Safe from my enemies

Though I'm hunted daily,
I stand fast waiting,
Locked-down, without debating
Or accepting the false fear that snake's emanating.
God will eliminate him,
When the Day comes,
Because the night's passing,
This is its last run,
The final lap with the gun-clap.
Fake smile on his face
Trigger-ready but without a gun behind his back.
This chap won't be having that.
I was born for another habitat,
It's where my King is at.
And this home will be tossed as scraps,
You too, snake, for you were made for wrath.
I was made for grace,
I was saved through faith,
I am sure He will keep me safe
With all I give back until that Day
So I'll just end and say that that Day is near,
Let it be clear
All wisdom begins with remaining close to God in fear.
Not that you'll miss out on heaven,
But that you'll miss out on Him,
That you have always deserved that future grim.
That you have always been inclined toward sin.
That you have always feared more the opinions of men.
And coming soon is the Day of Reckoning.
And some will be reckoned then
For His righteousness was imputed when
By faith they confessed His Son and believed,
No longer having God as their enemy,
But now having their former slaver up in arms,
Because they embraced his Conqueror's open arms,
And so he's setting off all alarms,
Pulling no stops just to do them harm,
To make them make anything but the Lord their charm
That they'd trust in anything but God's strong right arm.
But Christ crushed that snake, and now he's weak, unarmed.
He's still deceitful, though without true power.
But, God is the strength of our hearts and knows that hour
When we'll enter His rest and He'll be our portion forever.
But until that moment, we need to be Spirit-clever,
And sever all ties with the old man's clan,
Otherwise we'll never inherit the land.

short attempt at something...

This is how it begins.

Out of nothing, words broke the silence,

God put waves of creation to work with holy vibrance.

All established to show the glory of the slain prince.

All over the earth God left his fingerprints.

So many hints you’d have to be dense

To not sense the significance

Of God’s likeness descendents,

Pointing to their Author’s presence,

Descended from the heavens,

To dwell and be like leaven,

Out of enemy to bring forth brethren

A new kin, with kindred spirit,

That voice from the beginning, they would hear it.

The wall between them, He would clear it,

Not jump it, He came on a mission to destroy,

That’s why God deployed His very Son,

To make the creation he’d planned before the first one.

You don’t see because you’re looking in the wrong place,

You’re asking the wrong questions, running the wrong race,

Seek Him and you’ll find Him,

Knock and the door will be answered,

If you ask, you will receive.

Don’t be deceived, (x2)

Believe…

The evidence, it’s clear as day...

Don’t be quick to say what you don’t know.

You understand very little in comparison to what you claim, bro

See the sun and how it shines, see how the river winds?

See the feebleness of a man’s mind?

Docket and Done

Done:

• Finished 3 of 3 applications, contemplating a 4th.
• Decided a business plan idea for entrepreneurship seminar
  
• Decided an organizational change final project subject
• Spring Break
• Two full books, several chapters of other books yet to complete, and several articles

Docket:

• Reading for growth in several, overlapping categories (Theology - Missions, The Pentateuch, Christian biography; Business - entrepreneurship, small business, 80's takeovers; Culture - two magazines; Academic - entrepreneurship, international marketing, organizational change; psychology - motivation)
• Relearning Spanish and learning a little Portuguese for the first time
• Planning a schedule for studying for a major graduate exam
• Continued teaching of the attributes of God (this coming Sunday school lesson: God is eternal/immutable/self-existent)
• Course homework (reading, case studies, presentations, project papers, etc)

I have been memorizing Psalm 119 for several weeks now, and I'm on verse 53. I hope to have it completely memorized by mid-May (I add 8-10 verses a week). After that, I will begin a long-term adventure of memorizing one of the Gospel accounts.

Until next time,
God bless