A Few Brilliant Ideas...

Maintain Consciousness-Relient K
"Our Concentration
It Contains A Deadly Flaw
Our Conversations
Change From Words To
Blah, Blah, Blah
We Took Prescription Drugs
But Look How Much Good That Did
Well I Think I Had A Point,
But I Just Got Distracted
Lately It Just Seems Like Me
Like We've Got The Letters A.d.d.
Branded Into Our Mentality
We Simply Can't Focus
On Anything
Because It's
17, 18, 19 Routine
And Here At 23 It's
The Same Old Me
And That One Thing
Of The Moment
That We All Happen To Like
Will Only Very Temporarily
Kinda Break The Cycle
Of The Double-edged Sword
Of Being Lazy And Being Bored
We Just Want More
And More And More
Until It's All We Can Afford"

Today, I was thinking about how agonizing it would be if I was actually dating. I realized I'm not really looking forward to dating... And yet I am looking forward to marriage.

Why marriage but not dating? Isn't that what it leads to?
Yeah, but there's that transition period, honestly seems to be pretty awful.

If I was dating right now, not only would it be premature and unwise, it would also be terrible.
What's so bad about dating?

You have someone that you're in relationship with. I know that when I get in a relationship, it will be with a person that I like enough to think about all the time. And every time I think about my girlfriend, I'll want to be where she is. Problem: that's not going to happen.

If you're lucky enough to see her regularly, chances are you'll feel the absence all the more keenly when she isn't around. At the end of the day, she'll still have to go home, leaving you to wish she was still there.

I remember my brother drove his girlfriend(now his wife) home even when it didn't make sense. Why? He wanted as much time as possible with her. He loved her, and that was enough reason for him to search out every possible avenue to spend time together.

You see where I'm coming from now? That's why I've been preparing to wait until I'm ready for marriage. I don't want girlfriends, I want a girlfriend. One, the one that will become my wife if it's possible.

So, you see why I'm not looking forward to dating as the pinnacle of my existence. I have a bigger goal, one where I can take my wife home, and spend whole days in a row with her without leaving her side...

"I want a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooonnnggg jacket." Short Skirt/ Long Jacket-Cake

Merry ah-lev-on.

...Destroy by Worth Dying For... Please. PLEASE. Watch this.


We stand, we rise, we give our lives.
We stand, we rise, we give our lives.
The pledge of man giving his life to Jesus Christ in a debt of servitude.
[Spoken]
It began long ago, when darkness, through its deceit captured the hearts of the sons and daughters of light. 
Genesis tells us that in the beginning Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, where the Serpent(Satan, darkness) tricked Adam into eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. We were once "sons and daughters of light" but we are fallen now.


We looked for light but we found only darkness. We searched for bright skies but walked in gloom. 
We cannot hope to achieve to know God, without the help of God. We searched for the light we had once had, but it was gone, and there was nothing we could do to re-achieve it.


We fumbled like the blind along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. We were destined to fall, even in the brightest days. 
It doesn't matter how smart we are, how good you are, how talented you are. The only way that we can hope to find salvation is through God's intervention, we fumbled along the "wall" that was our only hope for finding our way. No matter how hard we tried, no matter how well life seemed to be going, we were destined to fail and lose.


We stumbled as if it were dark. Among the living, we were like the dead. 
This is taken from Ephesians 2:1-2 "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—" We stumbled because it was dark because we were dead. Once you are dead, nothing can bring back, except for, as seen in the Bible, God. Christians were once "the living dead," once we hated God and scorned him. 


We looked for justice, but it never came. We looked for rescue but it was far from us. 
We look around in the world, and we see a country that attempts to uphold justice. But it can't. There's too much corruption within humanity for anyone to take of except an all-knowing, all-powerful being. We've tried to escape from injustice, people lay in bed and sometimes wonder about questions like: "Why am I here?" There was no rescue from this world. All the petty things were all that we had.


So He, Himself, stepped in to save us with his strong arm and justice to sustain Him. 
Jesus Christ, our savior, came and placed himself as the Champion of the human race. God sent his own son as a sacrifice. He who was perfect, with perfect justice, and miracles falling from his fingertips.


He put on righteousness as armor, salvation His helmet. He clothed Himself with the robe of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of divine passion. 
Ephesians 6:10-17 relates the Armor of God. It commands us to wear the "breastplate of righteousness," and "the helmet of salvation." The other two, the robe and the cloak are not biblical paraphrases, but are still beautiful illustrations of who he is. This robe is the vengeance of the Father, who demands that debts be payed, he cannot even come in contact with sin and therefore must have the debt payed. The cloak, God's divine passion for his people.








He slipped out of his royal garments, left eternity to enter time, divinity to wrap himself in humanity. 
Christ gave up divinity, all powerful, all knowing the entire universe to come as a human child in weakness and vulnerability. This is the ultimate act of humility. He left his royal garments, all his power and majesty, he let eternity and entered our finite "time."




The sea of glass, for the ocean of separation. He left peace, and for the first time felt pain. 
Christ left eternity, and entered into a simple human existence where he was no longer invulnerable to the cares of mankind. A comforting thought when we ask him for things. He understands.


Because the very hands that held the stars were now sentenced to wear my scars. 
The story of the Gospel is the greatest in the entirety of human existence. God came down in human form, took on our sin, and payed the debt that we could not pay. He who once held stars, was now going to take the pain in my place.


It was love that purchased this traitor’s heart. 
The only reason I would even begin to type this is because of God's love. He chose me, for whatever reason that may be. His love... His humility... and His grace...


It's what the prophets spoke about when they envisioned light living in men once again. 
For centuries and centuries mankind has been looking forward to the birth of the Messiah. The prophets made prophecies about who he would be and what he would do. Jesus fulfilled over 400 prophecies in his life on earth. 
Isaiah 61:1-2 [1] The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, [2] to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
Jesus fulfilled the promise of a redeemer, a savior, a person who could restore a broken light within each and every on one of us.




For this reason, I AM LEGEND, predestined for greatness, built for the final hour. 
Christians! Arise! We are legend! We are His church, His people! We are called to live like Him and to witness to the rest of the world! Ephesians also says that each and every one of us was predestined to be saved, to glorify God on high. We exist to give him glory and to share His Gospel.


I was born for this with weapons in hand, armor in place. I now march to the beat of a different drum. 
Once we have installed the armor of God we step away from all the corruption, the misleading culture, and everything that can prevent us from worshiping him. We must be in the world but not of it.


I will break through battle lines that have been drawn by discouragement and despair. What more is left to be said? 
So many people have suffered either because of their sin or because it was within God's plan to do so. We cannot quantify God's actions. All that they have experienced, all that they have lost... It is our mission to show them his love and his care in their sorrow. They must see the path of the Lord, they cannot be left to live their lives. What more is left to be said?


Time has met its end. It's now or never. Collision with me, myself, and I. 
We cannot wait any longer to share his name. Where were once living in shame, we must now live in righteousness and proclaim the grace of the Lord Almighty. We must fight ourselves in our discouragement, in our fear of man, and in our apathy. It's time to fight, starting with ourselves.


You see my mission today is clear: to wake the dead. So let freedom's song rage. 
I have only two missions in this life, to witness to non-Christians and to become more like Christ. Everything else is meaningless. God makes it clear in word that our God is to wake those who do not know his name, do not their personal savior, do not know the creator of the universe! So we share the good news, the song of freedom, and we do not withhold.


You’re not abandoned. You're not alone. Last day warriors arise from yesterday's ash and raise your fist with us.
God has not neglected you, he is aware of your struggles, he cares for you unbelievers. HE LOVES YOU. You are not alone in the sense of God's omnipresence, but neither are you alone in the fight to glorify God. All who have the word and received it will join you in the battle. Rise from the ashes, 
"Rise from the ashes, stand before the masses proclaim the victory is ours and so we never give
up, even though times get hard to understand, its never enough for us to sit back and hope he
has a plan. We gotta stand up and face the cold with a boldness that is focused on the fact we
have the keys so just believe there's nothing closed." Keys to the Kingdom-Group 1 Crew


 We are the army that is charging upon the land. Defeat is no longer and option! IT IS VICTORY.
The army of God is his church, and his church is his army. We have a mission to charge upon the land. We must charge, we must not forget. "Defeat is no longer an option." It's a matter of life or death, we must win. It is victory.


We stand, we rise, we give our lives.
We give ourselves to Christ. We give in to his love. We commit ourselves to God.

I wrote a song for Father's Day for my Daddy. :)

See if you can identify some of these songs...