2009Mar22 at 0301 (Community, Gatherings, Personal Life, Poetry, Thinkables)
Tags: ambition, anger, arms, belief, belligerent, best, care, change, conclusion, confidence, darkness, death, expectations, force, forget, God, growth, heart, help, influence, jealousy, judgment, knowledge, language, leadership, love, meanings, peace, power, pretend, relate, seek, separation, should, silence, submission, talk, Teacher, terrified, The Cause, together, truth, understanding, walk, want, why?, words, world
I get angry when I’m not a part of making the conclusion,
When its given to me
Pasted on
And expected that I will comply
But why?
Do I know them?
Do I care?
I just look at them and stare
Good for you
What you say is true
But don’t flounder it like its your cause
Don’t force me join you
When you don’t know me
When you forget my name
When you…
Why am I so angry?
Why am I so belligerent?
They push beyond what’s given them
To a world beyond
To a world that doesn’t understand them
To a world that speaks another tongue
And I understand them
But I choose not to submit
Who am I to judge what God has given?
Who am I to draw the lines?
They pretend power
They just want to help.
Who am I to believe I know?
Who am I to judge?
So go along with the flow
It’s good, it’s good
You really, truly should
We all want the best
The best for all
So we spread our influence
Our knowledge of what is best for all.
None of us can lead.
Except to death and darkness below
Unless we walk together
Side by side
Each one’s influence ends at the reach of their arms
And only the truth can take it further (through the arms of another, and another, and another)
Live in peace
Destroy ambitions and jealousies,
Seek truth with those around you
Relate to truth through the voices of your neighbors and friends
Move slowly and only in confidence and peace
Understand the meanings of silence
The words of the heart–the words that our own attempt to relate–
I speak these to myself
I can’t press on anyone else
God teach us to walk, to talk and to love in both
I am so terrified of the world around me
How can they care when they do not know
The good hearts that believe they know
That seek to influence, to change, to grow
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2008Dec2 at 1222 (Personal Life)
Tags: humility, meekness, patience, service, submission, wait on the Lord
Meekness, humility; service, submission; patience and waiting on the Lord.
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2008Aug31 at 0826 (Thinkables)
Tags: alert, anticipation, anxiety, bitter jealousy, blind, burden, dulled senses, eagerness, God, God's Spirit, humility of mind, knowledge, listen, obey, receive, reverence, seeking, selfish ambition, sober, submission, times, watchful
“You are eager, and anticipate great things, that is good–God has made you sensitive to His Spirit–and each one of you will grow in the knowledge of Christ, each one in his purposed time.
Therefore, in your seeking, guard your heart; that it does not harbor any ambitions of its own. These will blind you from the truth and burden you with fruitless anxieties.
Likewise, as you grow, guard your heart from jealousies of one another. Do all you do in submission to God with humility of mind and the utmost reverence before Him. Bitter jealousies will dull the senses which God uses to speak to you, making your unity with the Spirit dull and vague as well.
In all you say and do, let it be from God. Stay watchful, alert, sober; all you need do is listen, receive and obey.”
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2008Aug31 at 0810 (Thinkables)
Tags: bitter jealousy, Christ, complete redemption, empower, faith, free, fulfillment, God, God's Spirit, hope, love, redemptive submission, revelations, selfish ambition, servant, spiritual powers, submission, transform, unbound, unity
Now that the Great Task has been accomplished by the greatest of all servants, Christ the King Eternal, those who are privileged to serve Yahweh in Christ are freed and empowered to do anything in submission to God.
The saints are no longer bound by anything of this world, but as they are still in it, they have been given power, through God’s Spirit, to do as Christ did: to transform the things of this world into their redemptive submission to God, that others may likewise be freed to the full capacity that is offered in Christ.
The Spirit reveals all things that this may be accomplished. But neither the vision, nor its fulfillment will be seen alone. There must be perfect unity, together in Christ.
Bitter jealousies and selfish ambitions must be altogether removed from our presence by joining together, as the broken vessels we are, as one body, fully submitting to God; pressing–with all, faith; with all, hope; and with all, love–toward the fulfillment of God’s complete plan of redemption.
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2008Aug30 at 0808 (Personal Life)
Tags: appearances, empower, free, heal, limitless, obey, submission, trust, unity
May trust and obedience be a blessing to me; not to balk at the appearance of limiting circumstances, materials or character. Because these are not founded in what appears to men, but they are founded in Christ, who is limitless in His appeals to the Father (who creates truth with the words of His mouth). And this Christ works all things, through the Spirit, into submission of the Father’s kingdom, power and glory for all eternity. And by the Father’s grace, I am freed, healed and empowered to abide in Christ and He in me, that I may be of one mind with them.
I have in everything to trust and obey.
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