Our thoughts, opinions and feelings are not what determine what is, or is not true. Our thoughts change. Our opinions change. Our feelings change. Truth does not change. Changing truth is an oxymoron. The idea makes no sense.
Truth is simple, but it is not easy. Men go to great lengths and effort to justify and excuse away what they know is wrong in their own hearts. I do not have the time or energy for this unnecessary battle, so I just try to walk in truth to the best of my ability. It is not easy, but neither is the other option, which, in the end, has NO reward. It simply leads to a frustrated, pointless death.
All souls are the seeds of an eternal race. Some seeds ripen into life. Some seeds die. Your life is a seed. It will live or die, depending on how you relate to the Life Giver, the seed Creator.
When circumstances get you panicked, and you feel like you’ve got to do something, that is exactly when you should probably do nothing. Good decisions are not made in frantic. Walk in faith and seek God, then do what He says.
There is an old saying, “too close to the trees to see the forest…” Another way of saying this is that you are too focused on the minor things, the trees, to see the big picture, the forest. I have heard it said that history is the lens through which we make sense out of life. History is the context. Everything happens in a context. Trying to understand anything, while ignoring the context if foolish and leads to wrong conclusions. We all go through a lot of things that just don’t seem to make sense while they are happening. Later, we look back and have that “Ah Ha” moment. “I see what all that means now, and why that happened.” I love to read history, because it keeps things in perspective. Cycles or patterns in human history repeat themselves. Without knowing history, we do not see this. We repeat the same mistakes. It seems to me that with the constant stream of media that a lot of people expose themselves to, that is all focused on “right now”, the big picture is being missed. Socialist government principles are a good example of this. There are, undoubtedly, immediate benefits to many. Hey, if I was in college, and had a huge mountain of student loan debt, I would like the idea of free college. If I was working at McDonalds for $8.00 an hour, and an increase of minimum wage to $15.00 an hour was put in place, I would be ecstatic! If I was unemployed, and suddenly guaranteed a universal income for everyone that paid me a certain amount per month, whether I was employed or not, that would appeal to me. However, if you read history, and not just buy into the current hype about the immediate short-term benefits of socialism to some, you will see that, over the course of time, when socialism is implemented as the norm, it eventually totally de-motivates people, and kills ingenuity and creativity, and makes society worse. It kills what makes the creative human genius thrive. It is true that there are a lot of socialist principles that have already been incorporated into the United States system of government. What we are witnessing in government, in this generation, is an ideological battle over how we do government. That is the “forest”. But we get so hung up on the day to day drama, (the trees) that we are losing sight of the big picture.
Our politics should never be the lens through which we interpret our faith. God’s Word should be the standard by which we measure all things. We tend to gravitate towards that which only serves to reinforce the conclusions that we have already drawn. The beauty of God’s Word is that, when you listen to it, and let it speak to you, rather than seeking to use proof text to prove your own point, is that it breaks through all that and brings your perspective to a level that you are incapable of reaching by depending on your own intellect. “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
When we become more attracted to the thing that is created than the One who created it, we become enslaved to the temporary, and lose the eternal. This is the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is death. This is the sin of idolatry.
I am having a difficult time fixing something. I drop a bolt in the motor, and I can’t find it. I get out my super-duper flash light and periscope magnet and look and can’t find it. I am getting frustrated. I look and look. Nothing. Then I remember. I stop and pray. I ask God for help. I go back and look again. My eyes fall straight on the bolt. This is where I need God. In the simple, mundane things of life. This is where I live. This is where He meets me. This is who I am, and I am grateful.
The beauty of the Gospel is that God meets us plain, ordinary people in our plain, ordinary lives, and He takes delight in us. I mostly have plain, ordinary, mundane days, then He shows up and makes the ordinary, extraordinary!
No matter which side you are on politically, in the end, none of this will matter. We are all only on this earth a brief time. We die. We will stand before God and before His face, our politics won’t matter at all.
“I’m still discovering right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. One must completely abandon any attempt to make something of oneself, whether it be a saint, or a converted sinner, or a churchman (a so-called priestly type!), a righteous man or an unrighteous one, a sick man or a healthy one. By this-worldliness, I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world watching with Christ in Gethsemane. That, I think, is faith, that is metanoia, and that is how one becomes a man and a Christian.”
<Dietrich Bonhoeffer>
The Gospel message is, and always has been offensive to the lost world. The human heart and mind is hostile towards God. This has been the case ever since the Fall. The Cross confronts us with our own sin and ugliness. It leads us to repentance, and then the grace of forgiveness. That is what it is supposed to do. Far too many modern churches bend over backwards to make people feel good about themselves, and feel comfortable in church. When unbelievers come into church, and the Gospel is preached, they should feel uncomfortable. They are supposed to. Slick media
programs, flashing lights, fake smoke and hot designer coffee is not going to save them from hell, but a right response to a non-sugarcoated Gospel message will.
I am all for social justice because God is a just and merciful God. However, a lot of young people have been influenced to latch onto so-called social justice causes because they appeal to our need to feel like we are a part of something bigger than ourselves that will benefit others. This brings emotional satisfaction. The problem is that some social justice causes are simply manufactured to create chaos and division. Research everything. Don’t base what you do on your desire to feel good about yourself.
The smallest things done in love often have far greater long term impact than grandiose acts done for the sake of drawing attention to those doing them. The Mustard Seed.
Love that is not challenged is not love. Love can only be real if the option to not love exists, because love is a choice, not a feeling. Lust is a feeling. Love is a choice. That is not to say that love does not produce feelings, but love itself is not a feeling.
Time blows by. Things left undone, things left unsaid. Those are what bring sorrow to my heart. Let me live in the now, and be tuned into those around me so my regrets diminish and I am fully engaged. Let me not be so blinded by tomorrow that I miss today.
Real people are much more complex and interesting than the categories that we put each other in, and the stereotypes that we associate with those categories. I don’t like labels. All Democrats or Republicans, all Christians, Agnostics, Technical people, etc., are not “this way” or “that way”. Real people are not that way, just our versions of them. I remember when I was in school, I was horrible at stereotyping people I went to school with. Later, as an adult, as I began to interact with people that I thought I knew, I realized that the version of that person I had made up in my own head was horribly inaccurate.
There is no “identity politics” in the Kingdom of God. All the things in this world’s system that separate and divide us melt into nothingness under the gaze of the One to whom we will all give an account.
Knowledge is not simply being able to regurgitate a lot of data about a specific subject. That comes in handy when playing Jeopardy. Life is not a game of Jeopardy, but that is how education is often approached. Real education should empower people to be able to think, not dictate to them what to think. Real knowledge knows the meaning of things, not just the factual data, and incorporates that meaning into life as the framework for a right understanding of reality.
Faith will always leave many unanswered questions, but unbelief will also. Which is better? Since both are limited by our finite understanding, I choose faith, because it gives me life and hope. Unbelief is the path to despair.
We often attain, at the outset of our climbing, a glimpse, afterwards hid from us in our laborious upward toil till the supreme height is reached. Mentally and spiritually we may attain almost at a bound results, too often lost to us till again secured by long reflection, or in the course of painful development. — The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah — Alfred Edersheim
Whenever my attention gets focused too much on what I do or don’t do, where I have failed, or where I have succeeded, that is a sign that my attention is being steered away from the most important thing. The most important thing, the thing that brings me to the place of awe, wonder and gratitude is what has been done for me. The penalty for my sin, in my imperfection, failing and weakness, has been paid for me by the sinless Son of God. It is not about what I do or do not do, it is about what He has already done for me, and in knowing that, I am forever in awe. I am motivated to do good out of gratitude, not obligation, or the misguided idea that my behavior can win God’s favor.
I once heard of a man who worked for the government identifying counterfeit money. Someone said to him, “How did you obtain this skill? You must have had to study counterfeiting technics and learned all their secrets!” To which he answered, “I know absolutely nothing about counterfeiting. My expertise is in knowing real money. When you know the real thing, you don’t have to master the rest.”
Many times, God must tear down that which we have built on the wrong foundation, so He can build it again, the right way. What often appears to be destruction is not necessarily a bad thing.
One of the many things about human beings that is different from animals is that humans lie, and believing lies. No one needs to tell you that you are lying when you do it, you already know. The problem with lying is that first you must convince the people that you are lying to that you are telling the truth, then you have to try and hide or destroy all the evidence that proves you are lying. Much of current politics on both sides consists of a LOT of this futile waste of time and effort. It is too much work.
I believe we are living in a time in known history that is significantly different than any that has existed before. I say “known” history because I also believe there is so much of history that we simply do not know because it either was not recorded or if it was recorded, it was not preserved. The thing that is significantly different now is that people carry around devices (I am referring to Smart Phones primarily) through which information is fed into their minds nonstop all day. Go anywhere in public and look around. What are people doing? They are starring at their phones! They are interacting on social media, reading other’s opinions, and spouting their own. They are reading news stories, and their opinions, and perceptions of reality are influenced by what is being communicated via this platform. There has never existed before a platform through which people can be so effectively brainwashed. People do not interact with reality, they interact with lots of interpretations of reality provided by others. Their interpretation of reality is not formed by their interaction with reality, but by interpretations that have been provided for them.
God paints a new, glorious picture in the sky in the morning, to remind us that He is the beginning. He starts the day. He paints a new, glorious picture in the sky in the evening to remind us that He finishes it. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning, and the End of all things. No matter how crazy and out of control life, and the world seems, He is in control. He starts, and He finishes, and in this my soul finds its sweet rest.
God has brought me through every difficult and painful thing I have experienced in my life, to come out victorious, so I know Him in a deeper way. The victory is knowing Him, and being in His presence, not in having all the answers within myself, nor in fighting life’s battles in my own strength. In every valley I can say, “This too shall pass” and I will be with Him. Praise His holy name.
John Glenn was verbally sparring with the soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov, after returning from his first space mission. Titov loudly proclaimed his view that Communist ideology was confirmed when he didn’t see God in space, to which Glenn retorted: “The God I believe in isn’t so small that I thought I would run into him just a little bit above the atmosphere!”
Thank you today for all the men and women throughout our history who have given their all so we may live in freedom. Democracy is messy. Anything worthwhile is messy, and difficult at times. That is the way real life is. We have blundered a lot throughout the course of our nation’s history. There are things that we cannot be proud of. Guess what? So has every other nation and empire that has ever existed. But what we do have to be proud of and thankful for far outweighs the bad when you compare what we have, to so many other places in the world. Are we “better” than others? Certainly not. We are all equal in God’s eyes, and we are all sinners who need to be saved by God’s grace. We are all brothers and sisters in the common lot of humanity. But I am thankful to be given the privilege (and it is a privilege, not a right) to be able to live in a country that was founded on the principles of democracy, and still has been so heavily influenced in recent times by ideologies that are contrary to that principle, it is still, in my humble opinion, the best place to live in this present world, and I am grateful to be an American citizen.
All of life HAS to tie into the something big, the whole of which we can never really see. We get glimpses here and there to encourage us in the process. If I did not believe this, I think I would lose my mind. I think this is the whole point of the book of Ecclesiastes.
If we peer out into the cosmos as far as we are capable with our technology, and ignore the evidence of God that is right in front of our faces, it should be no surprise that all we discover is a black hole.
There is no such thing as real love without respect. Respect has to preceed love. That is why the scripture says, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” That is why you open the door for a lady. That is why you teach your children obedience before you take them to Disney World.
Many times, we believe in an “ideal”. For example, the USA is a political ideal in democracy that is better than a lot of the other options. As fallible human beings, we often fall short of meeting and living by that ideal, even though that is what we strive for. As Christians, we strive for the ideal of being like Christ, but we fall short. At least, I know I do, but I admit it. But, the fact that we fall short of the ideal does not negate the ideal’s validity. We cannot use our failures, and the failures of others as an excuse for abandoning what we know to be right. We must continue to strive for the ideal. That is what keeps us moving forward, and our failure to do so is why we need grace, and we need to have grace for others. It is always a process, not a finished work. We live in the process.
In my own strength, and through my own efforts, I do not have the ability to love greatly. It is God’s love flowing through me, as His vessel, that enables me to love as He requires. He gets the credit. He gets the glory. Left to myself, I am self-centered and self-absorbed. More of Him, and less of me. That is my desire.
Nursery Rhyme Mash ups:
It seems that people’s life paradigms are formed at an early age. They solidify quickly, then we use those paradigms to interpret all of life, and the world. Most people don’t listen to truth. We listen to what reinforces our paradigms. We hear what we want to hear. Once our paradigms are solidified, it takes a supernatural act of God to dynamite us out of them.
Sun sparks glisten breaking waves,
Black clad boys, surfing slaves.
Empty towers reach for the Sun,
Long awaiting Summer’s fun.
Gulls screech, soaring high,
Winter’s bite will soon pass by,
As long as there is more than one person on this planet, the potential for misunderstanding exists. Stop, and take the time today to actually listen to the person who is talking to you instead of letting your head run with its own thoughts. Listen beyond the words. Listen to the intent. Listen to the heart. Don’t get hung up on words. It seems like, with some people you have to walk on egg shells because they get so hung up on trying to find something to be offended at in certain words or phrases. I have never been very good at being “Politically correct” because the rules keep changing, and the criteria on which political correctness are established are too subjective and are usually formed by people who are far too easily offended anyway. If I have ever said anything to you that you find offensive, I apologize. I tend to be blunt, but I am not intentionally offensive. I promise to listen to you, and try to understand your heart and your intent, and see beyond the words. You might not choose the best words. I may not choose the best words in the hurry of conversation, but let’s try to understand each other.
I can’t stand the terms “Liberal” and “Conservative”. Well, it is not so much that I hate the words themselves, I hate the way they are wrongly used. Most things are a lot more complex than simple, pat answers can fix. And most people are more complex than the stereotype labels we place on each other. We need to do away with this “Us and Them” mentality. It is all “Us”. Us humans have to learn to love one another and put aside all the things that polarize us and feed negativity. If we did that, the news media would go out of business, and all that money could be put to more constructive use.
There is no such thing as a forgiveness hoarder. You can’t pile it up unless you are giving it away. I need to constantly forgive, and I need to constantly be forgiven. It is the strongest power on the earth and can break all chains. Today, let it go, and let God take care of it. He will do a much better job than you!
The reason we are called Human Beings instead of Human Doings is because what we are is more important to God than what we do. But we get it backwards and describe each other in terms of our occupations and “doings”. God doesn’t care about any of that. His only concern is that we reflect His glory in whatever we are doing.
Each night, in a sense we die. We enter into the nether region of strange and uncontrollable dreams. Then, in the morning, we are given a new life. Each waking day is a fresh gift from God. Don’t live your life like each day is just another repetition of the same old, same old. Embrace it as if you have been given a new life. Let the old days teach you instead of enslaving you to the regret of things that cannot be changed. Let the glory of sunrise remind you that each day is a brand-new gift. Drink it in.
Every time I feel myself getting an attitude towards someone I am always brought back to the realization that the problem is not with them, it is with me. I have no control over anything anyone else says or does, but I do have a choice over how I will respond.
Attended the funeral of an old friend this weekend and saw a lot of people from my days at the Church of the Nazarene. I am so grateful for all the people God has brought into my life’s path during every season. I am reminded afresh that it truly is all about people. Situations and stuff come and go, but the lives we touch are really all that matter when it is all said and done. I love you all and thank you for the ways you have touched my life in so many ways. Let’s have a big party when all this is finished!
Keeping my own heart and actions pure is a big enough job for me. I do not have the time or energy to point out what I think is wrong with everyone else. I am too old and tired to stay worked up over things which I have no control.
Most of the time the situations and people that we see as difficulties and obstacles that we want to avoid or move out of our way are the very doorways God has placed for us to walk through to get to our destiny.
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Lost humanity is bound by the constraints of space and time. Your biological life in this body only lasts so long, and that is all you get. The eternal life Jesus speaks of is not just non-ending life. It is a different kind of life force. It is how we were meant to be. It is what we lost in the Fall. That life is what is restored to us when we believe in what Jesus Christ paid for us on the Cross. Eternal life begins in this body, that is currently bound by the constraints of space and time, and the effects of sin. It is not something that happens to us after death. Death is just the doorway that leads us out of these constraints and into the fullness of that life. I am glad I don’t have to figure out how to do life on my own in this world. Eternity knows no time. Time is a limitation that has been placed on us in our fallen state.
When was the last time you moved, or helped someone move? I don’t like to move, but I seem to get drug into helping people move frequently. What I see is a lot of junk that needs to be discarded instead of being boxed up and moved. Our closets, attics, basements and buildings are full of junk we need to get rid of. My prayer for today is that when it is God’s will for me to “move”, in some area of life that I have enough sense to travel light, and not try to drag a bunch of junk (baggage) along that I don’t need, that just hinders me and makes the journey more cumbersome.
If you believe that “there is no such thing as truth,” then you also have to believe that statement is also not true, which means that there is such a thing as truth, which can’t be true… Postmodern relativism is nothing more than a dog chasing his own tail and never catching it. It is comically ridiculous nonsense.
Controlling the outcome of the circumstances and trials of life is not what is ultimately important, because it is all temporary anyway. It will all pass away. What is important is what they do internally to us. How we respond either makes us better or worse. God will not look at how we manipulate the outcome of the circumstances. He will look at the condition of our hearts. I need to be constantly reminded of that,
One of the hardest, yet most rewarding things to learn to do is wait. Patience does not come easy for us, but if you read the Scriptures, there are tons of examples of people God had given a promise to, that have to wait until all circumstantial options are exhausted until the answer comes. The reason for this is, because, at this point, God is the only explanation for the answer, so He gets the credit and the glory. We cannot attribute it to chance or think we made it happen. Has God spoken something to you that you have given up on? (I am guilty!) Wait! Wait! Wait! He will do it in His time, and it will be so much better that what we try to pull off on our own.
God’s supply is always well beyond my (and your) need. Look out into the vastness of creation. Don’t you think He is big enough to cover anything that might come your way? Lord, open our eyes to Your greatness when we let our petty problems obstruct our vision.
If I believe something to be true, or I believe something to be false, I don’t feel compelled to argue with anyone about it. Everyone decides for themselves what they are going to believe or not believe. If you ask me, I will certainly tell you, but I am not going to debate with you over it. When I encounter a person who is constantly going on and on about why they do not believe in God, or why the Bible is unreliable, etc., I have to ask myself the question, “Who are they trying to convince, me, or themselves?” This is an example I use: If a person told me that there was a purple elephant lying in my living room floor, I would simply think it a silly idea, and question the person’s sanity, (unless, of course there really was a purple elephant lying in my living room floor.) If there really was, it would be obvious to anyone unless they were blind or crazy. Likewise, if the opposite was the case. Either way, I would not feel it imperative that I go out and try to convince everyone I ran into that there was NOT a purple elephant lying in my living room. I would just think it was a stupid statement, and let it go. If you are comfortable with what you believe, then fine. Life and death will ultimately prove whether it is right or not. If you don’t know, or you have doubts, you better start digging and find out what the truth really is. Ultimately, you will have no one else to blame but yourself if you don’t.
Why would anyone be willing to die for defending what they knew to be true, unless they had witnessed, first hand, the One who gave them that truth actually rise from the dead Himself, proving that He is the one who holds the power of life? The disciples willingly faced martyrdom rather than denying Christ. If they had not in fact witnessed this, no other reason makes any sense. If you don’ t understand this, you need to quit listening to all the gibber jabber from people who think they know everything, and look at it very closely. It really does matter. We will all face this one day, and all our fancy sounding theories and opinions won’t matter at all.
There are always two sides to every story. Don’t jump to conclusions too quickly. The news media baits us because sensationalism sells, and social media gives everyone an outlet for promoting one sided opinions. Stop, look, and think before yielding to knee-jerk impulses.
Intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing. Intelligence enables a person to understand things of a complex nature. Wisdom enables a person to put things to the correct use. Intelligence does not necessarily lead to an understanding of ultimate truth. It can sometimes be a hindrance to understanding if it is founded on pride.
Life is a process of learning and growing, or at least it should be. We all do foolish and wrong things at times. We should learn from our mistakes. That is what it means to mature. The problem is that we often tend to judge each other based on the past. We remember the bad things that people have done, and base our perception of each other on those things. The beautiful thing about grace is that it disregards the past, and looks at the present. I am not the same man I was 5, 10, 20, or 30 years ago. The beautiful thing about grace is that it can also see what a person can be. It looks to the future. It sees the potential in people. I don’t want to live my life drudging up the past. My past has some dark areas, and yours does too. I want to see the good in people. That does not mean I disregard the things that still need to change, but it gives me a hope for each day that things are moving in the right direction, and it gives me the hope that we can all change, and instead of pointing the finger at others, I can love them, in spite of their shortcomings and see the real person God created them to be.
Words are like maps. They point us somewhere. They should point us to the intent of the writer or speaker. Maps are not perfect. Words are not perfect. Analogies are not perfect. They are intended to paint a mental picture for us that we can relate to and understand. I think too much of what goes on in social media is people reacting in a knee jerk fashion to what other people post without really taking the time to read and think through what is being said, or look at the picture. We dissect the words and look to find fault or some reason to argue or contradict without looking at the picture someone is trying to paint with their words to really understand their heart.
News is a business, plain and simple. The way news agencies make money is through the sale of advertising time on TV, or advertising space on their websites. (The News websites are so loaded with pop up ads that they just choke.) News is NOT a public service, it is a business, that’s sole objective is PROFIT. That means, that the objective is to get as many people staring at the screen as possible, either the TV screen, or the computer screen. To do this, the content must be sensationalized and controversial. The narrative is designed to get a knee jerk reaction, not a well thought out response. It is demographically targeted to people with a certain ideological bend. People play right into it, and just grab something off a news website or show and immediately assume it is true and accurate, and then start an argument on Facebook, or some other media. I am sick of all this back and forth bull#$%@ I see on Facebook every day. If you want to really discuss an issue that is important to you and gain the perspective of someone with a differing point of view, go sit down with them over a cup of coffee and have a civil discussion, and listen. If not, just admit that you like controversy and the adrenalin rush you get from it, and quit pretending that you really care about social issues, and admit that you are a puppet to big money media.
Fulfillment and satisfaction are not found in getting what you want, it is found in loving other people. Getting what you want only draws you into yourself, and that is a prison.
One should never stop learning, simply because one never stops forgetting. I would be a genius if I could simply remember most of the things I have learned, and then forgotten.
The problem with debate is that both sides of any debate come to the debate thinking they are right, and the purpose of the debate is to prove themselves right, and the other side wrong. That means that neither side is listening to and considering what the other side says, they are simply looking for ways to pick it apart. The whole process is pointless and does not solve anything. We really don’t know how to listen to each other.
Words and explanations can only carry us so far. When all is said and done, the bottom line is that either a man or woman believes or does not believe what God says, and on that everything in his or her life stands or falls. Everything else, from the time we are born, until the time we die, is just filler and doesn’t mean anything.
In regards to electronic media, Mortimer J. Adler says the following in “How to Read a Book”, which is very relevant to our times: “The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, (and I will add: the trollers of the internet), is presented with a whole complex of elements – all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics – to make it easy for him to ‘make up his own mind’ with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer, listener, or reader does not make up his own mind at all. Instead, he inserts a packaged opinion into his mind, somewhat like inserting a cassette into a cassette player. He then pushed a button and plays back the opinion whenever it seems appropriate to do so. He has performed acceptably without having to think.”
When some gross injustice occurs, people will say things that go something like this: “If there is a God, why doesn’t He do something about it? ” What that really means is, “I am mad, because I am not being given the personal satisfaction of witnessing justice being served.” Just because we do not get the satisfaction of seeing justice served instantly does not mean God is not doing anything. That is the irony and paradox of the Cross, and the Resurrection. The worst injustice that ever occurred, the murder of a man who never did sin, and only did good and told the truth, was turned into something beautiful by God. Out of it, He demonstrated that He only has the power of life and death.
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent, I will frustrate.’ Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.” (1 Corinthians: 18-21)
There is a fine line between the prophetic and just realizing that human behavior is very predictable.
Who’s that looking back at me?
One more gray hair today I see.
Lying mirror, setting sun,
Remind me my race is run.
Fleeting youth, runs swift and fast,
Yearnings from forgotten past.
Time runs out, our turning comes,
The dawning of one thousand suns.
Waking dawn, the new life starts,
Glory in those chosen hearts.
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