Coversation...

I'm starting to have this really cool conversation with a friend of my sister's. He is a philosophy major that used to be a Christian and has now reconsidered due to his studies. This reminds me of Professor Taylor who is a Philosophy professor at Westmont and whose class I took on Christian Apologetics. He went through a similar thing that the more he studied Philosophy, the more he questioned God until he had an unforgetable experience that changed his life. No matter how much he looked at things through the philosophical view, nothing could take away his supernatural experience that could not fit into any sort of box. If you would like to see at how the convo is developing, go here:


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PSALM 27:13 - Thanks Mom

I am still confident of this:

I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

God thank you for giving me HOPE ;)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uma going cLaZy!!! And YES I meant to write an L instead of an R. U know how I is ghetto! shoooooot...

So there are many things in my life that are pulling and preoccupying my mind in different (not opposite) directions. Let's see, there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 things that are in mind right now. I'm not going to list them all, but if you are my friend, I would PLEASE ask you to pray for me as I seek the LORD's will and peace and guidance in every single one of those!!!

Well, let's see, I guess I can tell you of one that has me kinda excited. One is that I have been going to Victory Outreach the last couple of Sundays and this guy recognized me because I had spoken to him a couple of years ago. We caught up and I told him that I had just finished Westmont and he said that they were looking for teachers in their new ministry that they were doing. I don't know details, but I got super excited since their focus is in inner cities!! *Okay Pablo calm down*

Well, because of a couple of those things up there I cannot say yes... at least yet. I just wish that all the things that I am going through came to a peaceful river where I can lay my head on the LORD's lap and He could tell me, "see, it's all over". But I'm not there yet...key word *YET*.

God I need you to ground me and comfort me and show me and teach me how to take things one step at a time. Teach me to listen to you more and more. Teach me to act at the RIGHT TIME!!! PLEASE!!!

Well, God... I'm at your disposal. (Oh! I remembered another one so I just added #8) Anyway... God, touch my lips with hot coal and open my spiritual ears to Your Words!

I need you!!!

my chest hurts.....................................

Things a Changin'

So guess what here's what's up. I DID hear God when He spoke to me about Jenny. If I didn't then I would have a faith crisis here. Here are some options as to what happened. Well, either He said something and then I messed it up and He changed His mind or He knew that the only way that I would learn what He needed me to learn was by suffering through my relationship with Jenny. And, since He also knew that I would not date Jenny unless He told me that she was the one, He told me that she was the one so that I would date her AND learn AND glorify Him the most.

You Prostitute!!!

Um, are you a Christian? If yes, please keep reading...

Have you sinned? If yes, keep reading (YOU BETTER KEEP READING!!!)

My question to you: Why are you a prostitute?? Everyday, whoring yourself out?

Seriously though... think about it... You, as a Christian, are part of the church and the church is the bride of Christ.

So then, If you are married to Christ, how do you cheat on your husband Jesus Christ? Well, you choose something over Him. What you and I choose is SIN.

Quick answers:

Your PIMP: Satan

Your $10 Pay: The quick gratification and pleasure of momentary sin

Your consequences: MAN SO MANY!! Guilt hurts... so many more though...

Jesus, according to His Word, can "divorce" us, but He loves us so much that He continues to always be there... INTERCEDING for us too!!

The Bible says in Hosea 4:12:

My people [habitually] ask counsel of their [senseless] wood [idols], and their staff [of wood] gives them oracles {and} instructs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray and they have played the harlot, withdrawing themselves from subjection to their God.

Clearly the LORD regards us as precious brides. Let's treat our LORD in the way that recognizes the marriage covenant that we are truly in with Him.

Sin is cheap, easy, the pay is good, and IT'S SO MUCH FUN!

BUT...

SIN IS DEFINITELY NOT TO DIE FOR!!!

Something New

So.... ummmm....

I'm confused.... I wish that I wasn't confused. It's like: how can two things make perfect sense yet the two things that make perfect sense are both in 100% opposition to one another. If you know me, then you know exactly what I'm talking about. Also, I never thought that it was possible for God to have two things "seemingly" opposite to one another. Let's tease this out further so that you know what I mean.

Everyone can usually remember the story of Moses and Egypt and the 10 plagues. And, since most people know about it, the thought is usually the same over and over and the teaching about it is usually the same over and over. So, what about this: God told Moses that His will was for His people to leave. However, God hardened Pharaoh's heart so that His people would not be able to leave. It seems that at the time, for God to achieve His greater purpose, He needed to go opposite to His seemingly immediate will in order to accomplish His people absolutely knowing that HE was the one true God. Also, check out 2 Samuel 24 where God tells David to count his people and then God punished David for doing so. It pretty much seems like God punished His people through David. I'm blabbing right now and I can be a lot more articulate. Check back in a few days and this will make sense, but meanwhile read 2 Samuel 24...

CHURCH + HOP HOP = UNITY IN CHRIST

Some FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" speech

EXPAND IT...

"I have a dream that one day [in the US] with its vicious racists, with its govern[ment] having...their lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right [here in the USA], little black, [Hispanic, and Asian] boys and... girls [of all ages] will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

What in the History of the USA has even come close to doing this? Well, if you read my title you might be able to guess it: Hip Hop.

Selah

Let me ask you this:

Aren't we supposed to be in the World but not of the World?

Aren't we supposed to be like the Apostle Paul and be within the culture and redeem it for Christ and through Christ like he did in Mars Hill?

Isn't Christianity, in its most basic form, a relational lifestyle?

Then why are Christians saying that we must shun Hip Hop when Hip Hop is a culture?

Continuing Thought:


It seems like by shunning Hip Hop we are shunning the example of Paul in redeeming culture for Christ, we are shunning the lesson that the LORD taught Peter learned in Acts 10 in that God can make anything clean, we are shunning what Jesus did as He talked to the Samaritan woman or in crossing the sea of Galilee, and we are shunning away at the possibility of unity through races and generations.

Ahhhh! So many words and so little time!