Falter
Mentality, a fragile mind,
Warped by fright and shame.
Change, a mountain; the past, a strobe.
A Dread no-one can tame.
Morality, a fragile soul,
Broken, no remorse.
Deceit, betrayal, subverted trust,
Poison, its source.
Mortality, a fragile life,
As shallow as your tear.
A breath, a breeze, a touch, a glance
That quickly ends in fear.
Mentality
Mortality
Morality
Decay
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He lifts up two pale hands,
To contrast with the sky.
They fall back down and hide away,
His heart too tired to try.
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But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob,
he who formed you, O Israel:
Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you;
when you walk through fire you shall not be burned,
and the flame shall not consume you.
Isaiah 43:1-2
Yes, It’s Crappy and Depressing…haha but I wrote it for a friend who was a little upset with life in general…Don’t Judge Me… lol
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.
Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
D.A. Carson
2 Peter 1: 3 - 11
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.”
The Pursuit of Personal Holiness. For a large part, we seem to have normalised sin. It may sound kind of religously bombastic but I find it a fact that my life is passively ‘invaded’ per say by worldines on a daily basis. But I have to challenge myself if my sinful nature has truly been crucified with Christ, then why do I keep turning back to sin? It makes me think, I’ve been given the ability to change myself, I’m equipped to truly pursue this idea of ‘personal holiness’, but do I want to change? I really wish that the answer was an easy and big ‘YES’, but it aint. I have to be honest, becaue its hard. It really is hard, to admit that I am reluctant to change. But I am.
Therefore, I want to use the verse from 2 Peter above to actively push myself to strive for something more than stasis. So I’ve resolved to take each ideal in the verse above as a monthly ‘theme’, striving to improve myself in such a way and to readily pursue personal holiness.
Cool Beans.
