Life is too short to live life __________
Fill in the blank above with a word of your choosing...
Many people fill it with...sad/unhappy/morose
& I guess that means that one of the values we hold dear is...happiness
But...this kind of surprises me...
People look for happiness, but they also acknowledge the fleeting nature of it,
and they wear themselves out in pursuit of the next adrenaline rush,
the next emotional high, the next flush of euphoric experience.
If we know that it is fleeting, and that it ends...
then we also know that this world can only provide a temporary high,
The kind of experience that...if we keep chasing for...
would probably lead us down the road of...sin, and pleasure, guilty pleasures...
We sang it again today..."Hosanna", "break my heart for what breaks yours"
And i remembered the fall from grace, of 2 high officials & 1 MP,
and the common thing that felled them, was their lust for women,
and the overwhelming sensation that power gave them
I think God's heart truly is broken...
and the term, "fall from grace" is truly apt...
We all live under such Grace...God's Grace
yet we frequently misplace and abuse it so...flippantly
My life is given...in service of others
and I wish sometimes that acts of Love would really be seen that way,
but i've learnt, since time immemorial, men have always been sinful,
and men have always been ungrateful...what makes us think people will change?
We have a folly of low expectations,
a kind of love, which allows people to do what they want,
yet in doing so, autonomy without structure is built,
decisions are made in a vacuum, in which self is the center
We say train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is older, he will not depart from it...
Train up a child to know God, to honour Him, and to Love Him,
and when God has a hold of him, then...they will be led by the King.
But i guess...this is not a message well accepted,
neither is it a love that this soft generation recognises
Why am i fighting for a generation that doesn't fight for itself?
Why should i bother, when instead of coming alongside, they fight against friends?
Fill in the blank above with a word of your choosing...
Many people fill it with...sad/unhappy/morose
& I guess that means that one of the values we hold dear is...happiness
But...this kind of surprises me...
People look for happiness, but they also acknowledge the fleeting nature of it,
and they wear themselves out in pursuit of the next adrenaline rush,
the next emotional high, the next flush of euphoric experience.
If we know that it is fleeting, and that it ends...
then we also know that this world can only provide a temporary high,
The kind of experience that...if we keep chasing for...
would probably lead us down the road of...sin, and pleasure, guilty pleasures...
We sang it again today..."Hosanna", "break my heart for what breaks yours"
And i remembered the fall from grace, of 2 high officials & 1 MP,
and the common thing that felled them, was their lust for women,
and the overwhelming sensation that power gave them
I think God's heart truly is broken...
and the term, "fall from grace" is truly apt...
We all live under such Grace...God's Grace
yet we frequently misplace and abuse it so...flippantly
My life is given...in service of others
and I wish sometimes that acts of Love would really be seen that way,
but i've learnt, since time immemorial, men have always been sinful,
and men have always been ungrateful...what makes us think people will change?
We have a folly of low expectations,
a kind of love, which allows people to do what they want,
yet in doing so, autonomy without structure is built,
decisions are made in a vacuum, in which self is the center
We say train up a child in the way he should go,
and when he is older, he will not depart from it...
Train up a child to know God, to honour Him, and to Love Him,
and when God has a hold of him, then...they will be led by the King.
But i guess...this is not a message well accepted,
neither is it a love that this soft generation recognises
Why am i fighting for a generation that doesn't fight for itself?
Why should i bother, when instead of coming alongside, they fight against friends?
why?
Maybe...cuz...
that's what God did,
And that's what I'm called to do
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