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[whamber]

dirty daddy origins

[whamber]

More JoLuc...they were young dumb and full of illicit crick substances

[jlucmin]

Can I Rant a Bit?

For the past few weeks this has been bothering me and I did not know how to phrase as such so as to enable you to see the intentions of my heart. So here goes ...

The bible calls us to be salt and light of the earth(Matthew 5:13-16). What these two things  have in common, is the ability to change the course of something. When you are in the dark and cannot see, it is when you turn on the light that then you are able to get clear direction.  Salt has healing properties; if you have an open wound, you throw some salt on the wound and it heals it; though it might cause more pain, in the end it heals.

You know why the church have lost its lustre and glory? We have tainted it with our own ideologies and precepts, hence the reason the world looks at us and calls hypocrites because before we go out to the world to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we want to stand on street corners and pray aloud so that people can see us. We want people to come to the church yet we do not want to meet them at where they are at. Even the one that do make it through the door, we are quick to judge them because they don't measure up to the mundane standards of man. Yes indeed, it sounds harsh but it is a rough reality that seems to go unnoticed. 

We are infamously known for fighting the wrong battles using the wrong weaponry. Yes we are indeed fools because we have the most powerful arsenal at our finger tips and we choose to engage in babbling. We choose to engage in frivolous arguments that brings no profit to the kingdom. We have a world that is dying, destroying themselves at the lies of the enemies. Where the media have told them to raise to this standard, where is the voice in the wilderness crying out, declaring the way of the Lord? Our street corners have turn into corners of healing, our feet have to be girded with the gospel of peace, our lips have to become agents of blessings and life, our hearts of stone have to be traded in for the hearts of flesh, our souls needs to cry out unto God. We have to broken and contrite. 

How pitiful we have become, we have thought to believe that position equals identity, money and material gains is a measure of how close we are to God and when someone falls, we keep them in the ground. You see, I have struggled for many years and continue to struggle because there was none that I could not have confided in because of the fear that the intimacies of my mind would be slung in mud. Yes, and there are many who are like me. Yet, we conspire daily to make ourselves look better than our brother. What happened to the days of yesteryear when we were really our "Brother's keeper"?

Finally, I learnt that when we hook up and get intimate with praise, we produce five children with (him) praise ... Perez (which means to cut off), Hezron (which means shield/ protection), Karmi (which means vine dresser), Hur (which means liberty) and Shobal (which means embracer or corn). Now without a lifestyle of praise unto God we will never mature into who God wants us to be. We may be serving God but we are hardheaded and most of the times we refuse to listen to God and His instructions. He promised that He has a plan and purpose for us, a plan to prosper us. Let us remove everything that easily besets us and move forward, being that we have a cloud of witnesses. We have got to stop molding the church into something that mimics Babylon and release ourselves of the idols we serve.