I AM WHO I AM

Just a thought: What does it say about God that when Moses asks for His name (Exodus 3:13) God simply says "I AM WHO I AM"? You can come up with all sorts of magnificent titles and descriptions for God and His attributes, but He chose to go by "I AM" instead.

Distinguished

Most men will content themselves and quiet their consciences by avoiding the more gross acts of sin, by avoiding an outward gratification of lusts; but it becomes Christians to distinguish themselves here, and avoid sinning so much as in their thoughts, not to indulge any lust so much as in their imagination.

-Jonathan Edwards, Christians A Chosen Generation, A Royal Priesthood

I fix my eyes ahead.

Prepare in urgency to race
Casting off the wieght that burdens me
I cannot dare to force the pace
Marathon for life the road I face

Commited
determined
My gaze is set on finishing

I’m straining to extend my lead
With every evil chasing me
One day, one hour, every step

I know
I know
I fix
my eyes
Ahead

Straining on to run without remorse
Casting off mistakes that came before
In my mind I see a hallowed door
Open arm embrace, I’m reaching for...

Just like a breeze is passing me
My stammers, a distant memory
We cannot afford a glance to see
What’s gaining or what is history

-The Black Brigade, Project 86, Picket Fence Cartel

Who do I belong to?

Who do I belong To?
Not Earth
Not world
Not Evil
Not mortals
Not wretches
Not horrors

Who do I belong to?
Unchanging
Unbreaking
Unfailing
Creator
Immortal
Eternal

-To Sand We Return, Project 86, Picket Fence Cartel

Verse of the Day

"Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
-Psalm 46:10

"...I repent in dust and ashes."

I just finished reading Job and noticed something interesting. Most of the book is spent with Job's friends giving speeches about how God only punishes the wicked, so the fact that multiple tragedies befell Job meant he had sinned against God. Job argues that he has walked the path of righteousness and his friends are wrong. God shows up and confronts Job: "Gird up your loins like a man," and "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?" Job gives up his argument: "I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes." Then God says Job spoke rightly of Him while Job's friends were wrong. Job is restored in everything he lost.

But God never explains. He doesn't tell Job of the debates with Satan that occur at the beginning of the book. The answer to Job's questions are simply: I Am.

Severe Sickness

Now here's a prophecy you don't want to hear about yourself, from 2 Chronicles 21:12-15:

Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, "Thus says the LORD God of your father David, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah, but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you, behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity; and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"

Ugh.