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| Every now and then I like to be a little morbid and talk about death. I haven't posted in a while so let's talk death. I get to see death fairly often, and that's not a good thing, so here are some of my thoughts. This post is inspired by the common phrases, "When it's our time to go..." or "It must have been his/her time to go..." "It was God's will..."
"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19)
A sad day happened a long time ago. Because sin entered the world, death also entered the world. Death is not our friend! Its not part of God's will! Death is not how things were ever meant to be. We treat death like a welcomed visitor when we should be treated it like the unwelcomed enemy.
I am often embarrased by Christians when they say someone's death was part of God's plan. A 7 year old dies and a well meaning Christian will say, "It must have been part of God's plan." Is it possible that God is heart-broken by this death rather than planning it out? The problem of death can't be placed as part of God's plan. Good theology cannot teach death as part of God's plan when the Bible says its a result of our sin. It appears to me that God didn't cause death--we did.
Death is not our friend just like sin is not our friend; its our enemy...and enemy that will be defeated by Christ along with sin. Oh what a day when God takes death to Hell and it is defeated once and for all. You don't believe me when I say God will do this? Look at these text and see for yourself.
"Death is swallowed up in victory. Oh death, where is your victory? Oh death, where is your sting?" (1 Cor. 15:54-55)
"The sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the grave (Hades) gave up the dead in them. They were all judged according to their deeds. And DEATH and the GRAVE were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death--the lake of fire." (Rev. 20:13-14) | | |
| THANKS to the few and the honored who have commented on my site lately. Comments on Xanga has become a lost art, so when someone does it; it make me feel good inside. I decided I would give a little of an update on my life. I just finished Real Estate School. I have to take the Arkansas test, but after that I should be certified. I probably will not activate my license until January. I find it interesting that I am doing thing jobwise that has nothing to do with my degree. If I had not gone to college, then I would not be as poor as I am right now. I am not sure what kind of job I will do next. I have already had 3 careers and I am just a kid. Oh well, I am getting diversified and well-rounded in life. Really, I don't want to do just one thing in life--that's boring and I have ADD. I want to try it all before I fade. | | |
| Yes, I haven't posted in a while. No, I am not dead...nor do I wish to be. Yes, I have had plenty of time to make posts, but I haven't been really in the desire to do so. I just got off a plane from St. Louis not too long ago. It was a good trip, but I have to go to work tonight so I can't say it is great to be back. Oh yeah, in reference to my last post about finding a church, no, I am not going to work at that church. I did look at some potential churches in St. Louis though, and I might check in to it. Who knows what I will do. I am not that conflicted about it right now. In other news, there is not new news. I could sit and ramble on about the nothingness of this post, but instead I think I will go take a crap to something. Yes, I did just say crap. No, I don't have to go though. | | |
| John Doe 1 struggles with homosexuality. Christianity is something he sees as fake based off his experience with Christians. A few years ago he was arrested. Why? Because he got caught in some illegal activities with a minor. Messing with children is not the norm for gay people, but it was them man's crime. John Doe 2 can't seem to stop. It is like everyday something happens that stresses him out. Next thing he knows he wakes up on his front porch unsure where he is with a hangover. His wife left him and he never gets to see his kids anymore because of his problem. John Doe 3 is scared of everything. He is scared of his own shadow and so he avoids public much at all. Asll he really has in life is his cramped up apartment and his cat who is paranoid too. Jane Doe 3 realized in high school she wasn't very smart. Her parents never really cared so she always did what she wanted. After dropping out of high school, and realizing she couldn't ever get a decent job, she decided that being on the street corners was a good way to make some fast money...all she had to do was a few tricks with men and she could support her other habits. Now, she is older, uglier, used up, diseased up, and trying to figure out what to do now. The woman who works at Waffle House. The kid who sits alone at school. The ones we don't pursue that I think God pursues daily...as he pursues you and me. The list can go on and on and on. What is my point? Well first of all, these are all fake people yet real stories to many people. The problem is I don't know any of them personally. They never come to me, as I never go to them. Now, sure they do come to me because I am in Emergency Medicine (they get sick...a lot sometimes), but as a Christian, I don't see the lepers (outcasts/dirties/diseased/homos/sex addicts/child molestors), the prostitutes/whores, tax collectors (cheaters/thieves). You know...the under class...the people that aren't usually touched or loved or cared about in society. The people who come out at night when you are sleeping...why don't I see them around us...isn't Jesus for them too? You can't get through the Gospels without seeing the "losers" around Jesus...so how come you can get around the Christian's and see only people who aren't "losers?" How come me and you (yes not correct grammatically yet I still want to say me first in this case) don't attrack "losers?" I know the answers to my questions...but the big question I have to answer now is...WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? AND WHEN? | | |
| It is now 2am, but it feels like 9pm to me. Working nights really messes up my sleep schedule when I am off work. I love working nights, but it is tough to be "normal" with my schedule. Speaking of work, I was talking to a friend today and I realized that I am getting ready to cross my 1 year anniversary of being fired from a church as youth pastor. It is pretty amazing that it has been a year already. I remember that day. It was pretty emotional at the time, but now I am cool with it because I enjoy what I do for a living now. Plus, I don't like fundamentalism...it reminds me (and parallels almost perfectly) the Pharisees...interesting eh?
Let's just be honest. This is a really sucky post. I am trying and trying to think of something to post about and it's just not going to happen. I have been thinking for days what I want to post about, but nothing has been post-worthy. So, screw it...instead of reading this, why don't you just go and comment on my site so I can comment you back, and then go get something to eat and see what is on TV | | |
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