Lets Be Honest

I'm sitting here thinking about the importance of honesty, or integrity, truthfulness and being real. Whatever you wish to call it, my question is this: can any relationship survive without truth as it's foundation? 

I think that is the very reason why God actually hates lying. A relationship that is not based on openness and honesty is doomed from the start. Proverbs 6: 16 says He hates a lying tongue; especially since God is the truth and He is seeking those who will worship Him in spirit and truth. John 4;23  

An honest person welcomes the light of truth. A dishonest person rejects the truth for the comfort of darkness, for truth brings to light the hidden things they wish to remain hidden in the dark. The fallacy of that conception is nothing is hidden from God. He sees what actually is. He sees who we really are.

So, I guess the point of all this thinking out loud stuff is to say there really is no way to have a real relationship with God without being honest...or with anyone else for that matter...is there?


11/16/2015

Hallelujah

If you think you are any different then the people written about between the pages of sacred scripture, you would be wrong. They had all the defects and shortcomings you and I possess. 

The only difference was they allowed themselves to be available. 

God said "hallelujah!" 


11/12/2015

God's Faithfulness

Again I am posting a poem written many years ago. It is a reminder of my unsecured relationship with God; when I felt very much alone in my struggle with sin and forgiveness. The abyss between how I was and what I wanted to be seemed never to end. I am so very thankful for my Jesus unrelenting love and patience. I never want to be in that place again! 

Many times I have promised,
Scraps of paper tossed aside,
Wishing wells and fairy tales,
Never seeing what's inside.

You vowed you'd never leave;
I prayed I'd do the same.
I didn't know what faithful meant.
and played you as a game.

I was angry when you smiled.
The sun was not my friend,
but you just kept on loving me,
and turn my world on end.

I'll tell you what amazes me,
no matter what I've done,
you stand before your open door,
calling me toward home.

It's your faithfulness that keeps me now,
your faithfulness, that draws apart.
It's your faithfulness, so much faithfulness,
that breaks my heart.


copyright 10/5/2015

Live In Love

When we strip everything down to the bottom line, what is man's basic need? Is our basic need money? Is it a husband or wife, a house with a picket fence? 

We can have everything this world offers, but unless we know love, we often find we are still miserable; and searching for the meaning of life. Babies die for the lack of it; children grow up filled with hate because they have never experienced what true love is, so they lash out in bitterness of heart. We create a replica of love and think we have arrived, but soon find out the object of our affection is altogether human and transitory, so we turn from it disappointed.

People spend millions of dollars on psychologists, doctors, prescriptions, and books of self-help and philosophy along with a myriad of other things to bring light into their dark place. 

"What in this world is life all about?" is the cry of millions.

Where can we find the true meaning for our existence?

The answer is right in front of us where it has always been. Unfortunately, most of us turn our heads because we have had a negative experience where we have seen hypocrisy 
displayed from someone we've trusted. 

The answer is God. Yup, the One you have grown complacent about or perhaps even grown to hate. Or perhaps the One you just never took the time to really know. 

It is far easier, we think, to forge our own way. "God is love, whoever lives in love, lives in God, and God in him." (1 John 4:16)  He is the only one that will never leave me or forsake me. He is the only one who never lies to me, is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is the only one who can change my darkness into light, carry my heavy burdens for me without payment or price. He is the only one that loves me with a love everlasting, that changes me from the inside.

Why, oh why, do we give up on God so quickly and cling to our own willpower and determination as if we have had great success with that? 

Why do we make something so simple so difficult?

copyright 10/30/2015