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life*objective::

Fri, 22 May 2009 04:20:45 GMT

Many are the plans in the mind of a man,
   but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.
What is desired in a man is steadfast love,
   and a poor man is better than a liar.
_prov19,21.22

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
   but the LORD weighs the spirit.
Commit your work to the LORD,
   and your plans will be established.
The LORD has made everything for its purpose,
   even the wicked for the day of trouble.
… There is a way that seems right to a man,
   but its end is the way to death.
_prov16,2_4.25

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
_mt6,34

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
_phil4,4_7

Biblical life objective:: to know, love, and glorify God and, in obedience, be used of Him to raise up qualified laborers in significant numbers as fast as possible to help fulfill the Great Commission

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
//Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.
jerm29,11_14

there are no shortcuts to getting to know God. set your heart to know Him. what ever you value the most in your life will be made evident through your time, money, energy, conversation, etc.--these testify to what you treasure. truly your actions will speak out your beliefs more accurately than your tongue.

josh sherrill:: "a man after God's heart is one who wants to want what God wants."

specifically, the details are not clear, and so tomorrow can worry about itself. live today in obedience to God and He will provide all the grace needed for today, today. life is not the pursuit of happiness, but rather it is the pursuit of God's will (for His glory; our joy; *study Jesus for more insight since He is God). as you live each day for God's glory (that is seeking after His will as laid out in scripture), each day will become a week, month, year, decade. as you live for God today, eventually you can look back and see the plan God has given you to.

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
   his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul,
    "therefore I will hope in him."

The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
   to the soul who seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
   for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear
   the yoke in his youth.

Let him sit alone in silence
   when it is laid on him;
let him put his mouth in the dust—
   there may yet be hope;
let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
   and let him be filled with insults.

For the Lord will not
   cast off forever,
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
    according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
for he does not willingly afflict
   or grieve the children of men.
_lamentations3,22_33

what*if

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:31:24 GMT

what if::
in our doubts, truth is sought. but what if the truth we find we do not accept as truth. is that truth then false because we said so?

what if::
truth came and walked among us, showing us what truth is and where we stand in regards to truth? &what if we don't like what that truth means? what then? is truth nullified?

what if::
life is more than eating and drinking and whatever else our hands find to do? what if our inherent wisdom is mere foolishness in regards to truth?

_what if;

{+} what*if::
//what if the truth that is life is the remedy;

((&may you seek truth according to God's grace)) rather than the empty acceptance of this world (or perhaps to say a hard pillow; a freezing blanket)

born to//reproduce

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:59:56 GMT

_How is the time you spend with the Lord? Do you feel that your devotional life is what the Lord would have it to be? If not, why is your devotional life not what it should be? Did you have victory in your devotional life in college? Are you lacking communion with Christ?

_How many persons do you know by name today who were won to Christ by you and are living for Him? Not how many go to church. Are they living for Christ now?

_Are you producing? If not, why not? Is it because of a lack of communion with Christ your Lord, that closeness of fellowship which is part of the great plan? Or is it some sin in your life, an unconfessed something that has stopped the flow? Or is it because you still a child? "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food" Hebrews 5:12.

_What will it take to jar us out of our complacency and send us home to pray, "God give me someone I can bring to Christ, or let me take one who is already in Christ, an infant in Christ, and try to train that one so that he or she will reproduce!"

_Where is your man? Where is your woman? Do you have one? You can ask God for one. Ask the Lord, "Am I spiritually sterile? If I am, why am I?"

[dawson trotman]

before%then

Wed, 07 May 2008 04:50:32 GMT

(things to do before i get to what i'll be doing, in no particular order)

*texas to colorado, staying overnight at campgrounds in a tents

*travel from east to west coast (no particular time limit)
starting with about $1000 || maybe from north to south
(find temp jobs in between for cash)

*spend at least one semester overseas
in europe (ITALY!!) & africa & asia

*get & learn 35mm film camera

i am{what is}rich

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:36:07 GMT

"LAST YEAR
I NEVER
MISSED AN
EPISODE OF
AMERICAN
IDOL."

CHALLENGE YOUR PRIORITIES

{dan*simmons™}

"There's a popular bumper sticker that reads "God Bless America," but hasn’t America already been blessed? It's easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing "our" world as "the" world, because it's all we generally see. We're constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn’t enough because we see people that have even more than us.

But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it’s more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others."
{rob*bell}

And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God."
{matt 19:16-30}

for what does it profit a man to gain the whole world yet lose his soul?
{mark 8:31-38}

all the riches of the kings end up in wills;
like al pacino's cash (scarface),
nothing lasts in this life
{switchfoot*gone}

[::where is my heart :: where are my hands closed::]
//God may you reveal the pride, idolatry, and untrust in my heart.

the clap, crash, boom of thunder

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:48:56 GMT

the calming rustle of rain on the roof. the gusts of cool air to welcome the coming of the storm. the terrible brilliance of a lighting ripping through the night sky. a warm bed next to a window during a rain storm. the rolling clouds across the expanse of the sky. the thrill and carefree delight of playing in the rain. the crisp, clean smell in the air once the storm has passed. i am reminded of my littleness in comparison to God's grandness.

clouds and stars are brilliant as well.

_The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech,
and night to night reveals knowledge.
There is no speech, nor are there words,
whose voice is not heard.

Their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.
In them he has set a tent for the sun,
which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.

Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
and its circuit to the end of them,
and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

{ps19.1-6}

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

{rom1.19-20}

tears of the saints

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:49:34 GMT

Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with a glad heart. I am so pleased that you have continued on in this with us, believing and proclaiming God's Message, from the day you heard it right up to the present. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.

It's not at all fanciful for me to think this way about you. My prayers and hopes have deep roots in reality. You have, after all, stuck with me all the way from the time I was thrown in jail, put on trial, and came out of it in one piece. All along you have experienced with me the most generous help from God. He knows how much I love and miss you these days. Sometimes I think I feel as strongly about you as Christ does!

So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love much but well. Learn to love appropriately. You need to use your head and test your feelings so that your love is sincere and intelligent, not sentimental gush. Live a lover's life, circumspect and exemplary, a life Jesus will be proud of: bountiful in fruits from the soul, making Jesus Christ attractive to all, getting everyone involved in the glory and praise of God.

_[phil1.3-11]*msg

there is this feeling in me welling up from within for friends and family who need more than a self-motivating book [but not just people who are in want and don't know it] and people who've had a bad experience with church or christians, or get Jesus and religion mixed up and walk away from them both.

{{how long are we going to watch others dwell in sin-saloon, or watch pigs eat better than us.}}
i don't mean that we need to persuade them back to God, God is not about creative articulation nor is God's kingdom built on fancy words, rather we need to live as Jesus lived; in love and compassion. Jesus' words weren't said just so we can primp our lifestyles...

while (interested && curious)

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:27:18 GMT

interested = x;
curious = y;

while (interested && curious)
{
_Blaise Pascal is famous for this quote:

"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

_in “The Weight of Glory,” C.S. Lewis has one of his most famous quotes. One of the two most famous quotes is, “I didn't come to God to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port could do that.”

And then there's this one, “If there lurks in most modern minds the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.”

_So God, according to C.S. Lewis, doesn't look at us and go, “I can't believe they're seeking their own pleasure,” but He looks at us and goes, “They're not seeking hard enough.”

Now, this is the big famous part of this quote,

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

_When sin entered the world and fractured it, Romans 1 says, “What happened is that you and I exchanged the infinite creator God for His creation. And when that took place, we began to settle for temporary fleeting pleasures rather than what is eternal and soul satisfying.”

interested+=curious;
curious++;
}

@"Ecclesiastes, Part 2: Quenched"::m*chandler

{surely}we can change

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:54:15 GMT

and the problem is this::
we were bought with a kiss
*but the cheek still turned
{even when it wasn't hit}

and i don't know
what to do with a love like that;
and i don't know
how to be a love like that

when all the love in the world
is right here among us and_hatred too
and so we must choose
what our hands will do

where there is pain[let there be grace]
where there is suffering[bring serenity]
for those afraid[help them be brave]
where there is misery[bring expectancy]

oh, {surely}we can change, something.

and the problem it seems::
is with you and me
*not the Love who came
{to repair everything}

and {surely}we can change, something.

oh, the world's about to change;

the whole world's about to change

[dc*b_remedy]

going barefoot.

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:45:25 GMT

Questions. Gritty. Straining. Seeking. Repainting. Longing. Exciting. Magnificent. Growing. Asking. Relying. Unpredictable. Taking off these restricting shoes, and going barefoot. Serving. Pushing. Supporting. Loving. Too much for me.

Going narrower and deeper, rather than wider and shallower. Heart wrenching. Heart breaking. Delicious. Addressing my closed hands. Letting go. Today. Never perfected. Desiring more of God. Counting anything loss that hinders, restricts, limits, interferes, and deprives.