Friday, June 20, 2008

Light.

i am in the light, literally. i'm sitting outside in my front lawn enjoying the sun. there's no life without the sun, right? i know this may sound cheezy, but there's no life without Jesus, the Son of God, either. Yeah, we can all physically live and move around. But for our soul to be activated, that's a Jesus job. To be completely honest, I don't know what that looks like half the time. People say, "Be Jeusus with skin on", and i agree, but how does this apply to me today? Where is the sun at nighttime? Do we just wait until he's back again, or do we go and find him in other ways? In ways that can help us anytime. I don't mean "make God whatever you want", but rather allow God and Christ to abide in you. Not a checklist to abide, and not a adjenda to stand strong, but a love and truth for Christ. This is different for everyone, so we've got to become adaptors. You know, just like the one's you use when you travel to change the outlet form to be used in other countries. We have to adapt our Christ for others. We have to be Jesus' reflection as much as we can be. Kinda like the moon of Jesus... to reflect him, whenever. We'll never come close to the Son, but we will be able to be one heck of a moon. There's no formula, no matter how long you look or how hard you try, God made people different. This is just an encouragement to try.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

no religion please

don't be afraid. look to me and i will answer you. follow me, the road is narrow and the path is winding... but i will be with you; never leave you or forsake you. listen to me to become familiar with the sound of your everlasting Father so that you may be empowered to go and live in the real world.

what is the real world? it seems as if the real world is something that can be a meer imagination of what it actually is. it's a mirage, something that seems so real but ends up to be a mind game. the trick happens when a subject is believed, regardless of it's validity or truth... it just is believed because that is the desire of our beings, to believe what we want as truth. but does meerly believing it make it true? if one is the most beautiful of all, and yet they believe they're ugly, does that make it true? if blue actually looks like green to someone, does that actually make it green? if someone loves another, but the other doesn't believe it, does that make it invalid? if someone has never seen the ocean would they be right to say that it is a solid? NO. you can convince yourself that you're ugly, that blue is actually green, that you are not loved and that there is no such thing as swimming, but you're wrong. opinion and viewpoint does not constitute as truth.

we try to define truth in scientific ways, equations, facts and sought out thesis's; because in our world that is truth. but what if you'd be able to think beyond the right and wrong to come to grace. i will never understand grace. you see, grace is different then mercy as mercy is just making your slate clean, washing all the bad stuff off. but grace is mercy with blessings added. you are not only forgiven but given extra good stuff. it doesn't make sense?! how can you recieve when you've wronged? where's the tally chart, it doesn't add up! and that's God. God is grace, a second, third and billionth chance. and God's grace through Jesus. yeah we could get to God without Jesus being there, by sacrificing animals as a form of attonment for our sin, and doing many rituals. but, Jesus did it... and that's the beautiful thing is that Jesus took sin in order to break it's hold on humankind by dieing. every lamb that was sacrificed before Jesus was not perfect, and that's why Jesus broke the curse, he was perfect. it says, "he made captivity itself a captive"... let that sink in. the original captivity is sin and he made it captive so that everyone could be free of sin. the way the truth and the life. it's not about religion it's about Jesus.