When I was a kid my brother made this underground fort. It was a hiding place, a refuge, a secret place. This thing was 6ft deep by 10 ft by 10 ft. It had plywood over the top and grass placed back over it so it looked like a normal part of an alley way in rual Indiana where we grew up. You could only reach it from our side of the fence and the fence was curled up for quick entrance..to help that along the entrance was sloped and lined with cardboard so you could just dive in. And dive in we did....always running from something or somebody. You really thought you had the world by the tail when at 7 years old you would get some friends, go the edge of the alley way and take those little white refrigerator bombs that could snarl up any daytime traffic..rush hour or otherwise. So...you get some direct hits...tires screeching..people yelling, getting out and surveying there windsheilds...overeasy and scrambled. By that time you want to call 911...cause your laughing so hard you cant breath! Nothing can prepare you for the sight over your shoulder of a menacing face filled with rage...coming after you. AH the fort..you jump the fence and disappear as if by magic,listening to the footsteps of a confounded taxpayer breathing out threats and bewilderment...of where could they be?We take ourselves so serious these days...just because we know so much..the way government should run...the way economics should flow...the way others should behave, look and live. The way God acts in his dealings with us and the issues of HIS CREATION. I wonder if i have become so smart in my systematic approach to everything...theology..people...life....HIM,that i havent noticed he enjoys TEARING DOWN my systems. The high preists and religious people had such a system...there was even some of it in place by God that needed to be torn down.The monolithical preistly system. The whole thing! Jesus came to destroy it. To seek and save that which was lost..yes people...aka mans relationship with GOD. Please take a few moments to read this.MT 27.51 at that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. thimk about that. Sometimes HE MUST RIP APART things that seperate you from him my friend...things your hiding behind,,,trusting in ..valuable things that may seem good..but not his best for you. Yes I know it seems impossible for it to be him but that is exactly what the Pharisses thought..their beautiful..lovely temple...... curtain. Destroyed. This happened the very moment JESUS died. He became the curtain....the way! You could only get to God if you went passed that curtain...and only the High priest could go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what..and TEARING DOWN from top to bottom signifies the impossibility of that happening by human hands.What is he doing,,,God.Jesus..tearing down in my life right now..ask yourself that. 1 peter 4 .1 think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way.Then you will be able to live out your days free to pursue what GOD wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. WELL eventually our fort was find out and torn down. peace
When i was a kid one of my brothers biker friends showed me how to breath FIRE.....Really.To an 8 year old boy this was simply....the best thing scince peanut butter...Oh yeah and getting your first Knife. Breath fire???/ So this guy says watch this....he holds up a match and and spits at it and 10 foot flames come shooting out of his mouth! WOAH..........DO IT AGAIN....hey can i try??? I didnt think he would actually say yeah. So he teaches me....the trick is simple....1. fill your mouth with lighter fluid under your tounge. 2. light macth far away from body 3.blow fluid out of orifice as hard as possible at match @ arms length. 4.NEVER EVER EVER INHALE! 5. dont pay attention to the warning label on can. Please if your reading this now and are considering doing this....DONT!!! You can accidently burn up your lungs in an instant and the risk level is not worth the effect. Where is the adult supervision...you say. Well lets just say the longer you leave kids alone they will find things to do. And I was always alone. So a warning label meant nothing to me. Well i perfected it and it was magnificent. If i ever wanted to impress someone...just grab my can of zippo fluid.....friends and girls alike instantly mezmorized by your uncanny ability to be so close to death yet defy it. What power. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!! Kind of like the guy in 2 samuel 6:7 his name was Uzzah and he was helping David get the Ark of The covenant back. Well it was on this new cart because this is the way the pagan people the philistines had moved it when they captured it did it. So the oxen stumbled and this innocent guy just standing around trying to help gets killed...by touching THE ARK to steady it. Wow....whats the poblem here? Of course God wants David to have the Ark back..It signifies Gods Prescence,protection and provision for the nation. And as King this is a fundamental moment in his order. So whats wrong....Friend you and i cannot conduct ourselves the way the world does..just because things seem to go well for unbelivers and they are living it up..nothing could be further from the truth....its as if you think your 8 year old kid is gonna have more fun if you take away all the boundries and love that shows him whats really good for him. As Gods children...he has set an expectation for us ..loving boundries..that express his care ..guidance...and abundant love and HOLINESS. Back in exodus 25 God perscribed a certain way the preists were to carry this ARK...with poles.....meaning GOD IS HOLY!!!!! AN innocent violation of his LAW can completly mess up your and my LIFE. AS christians we need to remember there was certain preperation in approaching God....THE DEATH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST! If the moving committee for the ark David had put together really remembered the God of the old testament there would have been a reverent fear....and maybe a sense of warning in their approach. Check the warning labels....our hearts need them and the bible is full of them. Peace........pslm.31:19 How great is your goodness which you have stored up for those who fear you.
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Have you ever looked on some products to see the warning label??? try it just for fun....some of them are so ..............stupid. I guess because people can do some pretty crazy things. There was a time not long ago when a series came out showing teens and young guys hurting themselves and doing really stupid stunts just because...it seemed funny at the time. Now dont get me wrong i like to have fun and even take some risks..but they are very calculated. Once in North Carolina I was going to base jump this cliff at a place called elk river falls. Now it is a 60 ft drop and is RELATIVELY safe. Ha ha. So i did some calculating before i got there at the end of last summer and looked it up online,there had been 12 DEATHS already scince Jan. But that spot looks so ..so inviting and easy to just jump in! It does take a certain amount adreanaline though...so i got to the spot and my wife started getting upset...FO REAL...she said if i jumped she would not talk to me the rest of the vacation...GiRLS! oh man....so i did waht any guy in my postion does.......JUMP.............J.K. Of course I didnt jump..I wouldnt jump knowing I am the cause of that much stress and fear..to me it wasnt really a big deal...because it looked so safe....Ladies are so much....smarter..no not the word..PRACTICAL. My wife knew just because it looked safe didnt mean it was. Thats the way it is today...our culture is on cruise control and it looks very safe but for the heart of a Chisritian, every day is like jumpimg out into the unknown. There is a huge dynamic we forget about..there is a seriuos SPIRITUAL war going on all around us. And it is not about wether we are happy here on earth and living it up the american way. Its about the souls of men and ladies..the people you and I see every day and dont think about. The ones we are so used to seeing.in bondage to sin and SATAN that we forget about their eternal destiny..so we just go about our plot of land here on earth and try to build or little kingdom. Some our greatest enemies is Gods greatest gifts to us. We begin to Idolize them and serve them. So when a test comes and upsets our perfectly safe little world..we think what did i do wrong..why cant i have my world perfect with no unknowns. iTS all unknown..every day and its always a war zone....if not then we must be going in the same direction as slewfoot. JESUS..RADICAL THINKER.. LOVER..nothing he ever did was real safe. He invaded the PHARISSES TERRITORY... read the 7 woes of the pharisee mth 23 and it will shed some light on our thinking. See we surrond ourselves with Jesus..church people music....bible......But so often refuse to be INVADED BY HIM...MEANING NOT ACTING ON WHAT HE TOLD US THE LAST TIME WE HEARD FROM HIM..NOT TAKING TIME TO GET ON OUR FACE AND CULTVATE A WORSHIPFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM..ECT. EX 19 .20 Do not be afraid God has come to test you,so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning. THE WARNING LABEL Peace.
I.E. OUT OF CONTROL...............i dont like that,now i have been called out of control..dont mind that so much..as long as i am in control...confused?? Most of us are..see, as a person who relys on God,lives by faith,not by sight and expects miracles, should i really been in control...i mean thats how lives get messed up. You know the old saying...and i mean old...let go and let GOD! Why would anyone say that.....because no one really means it untill they are forced be in a position where they have too.But the awesome part of that is...there is where he waits!Yesterday was such a God filled day..accountability with some guys..ministering Gods word...praying over someone at the hospital who needs a miracle..to live....and i was like God just lift your name up before these doctors..show them....your greatness! Then ministering to students..a teacher asks me, can you talk to them about pain?....you bet i am a posterchild for that, 34 years without hope and God in this world,although he was always right there. I speak 2 words and the kids are just broken and confession and pleas for Jesus to help flying all over the place...in prayer. Its so like when God was ready to deliver Isreal from a maniac=Pharoh. And so he wants to use this murdering A.W.O.L. x-prince. And he says to God...how am i gonna do this again????? Your gonna tell em who I AM!!! Thats it ....and the whole staff thing...laying down that staff ..so significant! When you lay down your life the Great I AM can pick it up again and use it...its under his control. Read exodus 5 the LORD speaks out and declares who will do all the work..read it & count all the times he says I. My friend God is either in control of the universe or he is not,there is not one rebellious atom! That includes our lives...all of it.So he says to Moses, I will take you as my own people.....what did Moses do to deserve that! or any of us for that matter. But never the less.....after plauges and all this hardening of the heart.....Isreal is just about to be released..and The Lord requires a passover...and his directions are very straight and to the letter.But the most amazing part is he requires the the people to share...THE LAMB with their neighbors. Exodus 12.4 So my day is still going on and I am just sharing what I got till 11.00 @ nite with a young college couple,and i wake up the next day and say LORD do it again!!!! And he does...I am having a bible class with some middleschool boys who could are seemingly unintrested in God,and some kid brings this other guy up to me...the same kid I shared Christ with last week says,HE WANTS WHAT I GOT!!!!!! That my friend is out of control........brother ..sister what do you need to lay down today? Pray and search..put yourself in that position maybe you need to just get on your knees before him and let him know you lay it down..its a daily thing then he will live in us..remember Jesus said i lay down mylife ...PEACE. I PETER 1.13
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