The Sanctimonious Saint

Religion has always been a stumbling block since Christ’s days and is still is even today. The greatest hindrance for the unsaved people not coming to Christ is not only by their sin or the devil but believers who are not exemplifying Christ but rather they choose wholeheartedly to be devoted to some religious beliefs.

By doing so, they will assert their own laws and tradition as the model of christianity rather than the word of God. As a young man, observing these traditions, it was clear to me that religion is far from Christ's teaching.

Christ certainly did not come down from heaven to give us another religion but a relationship with Himself and God the Father. 

God who detest religion is by far the last person to give us this false sense of security.

What God offers is a new life and nothing more. God has been promising a new life through His Son Jesus the Christ and not morality or religion.

And through this relationship we have eternal life and fellowship with God.

A Journey with God

The journey with God is far different than what we usually envision in similar journeys. When you decide to chart the course with God, you will encounter  many obstacles and naysayers, even in your own household.

Family members are your closest companion but in the journey with God, they can become your greatest obstacles.

God gives visions that can at times be incomprehensible to others around you.. Depending on people, especially those closer to you can at times work against you or even cripple God's calling on your life.

Remember that as Jesus says,  “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

Sometimes you have to trust God even when everyone doubts you including family members.

Do consult with your family and friends but know that despite their opinions, one with God is the majority. 

Don't depend on your family and friends to become your best cheerleaders, even Jesus' family had trouble comprehending the outcome of his earthly journey.

Leave them alone and begin to walk with God. If you keep depending on your family or someone, you will never get to the destination where God wants you to be in.

Also leave the comfortable place alone and walk with God. When you live in comfort, you remain stagnated. You are to become an eagle not just like any other bird that don't fly . A goose that eats from the hand will never migrate.

The Most Durable Companion

My most durable friend,  a southern germ, chivalrous in nature and gentle as a dove.

My most durable friend,

 In sound reasoning, always stable, and never rattled. Forever spontaneous, comforting, while remaining aloof.

My most durable friend,

Dangerously confidential, keeping the secrets of the heart when my unrestrained mouth failed me.

My most durable friend

 Endearing to an unlovable; stitched to my heart like a pelican crest; with an unremitting love.

My most durable friend;  With profound loyalty, Forever at my side ;  binded to the end.

Season of Awakening

Before I spoke about God being through with the organized Church. I can also say that God is through with the organized religion as a whole. No more will you see the traditional religion as they where before but now you will see something more different. Individually, believers of Christ Jesus will do miraculous things, they will prophesize and reach the lost like never before and also teach the Bible with clarity not as from the traditional way  of order as in going to the seminary but through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.  This is where God is leading the church now, and is ushering in all before the rapture of the church.

Growing up gracefully

It is good growing old gracefully,  but not when you've lost all your sense of reasoning. There is a saying that the older you get, the more wiser you become. There's another saying that the wiser you become, the older you get.  The second one is always true ; the first one is not always correct. There are many people, as they get older they just age but do not learn anything from past experiences. They kept repeating the same mistakes over and over again and when they open their mouths you know that wisdom is nowhere to be found but all folly. 

We called them old fools. Some say that there's no fool like an old fool. Experiences do educate but  experiences do not reprimand. Knowledge can be accumulated but knowledge is also  an inpatient virtue,  and if you don't practice it, you will lose it.

You hear every word of wisdom and folly all at once, every moment, and everyday. The choice you make today propels you further or backward but never constant.

Be wise today or tomorrow you will sit down with fools. And when you have aged, you have very little to pass down to the next generation.  Thus, you've wasted all your learning moments in doing other things other than listening. So for the young, when you are around wise and experienced folks, keep your mouth shut and your ears open; so to get knowledge and understanding. Do not miss your learning moments by talking it away. 

But also, you can age physically but if your inner man is not strengthened by the word of God; you are still a baby spiritually. Life experiences does not substitute spiritual maturity. 

Prophecy for August: When the river runs dry.

A sea reaches to the point and draws strength on its resources but it does not give out because it's reservoir is dried up.  The life of every fishes begins to eat their young and every fish for itself and each fish for the other. And the fish for the other, as the great sea drains slowly and slowly. 

Blind faith: Where does your faith leads you?

Your beliefs shape your faith. If you believe in climbing Mount Everest, you can achieve it through your faith in yourself. However, we must not be ignorant and forget that what we place our trust in can eventually let us down, disappoint, or even mislead us. Blind faith can lead to dashed hopes when our object of faith fails us.

But there is one person we can put our faith in who will never let us down - Jesus. When we place our faith in Him, He leads us to eternal life and fulfillment. In Him, we find that all other things are meaningless. 

Jesus is the only person who has led us through darkness and has the power to get us out of it. He is the only true guide who warns us of what's ahead. When everything else fails, remember that Jesus can never break down or disappoint us - His love and power have no limits. 

Remember that nothing is impossible for God, but it's impossible for those who don't put their faith in Him. Let us put our faith in Jesus, and He will never disappoint us.

Trust and love: a love story

Love, we can share with everyone,  trust, we can only share with trusted friends.

Love is not earned, trust is earned.

Love is given, trust is reserved;

Love is the heart, trust is just the mind.

Love comes with a burst of energy; trust comes with just a whisper. 

Love and trust are both equally needed in relationships, but both are mutually exclusive. 

In relationships, love withstands the pain; trust shrinks away from it.

Love is essential but trust is even more essential.

You give out love easily but never trust; to give love, it cost nothing; to trust someone, it cost everything.

But eventually trust points you to the direction of love, and the only person you should trust is God.

So therefore, if you put your trust by loving other things except God, they will eventually fail you.

But if you love God and keep His word you will find trust with an unconditional love.

Journey to the Absence ( reversed to) Journey to the Presence.

 

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Journey to the Absence (When mind overtakes the heart)

I am at the airport, flying to my grave. My heart has been pounding in exhaustion. It has been days and days, when 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 any more of this nightmare, I must walk this out.

But what if they say that I was the black sheep of the family? And the one whom everyone despised? And I am the most dysfunctional of them all?

But I have packed all my bags, and have left my house, I am at the airport going to a town with colors. I am now standing at the door of my heart.

Then suddenly it hit me. My mind and my heart are now in conflict. To go or not to go? I need an answer.

Oh dear, the coming tomorrow is now fleeting. I am no longer going forward. The town with colors had suddenly disappeared off my mind, the children's laughter has turned to tears.

I gathered my bags hurriedly, leaving the airport and heading back to my house, to my own place of familiarity; back to my cave.

My head has finally done it again. It has brought me back to this place. Back into my own four walls, back into my own little world.

 Journey to the Presence. (When heart overtakes the mind)

 In my own little world, beyond the four walls, my heart has finally brought me to this place again, out from my cave, to my own place of adventure, heading to the airport, as I hurriedly gathered my bags.

The children's tears have turned to laughter. The town with the colors had suddenly appeared.  I am no longer going backwards. Oh my, The future is so bright.

I need an answer, should I stay or should I go? Then suddenly it hit me. My mind and my heart are now in conflict. I am standing at the door of my heart. I am leaving my house to the airport, going to a town with colors.

I have all my bags packed and have left the house. Who cares if I was the most dysfunctional of them all? If I was the one whom everyone despised? Who cares if I was the black sheep of the family?

 I must walk this out. I don't want any more dreams, I must be brave, I must pay the price. I dreamt that my family will come from all sides of the country, and sit once more and laugh and tell stories under the palm kennel tree. It has been days and days, and my heart has been pounding in excitement. Finally at the airport, flying to my destiny.

A Bird with Clipped Wings

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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 a 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.

The collapse of the cultural bridge.

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What is humanity becoming?

I will let the youths tell me.

Maybe they have more insight,

Or perhaps I am becoming like an old song, Sang on fool's day.

Black as night, trapped in the world of inanition.

I am suffocated by the illusion of the present culture. Now falling down by the wayside.

I see myself splitting hairs with the norm.

My conception now fading.

I come with open arms, in need of some insight. Gold for ingenuity! Silver for a vision! A diamond for some awareness!

Aha! Adventure! I love adventures!

Take me on a journey, to a place where the raconteur has a message with assimilation.

 I will incline my ear to understand.

A call for sanity, in a quiet place,

On such a wonderful, bright cool morning. No stress of the day. And as the words were promulgated, then came fireworks. Like a  crackling sound in the ear, all but words with no meaning.

Woe-begone! Could I not hear them speak?

Now feeling trapped again in a stalemate. A relationship falling apart; the bridge collapsing.

I stood as I was before, asking for more questions.

What is humanity becoming?

I will let the youths tell me.

Maybe they have more insight,

Or perhaps I am becoming like an old song, Sang on fool's day

Walk with God

Wisdom of God

Waiting on God

We should all abolish titles

I believe we should stop calling people "man of God"  better yet, we should all be called Born-again Christians. The term "man of God" speaks directly to people as demigods and this can be misconstrued by so many people. Although the bible makes reference on this title but was reserved for people in the time when it wasn't popular title. Today it has become a catchphrase! This title is by far unrelatable especially when it comes to creating lack of accountability in the christian leadership, where a man or woman is elevated to the highest pinnacle and made such in a position that excludes him or her from the reality of their fallen state.

Why I don't like apologetics argument.

Deep down beneath every argument lies doubt. I say this by the way, as not a hypothetical statement but indeed a fact. Everything that comes as an argumentative remarks or presentation of a fact raised by arguments must be neutralized by the questions of "the why". Why brought up the questions if you yourself don't already supposed to know the answer? We must cease from asking questions that only minister to the senses and not the heart. Most questions are to be left unanswered if there was some sort of revelation setting beneath it. God never answered the why questions but the what. He knows that very shortly, if we seek Him long enough the why questions will soon be revealed. To me apologetics are much of what we make of those who raises doubts to the christian faith but not the christian living. Christian living is to walk contrary to our senses and even rational questions of belief. It is sorely based on obedience to God and sometimes irrational faith. We, in modern society, may seem to it as obtuse. But it doesn't matter what modern society thinks. After all, God has been in existence passed any timeline and he doesn't change to satisfy our whim.

A light straw in the Haze.

Lost my thoughts.. Was going to spill the beans on how the kettle became black.

At the sign, came to the last stop, dead waste and more to a demurgic state, following the footsteps of those who went beforehand.

Just a few miles, the sound of the siren, streets of traders and the noisy bystanders, all heading to the last pit stop.

What a trouvaille! With a merry heart and a warm smile, pictured in a haze, with golden lattern, pointing to the sky. 

Lost my thoughts again..I was going to tell you more about how the dark valley turned to gloom.

Then I saw the loner heading toward the narrow lane with his ashy fingers pointing toward the sky.