When loneliness turned to sadness
easy love looked for and accessed
couldn't bear the lesson from the pain was distracted
caught up in a love brewing fast for action
now i can see only slightly
but still loosing traction
forgot the foundation of a life built on passion
there's no reason for you asking
do you really love her
or are you just looking for some action
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Audacity of Faith
Audacity defined: boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
The daring part of my life has been my belief in what God showed me as a young boy. The first time i knew i felt God tugging on my heart was in the sixth grade. Even then i considered myself a Christian but still wanted more a real relationship with Him that wasn't falsified. One day in the sixth grade i decided to give my life to Him and believe that what Jesus did on the cross was for me. That He took on my sins so that i could be made pure and whole and be able to commune with the Father.
Shortly after this desire to learn about culture fell on me, and i began to fall in love with Japan.
In High School I once again experienced His presence one night as we were praying about our dreams. God gave me a vision. In this vision it was as if I was flying through the air and through the clouds. As I looked down I saw two countries Japan and Korea. Afterwards God told me in my spirit that He wants to use my passions and desires for His Kingdom. It was then that I learned how personal of god he is. He doesn't desire for any of us to fit into a box.
Recently my heart broke. I've been asking God and searching for answers to illness to pain and to disease. Seeing my grandfather's health deteriorate because of Alzheimer's Dementia and even Schizophrenia made me question God's ability to heal. God are you truly a good God. Is it your desire for us to go through pain? Is it your desire for families to be broken over illness? Does what breaks my heart break yours? Am i the only one who feels as if the pain of others should be relieved?
A couple of days ago I watched this film, The Father of Lights, and my perspective has been changed.
The book of John makes it clear Jesus says to simply ask the Father, whatever you would like in His name, and the Father will give it to you. Yet Jesus says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. If you love.
The audacity for our faith is really the audacity to love.
God the Father of Love. Love is His very nature.
The daring part of my life has been my belief in what God showed me as a young boy. The first time i knew i felt God tugging on my heart was in the sixth grade. Even then i considered myself a Christian but still wanted more a real relationship with Him that wasn't falsified. One day in the sixth grade i decided to give my life to Him and believe that what Jesus did on the cross was for me. That He took on my sins so that i could be made pure and whole and be able to commune with the Father.
Shortly after this desire to learn about culture fell on me, and i began to fall in love with Japan.
In High School I once again experienced His presence one night as we were praying about our dreams. God gave me a vision. In this vision it was as if I was flying through the air and through the clouds. As I looked down I saw two countries Japan and Korea. Afterwards God told me in my spirit that He wants to use my passions and desires for His Kingdom. It was then that I learned how personal of god he is. He doesn't desire for any of us to fit into a box.
Recently my heart broke. I've been asking God and searching for answers to illness to pain and to disease. Seeing my grandfather's health deteriorate because of Alzheimer's Dementia and even Schizophrenia made me question God's ability to heal. God are you truly a good God. Is it your desire for us to go through pain? Is it your desire for families to be broken over illness? Does what breaks my heart break yours? Am i the only one who feels as if the pain of others should be relieved?
A couple of days ago I watched this film, The Father of Lights, and my perspective has been changed.
The book of John makes it clear Jesus says to simply ask the Father, whatever you would like in His name, and the Father will give it to you. Yet Jesus says, if you love me, you will keep my commandments. If you love.
The audacity for our faith is really the audacity to love.
God the Father of Love. Love is His very nature.
Friday, November 11, 2011
man lover friend
sometimes i wish i had the balls to tell you i love you
knowing good and well the position you're in puts you at a crossroads
sometimes i wonder if it's useless to think a future between me and you
knowing it's been over a half a year since we've both glanced at each others face
sometimes i feel that none of that matters
like i can give you the world, when you only want an acre
and even if we meet again
who will we be?
lovers?
friends?
I guess i'll start with
hi my name is Dev
while thinking my name should be prefaced
your former lover and afterwards
the one who hopes to be again
the one who hopes to be your man your lover your friend
knowing good and well the position you're in puts you at a crossroads
sometimes i wonder if it's useless to think a future between me and you
knowing it's been over a half a year since we've both glanced at each others face
sometimes i feel that none of that matters
like i can give you the world, when you only want an acre
and even if we meet again
who will we be?
lovers?
friends?
I guess i'll start with
hi my name is Dev
while thinking my name should be prefaced
your former lover and afterwards
the one who hopes to be again
the one who hopes to be your man your lover your friend
Friday, February 4, 2011
Friday, July 23, 2010
Religion and Belief (Faith)
It's interesting the way movies portray Religion and Belief to a purely human endeavor, almost to the effect that it is an idea constructed purely by man. A concept in the mind in which is innately centered on man.
This is seen in everything Humanistic. The study of the humanities at its purest form is the study of man. A glorification of the thoughts and ideas of man. The same goes fro the study of religion. Although it has an innocent connotation which aims to understand man in relation to the divine, its focus is on man's endeavor, successes and failures. An area of study which fails to answer what does it look like to be fully engaged in the divine; the outcome of God filling you and exuding out of you. The difference is simply a changing of focus from man to God.
Throughout the development of an Religion and system of thought, through the likes of Marx, Hegel, etc, there is an underlying theme in which takes a position to understand man. It is a glorification of all things man. Which in itself has given us a thorough understanding and depth to the human conscience, spirit and mind. However this immense knowledge and depth of man fails every time in comparison to the depth of God.
Although I am coming from a Christian perspective I am also proposing a challenge to my reader and myself. Stop looking for and looking toward an understanding which results in more knowledge about man but instead desire to understand the divine; look towards God to exalt Him instead of us.
I am certain that this will lead to revelation of things supernatural. Now with things supernatural, there comes another realm of understanding which is based upon authority. Authority in the sense that we need to be able to discern the authority or basis of that supernatural revelation.
Why? Because their will be powers which seek to mimic and imitate good and truth when in actuality they gain its authority in that which is inward and self-focused. This is why we have seen religion come to prominence by building upon a humanistic focus and creating its own realm of authority and spiritual force.
This is seen in everything Humanistic. The study of the humanities at its purest form is the study of man. A glorification of the thoughts and ideas of man. The same goes fro the study of religion. Although it has an innocent connotation which aims to understand man in relation to the divine, its focus is on man's endeavor, successes and failures. An area of study which fails to answer what does it look like to be fully engaged in the divine; the outcome of God filling you and exuding out of you. The difference is simply a changing of focus from man to God.
Throughout the development of an Religion and system of thought, through the likes of Marx, Hegel, etc, there is an underlying theme in which takes a position to understand man. It is a glorification of all things man. Which in itself has given us a thorough understanding and depth to the human conscience, spirit and mind. However this immense knowledge and depth of man fails every time in comparison to the depth of God.
Although I am coming from a Christian perspective I am also proposing a challenge to my reader and myself. Stop looking for and looking toward an understanding which results in more knowledge about man but instead desire to understand the divine; look towards God to exalt Him instead of us.
I am certain that this will lead to revelation of things supernatural. Now with things supernatural, there comes another realm of understanding which is based upon authority. Authority in the sense that we need to be able to discern the authority or basis of that supernatural revelation.
Why? Because their will be powers which seek to mimic and imitate good and truth when in actuality they gain its authority in that which is inward and self-focused. This is why we have seen religion come to prominence by building upon a humanistic focus and creating its own realm of authority and spiritual force.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Dream Killers
dream killers
allow me to listen to your goals and throw them out of my ears
dream killers
you're the killer of these souls who aspire to reach beyond the grasp of their hands
dream killers
get the fuck out of my way if you continue to stay my furry will be hell to pay
dream killers
we will beat you down when are desires resound
From the very enunciation of the hope we've found
then like the force of nature we are
We will proclaim
Behold our dreams have killed the dream killer
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Role models
I think we should look toward Jesus
as a model of a standard level
David as the minimum
Jesus as the target
our lives as the next level
of intimacy, understanding and revelation
of the divine of God and of His power
John 14:12
12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
as a model of a standard level
David as the minimum
Jesus as the target
our lives as the next level
of intimacy, understanding and revelation
of the divine of God and of His power
John 14:12
12I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
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