Top 5 Things I Want To Believe More Deeply.

5. The Lord is my portion.

4. Trials are for my good.

3. Whom have I in heaven but You?

2. There is none on this earth I desire besides you.

1. This life is but a vapor.

Deconstruction In Progress.

It’s been said that any one person cannot truly know that there is an Absolute Truth.

But does not that simple statement imply that the speaker of that statement believes it to be absolutely true that there is no Absolute Truth?

Hmmm…

Really? A Western Name?

I was listening to a local radio station today and they were doing a bit on the “Most widely known western names in Asia.”

The most widely known western name in Asia is Jesus Christ.

I guess I forgot that Jesus was born in the West.

Are Words Just Words? Who Makes Certain Words “Bad”?

Check out this thought by Abraham Piper at his blog 22 Words.

Do you curse often?

Why? Why not?

What makes words “bad” words?

Be Affected.

Top 5 Feelings That I Have Been Experiencing Lately.

5. Pensive.

4. Grateful.

3. Conflicted.

2. Artistic.

1. Expectant.

My Inconsistency Of Being Consistent.

I am finding out more deeply each day the constant struggle of following Jesus.

Each day I am reminded by the frailty of my own heart and how it wanders aimlessly to unsatisfying realities.

One of my biggest questions I think I have for God at the moment:

“What does it feel like to be so consistent?”

The Other Side Of The Coin.

It is far too often that I sit down to write a blog similar to this and have this inkling of emptiness.

Moreover, It is far too often that I catch myself resting in things that truly do not offer me rest.

I think the other side of the coin to finding out the greatness of His Loving Heart, is finding all of the things that do not satisfy.

So, Jesus I am resting, resting.

In the joy of what Thou art.

I am finding out the greatness.

Of thy loving heart.

Living In Hope When I Stray Off The Road.

“Then Gloom said [concerning the Pilgrims], ‘I am afraid that they are living in hopes of someone coming to rescue them.’

-Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan.

In this scene of the story, the Hero Pilgrims are being held in a dungeon by a keeper named Gloom because of their straying from the road to the Celestial City (Heaven).

When I stray “off the road,” and when trial comes, how often do I persevere in hopes that someone is coming to my rescue?

Hallelujah Lord, I Need You.

I used to be the strong one.

The self-sufficient fool.

But the plain and simple truth, is that I am a desperate man.

God is exceptionally good at shifting my life in such a way that leads me to a point of turning to Him and confessing….

I need You.

Hallelujah. I need Him.