modern life

dont really like

"modern life" - busy, breathless, a
million meaningless distractions
coiling,
waiting, lurking around every unseen
corner

to pounce!
and snag your mind, take
your time, your life away.

pretty soon we find that we've missed out on life because He is life. we christians might be the greatest fools on earth because, the greatest treasure in the universe (Jesus) belongs rightfully to us. we are the only people on earth that can say, "i truely am rich - because to me rightfully belongs the pearl of great price, the diamond of the universe, desire of nations." He is our precious possession.

He waits right under our noses just to enjoy Him and yet, its. so. hard. to take a moment or two to turn aside from what we're doing to appreciate His presence...

i dont like this busy-every-moment-produce-all-you-can in a single breath and jump to the moon with your brief case and neck tie -life. really need. to get a life...

Sky's the limit!

these were taken some time ago one hot, sunny, cloudy day love the deep blue of the sky

this evening's sunset... sigh ;)

Testimony that God is beautiful and does beautiful things
love the way the yellow light tails from one end of the sky to the other

obedience and the pleasure of God

1Sam 15:22

So Samuel said:

“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

as hands were laid on me yesterday, the word was : " ask God for the grace to surrender completely to Him, that obedience will become a joy."

let my all my pleasure be God's pleasure. His pleasure is in obedience.

thoughts on the heart, responsibilities and the purification of the heart

My heart is desperately sick…

Charles Spurgeon said: “the heart of man is an idol factory.”

Knowing my own heart, it is absolutely impossible to change it short of God’s miracle. That is the miracle of sanctification by faith in jesus. its like getting born again - over and over again through believing in him, the supernatural nature takes over the natural. My own habits, thoughts and motives give way to His heart, His ways...

In wartime or trial times there are clear objectives. Seldom do your priorities get muddled. Survive, defeat an enemy or die. The goals are clear and we prioritize god - just to survive.

However when we come out into freedom, the evil in our own earts muddle god’s priorities. Remember King David. It was not during the trials in the wilderness that he failed or fell, it was in times of peace and stability. Where the cares and pleasures and temptations of this world start to creep in.

Peacetime and God’s promotion might be the greatest of all trials and tests. The test of our character and the true nature and quality of our hearts is exposed with authority and promotion.

The weight of our responsibilities do help - in that they remind us while undertaking them to keep our heart pure, do this or that with a right motive, that we might please God in them. Thus helping to purify our hearts.

In times where we seek to escape our responsibilities, like David who stayed behind to escape, when it was time to bear the burden of warfare, we are apt to be tempted and distracted from our God’s purposes and goals and when we lose sight of them, like Samson, we become blinded by temptations and fail.