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“I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthains 10:2-5)
“Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” Are you right now actively pursuing (as your first priority) God’s inner government and His righteous rearrangement of all of your thoughts, feelings, and desires? (2 Corinthians 10:2-5)
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Are you hungry now? Are you blessed (at this moment) with thirst for what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy? (Philippians 4:8)
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Are you actively longing and seeking to continually and completely surrender your mind to be directly led by God’s Spirit into His inner transformation and renewal? (Romans 8:14)
Righteousness isn’t
Just God’s rubber stamp
That says admit one
Into paradise.
It’s Christ’s shinning lamp
Glowing in your heart
And changing you from
Glory to glory
Into His image.
Let Jesus Himself
Completely revamp
Your thoughts and desires
And remove the clamp
Of sin from your life.
Are you hungering
For His righteousness
To burn withing you?
Are you seeking first
The kingdom of God
Inside of your heart?
Nothing less than that
Is Christianity.
Let Jesus encamp
Forever in you
And replace your thoughts,
Feelings, and desires
With the kingdom of God.
Do you believe that the gifts of the Spirit are still in operation today, or ceased with the death of the last apostle?
When I was a child my parents gave us safe place to live. I didn’t have to work other than very simple chores. When I felt lazy I didn’t always like the chores but I didn’t really hate them. I got along with my siblings but sometimes I would argue with them.
All in all I liked my life as a child.
To a great degree, although both my parents did work outside the home, I was ignorant to the stresses that they experienced.
As an older adult, with financial debt and high cost, and a marriage that is broken, the world is a broken place.
Think it comes down to how well one has done in the world. How insulated they are from homelessness hunger pain.
Thanks for your beautiful poem today, Steve. I am writing it in my journal.