Month: June 2015

My Prayer

Life. A sad display of all we have. We strive to display our lives as beautiful and rich, but we long for something, deep in our souls. We crave to feel the hand of God touch our hearts. We crave to be held in His arms. But He doesn’t hold us. Why doesn’t He hold us? Lord, cradle me like a helpless child! For tonight, I am not a man, I am a child. Tonight, I am not a warrior, but an innocent. Tonight, I do not fight. I wait for you, for tonight is weakness. My legs crumble away beneath me, my heart beats slowly, and my thoughts go back to a time when I still knew You. When I recognized Your love, Lord. My arms cannot raise the sword, and the shield is too much for me to lift. The bow is too taught for me to pull, and the arrow too sharp for me to touch. The fire too hot for me to endure, and the water too cold for me to suffer through. Tonight, let me know You again. Let me see Your face again, and let Your voice revive me, my God! I do not wish to struggle through another day with a bland view on life, a crimson perspective on happiness. Lord, raise my arm to strike with the sword. Lift my shield to protect me from the evil. Strengthen my fingers, so I may pull the bow, and release the arrow. Lord, carry me through the fire, and assist me through the waters. I cannot do any of those things without You. Help me, Lord.

Amen

Act Wisely

There is a day coming, when no man will see their deeds hidden, and where no human will escape what they have done. The good acts performed by man will be displayed for all to see, but the wicked deeds will be recounted before the throne of God. The acts of violence, hatred, lust, and desire will be made known. No darkness, regardless of how thick it blankets sin, will be able to withstand the Light Eternal. The sins of the fathers to a hundred generations before cannot escape the Truth All-Powerful. No matter where one tries to hide their sin, it will be found out. Do not assume that I try to frighten you with this message. No, I write this to encourage you. Be wary of what you do: you will account for it, in time. Do not act rashly, with no regard to the future. Your life is too important to waste on a fleeting mistake. Hold on to you integrity, and hold on to your value. Don’t let yourself be objectified by the world. You are a valuable creation, in need of a Saviour’s love. Think before you act. And then, act wisely.

Unity

Pain. It haunts us all. The fingerprint of the past, etched into our present, preceding us into the future.

Loss. We suffer it. We love, and that love betrays us when death comes to the doorstep of our affection, taking away the entitled of our love.

Sadness. We all shed a secret tear. A feeling of regret, a feeling of failure. A feeling of what we should have done, but didn’t. A feeling of hopelessness.

Anger. It tears at us all. The fabric of our control is teetering on the edge of a precipice, with anger threatening to plunge us into the abyss.

Yet, as a race, we conquer our pain, we suffer through our loss, we share and overcome our sadness, and we control our anger. We hold back the instincts that drive us insane. We stand tall, and don’t let our emotions lower us to the level of beasts. We stand, only because we do so together. We survive, only because we can lean on the shoulder of the one on our left. We make it through the hardest nights, only because we can depend on the friend on our right. Unity. It keeps us strong. Unity gives us the power to rise from the ashes of a failed society, and rebuild a new one. It enables us to overthrow tyrants, and depose dictators. We overthrow governments that oppress us, and we storm the Bastille of our times. Unity empowers us to become the one thing no man is alone: an army. An army 5, 10, or 100,000 strong. We step over the obstacles together, and we change the course of our future, hand in hand, eye to eye, shoulder at the level of shoulder, equal. Black and white, yellow and red, all colors combining into a portrait of our world. A painting. A true classic. A masterpiece in its time. A hope of a future we strive for, where no man is left behind, and no woman is abandoned. A time where no child will go hungry, and where no child will die for nothing. A time of true, unrelenting love. Together, as a church, we rise to the challenges we face. We stand up, and laugh in the face of impossibility. As one, we proclaim that the impossible is made possible. It is finished. Let us run. But not alone. Never alone. Unity binds us. Unity holds us. Unity.