bargain~

"God if you help me find my lost phone i will help find your lost souls".

ever say something like that? i did. I want to give you some perspective on bargaining with God. First of all i know that God does not need anything from me. I also know that he accepts offering.

For those that do not already know, I don't lose things any more. Why? because God will always find my items. My faith may not move mountains but will find the lost. When i prayed that line to God it was not because i questioned whether he could or would find, i knew he would, but i said that so I could find something for him. He accepted by giving me the phone. Do you understand the exchange? it was not so much, "Give me a phone and i'll give you the lost" as much as "give me the lost and to signify that you will also give me my phone as a sign". I was then able to pray for a lost person with confidence that they and their household would find God. The lost found me as i knew God would provide. I know I will see them in Heaven because of what happened prior to my prayer.

this is something i learned and i hope you can glean something.

Isaiah 59~ ideas vs man

one of my favourite chapters actually... Read the entire passage before continuing~ biblegateway.com

These days i've been thinking about the state of the world and what should be done about it. I'm reading a book that says we should fight for change. It encourages us to fight for a Christian world where everyone follows our standard, THE standard, for morality. Though i do agree with the fact that we are the only ones that can please God i also know others have no intension of doin' that. My mind has been chewing on this for the past week and i come to a passage, Isaiah 59.

There is the first and foremost idea: "But your iniquities have separated you from your God."v2 In this world this are godless people. I like the line from V for Vendetta: "No one escapes their past. No one escapes judgment." It's true and yet subject to scrutiny since i am one that has tried hard to be rid of my past. No, God will always remember and i will be judged accordingly. But what then? I context the passage talks mostly about the fact that God is not too weak to save but does not because of sin. This maybe the reality of the world. Our enemies, the world of satan, have come against us and they always stand battle ready to destroy the things we stand for. If we are sinful and as v3-13 what do we expect? we will be overcome. What of God then? Will he allow it? "The redeemer will come to Zion to those in Jacob who repent of their sins". I can't do justice this right now... gimme a week~ AUGUST 13~ i will write a Bible study for whoever wants it~ i promise it will be worth your while to read it.

This post may be longer than i expected: V for Vendetta aside time~
Opening Scene:

"remember remember the 5th of november
the gunpower treason and plot.
I know of no reason why this gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot."

"But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and i know in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like?

We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten. But 400 years later an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of them... and die defending them. But you cannont kiss and idea... cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that i miss. It is a man. A man that made me remember the 5th of november. A man that i will never forget."


Can you see why Jesus is not one or the other? Can you see why the idea of God is inadequate and why Jesus cannot just be a man. Ideas cannot love but a man can. Ideas cannot identify with us and yet man can. But what now? Man can be forgotten, Ideas will never be. Why does Jesus continue to change the world even more than 2000 years later? Because he's more than a man, his is God and represents the idea of God. Yes, i know it's an imperfect analogy but think about it... there is plenty to enjoy in this movie.

Enjoying our curse

It’s kinda odd how people says it’s fortunate to find a job. I mean, it’s true and yet not at the same time.

Someone quoted the passage in Genesis 3:17-19 and how it is rightful for us to work. He said it would must be good to spend my own money because it’s the fruit of my labour. I got annoyed because at that moment I realized I was supposed to enjoy the thing I was cursed with. We’re supposed to enjoy Eden. We’re supposed to enjoy a relaxed lifestyle that allows us to solely focus on God but instead we’re chasing meaningless things. My mind flips to Ecclesiastes and I know it’s a blessing man can enjoy the fruits of his labour and eat/drink and be marry and enjoy his lot in life. It’s a blessing because it’s not common or supposed to be. It would be life if we did but it’s a blessing because we’re not supposed to enjoy the curse, how merciful God is that we can enjoy our punishment.

My mind wonders if satan has blinded us so much that we hope to find a job that will fulfill us instead of working any job and looking to God our materials needs and wants as well as our internal needs of fulfillment.

Work is work. Complacent, comfortable Christians bug me. I guess i'm more aware of humanistic thoughts now that i'm reading this book called, "mind siege". I don't agree but i like to be more aware. I don’t like weeds with the wheat and by weeds I refer to the parable where the weeds and wheat are planted together and grow together. In the end they are separated but for now they aren’t. I feel that way when i hear things like i should be happy that i have a job because it should give me a sense of self-worth. It's taking something that's a blessing, a means to getting money to live, and attaching some bizarre self-glorifying thing to it. I am happy to have my needs provided by God however way he chooses to do it. We so easily look at the gifts and not the giver.

churches and Prophesy

I wanted to talk about churches and stuff like that for shelby and eldon but in the end it filters down the principles as it always does. Finding a lover isn't about emotions alone. It's important to have that though. If you're not attracted to that person there is usually a good reason for it. If we are to love our church there should be something to bring us towards it. There is also the aspect of commitment though. When you've found the one remember that it won't be perfect, it's not prefect, it's just the right one for you. I'm don't believe in the "home church" idea that i have any more reason to be at one church than another. God has brought me here and i will be here. If he said leave i would. Maybe you ought to consider that option because it's not always staying that is the best thing.

So i've been reading the Daniel chapters 7 and 8 and i've come to a conclusion, prophesy is hard to interpret. I know Daniel didn't get it when he saw it and even though i've read revelations i don't always get it. When i read chapter 7 there was a fourth beast with 10 horns. There was on horn covered with eyes whom made 3 other horns submit to it and spoke boastfully and then stuff happens and the God is glorified.

In chapter 8 there is a Ram that has 2 horns and he is unstoppable until a goat appears and subdues it.

At first while goin' through this reading i thought that the little horn might be Jesus cuz it causes the darkness to fall and the goat might be Jesus cuz it subdues the ram. It just seemed to make sense until i realized the horn spoke boastfully and is actually part of the beast and gets destroyed. With the goat is saw that he throws truth to ground. I remember something i read a long time ago in a novel i read, i don't remember word for word but the gist is, "evil will consume itself". One of the inherent flaws of evil is that it doesn't accomplish anything which is a reason it cannot overcome good.

For an evil person to work with another evil person they will fight themselves because they want to do evil and it doesn't matter to whom. They will steal and kill and rape each other but the righteous have love. If i love people i will help them and if they love me they will help me. With that we can be stronger and in reading these passages we see that evil contends with itself as kingdom rises against kingdom.

It's good to be reminded of inevitable victory even when i realize many horrible things will happen. The world will seem Godless but God has not abandoned us.

sidenote: The last king will destroy the holy people and mighty men. Many bad things happen to the faithful and sometimes i wonder why it's goin' to be like that. I will fight the good fight and die whether in this time or that.