Not Worthy

Holy, Righteous and Just is God,
What hast we done to spare the rod?

Is there deed we can acclaim to,
Have we done something that came you,

Fire should destroy the whole world,
Judgement what hast stayed your hand Lord,

Wholely evil is all the men,
Why go on there is but one end,

From what hast come this love for man,
Why do you try to save this land,

Look and find but one man of God,
One whose walk is true and not flawed,

Forgiveness every day our plea,
But Lord you know the heart and see,

The lies we hide in every day,
That we refuse to live the way,

That you command for us all time,
Thanks but no we prefer the slime,

Holy, Righteous and Just is God,
What hast we done to spare the rod?

Persecution

I greatly apologize for my seemingly abandonment of the blog. I've been away from the computer for a week and so I haven't had the chance to post, thank you for your patience. And by the way from now on I'm going to change back and forth from a theology post to a poetry post.

So today I'm going to talk about a very difficult but misunderstood topic, Religious Persecution. Now as you know if you believe in Christianity that Satan is ruler of the world. And he fights as hard as he can with the powers he has to prevent good, and God's will. Now persecution is one of the ways that Satan destroys good. Going back in history to the times of Jesus when so much good was occurring, there was persecution. Obviously because he was tortured, crucified... If you go later on to the early church there was much persecution, Paul was beaten, mocked, stoned, put in prison you name it. This is my first point and one that I believe is based on history, the church has been strongest when the most persecution is occurring. Where there is the true furthering of Christianity, persecution follows. Not necessarily right away but either there or coming very soon.

My second point is talking about the benefits of Persecution. Now I am a Christian, and I believe it is my duty to be willing to be tortured suffer any physical pain for my faith. This is a very bold statement and I will not try to pretend like I am at that point yet. I am striving for it though. This I believe is the main benefit of persecution. It weeds out the nonbelievers, those who say they are a Christian and pretend to act like it but are not. Matthew 13:20-22 says,
"20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.
Persecution proves there is a root, it removes the nonbelievers. This makes it almost good because it lets you see where you are really at. A man once said "You only truly love something, when you are willing to die for it." You aren't truly a Christian until you are willing to die for it.
Another benefit to persecution is breaking us down. We can never truly appreciate God, his power, his grace, and his mercy until we are broken down. Till we submit desires and wants to him. 2nd Corinthians 12:9-10 says,
" 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
When we are weak God is strong in us and then we are strong.

My third point on Persecution is what the bible says the purpose of it is, Hebrews 12:7-8.
7Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father? 8If you are not disciplined (and everyone undergoes discipline), then you are illegitimate children and not true sons.
This verse is pretty self explanatory. God uses persecution to teach us things. And the really interesting verse is 8. Those who do not suffer persecution are illegitimate children in essence not Christians. This is a very scary verse. Does this mean that you should go looking for persecution? No of course not but the point is that if you are a true Christian and living the way you are supposed to be living. Persecution will be evident because Satan will be trying to stop you. He will be throwing everything he has at you. But this doesn't mean that if you are suffering persecution that you’re a Christian either.


To sum up, 1st Peter 1:6-7
6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Persecution proves the heart, it proves to others your faith, and it sets your mind on what it should be God's will.


1st Peter 4:1-2
1Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.

The Holocaust

This is a poem I wrote describing the Holocaust, it's not exactly politically correct but I thought it turned out nice. I've also decided I'm going to switch back and forth between poetry, and theology in my posts.

Alas the sun refused to shine
upon that fateful day
when the great god above decided
no pity should come our way

the call was quick but ruthless
but it's marks have greatened my strife
the hurts we've received this day
makes me plead it had taken my life

many others by darts are falling
but that day I refused to die
friends and family with their hearts calling
to the god above asking why

i remember the horrible screams
the bullets flying everywhere
there horrid gleeful faces
as they spread death to all still there

despite the wrongs done to us
we refused to return there blows
we prayed for them to our saviour
but they still added to our woes

many tried to run
but their numbers were to great
it seemed to us that day
to die together was our fate

and as the last ones of us were dying
we could sense god was near
while our fates remained pain-stricken
from our hearts left all fear

Forgiveness

I want to share a kind of personal thing with you guys. When I was younger I had somebody die to save me. I doubt many of you can understand the feelings that this gives. And the most amazing part of all is, I hurt this person, I failed him for my entire life, I didn't live up to his expectations and I ruined his life, yet he still did it. He loved me that much. If you've ever had this happen to you then you can understand the love and attachment you feel for this person, you would do anything for the person, out of love and devotion, how could you not?
He forgave me and sacrificed himself for me. He died for me I was falling into a deep pit with sharp rocks at the bottom that would have killed me, but he jumped in and threw me back up but died at the bottom, the only reason I am the person I am today is because of him. He Died For Me do you realize what this means, You know what is so amazing about it though? he died for you to. His name is Jesus. Not only did he die for me but he died for you to. Now I don't care what you say about me but i'm going to follow him, serve him, and love him for the rest of my life and you can mock me, laugh at me, and humiliate me and it doesn't even matter, because i'm serving the one who died personally for me. Christians often forget that they had somebody die for them. They know the words but they don't think about what it means, to have somebody get tortured, yes tortured he was stabbed, beaten, and then crucified for us. How can we not serve him how can we ignore the price he paid for us. http://www.hopeabides.com/





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Unknown soldier poem

it's time for more poetry this is one I wrote a while ago but have redone slightly. Every line is eight syllables.


"The anthem of the Unknown dead"

The anthem of the unknown dead,
Baptized in a pool of red,

Forgotten through the mists of time,
Both their good deeds and their crimes,

Lost souls buried in foriegn lands,
Retaken by all nature's hands,

These men whose sacrifice was all,
From lives of sorrow blest they fall,

With naught to hold aloft but pain,
Forgotten soldiers die in vain,

But Nay, a bloody battle crown,
Is won on God forsaken ground,

When they fell to deaht's cold fierce bite,
Alone and friendless in the fight,

Life dripping from their face and brow,
They fall to knees and head they bow,

But spirit keeps it's loyal fire,
A belief in a cause that's higher,

One that conquers fear of death,
And give the dieing man new breath,

Honor, passion, quest for glory,
These create the lore of story,

These fuel the heart's desire,
and create the Mental fire,

To happ'ly sacrifice one's all,
To fight in foreign lands then fall,

The anthem of the unknown dead,
Spurs the hearts of man's heros bred,

To boldly conquer any height,
To fight a foe as dark as night,

The unknown dead are hero's born,
Their heart and soul on oath they've sworn,

These hero's are the greatest man,
Who proudly die to save the land.

Is christianity blind faith?

Today I would like to talk about faith. Now when I tried to share Christianity with people I've heard often experienced a similar response. "well I can't follow your religion because it is blind following, it is blind faith so I can't follow that religion. This is a very common reply but one that I believe doesn't really make sense if it is dissolved.

First of all what is faith. Well according to the bible, Hebrew 11:1, "Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."This is a very straightforward definition. Faith is a huge part of any type of belief. Now most of "these people" that I referred to before, are believers in evolution. But what they fail to realize is that Evolution is also based on faith, any belief is cannot be repeated must be taken by faith. This is hard to understand because faith has been given the bad rap that it is unrealistic. Faith has been separated from belief and for some reason, belief has become something more logical then faith.

Take for example any historical fact, all of them are something you have faith in. It could all be made up you don't know you've just read it in books and assumed it was true. You have faith in the writer and the historian who claimed to find it, that it's not just a story. Or that the world is round, how could you prove it? we take somethings for granted. Now I'm not disagreeing with these I'm merely stating that we take very, very many thing by faith, though many of us refuse to use it for religion.

Now why do we have faith in these historical facts? Because we have proof backing it up right? We used other things to prove another thing or to assume it's true because blank is true.

My point is, is Christinaity faith. Yes. Is it blind, No unless everything else you believe about life is considered blind to.

As Christians we believe by faith certain things because we cannot prove them. But we believe them because other parts have been found to be true and proven, and it makes it a reliable witness to prove other things. We will never no everything about Christianity, it says in the bible hundreds of times that we are saved by faith. We are going to just have to believe in certain things with out having proved them.

So is Christianity based on faith, Yes hugely. But is it Blind? No.