Minggu, 17 Juni 2012

Poems Worth A Damn

Poems Worth A Damn: Limits

Limits
Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, 
There must be one (which, I am not sure) 
That I by now have walked for the last time 
Without guessing it, the pawn of that Someone 

Who fixes in advance omnipotent laws, 
Sets up a secret and unwavering scale 
for all the shadows, dreams, and forms 
Woven into the texture of this life. 

If there is a limit to all things and a measure 
And a last time and nothing more and forgetfulness, 
Who will tell us to whom in this house 
We without knowing it have said farewell?

Poems Worth A Damn

Poems Worth A Damn: Limits

Limits
Of all the streets that blur in to the sunset, 
There must be one (which, I am not sure) 
That I by now have walked for the last time 
Without guessing it, the pawn of that Someone 

Who fixes in advance omnipotent laws, 
Sets up a secret and unwavering scale 
for all the shadows, dreams, and forms 
Woven into the texture of this life. 

If there is a limit to all things and a measure 
And a last time and nothing more and forgetfulness, 
Who will tell us to whom in this house 
We without knowing it have said farewell?

Jumat, 15 Juni 2012

Work.

Work.


Work.

Don’t over-spiritualize.  You can serve the Lord in a thousand different jobs.  We need missionaries and we need pastors.  But we also need entrepreneurs who create jobs so people can make money so they can support missionaries and pastors.  And we need entrepreneurs because work is good.  Please don’t ever think you are a second-class citizen in the kingdom of God if you aren’t in full-time ministry.  You can honor the Lord as a teacher, mother, doctor, lawyer, loan officer, or social worker; you can work in retail, fast food, politics, or big business; you can be a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker.  You can be just about anything you want as long as you aren’t lazy (Proverbs 6:6-11; 26:13-16), and whatever you do you perform to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31).
God calls His people to lots of different things.  Sometimes you feel a sense of calling to your job and, you know what, sometimes you don’t.  I’m extremely thankful that I love what I do for a living.  I feel badly for people who only tolerate their jobs, or worse.  But we must all serve the Lord with heart, soul, strength, and mind wherever He’s placed us.  Unfortunately, we’ve  turned the idea of calling or vocation on its head.  The Reformers emphasized calling in order to break down the sacred-secular divide.  They said, if you are working for the glory of God, you are doing the Lord’s work, no matter whether you’re a priest or a monk or a banker.  But we’ve taken this notion of calling and turned it upside down, so instead of finding purpose in every kind of work we are madly looking for the one job that will fulfill our purpose in life.
I’m not arguing for complacency in or bitter resignation to your present circumstances.  I am arguing for what the apostle Paul advocated: godliness with contentment.  The two together form “great gain,” he declared (1 Timothy 6:6).  Complacency and contentment are often confused, but there is a difference between the two.  Contentment is saying, “God has me here for a reason, and if He never does anything different, I’ll still serve and praise Him.”  Complacency is saying, “Things will never change, so why bother trying?”  The complacent are like wine left with the dregs, like coffee sludge at the bottom of your cup, like the wicked “who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill’” (Zephaniah 1:12).  Nothing is impossible with God, so go ahead and run hard after your big plans and take a shot at your dream job.  But remember that in almost any job, God can be pleased with your work so long as you are taking pleasure in Him as you do it.
- Kevin DeYoung

Sabtu, 09 Juni 2012

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SATAN IS REAL.
2. Building on that, I suspect many people out there are thinking this, but are too afraid to say it because they think that people will look down upon them as rednecks or stupid or unintelligent. Let me go out front as a person who doesn't give a crap what others think of me, and who is many things, but not stupid, and say it out loud to hopefully edify others to speak openly about it:
YES, THIS RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF NEAR-DAILY HIDEOUS, CANNIBALISTIC MURDERS AND UNFATHOMABLE SEX CRIMES IS A MANIFESTATION OF DEMONIC POSSESSION AND DEMONIC POWER RECLAIMING A FOOTHOLD IN FORMERLY CONSECRATED CHRISTIAN TERRITORY.
You're not imagining things. That's exactly what it is. People have been "bad tripping" on drugs for decades without turning into demonic animals and eating people's faces off of them alive. Just as satan is very, very real, so are demons. The demonic legions are reclaiming and reasserting power in the Americas and Europe because these physical landmasses have lost their consecration to Christ by their apostasy, blasphemy and child sacrifice. It is going to get worse. We are basically going to turn into what the musloid Middle East has been for 1400 years. Civilization is going to lose cohesion and people are going to start doing things that have absolutely no rational explanation: gratuitously gruesome murders and bodily desecration, and rape variants involving children, animals and corpses that normal people cannot comprehend.
The main gateways for demonic possession are drugs, pornography and homosexual/deviant sex. The cannibals have all been drug users. The Canadian cannibal was also a gay porn star. The British couple who raped their own infant children (on camera) are child and bestiality porn merchants. These incidents will increase in frequency exponentially as the collective apostasy of this culture has now reached the point that the "shedding of God's Grace" upon The Americas and Europe is now limited to individuals - and even then, God's grace for the remnant may be within the context of their persecution, imprisonment and martyrdom.
I guess the best advice I can give is when everything goes to hell and you feel despairing, remember that WE DESERVE THIS. What you are seeing is God's Justice, and an opportunity for you and others to draw closer to Him. And THANK HIM.