Consumed In Christ

In their righteousness is found ignorance. In their purity is found deception. How do those set on your heart miss the point? How is it that the small have been basked in your light? That the weak have understood strength? Is your kingdom that backwards? Are you so mysterious that even your wisest are put to shame? Oh, that I might be forever lowly! Never allow me to grow an inch! If I increase my destruction follows close behind. If I am destined for greatness I am destined to fail. Have we, in all these years, not yet learned where all glory is due? If we, even in the slightest, seek our own cause, our own fame we have set our death. Foolish generation! When will you learn? Your value is that of the sand and yet you parade around like diamonds. Oh, Famous One! Humble us, your children. We are nothing without you. We are without purpose or reason, without guidance or direction, without love or hope! Humble us, Oh God! We exist to glorify you! There is nothing else. -Consumed

Missy’s Womb With a friend to my left, I arrived at my next-door neighbor’s driveway. The house we came to, my family and I had lived in it a good 14 years prior to date. But as my companion and I arrived at the house, Missy Belaw sat there beside the road and the driveway in the grass. She was holding CDs or DVDs in her hands on her stomach. As we approached her, while standing in the road, we began talking, questioning why she was sitting there. She began to explain that she had miscarried due to some reason of her womb inflaming. She wasn’t distraught; her emotions were absent or simply apathetic. Then something inside my spirit began urging me to pray for her. Feeling a good amount of doubt and acting with hesitancy, I crouched down and placed my left hand on her stomach above where she was holding the CDs or DVDs. As a placed my left hand on her she dropped a few of the discs on the ground, in front of her, between her legs. My right hand proceeded to place itself on the discs...

Question: "Do we want everyone to join our 'club' and "get saved" at the risk of people "faking it till they make it"? My thoughts are both yes and no. Yes I want everyone to get saved but no I don't want people to just go through the motions and slander the name of Jesus with their lives. I would love to hear what everyone else thinks and please dive as deep as you want. I will try and stay out of it and let you guy's run with the topic." Answer: Hmmm.... Well, are the slanderers even Christians at all? I just read the intro to a book about two weeks ago concerning two Churches. The first Church is the Public Church, the Church that everyone sees and knows and understands. It's the people who go on Sundays, and maybe Wednesdays if they're feeling generous, and then live out the rest of their week "Slandering" God, "Slandering" the Faith. They are your average Christian. But then comes in a Church that is unheard...

You know what bothers me? Spiritual people... I don't like them. They make a big deal about things they don't even understand. I might be rebuked for such a comment but seriously why do you have to make everything so mystical? God has placed us in a physical world, with emotional yet intuitive minds to conquer a spiritual plane... this much I understand. The Spiritual Realm is all around us, in everything we see and a part of everything we do. But what people don't seem to understand is that everything that is spiritual is represented my something physical. I guess this really isn't at much debate but what I see most common in this era is a people who are so excited about God and the things He is doing that they forget the blessings of the past. They forget wisdom, they forget understanding, they forget knowledge... Heck just the other night I heard a young man tell a group of peers with complete confidence that him going to college would be a waste of time because his ...

I don't know why but I feel as if my life has slipped into a rut. I've been running around in circles it seems for quite some time now and my days feel like they're dwindling. I don't mean to complain, even though I am, it's simply that I don't exactly know how I got here or if here is even a place. I keep going over the thought that maybe my "rut" is just a moment that must pass me. Maybe this time of boredom and restlessness is here for recollection and study. I've been dealing with this for a while now and I have not been completely idle which I am proud to be able to say. However, I do fear that my strength in this period of my life is withering. I'm trying to hold on so ever tightly to my God and be joyful in His never-ending graces but time seems to push harder than joy.  My purpose in writing this was not to be sullen but rather to lift my spirit... I have found an answer. A few months ago I attended a college retreat with my church and...

What is kept in secret is bound to destroy. What is exposed is fated to bring about only freedom. So I begin this blog, these series of letters and notes to myself and God, to bring about a transparency that I have not yet accomplished. These words reveal my heart, they reveal my passions and my greatest strengths, but they also shed light on what I'd rather keep in the dark. I am weak, feeble, undeserving of this Grace that has beset me. And yet, I remain. Even in this dishevel that has become my life I have found favor in my God's eyes. My desire is to please Him and only Him. So may these following posts be testimony to how I desire to live and whether or not my decisions follow that desire. God Bless...