In every aspect of life we are involved in, there is a factor known as participation. And for there to be participation someone (us, we, them, me, you) participates. Depending on the opportunity, desire or moment in life, we choose to participate individually or not. We choose our level of participation. We choose with whom we will and won’t participate. The primary driving force in participation is generally a cost, benefit situation. How much will it cost me and what will I be benefited. Continue reading
Wonder View
What would it be like to be faithful to God
To walk in new ways that others find odd
Announcing the coldness of your heart has thawed
To show by your life the old ways are flawed
To proclaim you love one you’ve never seen
Would they just laugh or know what you mean
Perhaps some of them would stand in between
Looking at your heart that Jesus has made clean
And wonder if they too might be made new
By hearing the Word and following through
Washed in the blood of the lamb with a Bible view
I wonder what it would be like if that were you
Rhyme Time So Sublime
Tick tock mental block
Good grief what a relief
Flim-flam not what I am
Born once still a dunce
Born again free from sin
Like to win now and then
Gotta choose what’s to lose
It takes time to get a rhyme
Might it start in the heart
It’s not wrong to be strong
Being meek is not being weak
Some with hair look so fair
A shine on top means a lost crop
It comes to stay another day
There is no win without begin
True Friends know no ends
Just Rhyme done in Time
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Obedience Part 5
Continued from Part 4
In fact I desire that. I want my influence and understanding and place in the minds of others to be less and His to be greater. I want my life to facilitate that. Right now it appears to me that He is restoring all He has withheld. I do not know how He will be glorified in all that has transpired or that which is coming but I am confident that He will be.
Someone has said in warning about the harshness of following a life of sin filled pleasure that “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you are willing to pay”. There is indeed a lot of wisdom in those words. There is, as often is true, a counter thought to that premise. I believe that the Love of God will cleanse you purer than you can hope, keep you safer than words will allow you to say and cost Him everything He could pay. I know this is what the Lord Jesus, the Christ of God, has done for me. Continue reading