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Name: Zach
Gender: Male
Interests: Knowing God more!
Reading the Bible,
reading history books,
reading classic literature,
playing guitar,
drawing, painting, and art,
riding horses,
hiking and biking outdoors, and
swimming.
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Member Since:
7/17/2006
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| I thank God... For friends and for storms...
Tonight, my friend and I watched through a window as a thunderstorm rolled across the sky. As the lightning flashed, we talked about God, various tempests we've seen before, the storms in our lives, our futures, and the responsibility of every Christian to live as and be a leader.
So I thank God for friends to talk to, and for the storms that show me more of my God, whom I begin to love more and more every day.
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness - tonight, tomorrow, and from here till we meet the Lord for all eternity!
And consider! What manner of love the Father has given to us... that we should called the sons of God!!!
So be such in all manner of conversation.
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| Spiderman 3: Venom's Suit May Be Closer Than You Think It had me...
In the typical way, it was good movie, carefully constructed, with a good
plot-line, character development, and climax.
But what does it mean for me to really live holy... to live for
God? It worries me when a movie affects me just as much, if not more,
than my time with God. Where does my ultimate influence really lie?
I jumped on board and for two hours, I was on a thrilling
emotional rollercoaster until I came smashing to the end and thrown
out... with nothing but weak knees to show for it. It was exhilarating for the next two hours after watching it, saying to my friends, "Oh that was
awesome!!! Remember when..."
But as I lay on my bed three hours later, I
got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. It felt like my emotions
had been abused. Only by a few hours of prayer and reading the Bible was I able to remove the empty unfulfilling muck from my gut.
Those lonely hours
showed me why I felt like that. For those two hours I wasn't seeking first the kingdom of God
and pursuing His righteousness in my life, but I was rather seeking my own
comfort, enjoyment, and manipulation.
My time is God's, not my own. I am to be like Christ, in EVERYTHING. Christ's time would have been spent more holy, set apart and zealous unto good works. Christ would have spent his time more wisely. God expects me to strive for perfect holiness in my life, as well. "Be holy, for I am holy."
Having joy is expected of
Christians...
...but fun? To the point where we seek it out?
There's something
about that movie... it felt so good. For a guy, at least, watching a movie like that makes one
feel strangely and quietly powerful.
Do I desire fun too much? Just
because I liked the movie, it felt good, and it brought a powerful adrenaline
rush does not mean that it's correct... in fact, those elements of my nature are the
very things Satan uses the most effectively against me. It's by using who I am that Satan destroys what I should become.
It doesn't
matter what our culture does. The question should not be "What is everyone else doing" but rather, "What does God want me to do? How would Christ act in this situation?"
How am I suppose to live, no matter how
different and odd that may appear, even among believers? A culture focused on people paying for fun
seems so... subtle, and sinful, and selfish. The freedom I have is freedom from sin unto good
works... not fun. What does that fact of salvation really mean for my life? To be a slave of righteousness.
Maybe I already know, and just don't like the result.
I wish I hadn't watched it, in a way. To sit in your bed afterwards and then realize what you had really done, and
why you had done it. As Peter Parker ran to the church tower to seperate from the suit, so I could only run to God to remove the subtle and powerful blackness that is clinging all over America.
The culture is like Venom's
suit... feels so good for a while, but soon you lose yourself, and
forget your real purpose simply for the pleasure of wearing it. You act and become
someone and something different.
You become a disciple of a dark culture, rather than Christ.
I was becoming was I hated, and
I saw myself in the "mirror" of the Word of God.
Can I describe the fear that shook me that night?
Never again. Run to God! Seperate from the suit that surrounds you!
Seek the Lord
first, choose to be holy in everything... today! Now!
Before it's too late... before faith cannot be found upon the earth, or in your heart.
"Seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you."
[Thanks for the conversation, Storm]
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| Great Peace "Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble."
-Psalm 119:136
Those who truly love the Bible (who live by its commands) will never stumble and will find great peace. Does it say that they know their future? No, but they'll know their God. And those that love His law will walk even as He walks, and will be holy even as He is holy, and will never stumble in his ways.
So if we know we have made mistakes and stumbled today, and we are worried about the future, we need to turn to the Bible and develop a love - a living out the little daily commands that lead to the big answers. You aren't running away from the problem when you reach for your Bible, you're reaching for the answer. Or do you not believe that the Bible is sufficient and contains "all things pertaining to life and godliness?"
Have you read your Bible today? Or have you loved something else today more than God?
Love and live God's Law. Read your Bible.
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| A Prayer from Psalm 12Where have the godly gone from the earth?
I looked for aid from the east and west, but everywhere… ruins:
Citadels are fallen! Pillars are broken!
Behold! I find truth and justice cowering, righteousness lying silent in the streets!
Loneliness!
Where has Your justice gone, O Lord? How long will You stay Your hand against evil?
Behold, the riches of the wicked! Their towers, their mansions! They worry not, neither do they fail.
They creep forth at night to destroy the old foundations. Now they come forth in the light of morning! More is added to them every day!
Where is the righteous? Who will defend the foundations? Is no one left to close this gap?
In the past, You built great testimonies of Your glorious majesty.
Will You so lightly let the wicked trample them under their feet?
Consider Your testimony, O Lord!
O, that You would raise up pillars of justice again!
O, that the citadels of Truth would sound forth silver horns again through the streets!
Redeem this land, O Lord! Save us from death!
Swing Your mighty arm with truth, justice and righteousness! Would that I be Your holy sword! Draw me forth against Your enemies! Send forth the call!
Here I am, Lord! Send me!
Swing me to Your good pleasure.
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