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Date: Wednesday July 28, 2021
Meditation
Opportunities - Biblegateway.com Daily Verse
Philippians 3:14 (EXB - EXPANDED BIBLE)
14 I keep ·trying to reach [pursuing; chasing] the goal and get the prize for which God called me ·to
the life above [heavenward; L upward] ·through [or in] Christ Jesus.
YouTube.Com) New song
for me for the day~
Bright
Side of Broken by MercyMe
Motivation Movers
& Touches to the Soul (YouTube.Com)
The
Lion Sleeps Tonight | Music Travel Love (From Music Studio Love)
I
Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Music Travel Love ft. Felix Irwan
Gypsies,
Tramps and Thieves CHER
Keith
Urban - To Love Somebody
Daily Journal/Thoughts/
Prayers (Thinking out
loud)
Lord I don’t want
to miss one thing. Be it we are planned
out and prepared and we travel the world seeing and making beautiful harmonies
or just riding the wave of uncertainties called life.
May I never stop
chasing the prize of all you are Jesus.
As I think back in
time listening through these vibes this morning and songs take me back to
yesterday or fill me up with motivation for today. Knowing it is going to be better than okay no
matter what the other side of broken looks like. It is always brighter fighting forward instead
of just sitting and waiting for whatever comes next. And we know something good, bad, or
indifferent always will come. Always
trying to never sweat the small stuff because those mountains that something
bigger can always be up around the corner.
Transparent to a
fault without a doubt but when it comes down to it you Christ can see and know
all things before, they ever occur. It
is the world we must watch out for. Knowing
without a doubt not everyone who listens is there to just be present for you
but some if not many will collect as much if not everything, they can of you to
utilize for their own personal gains.
No matter how good the intentions.
Life just is what it is. Filled
at times with so much beauty and harmony yet more often depending where, and
when filled with so much conflict, misconception and so much deception.
But your word God,
your story in the depths of John the Apostle tortured and exiled to Patmos
Roman Empire , A.D. 97 (John 1:4-5) or Gilbert Hovsepian (Iran 2015) or a 12-year-old
boy who found his father stabbed 26-times for preaching the gospel among
Muslims.
So many stories in
and out of the bible tied to and with you Christ Jesus that are good, bad and
so misunderstood or never justified as what or why.
Scary when we think
about it. Really who would want to follow
a God that death and destruction is coming for anyway?
I wish I had the
answers. What I can say is always a
believer in God the higher power in this universe and always a believer that everything
always happens for a reason. But
thankful I didn’t spend my life in the depths of pity or chasing what those
reasons might be when life happens to me.
Christ suffered
pain beyond anything we will every know or go through and with that there really
are some messed up people in this universe that rob the pure, innocent, and
undeserving anything we would want for anyone including Christ.
We never forget our
yesterdays until that day comes that Alzheimer or some incident, accident or
disease comes and takes our minds. Yet,
we get to choose what we do with what should never be forgotten but used to
continue to learn and grow forward.
Love, Laughter, and
Life right!
Some of us, really
if we think about it many of those in the world numb what they do not want to
remember. Because they have never really
asked for the wounds and scars to be healed.
Some just cannot let go and they take their hurt and anger out on
everyone and anyone around them.
Me, I seek Jesus every
day to lead me and walk me through the fires of life if that is the direction
in the journey, I am on must go. He does
not purpose to see his creation destroyed, broken, or even hurt. But when life at the hands of our own or other
people’s choices happens and we are traveling or spinning within it. He will never leave us, and he will give us
healing and strength to keep moving forward.
Yeah alright. WE All get to believe in something, and I can
tell you from my own life experiences even it took me awhile to see it in
hindsight the difference and the path to peace and harmony is always brighter in
hope and blind faith in what is written and always has been and always will be.
I will never be a
theologian and although I learn something new every day. All I have is the blessings of each new day
and knowing where the air in these lungs come from. Even if my surroundings sometime feel suffocating
for the choices and happenings of the world, I am get heavy or not aligned and,
in the direction, I thought I could see planned out.
Really, I am no
different if I could easily turn everything that I see, everything I experience
through my own or others or even all that bad media that sells like wildfires
on the television. Easily I could not
give it one thought and just be that negative nelly of Its going to happen
anyway so why do we prepare? How do we
prepare?
Seriously I could
walk around ticked and mad at the world.
I could be that little 5-something skinny kid that had no problem
standing with my arms wide open up against the giants and say go ahead do
it. But make sure you kill me because if
I get back up, I am coming after you and I won’t hesitate to do you the harm
you have done me. After all, back then
I had nothing to live for and was tired of the bullies and takers of this world.
Yeah, broken every
way you can imagine in my youth and young adult life we never lived or thought
so unless standing our ground, no fear and dangerously.
I will never forget
my childhood, my past, my friends that even today even if I have not seen them
in 50 years would be like yesterday laughing and talking about the blessings,
we really never understood then to be able to be here now.
Thankful that the God
of mercy who controls the heavens, earth, and every breath we are given allows
me each new day. Even if and when the
world challenges us to think and push forward in directions, we sometimes do
not think out, but feel is where we should run towards.
Every day we are
given living this life in this world becomes a new normal. Sometimes the loss and pain is so great we
do not know how we will get back up and let’s be honest if we do not have hope somewhere
within us. We will not!
Our choices
matter. And although I personally as a
parent would love to instill the direction for my family, my friends or young
one’s coming up after me how to avoid the mistakes that cause pain, and loss and at times very hard
lessons. Just so they have an abundant prosperous
life. Our choices are our own. There is nothing I or anyone that can answer
for the results of any choices made but our own being. Even if we think we are doing the right
thing, even if we do not trust ourselves enough and go by whatever one or
anyone helps us make the decisions to do.
If we choose or
choose to go along with whatever. It is
on us. God gave his one and only son
as His choice to show the love for life and want humanity to walk with
him. And he has an eternity of pain
and suffering for a fallen world that repeats itself over and over.
We may or may not
have eternity; well, we will have eternity. Our souls in the end will. Where they end up in the heavens with no
more suffering or in the depths of hell feeling our mistakes over and over as
the demons never stop tormenting us or giving rest.
Maybe I am
crazy! But I am at peace and know that
even in the unseen blind faith in Christ Jesus no matter what was, no matter
what is, no matter what will be for me.
God is bigger and more real and ever lasting where everything in this
world is temporal and fading fast.
Judgement is
nothing new, scorned, Gypsy lifestyles and if we are lucky, we won’t become takers
and thieves of the world for everything and anything we can. More importantly we won’t be taken and lost,
battered, broken in a world that chews us up and spits us out quick and easy.
Judgement do you
really think you are qualified, or do you really know what is like when you sit
up on your pedestal looking down just thinking about what game you are going to
play out next?
Do you really know
what it is like to love yourself much less someone else? Not just looking good, working out being 50
looking 20 or styling and profiling. To
really find yourself through purpose and any pain and want more than what the
world will give or take. To call your
life your own or know whose you really are?
To not live by what the world creates you to be alone, an image that
fades or by one wrong tune, line or action is destroyed and you are lost
forever.
Guess I need to go
back to crazy, because this mind maze dumps out all kinds of thoughts from
life, from dreams, from places I could not even tell you.
Maybe it makes
sense, maybe it doesn’t. One sure thing
I know I am blessed and to whom I belong, and nothing can change that. Nope my journey is not easy and gets lonely,
let down and hard. But just knowing the
blessing that Jesus died so I could live, and I am given one more day full of
opportunity to look past the darkness and try to be something more than just a
statistic, or clone of what others are, do or say in this world that is fleeting. I guess that has to be enough until its my
time to meet at the pearly gates and see what direction this soul will fly
in.
I will never stop
wanting, I will never stop dreaming. I
will never stop desiring to really have that forever and be loved in the flesh
that makes me know eternity is real from the outside in as Christ has filled me
up with unspeakable peace and love from the inside out.
It is better to
have loved and lost than never loved at all.
So, no matter what, if this is life for me. My story is still being written and pages are
so much the same as many and so very different than many others. And they are mine. What are yours?
Psalm 139:1-4, 23-24 O Lord, you have searched me, and you know
me. You now when I will sit and when I
rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my
ways. Before a word is on my tongue you
know it completely, O Lord… Search me, O
God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and
lead me in the way everlasting.
Hebrews 6:18-19 There is no fear in love [dread does not
exist], but full-grown [complete, perfect] love turns fear out of doors and
expels every trace of terror! For fear
brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not
reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete
perfection]
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