Sunday, October 6, 2013

Make someone known.

If you want to understand something tear it apart and put it back together. Do it until you find that it works perfectly with no issue. Write down every step you made while figuring it out, be sure to note why it was unsuccessful and make very clear the process of which you found success. Remember that you are the fortunate one for you have begun to pave the way for others to use this process of discovery. The world runs on rage for man has never stopped conquering. Only in death does peace find home in us. Heaven is reality and hell a place we create when we can't accept the reality of all the universe having meaning we never can truly conquer. Only a simple minded atheist can argue that the meaning of all is no meaning at all. Pain is a sense we all experience in life, but love not as much. Build something for someone to take apart, build not with intentions, but gratitude that you can change the world. Because we all have meaning, we all have stories and we all want to be known. Make someone known. 

Thursday, August 22, 2013

I want faith.


Lately, I have had to make very strict decisions within my walk with Christ. I have come to a place where I no longer can question rather God is moving or not. So in a sense I am trying to say that I am striding to have total and complete faith in God and what better way to do this besides to model my walk to the one of Abraham. Its easy for us compared to what Abraham ultimately had to endure. The weight of building this great nation of God’s chosen in a land that God promised, but did not point where to find. The weight of desperately wanting to be a father and having that desperation come to life only for God to demand it as a sacrifice. (Genesis 22:1-2 1Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. 2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”) I can’t help, but to think of God himself actually sacrificing his one and only son for us and the representation of who God was through Abraham. He didn’t have the guidance of Christ word and spirit that we do as a GPS, but only faith that God was love and truth. I here men and women say they could never give up there one and only son. Abraham was pure human living within the same flesh from the fall as us all and easily would have gave Isaac back to God. He was not insane, but in love with God and trusted him. He is truly a hero to me and if I could have a pinch of the faith he had I would be content, but unfortunately I have loose wires. I was raised in a “YOLO” kind of culture and it's a job within itself to build barriers between me and the world so that I can see through the world and into the eyes of Christ. And these barriers are built from faith and that is why I stride to in vision God the way Abraham did. I want nothing more than to please the father and to have faith to move mountains. Amen. 

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Why do we conquer? Introduction

For years I wondered why God intended to punish his own creation, as a young boy church scared me to death. We would sing Jesus loves me yes I know for the bible tells me so, but then some old man would yell that we were gonna go to hell if we kept sinning. Even as a young boy I struggled with how to not sin and how hard it is to not do so. How could Jesus love me for who I am, but expect me to become a completely perfect being? Truth is I was misled, by a so called preacher who's theology was his own and based off the fact he quit being a drunkard. I'm convinced that hating gays and being against everything different qualifies you to be a pastor in my hometown. Though, my own thoughts and ideas are not concrete, I am not expressing them so that you may express yours in the same, but so that you may understand me as a Christian and as a person who has seen one to many people hurt by the Christian Church. When I first decided to throw myself into the world of the book of revelation I had mentioned to a friend my desire to do so and his response was as so "your getting into some pretty scary stuff". The response I expected to hear,  but instead of it being this scary book that no one wants to read because of the thought of punishment to all of humanity. I wanted to give a more practical and creative look into it. And In fact, those thoughts are very mere, God does not want to punish us, but justify a world deceived many years ago. If a building is taken over by termites what do most people do? They burn it down and start again. Before burning it down you usually go through a process of hiring the right people, making sure permits are set, that valuable items and even un valuable items have been accounted for. Then you burn it down, but not with intentions to harm anything besides the poor creatures who will adventually destroy your home anyways. God has a process as well, he also has his own sense of time, I truly believe that things are partaking at this very moment amongst the earth, but not amongst a dimension that we can always see. A couple thousand years ago I believe a man name John was invited to glimpse into this dimension. My challenge to you though is to go look for yourself in the book of revelation. Find what it is to you. My desire by writing is not to tell you what the book is or to tell you about the book, but to show you that theres nothing wrong with thinking outside the box. 
And I will begin with revelation chap 6:1-2, the first line John has already claimed to see Jesus, he refers to him as Lamb, just a curious thought, many biblical scholars have opened up the possibility that The Apostle John was not the author of the book, but maybe another leader by the name of John was. As you can see by the first line John is speaking of Jesus as if he only has known
of him not to have actually knew him. The Apostle John made it very clear that he was the most beloved disciple of Jesus. It seems strange that he would speak of him in a manner that I would if I were to be watching Jesus do something. Just a thought I suppose, but I suppose seeing him in all of his glory could mean he really was seeing him all over for the first time. Please enjoy!