Modest is Hottest

While scrolling through Facebook I came across this image:

If this is what women are being taught about modesty, I find it as no surprise that we see so many women dressed inappropriately. But then, as Christians, how do we explain why women are supposed to be modest in attire?

It is as simple as this; women are supposed to dress modestly because it is Right to do so. 

Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye have of God? Ye are not your own. For ye are bought for a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, for they are God's. ~1 Corinthians 6:17

We don't belong to ourselves anymore, we are servants of the ever-holy God. Everything about God, is holy. Everything having to do with God, is holy. We, as his servants, are supposed to be holy. Why are we to be holy? because he is Holy, Holy, Holy. God cannot tolerate the slightest impurity in his presence, and what are we as humans? Fallen. Unholy and unclean. Evil the abomination dwells within every heart here below.

That is why God sent his son, Christ, to die for us. To purify us, sanctified by the washing of his blood. That was the price God paid out of his love for us. That's the price that the scripture above refers to...God as man, dying to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and purify us for his enjoyment. 

So on the subject of modesty, what are we supposed to walk away with? Women, be modest not only in dress but in behavior, as is pleasing to Christ. 

Women are not to be flirtatious in their mannerisms or language, but to set 

themselves apart as a whole, physically and spiritually, to the end of glorifying God.

Men. It is not a woman's job to make sure you don't get all hot and bothered around her. That's your job. Jesus said, 

But I say unto you, that whosoever lookest on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28

HE hath committed adultery with her in HIS heart. Jesus doesn't blame the woman in this passage here, he blames the man. 

Flee fornication: every sin that a man doeth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18

So if we are to then flee fornication, and looking on a woman thinking a lustful thought is the same thing as if we were to actually have intimacy with her, tell me how having that thought it her fault instead of yours. 

She was asking for it. 

If she didn't want to draw eyes she shouldn't have worn that dress. 

I just meant to compliment her. 

If she dresses like that, she must WANT the attention.

Men. This is unacceptable. What are you trying to do here? Blame the woman for your immorality when you are to be responsible for it? The scriptures don't just say, women, be holy, modest in attire, so men don't sin by looking at you. They call all Christians to be purified in the presence of their God. YOU have to step up and take responsibility. Remember what happened the first time man blamed woman for his sin? 

Than the man said, the woman which thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat...also to Adam He (God,) said Because thou hast obeyed the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, (whereof I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it,) cursed is the earth for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth, for thee, and thou shalt eat of the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou return. ~Genesis 3: 12, 17-19

The first time a man blamed a woman for his own sin, and didn't stand up and take the blame that he deserved, the entire earth was cursed. 

Do not play the 'Adam' card. Do not blame the woman for what is clearly your own fault. Stand up and be responsible for your own holiness, be modest in your thoughts as women are to be modest in their dress. 

We ALL are to be holy for Christ. Men and women alike. When it comes down to the issue of modesty, behave in such a manner as is fitting to Christ. 

Equilibrium

This post is a review of a film called Equilibrium, and contains spoilers. Read at your own risk. :)

In the first years of the 21st century..a third world war broke out. Those of us who survived knew...mankind could never survive a fourth. That our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked...so we have created a new arm of the law-the Grammaton Cleric-Whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man: his ability to feel. 

In the 21st century following the third world war, a drug was invented-a drug that eliminates human emotion. The result? A totalitarian society named Libria, with a leader named 'Father' at its head; supposedly under a banner of peace for all

All, that is, except for those who would keep their emotions. The resistance. The tetragrammaton sends their special soldiers, called clerics, to eliminate the resistance along with items such as books, art, and music.

These elite soldiers do their jobs well:trained from childhood in a martial art heavily involving the use of firearms known as gun kata, they eliminate their opponents quickly and forcefully. These are the highest ranking soldiers in all of Libria. Emotionless, powerful, mighty warriors serving 'the greater good of the people'.

So what happens when one of these high elite doesn't take his emotional suppressant medicine?

This is exactly what happens when John Preston, highest cleric of the Tetragrammaton, knocks the small glass vial of his interval off of the counter on accident. *clink!*
It shatters as it hits the ground. And thus begins the tumble into emotional life...

Even as he stops taking his own Prozium, he keeps doing his job. There's one raid where they capture a sense offender named Mary O'Brian...who Preston interrogates for information on where to find the rest of the resistance...but instead of giving over information, Mary says something that makes him falter.

Why are you alive? You exist just to continue your existence...without emotion, breath is just a clock...ticking.

Mary's worldview is the opposite of the worldview of Tetragrammaton...

There is the disease. Its symptom is hate. Its symptom is anger. Its symptom is rage. Its symptom is war. The disease is human emotion...but Libria, I congratulate you;there is a cure for it. At the cost of the dizzying highs of human emotion, we have suppressed its abysmal lows...and you as a society have embraced this cure, prozium. Now we are at peace with ourselves, and humankind is one. War is gone. Hate-a memory.

Tetragrammaton sounds like their principle is near that of communism...but communism isn't the only historical similarity...have you ever heard of Babel? 

In the early days of the world, a group of people moved as far away from God as they believed they could possibly get. They wanted to unite themselves completely, in one heart and one voice, saying 'We are our own God!' 

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.They said to each other, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth. ~Genesis 11:1-4

A case of human rebellion against the one true God, humanity has always done this. In the garden of Eden, Eve thought that by eating the fruit she would become 'like God'. In Babel, they sought to build a society that would elevate them to the highest honor possible. In Rome and Egypt, emperors and pharaohs claimed to be Gods. Communism seeks to find power through human nature. 

At last peace reigns in the heart of man. We are our own conscience now. And it is this conscience that compels us to rate as EC-10 for emotional content, all those things which might tempt us to feel again, and destroy them. Libria, you have won! Against all odds, and your own natures! 

Yeah, so i'm not going to finish the entire storyline, because I think you should go see the movie...but if you're not going to, it basically ends with Preston killing father, and the resistance taking out the Prozium factories so that their cause is won by 'human nature itself'. 

Well here's a bit of news for all of them...God is God, we are not. Human nature can't win. We can't win against our own natures, because our natures are fallen and sinful. No matter what we do, what societies we build, it will never, ever be comparable to biblical society, a society that acknowledges that it is fallen...and acknowledges that there is a perfect God, a God who sent his son to die on a cross for our sins, that we might be saved. 

We cannot save ourselves, should we sacrifice 10,000 times 10,000 animals, complete millions upon millions of good works, nothing that we do can cleanse one single person, of even one single sin. Nothing that we can do can make up for the fact that we are inherently flawed. 

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.  The Lord said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

God will always tear down societies opposed to him...societies that want to work away from him. A society, without God, is doomed before its conception...Babel, Rome, Communist Russia, Libria...

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. ~John 15: 4-6

Those words are not enough...

In the year of the death of King Uzziah, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a high throne, and lifted up, and the lower parts thereof filled the temple. The Seraphims stood upon it, every one had six wings: with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain did he fly. And on cried to another, and said Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole world is full of glory. And the lintels of the door cheeks moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, Woe is me: for I am undone, because I am a man of polluted lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, and Lord of hosts. ~Isaiah 6: 1-5 


Something that i've been thinking about a lot lately is the Holiness of God...how God is completely set apart from everything else.

When Isaiah met God, the first thing he realized was his own sinfulness. "I am a man of polluted lips." As humans we are inherently born with a sin nature...that's why it's so easy to sin. But even when we know we're sinful, we don't fully comprehend the depth of our depravity...Isaiah didn't comprehend it either, not until he saw God. When he saw God, his eyes were opened because he saw the holiness of God! He saw the absolute purity, completely unblemished, and right then it struck him how sinful he was.

We cannot know who we are, we cannot know the depths of our soul, until we truly know who God is.

The key to this is in what the angels are saying..."Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts: The whole world is full of his glory." It's also in the psalms, "The Heavens declare the glory of God!"

Throughout the grandeur of the stars,

To the beauty of a landscape...

To even the tiniest of creatures, everything declares the glory of God.

All of these things are just a taste, just a foreshadowing, of the actual glory of God. These things are just creation...He is the creator. His nature is light, and there is no darkness. The angels hid their faces and feet from him...we read that even the pillars (lintels) of the temple shook in the presence of God! Inanimate objects had the good sense to tremble in the presence of the Almighty! And they haven't even sinned...


Why do I worship God? It's not because he loves me, it's because of who he is. He is God, and he is Holy, holy, holy.

Yet even though he deserves to be worshipped just because of his being...He does love me. This God, this almighty glorious one whom all of the universe cannot contain loves me! A dirty, filthy, rotten sinner, among a people of dirty, filthy, rotten sinners. And this God loves me, and sent his only son to die for me...


Nothing is beyond you
You stand beyond the reach
Of our vain imaginations
Our misguided piety
The heavens stretch to hold you
And deep calls out to deep,
Saying nothing is beyond you!
Time cannot contain you
You fill eternity
Sin can never stain you
Death has lost it's sting
I can not explain how you came to love me
Except to say that nothing is beyond you


Awestruck by the majesty of God...everything that he is, is clean...spotless, whiter than snow. Everything about me is the opposite. Sometimes i'd like to think of myself as a knight in shining armor, but i'm not even close. I'm no more than a child wearing his mother's strainer on his head carrying a stick. 


And yet this God loves even me...

Nothing that I, or any other far better man, (Yes, even the Knights in shining armor,) could say will ever, ever, ever come close to describing .01% of God's glory...it's something we won't truly understand until we see him face to face...and it will bring us to the floor.

I lay my life before you,
I'm not getting up.
Father, how I adore you! 
Those words are not enough...

Why Does God Seem So Far Away? // Guest post by Miss Raquel

Hey all, 

So because I was on a mission's trip this last week, a friend of mine named Miss Raquel was kind enough to write a blog post for me while I'm gone! It was supposed to post while I was gone, but the auto-scheduling messed up because...well...computers hate me. :/ But, here it is now! 

The link to her blog is at the bottom of this post, and I cannot encourage you enough to go follow it. It's a fantastic blog written by an incredibly Godly young woman, serving the Lord to the best of her ability. I hope you enjoy her post here! :D 

A friend of mine recently came to me and said, ‘I feel like I can’t reach God.  I feel like he’s beyond my grasp.’

‘Have you prayed about it?’ I asked him.

‘Yes, but I feel like I’m just talking to the air.  I don’t think He hears me.’

Needless to say, I think each of us have felt this way at some point in our Christian walk.  I know that I certainly have.  It’s a very difficult – and slightly scary – time to go through.

I remember when I was having doubts about whether or not I was even saved.  Because I felt that God was ‘so far’ from me and how I didn’t ‘feel like I could reach Him’ made me wonder if He really wasn’t there.  Maybe I really wasn’t a Christian.

But the Bible tells us that if we believe on the LORD Jesus Christ, repent of our sins and turn to Him, we are saved. (John 3:1-21, Ephesians 1:7)  I had done that.  Didn’t I?

Then, I thought of something.  Maybe it wasn’t that God was far from me.  Maybe *I* was far from Him. 

As human beings, we sin.  Regardless of if we are Christians or not, we still sin and always will.  And sin puts us at enmity with God.  Especially sin that we keep committing…

Yes, Jesus has forgiven us of all our sins and cleansed us from unrighteousness (1 John 1:9), but that doesn’t mean that we should continue sinning.  I believe that, as a part of punishment (if you will), that God seems to move farther and farther away from us because we are cluttering our spiritual life with sin that we keep committing…and not giving HIM enough time in our lives.  The time that He needs and is jealous for.

So when God feels ‘far away’ from you, take a look at your spiritual life.  Does it need some cleaning up?  Do you need to make more room in it for time with God?  God is never-changing.  His love for you stays the same.  But relationships are a two way deal.  If you’re not giving Him the praise, honor and time He deserves – and letting rubbish collect in your private love life with Him – then He won’t feel so near. 

Take some time today to ask God’s forgiveness for sins you’ve committed.  We should do this every day, but if you are feeling especially far from Him, take the time to examine your heart.  Perhaps it needs some polishing up.

Remember that God will always love you, as His child.  And He will always be just a breath away…

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Miss Raquel is a lover of words, beautiful photographs, twirly dresses, bowties, Converse, frozen yogurt, all things Western and romantic sayings.  She blogs at God's Daughter, where she writes on a variety of different topics.  Feel free to stop by any time and leave her a comment!

This soldier knows...

I don't believe in anything but myself

I don't believe in anything but myself

But then you opened up the door

Now I start to believe in something else

How do I know if I'll make it through?

How do I know, where's the proof in you?

And so it goes

This soldier knows
The battle with the heart
Isn't easily won


Falling doesn't hurt, it's hitting the ground that does. As human beings we do get hurt a lot. We get hurt by random things, we get hurt by people, we just get hurt.


Sometimes we don't feel like we have enough time to do what we need to, we feel we have too much time on our hands, we feel stressed and tired, we feel restless. We are creatures of change.

This is because we are creatures stuck in time, and to be in time means to change. Because God is outside of time, we know that he is completely unchanging. 

Scripture tells us that God is faithful and constant.

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies shall never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ~Lam. 3: 22-23 

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ~1 Cor. 1:9

Scripture doesn't just tell us that God is faithful, it shows us through examples of his faithfulness.

Then the Lord said, I have surely seen the troubles of my people, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry, because of their taskmasters: for I know their sorrows. Therefore I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good land that floweth with milk and honey, even unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. ~Exodus 3:7-8 


Then afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may celebrate a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should hear his voice, and let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go. ~Exodus 5: 1-2


We all know what happened after this. God looks at people like Pharaoh and laughs. What puny resistance! God sent the pestilence and the plagues, until Pharaoh finally let Israel go. When Pharaoh changed his mind and pursued the Israelites, all of the Egyptians were drowned while trying to follow Moses and the people of God across the Red Sea. Pharaoh was great on the earth, are not our problems likely even less resistance than Pharaoh could give? What an example of God's faithfulness and protecting his children!

Here's another: Throughout the old testament, the coming of the Messiah is forecast.

I will also put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. He shall break thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. ~Genesis 3:15


For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and he shall call his name, Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. The increase of his government and peace shall have none end: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to stablish it with judgment, and with justice, from henceforth, even forever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. ~Isaiah 9:6-7


We know that the Messiah has indeed come, His name is Jesus the Christ, the son of God, and where he is there I shall be also.


These examples certainly show us that God. Is. Faithful. God saved his people from Pharaoh, he saved his people from death. Indeed, God's deliverance of his people out of Egypt is a foreshadowing of Christ's coming to deliver us from death.

My deliverer is coming
My deliverer is standing by
He will never break his promise
Though the stars may break faith with the sky
My deliverer is coming
My deliverer is standing by

Scripture has shown us that God is faithful! It is in his inherit being to be faithful as seen in Exodus 3, when God reveals his name to Moses.

Then Moses said unto God, Behold, when I shall come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you: if they say unto me, What is His name? What shall I say unto them? And God answered Moses, I AM THAT I AM. Also he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.  ~Exodus 3:13-14


God doesn't introduce himself to Moses as, "I was, and I am now, and I will be in a little while". God says, "I AM THAT I AM"!

We know God is faithful because God cannot change, he just "is"!

We are becoming, he is. This is why even when friends fail you, you can trust in God. People change, God does not.

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide
The Darkness deepens, Lord with me abide
When other helpers fail and comforts flee
Help of the helpless O abide with me

So we know that when God makes promises, he keeps them! When he tells you something, you can believe it!

So when I read in scripture,

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~Jeremiah. 29:11


I know that even when life is hard, even when I feel hurt, even when I feel like the world is crashing down around me, God. Is. There.

So if I stand let me stand on the promise,

That you will bear me through

And if I can't let me fall on the grace

That first brought me to you

If I sing let me sing for the joy

That has born in me these songs

And If I weep let it be as a man

Who is longing for his home

You will be safe in his arms,

'Cause the hands that hold the world,

Are holding your heart.

This is the promise He made,

He will be with you always,

When everything is falling apart, 

You will be safe in his arms.

These are the hands that built the mountain,

The hands that calmed the sea.

These are the arms that hold the heavens, 

They are holding you and me.

These are the hands that heal the leper,

Pull the lame up to their feet

These are the arms that were nailed to the cross

To break our chains and set us free

You will be safe in his arms,

'Cause the hands that hold the world,

Are holding your heart. 
This is the promise he made,
He will be with you always, 
When everything is falling apart,
You will be safe in his arms. 


And so there's this constant battle that has to be fought within a person's self, between thinking that you can handle something that happened to you, or thinking that something that happened is your fault, or thinking that you can fix something-and between trusting God.

In fact, the battle is not even within yourself, it is against yourself-against your heart. This battle can't be won on your own, it is won for you by God. This is the battle where you have to learn to let go of everything that you hope for, everything you dream of, and trust that God will take care of you.

I. Have. Heard. My. People's. Cry. 


If we call on God, he will hear us. He will hear us in our pain, and he will combat it for us. He knows what say and think before we even speak or think it!

Yea, before they call, I will answer, and whiles they speak, I will hear. ~Isaiah 65: 24


I don't believe in anything but myself
I don't believe in anything but myself
But then you opened up the door
Now I start to believe in something else
How do I know if I'll make it through?
How do I know, where's the proof in you?
And so it goes

This soldier knows

The battle with the heart

Isn't easily won

...but it can be won

#suicide

I lay here,
Pouring crimson regret.
I'm crying,
Bleeding,
Screaming.
Day after day,
More lies about a world,
That never was, and never will be.
You don't know how you betrayed me.
Without my mask, where will I hide? 
I can't find myself,
Lost in the lie.
I know the truth now,
I know who you are.
I don't love you anymore.
It never was and never will be,
You're not real and you can't save me.
So goodbye, cruel world!
I greet my suicide, my Savior.


Scripture says this:

What shall we say then? Shall we continue still in sin, so that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live yet therein? Know ye not, that all we which have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death? We are buried then with him by baptism into his death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead to the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we be planted with him to the similitude of his death, even so shall we be to the similitude of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin, for he that is dead, is freed from sin. Wherefore, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more: death hate no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died once to sin: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. Likewise think ye also, that ye are dead to sin, but are alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof: Neither give ye your members, as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin: but give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from the dead, and give your members as weapons of righteousness unto God. For Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.  Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye have been the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart unto the form of the doctrine, whereunto ye were delivered. Being then made free from sin, ye are made the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of man, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have given your own members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to commit iniquity, so now give your members servants unto righteousness in holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were freed from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now, being freed from sin, and made servants unto God, ye have your fruit in holiness, and the end, everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~Romans 6


You know, some scriptures you study because you don't understand them. Some scriptures you take to heart. And then, there are some scriptures that pierce your heart so that the only word you can think for the longest time is, "wow".


He that taketh not his cross, and followeth not after me, is not worthy of me. He that will find his life, shall lose it. And he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it. ~Matthew 10: 38-39


When you die, you lose absolutely everything. That is why we are to lose our life for the sake of the gospel. Lose your life, for God's sake!


When I get to heaven, there will be many things in my life that God will not be pleased with. There will be one thing he is pleased with, and that is that his son Jesus the Christ lives in me, and that through Christ I am dead to the law, dead to sin. I wish I could say, I will sin no more. I know I will fail, I know I will fall, I know I will sin again. But I am dead to sin.

My suicide to sin is Christ, and Christ living in me I can say, "Behold I choose to die to myself, to die to my sins, to die to the world, and I am alive with Christ forevermore!"

All of the sinful pleasures and temptations of this world are fleeting, they're lies. Lies that seperate us from Christ. That's what I mean by a cruel world...your sins will stab you in the back. That is why we must give up everything in this world. Everything. All of it. Out the window, kaput. Gone.

The wages of sin is death. So you can live for sin, and then die and be forever lost. Or you can die to sin, and live for Christ. Our Lord has said that he who would save his life, must lose it.

We have to lay down our lives for Christ, I have to lay down my life for Christ. I must die in service to him.

Christ needs to be the center, 100% of our focus as Christians. I want him to be 100% of mine.




“So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also! ~Martin Luther

Bring me to life...

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. ~Jeremiah 29:13


Live. There is a difference between being alive and living, and God calls us to live a life set apart for him. A vigorous and fruitful life with no time wasted.


Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon Him while he is near. Isaiah 55:6


Run. Run for your life. Run for your Lord. Run from the sins of this world, run towards the cross. Run as fast as you can, as hard as you can, just run. Run to him.


I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. ~Proverbs 8:17


We must actively seek God, and it's a theme that appears all throughout the Bible. God calls us to constantly and actively seek him in everything that we do, forever advancing in our relationship with him.

Without a soul, my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold. 
Until you find it there and lead it back home. 
Frozen in time, without your touch, without your love.
Only you are the life among the dead.
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems, I've got to open my eyes to everything.
Without a heart, without a voice, without a soul,
Don't let me die here.
Bring me to life. 
Wake me up inside. 
Wake me up inside. 
Call my name and save me from the dark.
Bid my blood to run,
Before I come undone. 
Save me from the nothing I've become. 

We cannot sit back and be apathetic about living for Christ, it has to be active, it has to be cognitive. We must live for him. We must run for him.

Scripture says it best:

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. ~Deuteronomy 4:29


Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ~Matthew 7: 7-8


We must seek God to find him.