set your sights on the horizon!

I've been reading alot of blogs lately that talk about missing the good ole days. When things used to be easier and when the enjoyment of life was but a lolly pop in your hands. I remember when i was 8 years old i used to play this game where you pretended to be an adult. I always wondered what it would be like to be older. Thirteen years later, you find me here sitting in this very soggy room with dim lights posting on a note no one will ever read. And i ask myself, do i miss the good ole days?

I remember reading a passage in the bible regarding change. In 1 Corinthians 4:16, apostle Paul talks about our days passing by and that outwardly it is being wasted away. But inwardly we have a shape that is being renewed day by day. God has really placed this upon my heart lately. The reason? I think the devil really entraps us in his snare with experiences in the past. If you grew up at the church, you would remember the "glory days." The glory days were the moments where you really felt God was moving amazingly and powerfully within your ministry or church.

I remember when i was in Junior High and i was jumping up and down without a care in the world. HEY I LOVE JESUS SO LET ME PRAISE HIM WITH EVERYTHING I GOT! I remember when there were miraculous healings going on throughout our high services. I remember leading praise in front of a group of 100 plus high school students at Revivals where we had anointed speakers come and impart to us the knowledge of the word. I remember being used by God in so many ways that one that was sixteen could not even imagine! I was so privileged and so honored to be able to do such things. I remember meeting so many awesome people and being connected to different people through music and ministry. God was really moving in my life! Those were the "glory days"...

But just as Paul says in his epistles, everything that he felt that he gained to himself was counted as loss for the sake of Christ (Phil. 2:7-9). What am i living for? Am i living for the sake of being used by God? Am i living so that i can mark my place in the book of history? Do i want to surpass my parents and learn from their mistakes? Am i just living off the fumes of the past experiences that i gained?

I am called to a sanctified living breathing human being to worship the God almighty all the days of my life. For this reason, and this reason alone i am excited for my future. I thank God for the past, but i am eternally grateful for the future that is set before me in heaven. I am headed heavenward, not looking back to the things i've gained from the past. I want to run forward and toward the greatest treasure ever: Jesus Himself!

So what if you don't experience so called "spirit to spirit" experiences everyday? Are you not Holy Spirit filled? Are demons causing this to happen? I've heard it all....

But i know even if i fall, i know that i am falling into the embrace of his grace. Even if not.... I am going to live like i never lived before.

Thank you for another breath.... another sun set.......

"and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator." Colossians 3:10

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans 12:1-2

"So I commend the enjoyment of life, because nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany him in his work all the days of the life God has given him under the sun." Ecc. 8:15

And in the fields... he was running fast.. FAST!

Ah, What a beautiful day it has become!

Its like the night sleeps on by, just as the sun splits the skies

Yes the time has come, lets embrace it.

Don't let the people deface it

Just let out a shout of amazement, this is a chance of a life time

It's like the perfect day dream, just as your eyes gleam

What a perfect ending, even with all these thoughts you've been thinking

No one can break this love, this love

Eventually it'll come to mind,

i promise

Up Up and Away!

don't worry my sweet darling

We will get out of here soon

Beauty and charisma shall swoop us away

to a place of everlasting peace

And to a place of floating over a setting sun,

but not able to survive because of the lack of motion in all this commotion

We are peculiar people, both strange and common

there is more to who we are than meets the eye

Soon we will reach our place, where we are destined to be

Behold young spirit, the day is coming

Just hold my hand in the confusion of existence

There's no need to be afraid

A soothing spirit is here, to give hope to the hopeless, to reveal light in the darkness, to blow the wind of fire across the abundant skies

Casual to say, the world we live in has blinded us from our freely given inheritance 

I can see it in their eyes: the desperation for a savior, a friend, a love so pure and so kind so so kind..

So i'm begging you, let go of what you've learned and start a new

Be teachable and renewable each day

let us follow this path, where many seem to fail

I can't promise you that it will be easy, but i can promise you clarity and truth

Remember when you're feeling red, I'll be blue for you

I recently went through my stash of songs that i wrote in high school. And i felt this one met the state of my heart. I recorded it once, but its pretty mediocre, maybe i'll get a second opinion and record a new demo. Well for now here are the lyrics!

"So long I'm off to sleep love I'm tired and weary From this time spent here

Lately I've been singing the same tunes

Singing the same blues till my life turned gray

I've been told the sun don't shine When it rains (x2)

Rain rain please go away Find another place to stay I need some time to pray

Rain the winds have changed The trouble you've made Has been washed away

And i started to sing, i started to sing The sun will shine Oh the sun will shine To drive the rain away The sun will shine Oh the sun will shine To bring another day

And i started to realize....Oh the sun still shines....The sun still shines....even when the rain comes to stay"

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