion is the correct one is being narrow minded. How preposterously blind and STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I am to have a faith in a religion and beleive in it and at the same time NOT believe that my religion is THE way then what is the point of having faith of any kind at all???????? But here is where the true genius and utter irony of this deception lies. I MUST BELIEVE that there is not one right religion or belief and be open minded to other people's religions. Ironic that I HAVE to look at the world in that ONE WAY. And that makes me open-minded?
I guess all I'm saying is that we can not do anything on our own, even think. Never underestimate the power of the dark side:) I feel like I should read Romans 8 right now.
Take this to heart
"interlude" I hope this is an interlude, I hope one day this weight, this "big round ball of death inside" goes away and I "wake up and realize I'm not sad anymore". Woo-boy I hope that day comes soon!!!!!!!!!There is a quality about sin that is deceiving, mabey thats not news but it is when you experience it. Sin sticks to you and covers your mind and eyes, it feels warm at first but that's only because it's the road to hell and the heat travels far up the road. It also feels warm because at the same time it sticks to you it tells you that "it's ok, there is nothing to worry about, you're fine, you're safe, just stay where you are, keep doing what you do, that's the way it is, that's life, stay, lay down and take it easy you don't have anything to worry about, I'm here to keep you warm and toasty".
Sin only takes away. It has no capacity to give. It's very presence decays. All of creation groans. I groan! The decieving nature of our heart coupled with sin and the devil and his genius, is stagering. Look at suicide bombers, the epitome of deception. One can come to the conclusion that murdering one's self and many others is the right thing to do. How utterly backwards! Yet there are those that beleive that there is no difference between good and bad and that being "nothing" is theanswer to life, how meaningless. And now the ultimate in nonsense: the belief that there is no absolutes. Funny we get told to be tolerant of other people's beliefs, and to believe that one religion is the correct one is being narrow minded. How preposterously blind and STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If I am to have a faith in a religion and beleive in it and at the same time NOT believe that my religion is THE way then what is the point of having faith of any kind at all???????? But here is where the true genius and utter irony of this deception lies. I MUST BELIEVE that there is not one right religion or belief and be open minded to other people's religions. Ironic that I HAVE to look at the world in that ONE WAY. And that makes me open-minded?
I guess all I'm saying is that we can not do anything on our own, even think. Never underestimate the power of the dark side:) I feel like I should read Romans 8 right now.
Take this to heart
3 Comments:
i greatly fear, and pray often against, that i would be living completely blinded in sin beliving i were following God. comfortable, thinking i were growing, with a positive attitude, and all the time decieved.
i DID take that to heart, because sin is too smart, sometimes i fear it is so much smarter than i, but peace comes because God is stronger, smarter, and He said He will watch over my coming and going forevermore (psalm 121 8) and so i only rest that He makes Himself obvious even to me, the densest of followers.
i always find it funny that we are told to be tolerant, when so often there is no tolerance for christians. however, i think we must be careful in how narrowly we define the truth. i mean, obviously, believe what the bible says, and in God, it is the only way i see. however, i think often we are so intolerant -- who in their right mind would feel any inclination to become a christian when all they see chritians doing is judging everybody else? the bible tells us NOT to judge. SOOOO many of the versus in the new testament focus on love. i think christians need to adhere to that. Don't get me wrong, by focusing on love, i don't mean we should allow indulging in sin. sin is wrong, no two ways about that. however, we need to love the sinners. show them respect of who they are, accept them as people, and point them lovingly in the right direction. wouldn't that be a better way, then protesting loudly and angrily, shouting and screaming that they are dirty and evil? screaming at them won't make them see the truth, it will only make them more firm in their wrong path. how can we demand that those who don't believe in God, abide by his law? i don't want some other major religion to insist that i live by there rules....anyway i'm getting off topic, WAY off topic. but what i'm saying is, yes, hold true to the one and only way, but don't forget to love the people around you, no matter how much you disagree with their life style. ha, and i say this life this is easy. hmmm...not so sure that this was relevant, but it is where my thoughts went in response. i do enjoy your postings jason. they make me think.
I completely agree with you. There are many who say they are christians yet treat others , non-believing and believing alike, as if they know nothing of the forgivness and grace that God gives them every day. Assuming they really are saved and have come to the Lord personally. So I can completely undertand a non-blievers way of looking at "christianity". The irony is that an athiest or post-modernist's answer to all that, is to look at life believing that there is no way you can possibly know anything outside what we can see, therefore we must accept all beliefs and religions as being equal and no single one the answer. So in telling us to be tolerant they are telling us to look at life exactly the way they do ,ONLY. It's only the twist of that prevelant view I'm talking about and how infectious it is. Now the deffinition of tolerant is the key issue. To be tolerant of something, you allow it to happen while not sharing in it. But today's deffinition is a little different; allowing it becuase you think it's ok. You can certainly be tolerant because you think it's ok, meaning things you like, in general, anything good. But when it comes to sin and things that defy or deny the living God and His Son the King of Kings, such as other religions are we to say that's ok? I tolerate it and those that believe them because they are ignorant and lost, blind and slaves to sin. "Only those of the Spirit can decern spiritual things". So I don't have a problem with the people it's the beliefs and lies that I take issue with.
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