My Reality

This is what I see in the reality I live today
People walking around contaminated with filth and grime
Too materialistic and philosophically cold-hearted to take notice; to the Life, the Truth, the Way

Like a world without color the way they live this life
They fill their daily walk with "important" things to do
But in their hearts they harbor their emptiness, pain and strife

This is what I see in the world I live today
Believers who are afraid to step on toes
A lot of time wasted in what we should do, think and say

We pray and ask for wisdom without us having read
the Bible, our manuscript, the precious Word of God
But we forget inside it says: "faith without works is dead"

This is what I see in the world I live today
A future hopeless and desolate without true meaning
The world's inhabitants ambuling about following every sway

You see we are their messengers of truth; speaking against the lies
No matter the circumstance we need to overcome
With God as our forfront we'll continue marching; as the spiritually wise

This is what I see in the world I live in today
The earthly beings that they are looking for "something new"
But searching and searching though they've done; the Truth they still push away

Alas surge on we will, following closely the footsteps of our Lord
Though laugh at us they must; still blinded by their deceitful prince
There is yet a war at hand and we shall vanquish with the Sword

13 It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14 because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15 All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 4:13-15

Do you ever feel that no matter where you are at any given moment you do not feel “at home”?I have felt this way many times throughout my life and although I have travelled to many different places; this feeling is because we as believers in Christ do not belong on this earth. Though we try hard as we might to make this our dwelling by blending in with our coworkers, classmates, family and neighbors; alas there is no faking it . . . it doesn't work.

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18

You see? As the following passage of Scripture states, this should be our goal:

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. 2a Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith
Hebrews 12:1-2a

God has big plans for us according to His will, but we must shake off our human selves and act as what we have been made for . . . servants of Christ. I want to encourage you to not let your guard down no matter how easy or difficult you may have it in this world remember that we are always in an unseen battle with God's main enemy; Satan. Allow me to share a paragraph or two from C.S. Lewis one of my favorite authors from his book “The Screwtape Letters”.

MY DEAR WORMWOOD,

The real trouble about the set your patient is living in is that it is merely Christian. They all have individual interests, of course, bu the bond remains mere Christianity. What we want, if men become Christians at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I call 'Christianity And'. You know---Christianity and the Crisis, Christianity and the New Psychology, Christianity and the New Order, Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and Psychical Research, Christianity and Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform. If they must be Christians let them at least be Christians with a dfference. Substitute for the faith itself some Fashion with Christian colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old Thing.
“The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 pp.1”

This is what has happens to our world when we as believers get swayed from our Rock and Fortress Jesus Christ. Below is a passage of Scripture that I turn to when my mind drifts from the real situation I am in on earth.

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:10-12

“ . . . but the greatest triumph of all is to elevate this horror of the Same Old Thing into a philosophy so that nonsense in the intellect may reinforce corruption in the will. It is here that the general Evolutionary or Historical character of modern European thought (partly our work) comes in so useful. The Enemy [speaking of God here] loves platitudes. Of a proposed course of action He wants men, so far as I can see, to ask very simple questions; is it righteous? is it prudent? is it possible? Now if we keep men asking 'Is it in accordance with the general movement of our time? Is it progressive or reactionary? Is this the way that History is going?' they will neglect the relevant questions, And the questions they do ask are, of course, unanswerable; for they do not know the future, and what the future will be depends very largelyy on just those choices which they now invoke the future to help them to make. As a result, while their minds are buzzing in this vacuum, we ahve the better chance to slip in and bend them to the action we have decided on. And great work has already been done. Once they know that some changes were for the better, and others for the worse, and others again indifferent. We have largley removed this knowledge. For the descriptive adjective 'unchanged' we have substituted the emotionl adjective 'stagnant'. We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain---not as something which everyone reaces at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is,”
“The Screwtape Letters ch. 25 pp.6”

Let me leave you with one final Scripture passage for the week. May God truly bless you with His truth and grace as you adhere to His word and therefore attain His wisdom so as to combat the flaming arrows of our enemy; because he never rests from his work of deception.

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not whither. Whatever he does prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm ch. 1

Forever a daughter of the Most High and His servant while I pass through my time on earth towards my permanent home . . . Heaven.

~until then~