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Luke16:15
"What is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight."

Have you heard the story of the Rich man and Lazarus?

THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS

There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogscame and licked his sores.
The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side( Abraham is the father of all nations to whom God promised him his descendants would be numerous)The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far awar, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him,
'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'
But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.'
He answered, ' Then i beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.
Abraham replied, "They have Moses and the Prophets, let them listen to them"
"No, father Abraham," he said, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent."
He said to him, "if they do not listen to Moses(think Prince of Egypt) and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."

dancing along with life, storing treasures for eternity while i can

hear thee roar
hear me roar
the lion of judah stands knocking on your door.
deep oceans of love pouring forth from jars of clay
The saviour came from heaven to earth
died on the tree
for you me
him and her,
He died to take away our sins, wash us clean
so that we may stand rigteous before Him who made us all
The Lord God, the Almighty
That is His name, the I AM
crucified, He took our sins
He nailed our brokeness pain and death
to the wooden tree.
generations through generations,
His mercy, grace, love, and salvation remains.
how awesome is that
let us magnify His name!


Life.
So many others,
people across nations tribes
and different languages
have made entries, each on their own
about this mysterious gift.
scribbling notes or painting pictures
in dot points, paper journals

from the moment we start breathing
God sees us.
from that moment on,
we propel through time
through flashes of seconds rushing by
with minutes blinking foward towards
day after day
that led on to month upon month
that painted sceneries of our years of our lives
in our picture book
of memories, thoughts.
life,
im sure you have your own sketches of
what you think life is
or maybe you're sitting clueless
still wavering
not giving a damn.
yet.

"You don’t think about dying when you are just starting to live..And yet in the midst of all of this grief, despair and pain, there is the power of hope. I did not understand hope until that moment. Hope of the resurrection became more than just a spiritual concept; it became something I longed for. I have the hope that indeed he and I and everyone who will die in Christ will rise in Him as well. This is the hope that I live with now, even though I don’t understand it. I am made for eternity, not as a liquid spirit but as a solid, beautiful creation of God.

There is also the hope that even today Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He is resurrecting in me the areas that died that day. He has promised to be life to me as I believe in Him. Though I still don’t understand what death will be like, I can’t say that I fear death as an enemy. It is now toothless and under submission to Christ. It has lost all victory over me. Every moment as I walk toward it, I see it shrinking back in fear. Death does not fear me but fears what Christ shall do in me as I pass from life to death to life again.
." curteousy of relevant magazine. www.relevantmagazine.com


Here are some qoutable qoutes from the very manual of God's instructions for life. Why don't you check them out for yourselves? feel free to leave your comments about what you think of God, of life. random words, anything you want. leave questions that have been hogging your mind. let's have a discussion roll. it dont matter if we dont know each other. anyone from anywhere leave your thoughts here to rest. All comments welcome!
tell you what, i'll leave the words from God below this post alright? again, feel free to say whatever.

How do you put life in a few words

The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. The Lord is a prayer answerer, comfortor, loving, faithful, just, trustworthy KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS

random wordstry sitting you and your life
in a photobooth
snapping picture shots together
as the credits roll
as the sky folds over

random noodle strings

the desire to know the Lord is burning
to be at peace with Him
to love Him more and more each day
to have Him catch you when you fall

THE WORD OF GOD SPEAKS
ALL WHO HAVE EARS, LISTEN.
ALL WHO HAVE EYES, SEE.
taken from the psalms, 90:5-6, 10, 12
Here David, a man after God's heart, said
"You(God) sweep men away in the sleep of death;
they are like the new grass of the morning-
though in the morning it springs up new,
by evening it is dry and withered.
the lenth of our days is seventy years- or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow,
for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Teach us to number our days aright
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

in psalm 89:47-48, David cries
"Remember how fleeting is my life, for what futility you have created all men! What men can live and not see death or save himself from the power of the grave?"

In Isiah 40:6 we understand that
" All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field."

Then in Job 21:16 it is mentioned
"But their(the wealthy and rich and famous) prosperity is not in their own hands"
Job22:17&18
"They said to God 'leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?' YET IT WAS HE who filled their houses with good things, so i stand aloof from the counsel of the wicked."
Job 24:19
"As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,
so the grave snatches away those who have sinned."
Job 24:22
"But God drags away the mighty by His power, though they become established, they have no assurance of life. He may let them rest in a feeling of security, but His eyes are on their ways, for a little while they are exalted (think huge/major rulers of nike, starbucks, trump with the dopey hair do heeehs etc.)and then they are gone, they are brought low and gathered up like all others, they are cut off like heads of grain."

Throughout Ecclesiastes, the author drones on about the meaningless of life,.. dont we all sometimes? well thank God Jesus fills this void halleluiah..
In Ecclesiastes 11:9-10
"Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for these things God will bring you to judgement. So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigour are meaningless."

In wrapping up, the conclusion of the wise writer from Ecclesiastes leaves us with..
this passage from Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
"FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY DEED INTO JUDGEMENT, INCLUDING EVERY HIDDEN THING, WHETHER GOOD OR EVIL."
by the way, Jesus provides an abudance of life. if only we would believe and receive. How great is love is. It is uncomprehensible. i mean just imagine, God came to earth and lived as one of us . amazing or wad? that happened 2000 years ago.
'For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, Jesus to die on the cross for our sins so that whoever believes shall not die but have eternal life' John 3verse16
the world's notion of glory and glamour. is as nothing before God.

"for your thoughts are not my thoughts
and my ways are not my ways
says the Lord"
This verse goes something like that.
read this for a refreshing truth
Isiah 40:6 proclaims
"before Him all the nations are as nothing, they are regarded by Him as worthless and less than nothing."