Daily Archives: October 7, 2012

Application

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ISKCON desire tree - Quote Struggle Poster 09

ISKCON desire tree – Quote Struggle Poster 09 (Photo credit: ISKCON desire tree)

Please understand I mean you no harm.

But as farmers divide the sheep on the farm.

I struggle to keep all that is good.

While tossing away the things that I should.

I hear what you say when you chide me to care.

And you hear from my mouth “I will let loose and dare”.

Contentious am I against all man’s restraints.

Yet I’m bound as all men with fleshly constraints.

What then shall this striving produce?

With what focus will the general be reduced?

Will I set forth a desire which celebrates my demise?

Or set forth horror by willingness to compromise.

There is turmoil in this debate within.

But there is no doubt the desire to win.

Jesus is among all men to raise “the few” up.

Raise up I will if He lets me drink the cup.

I’m sorry, for now, that I’m misunderstood.

My hope is, His Day will say “Yes he could.”

 

A Holy Disorder

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A scene from Disorder in the Court.

A scene from Disorder in the Court. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Get educated and you will become useful.

Ok.  I did that and found myself useless.

Get popular and you will find happiness.

I did that and had to hide, popular apparently has a negative side.

Fit in and you will find peace.

But I saw where the masses are headed, who wants to plunge off the cliff?

What have I become with all that advise?

I am one who stands against all but Jesus.

Where I find Him I intend to remain.

And this is not of myself nor of the advise of others.

This is a gift of God, through given faith, lest any man should boast.

A Holy disorder has gripped me.

A rebellion to the ways of man.

May God’s mercy attack me.

So, when heaven appears I may remain.

 

By His Grace.

 

Endlessly Less

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Less is More?

Less is More? (Photo credit: leosaumurejr)

A man speaks, “There is no God.”

Yet the man “spoke words.”

A ball says, “I am not flying.”

While it unwittingly obeys the desire of he who threw it.

Another man says, “I will obey truth according to my own will.”

While “according” holds its own definition.

Better to accept that we are “less”.

That is to believe that there is “endlessly More.”

Worse to hope that our less is sufficient.

Death comes to all; decay appears regardless our words.

Why not embrace what does not fade?

Why not seek the help to hope for what we do not perceive?

The Humiliation of Doubt

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Ghost fear

Ghost fear (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

C. S. Lewis, in his book “The Problem of Pain”, speaks of the difference between a fear of fleshly harm and that of spiritual harm.  If there were a tiger about to attack us we would feel a certain fear.  But if we were told there was a ghost about to harm us we would feel a different fear; that of dread.  The fear of  bodily injury is not the same as spiritual injury.  One is tangible.  The other is “other worldly”.

All Christians must deal with this concept in one vain if they are to be successful in their worship of the Most High God through the sacrifice of Jesus.  We must believe that God is good despite the appearance of harm and evil that surrounds and attacks us.  Isn’t this the very point of contention between faith and worldly thoughts?  The athiest ignores the concepts we promote based on this barrier between good and evil.  It should not be so with those who say they believe.

Some have told me that it is ok to doubt from time to time.  “It’s just a natural response to the unknown.”  Or so they told me.  However, after a few decades of following Jesus, I find this far too simplistic to hold with any serious intent.  I look back at when I doubted and count those weeks, months, or years as utter failure.  We are not encouraged to put up with doubt.  We are commanded to believe.

I don’t blame anyone for my own failures.  But I wonder what it would have been like for me to continue in belief through out my entire experience with Jesus.  I am caused to wonder, though useless trivia now, who and where I might be now if I had continued steadfast in my trust.

We are all of this place of testing.  And we all have a similar story about doubt.  It is the point of this post to encourage a hatred of doubt and a love of trusting faith.  Regardless our present experience, there is coming a place where we will regret not trusting.  We would be wise then to wear a trusting faith more and more.  We dress the body for the sake of the moment.  Shouldn’t we also learn to stop walking around spiritually naked?