Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Deeply rooted sin
When you remove a deeply rooted sin from your life, a sin shaped void is left in it's place. Leave the void empty and at an inevitable moment of weakness you will beg your sin to return to it's perfect place, even knowing it is wrong. Fill that void with enough goodness and even your most beloved sin will become unpalatable to you, finding no more vacancy in your heart.
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Anti-Church
Imagine an anti-church. What would it look like? Skulls and devil horns on the wall? Pornography in the pews? Instead of holy communion maybe everyone gets in line for heroine injections? Loud pulsing music shaking the walls?
Church is a place to be reminded of God so that we may worship and align our hearts and minds with Him—thus, an anti-church would be a place to distract us and pull us away from God's presence so that we may worship anything BUT our loving creator in heaven.
The first paragraph describes something similar to a rave, which is certainly a sort of anti-church, but most people here and now, including non-Christians, would be repulsed by a rave. In fact, it would likely have the opposite of the desired effect. So maybe a rave would be one house of Satan but how does he reach the masses that are not yet so subverted?
I walked into one of these anti-churches recently. Instead of black walls with skulls it was illuminated a bright white, with pictures of smiling faces. Instead of heroine there were soft drinks and candy. Instead of pornography there were fashion magazines. Instead of loud pulsing music there was soft pulsing music. During my brief visit to a Target Superstore I almost forgot that God existed.
Church is a place to be reminded of God so that we may worship and align our hearts and minds with Him—thus, an anti-church would be a place to distract us and pull us away from God's presence so that we may worship anything BUT our loving creator in heaven.
The first paragraph describes something similar to a rave, which is certainly a sort of anti-church, but most people here and now, including non-Christians, would be repulsed by a rave. In fact, it would likely have the opposite of the desired effect. So maybe a rave would be one house of Satan but how does he reach the masses that are not yet so subverted?
I walked into one of these anti-churches recently. Instead of black walls with skulls it was illuminated a bright white, with pictures of smiling faces. Instead of heroine there were soft drinks and candy. Instead of pornography there were fashion magazines. Instead of loud pulsing music there was soft pulsing music. During my brief visit to a Target Superstore I almost forgot that God existed.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The world and all things in it are alive
Verily I say unto you that the world and all things in it are alive. The animals and the plants have life as you and I have life. The wind and the seas have life as the animals and the plants, and each nation on earth has life as the wind and the seas.
You speak of impossibilities. If the seas are alive then where doth the life of one sea end and the life of the next begin? Is each rock and pebble on a mountain it's own being, or is the mountain itself a living being? Is the wind one being, or many? How does one make sense of this confusion?
Does the living God make dead things? Is not every being made of smaller beings, as every mountain is made of small boulders and earth? Are not the heavens made of stars, planets and moons? Surely the spirits would not animate the world as a hammer does a nail, but as a river giving life to an ocean. You sit atop the throne of your divinity, yet is not your heart a life separate from your own? Do you deny the sovereignty of thine own heart whom beats without instruction? And yet does not your heart also consist of secret lifeforms, animated by different spirits? Can not many spirits occupy one body, bounded by the magic of God's love? Who among us would dare draw lines through the majesty of God's creation?
Where a spirit of wind begins or ends I cannot say, except it were to speak to me directly, yet verily I say unto you that even if you were to see the majesty of God's creation as clear as a summer's sky, you would comprehend it not. Yet the magic of God's love is a pool of which you may drink and swim freely, if only you are willing to repent and cry humbly unto the Lord.
You speak of impossibilities. If the seas are alive then where doth the life of one sea end and the life of the next begin? Is each rock and pebble on a mountain it's own being, or is the mountain itself a living being? Is the wind one being, or many? How does one make sense of this confusion?
Does the living God make dead things? Is not every being made of smaller beings, as every mountain is made of small boulders and earth? Are not the heavens made of stars, planets and moons? Surely the spirits would not animate the world as a hammer does a nail, but as a river giving life to an ocean. You sit atop the throne of your divinity, yet is not your heart a life separate from your own? Do you deny the sovereignty of thine own heart whom beats without instruction? And yet does not your heart also consist of secret lifeforms, animated by different spirits? Can not many spirits occupy one body, bounded by the magic of God's love? Who among us would dare draw lines through the majesty of God's creation?
Where a spirit of wind begins or ends I cannot say, except it were to speak to me directly, yet verily I say unto you that even if you were to see the majesty of God's creation as clear as a summer's sky, you would comprehend it not. Yet the magic of God's love is a pool of which you may drink and swim freely, if only you are willing to repent and cry humbly unto the Lord.
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