A Bird with Clipped Wings

Birds don't fly with clipped wings
But here you are; flirtatious beyond boundaries. Now gazing at the limitless sky.
Take courage, you've cried enough.

Wipe away the tears. Now is the time to take the mantle. In stale air, in every weakness, in every breathless state; all brought out the beauty within you.

Leave the rubbles behind, freedom awaits you. Howbeit that the effulgent sky now seeks after you. Once absent, now it esteems you.
Stretch out those wings, fly my birdie!

Fly above the storm. For nature never meant for you to fly. But you overcame all obstacles and laughed at the hailstorm. The irony was to keep you bound and lifeless; to keep you submerged and forgotten.

Now you can almost see the horizon. The colorful picturesque landscape; all coming into fruition at last.My, my, my! What a beauty! So Illuminating; such captivating beacon of hope!

Who would've taught the clipped bird could fly? See how she sores through the storm. So, love every moment. The sky is calling your name now.

A Journey to Absence

My heart is pounding. Days and days, I dreamt that my family will come from all sides of the country to sit once more and laugh and tell stories under the palm kennel tree.
I must pay the price, I must be brave, I don't want anymore dreams, I must walk this out.  Who cares if I was the black sheep, if I was the one who everyone despised? Who cares if my family was the most dysfunctional of them all?
I am now packing my bags, I am now leaving house, I am at the airport going to a town with colors. I am standing at the door of my heart.
When suddenly it hit me. My mind and my heart is now in conflict. Go or not to go. I need an answer.
The coming tomorrow is now fleating. I am no longer moving forward. The town with the colors had suddenly disappeared, the children's laughter has turned to tears.
I gathered my bags hurriedly, heading back to my house, to my own place of familiarity, back to my cave.
My head has finally did it again. He has brought me back into this place. Back into my own walls, covered in my own little world.

#character, #adventure, #absence, #perspective, #strength, #integrity, #journey, #dramatic monologue

A fig tree without figs

Open the furnace, give me the plant, burn while the young ones watch,
In vain you came, in vain you must go.
An unruffled garden, a seed of figs with branches​ full of thorns.
Pick the sugary plant and throw it back into the fire.
For the friend who wanted figs found nothing but leaves. While the plant grew, it grew without figs.
How is it possible? How can this be?
Perhaps the Swindlers have stolen the crops, or the storms of life in the evening have blown it down. Perhaps the wild birds ate the crops, or the sun might have scotched it.
But why are you still gazing at the plant? Burn it! Burn it!
It is just leaves!
It is of no use to the Gardener​ now but to be cut down from its stem and be thrown into the fire.
Why sit there and count the stars?
Cut it down from the root.
No more will this plant yield its fruit.
Throw it back into the fire!  The sugary plant, a fig tree without figs!

When love was buried.

Now as the undertaker lowers down the coffin,
Dissolution sets in,
We are finally heading to the road of Splitsville
How did we came to this place?
Buried beneath are thoughts filled with anger and betrayal, remorse of a lost dream.
Mind racing as the moments drags,
All too well, I can see that we have finally did it.
We have buried love.
So, is this what it finally feels like? Like a cancer it, burns and it feels up my heart with grief.
How much painful could it get?
Does the innocent child, still maintain his innocence?
Can he still do hide and seek with me, and play like any normal child again?
Or will he be dragged into the steering pot of alienation?
Where is my wallet? My keys? My heart? My story? How does one live?
Now I have to come to this conclusion. It has happened and it may be for sometime for me to stand. But whatever may occur I will be just ok. But what happens to love? Will it still go on? Or would just the remains of it become more excruciating?
 
#divorce, #betrayal, #child abuse,#cancer, #confusion,#eulogy

In the beginning God loved the world, and he created man in his own image, gave his provision, and his fellowship with man. Everything in this earth was created for man but most importantly was man's ability to commune with his maker, God. God created man in such a way that man are given the ability to love with a freewill. God did this knowing that man will inturn either turn away or love him back as much as he loved them.

God was suppose to be the object of man's affection, not the things on this world. This was the beginning of man's relationship with God.

But when man sinned against God. He was given an opportunity to reconcile with God. After which man, by his own freewill choose not to, but rather hide and covered his sin by passing along blame and hiding from God.

Before, God would randomly approach man to commune with him. However, because of man's refusal to reconcile and admit his own fault, God could no longer have fellowship with man anymore therefore, they had to separate.

The separation was not because of sin itself but because of man's rebellion. The unwillingness to reconcile and admit fault.

Man turned​ away from God and began to love another object ' the world and everything in it' ( 1 John 2:15-17). This was an act of idolatry.
Which made God angry and he became jealous because we have replaced Him will mere objects and creeping things( see Romans 1:18-32). After all, God was the one who gave them their freewill. Likewise, since man were also free to worship other gods, man no longer became friends with God but his enemies( Colossians 1:21).

And also since man began to follow the course of the world design by Satan, it became known which side men stood.
This world was not to be man's object of affection but God ( James 4:4). The world, the Scriptures is referring is the world civilization, the course of the world, ( Ephesians 2:1-3). Be it, politics, business, fashion, glamour, religion, education, even sports etc . All these which has some way alienated God from the rightful place in man's heart.

Does God loved the world? God loved the world as he created it in the original text and today still does. However, lets define it clearly. When Adam and Eve were created, God made provision just like he made every other provision on Earth: beforehand. Christ was already prepared to die for it. His beloved Son, Christ was already slain before the world began ( 1 Peter 1: 20; Revelations 13:8).
God in his foreknowledge, knew that man will not be able to make it on their own, so just in case we do fall and never got up, we have Christ His Son, for the atonement.
Remember, in Genesis 3:8-11) God came to man after they had sinned to reconcile and restore mankind back to the rightful position. Rather men hid from God and has being hiding ever since.
Christ was then given to man by the grace of God through his love. But only those who wanted to fellowship with Him but can't because of their sinful condition.

Because the world and all the things of the world were polluted with sin, along with the oppression of the devil, it was impossible for man to reunite with the Creator. It required an atonement and without the shedding of blood, there is no remission for sins, (Hebrew 9:22).

Though they were some who had a yearning for God but based on Gods mercy, He was able to used them to shed light to the coming Messiah. They were called either servants (for an individual) or remnants ( for multitudes)
These people who were called the remnants were those who yearned for God but can't truly fellowship because of their sinful state.

So the question does God love sinners? Depends on the two standpoint. First, God loved his people. Who then are God's people? The remnants. Those who willfully wants to have fellowship with God. These are those Christ died for. Generally, Christ died for all men and it is not God's will for anyone to perish ( John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5: 15; 2 Peter 3:8-10). But this is not or has anything to do with God's love but  rather God's mercy.
God's love was why he had mercy on those who were oppressed, those who wanted to fellowship with God but couldn't so he sent his Grace, Christ Jesus.
This world could've been extinct long ago but because of only a few remnants, God withheld his hand because of mercy.  Few examples in case like Noah and the flood. But then God anihilated Sodom because no remnants was there. So God love those who called upon Him ( Ps. 91:14; Ps. 145:18;  Gen 4:26; Gen 12:8; Gen 26:25; 2 Timothy 2:22).

But make no mistake about this. God does not love everyone. To be more precise, God hates the wicked and will one day destroy them.
Who then are wicked? Those who willfully commit evil despite their knowledge of God or those who do not call upon the name of God. ( Ps. 14:4;  53:4;  Ps. 79:6; Jeremiah 10:25).
They are God's remnant all around us. These were the people that God shows mercy and in saving and preserving them, saves the nation (Isaiah 1:9). God even have a remnant in a womb. As He told Isaac concerning Rebekah's
pregnancy ( Gen 25: 23).
Let me use the analogy between Esau and Jacob. Jacob was a trickster and (in my view a degenerate) there was nothing good in him.
Jacob was the Isrealites while Esau was the Edomites but all came from one womb, the world.

But yet in Malachi God says Jacob I love and Esau I hated. ( Malachi 1:3; Romans 9:13).
Some may find this quite confusing. Why would a loving God hate? Not just that, why would a loving God hate one twin and love another both from the same womb?
To clarify this, God is not referring to the individual person but a nation. (Gen: 25:23).
God never refers to an individual as an object of hate but the entire nation.

Jacob the individual was just another fallen man like we all except Jacob had a capacity for God. Although he stole his brothers birthright, the act was ungodly but his intentions was to obtain spiritual things of God.  God dealt with Jacob for his misconduct by enrolling him in the school of hard knocks for 20 years to be dealt with by his uncle Laban, who was greater trickster than Jacob, (Gen 31: 38- 41) which afterwards​, Jacob then cried out to God for deliverance.
Unlike Christians, Jacob was far from perfect.
But deep down in the heart of Jacob was a man searching for the things of God.Not so in the case of Esau.

Esau was a man of the field (Gen 25:27 ) . He was an outdoor man who loved the world and everything in it. (1 John 2:15). He was about what his flesh desired and has no capacity for anything spiritual, let alone God. He was the type that will cast away his spiritual birthright at the drop of a dime.
The opportunity came when he was offered a soup by his trickster brother Jacob. Although God did not approve of Jacob's method since God has already prophesied that the elder will serve the younger (Gen 25: 23) but Jacob knew that his brother did not care about his birthright so he resulted to trickery.

In conclusion, God has loved the world but there are those who are not perfect like Jacob but yearns for the things of God. These are the remnants which today are called Christians. The Christians are far from perfect and sometimes look more like the godless bunch of people. But deep down is a heart that yearns for God and if given opportunity they are willing to serve God for the rest of their lives. The disciples of Jesus were far from perfect.
God sees fallen state of the Jacobs and he shows his mercy and grace on them.
However, the Esaus were does called the Edomites, who were the haters of God. They mock God and the things of God. And are willing to go at any length to destroy and remove God's name from every face of the earth. They are known to be blasphemous, agnostic, atheist and even devil worshippers. Like Esau they absolutely have no capacity for the things of God. These are who God calls the 'wicked' in the Bible.
So the cliche that 'God loves the sinners and hate the sin' is a mirage that the devil uses to cover a lie.
But God loves his people but hates the wicked and a sharp contrast can be found  in ( Psalm. 1.1-6).

( Next article: should Christians love the sinner and hate sin? )

   

Does God hates sin and loves the sinner?

In the beginning God loved the world, and he created man in his own image, gave his provision, and his fellowship with man. Everything in this earth was created for man but most importantly was man's ability to commune with his maker, God. God created man in such a way that man are given the ability to love with a freewill. God did this knowing that man will inturn either turn away or love him back as much as he loved them.

God was suppose to be the object of man's affection, not the things on this world. This was the beginning of man's relationship with God.

But when man sinned against God. He was given an opportunity to reconcile with God. After which man, by his own freewill choose not to, but rather hide and covered his sin by passing along blame and hiding from God.

Before, God would randomly approach man to commune with him. However, because of man's refusal to reconcile and admit his own fault, God could no longer have fellowship with man anymore therefore, they had to separate.

The separation was not because of sin itself but because of man's rebellion. The unwillingness to reconcile and admit fault.

Man turned​ away from God and began to love another object ' the world and everything in it' ( 1 John 2:15-17). This was an act of idolatry.
Which made God angry and he became jealous because we have replaced Him will mere objects and creeping things( see Romans 1:18-32). After all, God was the one who gave them their freewill. Likewise, since man were also free to worship other gods, man no longer became friends with God but his enemies( Colossians 1:21).

And also since man began to follow the course of the world design by Satan, it became known which side men stood.
This world was not to be man's object of affection but God ( James 4:4). The world, the Scriptures is referring is the world civilization, the course of the world, ( Ephesians 2:1-3). Be it, politics, business, fashion, glamour, religion, education, even sports etc . All these which has some way alienated God from the rightful place in man's heart.

Does God loved the world? God loved the world as he created it in the original text and today still does. However, lets define it clearly. When Adam and Eve were created, God made provision just like he made every other provision on Earth: beforehand. Christ was already prepared to die for it. His beloved Son, Christ was already slain before the world began ( 1 Peter 1: 20; Revelations 13:8).
God in his foreknowledge, knew that man will not be able to make it on their own, so just in case we do fall and never got up, we have Christ His Son, for the atonement.
Remember, in Genesis 3:8-11) God came to man after they had sinned to reconcile and restore mankind back to the rightful position. Rather men hid from God and has being hiding ever since.
Christ was then given to man by the grace of God through his love. But only those who wanted to fellowship with Him but can't because of their sinful condition.

Because the world and all the things of the world were polluted with sin, along with the oppression of the devil, it was impossible for the righteous to reunite with the Creator ( Job 9:33). It required an atonement and without the shedding of blood, there is no remission for sins, (Hebrew 9:22).

Though they were some who had a yearning for God but based on Gods mercy, He was able to used them to shed light to the coming Messiah. They were called either servants (for an individual) or remnants ( for multitudes)
These people who were called the remnants were those who yearned for God but can't truly fellowship because of their sinful state.

So the question does God love sinners? Depends on the two standpoint. First, God loved his people. Who then are God's people? The remnants. Those who willfully wants to have fellowship with God. These are those Christ died for. Generally, Christ died for all men and it is not God's will for anyone to perish ( John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5: 15; 2 Peter 3:8-10). But this is not or has anything to do with God's love but  rather God's mercy.
God's love was why he had mercy on those who were oppressed, those who wanted to fellowship with God but couldn't so he sent his Grace, Christ Jesus.
This world could've been extinct long ago but because of only a few remnants, God withheld his hand because of mercy.  Few examples in case like Noah and the flood. But then God anihilated Sodom because no remnants was there. So God love those who called upon Him ( Ps. 91:14; Ps. 145:18;  Gen 4:26; Gen 12:8; Gen 26:25; 2 Timothy 2:22).

But make no mistake about this. God does not love everyone. To be more precise, God hates the wicked and will one day destroy them.
Who then are wicked? Those who willfully commit evil despite their knowledge of God or those who do not call upon the name of God. ( Ps. 14:4;  53:4;  Ps. 79:6; Jeremiah 10:25).
They are God's remnant all around us. These were the people that God shows mercy and in saving and preserving them, saves the nation (Isaiah 1:9). God even have a remnant in a womb. As He told Isaac concerning Rebekah's
pregnancy ( Gen 25: 23).
Let me use the analogy between Esau and Jacob. Jacob was a trickster and (in my view a degenerate) there was nothing good in him.
Jacob was the Isrealites while Esau was the Edomites but all came from one womb, the world.

But yet in Malachi God says Jacob I love and Esau I hated. ( Malachi 1:3; Romans 9:13).
Some may find this quite confusing. Why would a loving God hate? Not just that, why would a loving God hate one twin and love another both from the same womb?
To clarify this, God is not referring to the individual person but a nation. (Gen: 25:23).
God never refers to an individual as an object of hate but the entire nation.

Jacob the individual was just another fallen man like we all except Jacob had a capacity for God. Although he stole his brothers birthright, the act was ungodly but his intentions was to obtain spiritual things of God.  God dealt with Jacob for his misconduct by enrolling him in the school of hard knocks for 20 years to be dealt with by his uncle Laban, who was greater trickster than Jacob, (Gen 31: 38- 41) which afterwards​, Jacob then cried out to God for deliverance.
Unlike Christians, Jacob was far from perfect.
But deep down in the heart of Jacob was a man searching for the things of God.Not so in the case of Esau.

Esau was a man of the field (Gen 25:27 ) . He was an outdoor man who loved the world and everything in it. (1 John 2:15). He was about what his flesh desired and has no capacity for anything spiritual, let alone God. He was the type that will cast away his spiritual birthright at the drop of a dime.
The opportunity came when he was offered a soup by his trickster brother Jacob. Although God did not approve of Jacob's method since God has already prophesied that the elder will serve the younger (Gen 25: 23) but Jacob knew that his brother did not care about his birthright so he resulted to trickery.

In conclusion, God has loved the world but there are those who are not perfect like Jacob but yearns for the things of God. These are the remnants which today are called Christians. The Christians are far from perfect and sometimes look more like the godless bunch of people. But deep down is a heart that yearns for God and if given opportunity they are willing to serve God for the rest of their lives. The disciples of Jesus were far from perfect.
God sees fallen state of the Jacobs and he shows his mercy and grace on them.
However, the Esaus were does called the Edomites, who were the haters of God. They mock God and the things of God. And are willing to go at any length to destroy and remove God's name from every face of the earth. They are known to be blasphemous, agnostic, atheist and even devil worshippers. Like Esau they absolutely have no capacity for the things of God. These are who God calls the 'wicked' in the Bible.
So the cliche that 'God loves the sinners and hate the sin' is a mirage that the devil uses to cover a lie.
But God loves his people but hates the wicked and a sharp contrast can be found  in ( Psalm. 1.1-6).

( Next article: should Christians love the sinner and hate sin? )

   

The Man in the rain

An Epitaph of a love one.

The man in the rain, who has been damped with grief.
The last train is leaving, and it has called your name.
Now it is your turn to depart; far from this place were it only rains.
So many things is left unsaid and to have known you in such a short time; seemed almost impossible.
For you remained mysterious in your own way and I really never knew who you were.
Though I held your hand but I never knew your heart.
Though I heard your roar but never heard​ your cry.
Though I ate and drank from your table but never tasted your pain.
Though I saw your ability but I never saw your weakness.
Though I smelled your scent but never your fears.
But I have no more regrets, just memories of a stranger who although was very close to comfort yet far away from my embrace.

A Love Letter from nowhere

A Narrative peom.

For Valentina, she was just another person in a nameless town. In ennui of the busy streets​ of the city of San Francisco, in the midst of all the festivities, She suddenly stopped, forgotten by the world she once knew.
As the rainfalls cascades on her accoutred fur coat, the boudior filled with women was invisible to her.
​Her neck tie is now out of place, no longer in any fashion sense. As she parades the narrow foggy alley without regard, the wincing of the bystanders behind her seemed unnoticable. Now standing beside the roadside in reminiscent of what her outcome could've been. Her disconsolate face says it all: Tapachula, the place she has left her heart. The euphony of the Fandango, the ineffable jovial laughter of the ancianas, the merengues dance and the stomp beat all calling her name. But of all things was the church with bells and the Artesian wells​ next to it, the cozy mountains, the halcyon pathways where she strolls, barefooted. But mostly at the bakery shop, is the shy and handsome Alejandro who, with the warmest smile, never forget to hand her a bag of fresh rolls with a note "te amo".

   

   

Where is my soul?

Where is my soul? Come show me myself,
But just as I looked into​ my own reflection, Behold, it was another person staring back at Me.
My identity is gone;
Not knowing my own self but in a shadow, in a maze;
I drifted​ to where the wind took me.
Dissembled by the little white lies of  the Harbinger, who brought news of a place with Deep affection, a glorious lagoon; filled with Lust and despair.
Pleasures that last only momentarily and then Back again in anguish, found in a place of Remorse; in a cave of woes.
Fill me with wine and keep my heart filled with The lies of my youth, tickle my ears with soft Soapy words; words that will nourish my ego And stretch my wings far from reason.
But like a vanished light, my soul has departed From me, and as I searched for it,
I find only a silhouette staring back at me;
Like a faded rainbow, it is no where to be found. Nowhere back to myself, just a shell of a man; Like a tenant who has long abandoned his House.
For I have threaded anomalously far away from Existence; and has forgotten who I once was.

Pavlov's​ dog

In a real course of reality, the young man is getting along with the Elites, the White Wolf and his friends.

He has come to know the group extremely well; those young devils​ from the south.

He is now been given a false name and a false notion; prepared for the slaughter. As they put blinders in his face, they will create him a crash course to attain some level of insight as others. 

A different face he has to wear, telling​ him of a wonderful makeup stories about his conquest.

They have now created​ a mysticism of some sought. And to forsake all relationships​ so to be the top of the chain of monks.

Creating difficulties and frustrating the young man with perplex monologue. But like Pavlov's dogs he will obey every command. 

They played him like a guitar string while he depends​ on them as his knight and shining armor.

And when they had finished with him, they now lowered his coffin into the grave.

Unconditional promise to David

The coming King will be heirloom of all My possessions, His enemies will I make His footstool but all who trust in Him will have life and peace.

A night to remember, I made you a promise when I took you to the palace. I made the covenant in the tribe of Judah; the kingly tribe.

The man who is after my own heart, I took you from the sheep cote to rule my people Israel.

Once a man taken from the sheep cote to the palace of the kings. And as the moon shall be, so will be my covenant to you.

As you sat on the throne, I made you a promise, a promise of a Son from your lineage, a King that will establish the Kingdom of Heaven forever, the One called out by the prophets, a Son of David.

There is a Son that was promised to a king, a shepherd boy who lived in the wilderness, who wanted to build Me a house.

A house of cedar, you will not build Me, for I dwell outside the camp with My people, but instead I will build you a kingdom.

I will establish your throne forever. I will be the One to build you a house, an eternal house not build by hands.

Though you are an earthly king but
there will be a King, an eternal King that will come upon the Throne of David. He will established it forever.

He will be the last King on earth and the scepter shall not depart from Judah. 

Animosity

Animosity, the poison for the ages.  As the devourer pours out his venom in the midst of the assembly, his lies cuts like a blade: the work of the great antagonist.

Now as they found themselves in abasement, he gives his consent to the false doctrine of Balaam.

Addling with those with a testimony of peace, as he sows discords and moves along to the next victim.

Sound the trumpet, for here comes the viper! Away with your evil ways!

Wake up the little children, wake up those that are still being weaned and have not tasted strong meat.

For the viper has come to instill their little minds with the venom of deception. With a soothing approach he moves around the camp, like a wolf searching for the wounded sheep.

Taste not, touch not, drink not, but do this and that as he will instruct. Take another gospel, but not the real Gospel, as he  redirects them to the south and far from the north.

Stand fast brethren, remove the viper from your camp! Lest he comes and erect a golden calf at the hearts of these young ones and lead them to the road of perdition.