Your Love- 8/7/21

Posted on August 7, 2021 by wondermedia

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May I not forget
Your love I won’t let
my heart get turned away
I need You to stay

Please be close though I
don’t deserve You, Christ
But hope that more will know
Be drawn close, come low

When singing to the skies
You pour love down cloud cries
As sure as morning dew
To know You feels brand new

Every morn is great
At the table have plate
Know wonders meditate
On Your word, in Your state

May we see Your love
You sent it from above
May more find out the new
It’s like a plant that grew

It’s endless to seek You
Till the day we’re in the blue
May all see Your love soon
To avoid our old fate, doom.

The Lighted Path

Posted on July 17, 2021 by wondermedia

Every path seems great

So many things explored

But they all pale to one

The straight and narrow Lord’s

Some think they have the answers

They’ll say “this is the key!”

But they don’t know the real truths

To abide them you won’t see.

As oceans wear some walkways

The intensities of life

One can simply follow

Still sharpness sure as knife

As you go on wander

Places will make you break

But the “one” path is to follow

A road opened for your sake

This road can be moved in darkness

To seek the “hidden” trail

As long as words of knowledge

Can help ones live, avail

So though deep darkness swallow you

Such trials life rough things hath

All is worth living through goodness

When you seek the lighted path

Waters Do Not Fail

Posted on July 10, 2021 by wondermedia

For Isaiah You guided continually

As He looked to Your will, You abided still

While he walked he found the way to go in You

As His footsteps found He was through the Lord bound

He spoke of what had yet to come

He told tales unheard, would in future some

Would experience close, be still

Because those words were not hid Jesus would seek God’s Will

If he felt troubled, Lord guided

His hope like rain poured as Isaiah confided

Was a “garden” to His love

A spring welled of hope, a never give up “dove”

And the verse says He restores

Brings up greatness through the Lord’s compassion implores

Like waters that do not fail.

(Note: This was based off of Isaiah 58:11, my devotion today)

Where to Stand- Quick Quip 7/6/21

Posted on July 7, 2021 by wondermedia

This might be later in some time zones, but here where I live it still is the 6th, haha…!

My bible devotion from this morning was in Second Timothy 4:17: “The Lord will stand with you and give you strength.” I used to stand for a lot of things. One was my intellect, another was my heart with matters I knew weren’t good but I followed them recklessly anyway. Both were not good!

It is good to have intelligence but mine was not built on anything that could stand. I should tell people who think they “know” the wisdom of all that matters that what my thoughts were in actuality were like a “house” of lies. They stood against the truth of God’s Word. Following His ways I also have seen how awesome it is to be in Him, God’s Son Jesus Christ. Also the bible says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31.

I hope one day you will ‘stand’ for what is true. Let it be from something that is truth as well!

Transforming Grace- 7/2/21

Posted on July 3, 2021 by wondermedia

The love that first loved me. That is what I hope to be. One day we will completely rid our old selves and be completely new! But sadly that will only happen after the end times. Those times will be tough for ones who especially never saw that hope here. There is a chance many Christians who have done things in the wrong heart (without Christ) will wonder why they weren’t with their fellow believers. It’s a scary sad time and will feel like the end for a lot.

But in those times within there is still somehow God’s mercy. He could have taken the earth apart and completely killed everyone who wasn’t without His grace but God’s Word does not say that will happen after the Lord is getting ready to come, to rule on earth and be back in bodily form. There in the midst of all the sorrows of loss and terrible tribulations following what has come right before it will have the chance to still know Jesus.

Why don’t we listen to what Christ wants for us today? We must be one who will be guided by His father, God. And what we can do for that is reading the bible. He can speak to us if we do that.

But the heart must be changed first before we could ever know the truth.

I was just thinking about a hymn about the transforming grace of Jesus. He can change a person from the inside out. The person and their soul does absolutely nothing to end up believing. God can get us as we are but by the power of the Holy Spirit (it’s like a “whisper” or a leading from the heart to know Him) that only He can do will a person find out they need Him, the Father.

He takes us as are, which is full of sin. We are the reviled, the awful, the worst people in all the earth even as much as early as the moment we are born to the world.

I think of my own sin. It is selfish, pitiful, it is so vile I hate is so much as I try to follow the One who’s ways are so much better than my own.

I see such deep pits of selfishness. But when I want to follow Christ, I see such depths of His heart that His father has for us.

It is amazing. It is awesome grace. It is worth living for!

We cannot live for God with our sin so we must know that Jesus died on the cross for it so we don’t have to live without him forever (and end up in hell) but accept that Christ died for you and take His love like a gift. Jesus also had risen again after He took the punishment though he was perfect. He showed that He had power even over death! Don’t you want your life to end up in a world where you get to see heaven?

Then pray if you need to like this:

God, I realize that anything I do in life is just selfishness and is not enough to go to heaven. I also know that by the love of You and through Your Son Jesus who died on the cross He paid for not just the world’s sin but for all of my sin too. I want to live a life to be a believer in Christ and be guided by what You want me to do. Thank You for hearing me. Amen.

I pray your life had been transformed by the grace of Jesus today!

Blog Entry-4/14/21

Posted on April 21, 2021 by wondermedia

A lot has happened recently. I will hint of some of this here. I want to recount something brief here. But there is a little message at the end.

I guess what I want to do is tell just how much I kinda lost it recently. It’s a sad small world that what I will tell you happened around the time somebody just died (related to another person who I happened to talk about in my debut blog entry!).

Sometime after this tragic thing happened I just didn’t know what to do. I had been working constantly (and had to work non-stop where the week prior I got my vaccine shot which was set up for me the day before I was going to be off for two days) and I wasn’t sleeping too well and hadn’t been properly exercising either. The only time I moved around was at work and also if I spent any time with my buddy Paul.

Well I think because of being so busy living like this, maybe my old nature which is constantly worried, almost always afraid of things caused me to do this.

This might not be an interesting story. I just want to tell it because it’s something I feel like has kind of been passed on maybe generations with my family (at least with my dad, haha!). But we are seemingly worry warts.

My buddy (who might not want me to talk about his condition) has some health problems. So one day I was just hanging at home not doing much interesting I realized I hadn’t heard from him in what I thought was eleven hours! I freaked out. I couldn’t help it.

So I went to the convenience store in hopes he was hanging there cuz it was a place he enjoys being at and asked the man at the cashier section if he had come in.

He said no. Usually if I don’t hear from him he’s just there. A lot of people see him so much there as he is a very talkative guy and likes to chat with everyone. So now no one I knew saw him. I hoped he was at home. Then I had a comforting realization that I did remember hearing from him (in a way).

I saw that when I was about to text him last he must have just gone to bed. It said as I was messaging him (he never saw it) that he was last on it about 15 minutes ago.

Whew, what a relief!

Now a normal person would just go home and know logically things were okay and he would message me when he felt like it. Right?

Well not me at that moment! After I left I had a thought. I felt like I would be a jerk if I didn’t at least visit his house to see if he was alright. So after confusing myself walking one direction then the other I made it final. I would see him.

Then I walked the way there, walking around in public late at night towards his house. By the time I made it I hoped that there would be evidence he was alright. I got to the house, still a little upset that his lights were out. If his lights were on I’d find a reason to knock (I felt if they were off he’s probably trying to get sleep which he struggles with at that place because his neighbors are known to make a lot of noise. Not always but at the worst times!).

Then as if an air of comfort came to me again I remembered I saw that last time he was on. He must have been fine. I theorized he must have dozed off right around the time I thought of texting him and as I said before he has trouble sleeping.

So I left his place the door of his house without knocking and went straight home. I found out later he was completely fine.

So now… why did I say all that? I’ve got to tell ya that in the bible Philippians 4: 6-7 it tells us to “be anxious for nothing” to give our requests to God. It also tells us ways we can give our requests (prayers) and it seems to imply we must do so with dedication. Do so with a great purpose and be thankful for all He has done for us. To be anxious means one is not trusting what God already has had from the start… and that is complete control. Control of the world amidst the chaos. Control of you. Your life.

Why must we be so anxious? I don’t know. I’ve been struggling with that since the first time I was hospitalized. I was afraid of what I thought was real but even then I should have trusted Him. I hope that in this crazy road of life I can give up all my anxieties. And I think I can! Just as long as I’m not like Peter looking at the raging seas when Jesus told Him to keep His eyes on Him. Trust Him.

Goodnight.

Leave what’s not needed behind- Poem below 12/22/19

Posted on December 22, 2019 by wondermedia

I just made a personal, spiritual declaration today! What more good timing than to give this poem I was going to post when written but became afraid because I thought it was too personal.

And hopefully I will give a Christmas type of post here but just in case my own timing is bad, here is a verse I just heard in church: “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. ~Galatians 4:4-5″

Here’s the poem:

Title: Burning Bridges

Some paths one should not return
Some places could be dangerous
To go back over a place one thought they were to stay away
A treacherous test to play

I thought I had gotten past it
To burn that bridge was once enough
But to feel the pull to go over it, singed it now is
Still thought just one more go would be good

But I might not make it back this time
I must not take the risk
To plan to demolish, destroy, to build anew
I should say “Goodbye” like to a cruel comfortability

And I will. Time to go and do it
And finally be free from its easy straying walk…
to endless good possibilities

Written 11/23/19

11/17/19 Quick Quip- God speak.

Posted on November 17, 2019 by wondermedia

Was experiencing just this very thing where I was expecting God to talk to me but not reading His Word or making an effort to actually listen to Him. At church the message was about God seeming to be “unfair” and the so-called silence that people claimed God was being to them. Without grumbling I am just humbly saying I can be so blind to His will sometimes…

We think sometimes God is not hearing us. Depending on the situation God might want us to learn something we don’t see in that moment, that time. We can use that so-called lack of voice to grow, to depend more on God. But I plead we must never think God’s “silence” means He has abandoned us.

~ C. J. Scurria

11/17/19

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