rants of a beggar

21 “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.22 “But when someone stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from him all his armor on which he had relied and distributes his plunder. Luke 11

So often we find men bound and enslaved on the floor of their own homes.
Tangled by arrogance, selfishness, idolatry, deception, pornography, alcoholism, violence, and fear. Bearing the chains marred with the flesh and blood of their fathers.

Homes unattended, left open to be ravished by the whims and currents of this world. Pressed on every side, leaving families broken and shattered.

As men lay dead.. lying on the floor of their own home.
Helpless and without influence.

Dead Men = Dead Families = Dead Communities

A love I cannot explain..
A love so great it must be proclaimed..
Drawn by His beauty.. amazed by His might..
Humbled by His prescence… consumed by His light..
All that is good, pour forth from His throne..
Into the hearts he calls His own.

It amazes me how much the revelation of love frees and continually opens my eyes. Each day I am able to see more and more how God formed our hearts to fit into His hands, and how every desire I have, stems from the need of Him in my life. Including all of my insecurity, and selfish ambition. My entire being of humanity cries out for the redeeming grace of our Savior.

We are nothing without Him.

Those whos hearts are hard to the Truth, lack the very source of life that completes them. Instead they toil in their sinful ways, looking for any means to satisfy their own ambition. Filling the void of their true identity, that can only be found in Christ. For it is In Him, Through Him and For Him we were formed.

The revelation of Love is continually relying on Gods Grace and allowing His spirit to consistently renew you.

It is knowing that God takes delight in us. (of all things)
It is the flame that should fuel us to strip ourselves of our sinfull desires.
It is the realization of the reason for our creation.
It is the standard in which we should walk.
It is the breath of life we must have to sustain our being.
It is all we need.

^{Mark 6: 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief..}

Jesus marveled..

Very rarely do we see the Son of Man stand in awe of something..
Yet it was the blindness of their heart, which left Him in wonder..

It’s funny how we complicate things.. how we choose to rationalize or twist the facts to seem more appetizing.. I guess I would be marveled too, if the Answer you have been looking for was right in front of you.. yet you failed to acknowledge or receive, and instead twisted and distorted it, to suit your own comfortability.. Our heart when deceived is a destructive tool.. It can make any excuse to fuel our selfish want..

Yet, the blueprint for the heart of man was intended to be marveled..
It was crafted by the same hands that forged the mountains, and fashioned the seas.. Yet our hearts were born into our fallen nature, and cast into the shadow of our sins.. Only to lay wait for a Redeemer..