CHRIST, rhymes, & Life

" Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself." - Ephesians 5:25-28 Men, it's time for us to step up too. Whether you're married or not this is the way we should treat women. God's way should be our standard. Not what the world tells us. The beauty of a woman is not defined by their outward appearance. That's just flesh. Meat on bones. It fades! Would you want guys checking out your daughters, not seeing past the skin, with sex on their minds? I know for a fact I wouldn't. It is disrespectful to so many people. God. Her. Her parents. Her future husband. Think about it. We need to have a Godly perspecti...

" Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;    but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised." - Proverbs 31:30 Man, I used to be so shallow. I had it all wrong. I used to have such a worldly view on what beauty was. I was blind to what true beauty was. I expected to have a fine woman as my wife. That's what the world had me thinking. Outward appearance used to attract me so much. But what good is that? What is pleasing to the eye is not beauty. It's superficial. That all fades. I hate seeing girls try to attract attention to themselves, doing anything they can to make themselves look better. I hate seeing guys fall for this too! Sorry if what I say in this offends anyone but this is just what I believe. I do not want to walk around and see that everywhere I go. It's disgrossting to me! I see too many girls wearing pieces of fabric and calling it clothing. So much makeup you can't even tell what they really look like. Yes, we're all a little self-...

"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever." I am so thankful for having an amazing God, who loves me in a way I cannot understand. For the cross. For every single blessing in my life, from family to friends, all of which I do not deserve. All I have is from Him, and I should not have any of it. I can go on and on listing everything but to put it simply, I have all I need. Thank you God, for everything.

" For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen." - Romans 11:36 I've seen so many people give glory to creations rather than the Creator and turn their focus from Him. Yes, God's creations are beautiful and His blessings are nice. But we tend to look at these rather than God. He's the only reason these things exists. Jesus spoke the universe into the existence and created everything we know! So why do we often give so much attention to these things rather than the one who deserves it? " Do not love the world or the things in the world" (1 John 2:15). Many prayers begin by thanking God for blessings. There's nothing wrong with this. But when most of the focus is on that, it's a problem. It's selfish to just thank God for what He's done in your life! He does not exist to just give us a bunch of things. He is not good because He blesses us. He's just good. "'No one is good - except ...

" This is the day that the LORD has made;  let us rejoice and be glad in it." - Psalm 118:24 Every day I remember that verse, thanks to a good friend of mine. I used to wake up in the morning and think, "Ah man, another day..." Now I wake up and think, "Man, another day!" There's no such thing as a regular day. Every day is special because God has made it. He planned it out. He blesses us with another day and we can choose to either go through the motions or find joy in it. Of course, not every day is going to be rainbows and sunshine. But I definitely appreciate every one and try to treat it as special. I know I'm living in the Christ and God blesses me abundantly, so I can just rejoice and be glad because I know I have God. The fact that every day is a new day holds more meaning to me. Every morning and every night I ask God to renew me. Just as Jesus said, "Each day has enough trouble of it's own" (Matthew 6:34) . In the mor...

" When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?" - Psalm 8:3-4 There are times when I just think, "Who am I?" When I spend time with God in prayer and I'm about to ask for something for myself, I think about how much I don't deserve anything. Too often, I think I'm important or want attention or think what I've done deserves something.  But in reality, I'm just a sinful man. I fall and turn my back on God every day when I disobey Him. And the conviction from the Spirit weighs pretty heavily on me. Yet, " neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38) . Through it all, He loves me the same. God is ...