I know a good man.
He is generous, patient and loved.
He has a kind heart for the weak and a kind heart for the strong.
But he debates the title, of being a good man,
He thinks that he's just lending a hand,
that's not true though.
He is a good man.
This man still hurts from the past,
He's made mistakes he wish he didn't make.
He lets himself drown in his own thoughts,
that he isn't the good man he intends to be.
But he's good enough for me.
I know a good man,
Who has a voice like gold,
It shines to bright for some,
But I admire it.
This good man is my Dad,
I hope he one day understands,
That he is a good man.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Ebola
For those of you who live in New Zealand and are worrying about Ebola.
Don't.
If someone gets diagnosed with Ebola they get quarantined straight away, isolated from everyone. Ebola is spread by bodily fluids, so for instance if some one with Ebola sneezed on you, you would catch the disease. But lets be logical, if an Ebola patient is isolated from everything and everyone apart from the doctors and nurses they can't sneeze on you. Meaning you CAN'T catch the disease.
So how did it spread so much In Africa? They wouldn't have known what Ebola was when it first started, as the first symptoms just seems like the flu. Once one person had it it spread to another person, and the first person died, following the second till it lead up to a craze where they figured it was no normal disease and in fact it was Ebola.
Don't think for one second though, that we should close of the boarders of West Africa from the rest of the world.
Yes, Ebola is scary; we would never want the disease, nor our family members to get the disease, nor our children. But in reality we would never want anyone to get the disease and closing of the borders of West Africa would imply that we don't care, its like putting flowers away in a dark box because they are dying yet ought we need to do is feed them water everyday and keep them in the sunlight.
Yes people are dying from Ebola, People die everyday. But we won't just close them off from the rest of the world because they are apart of it.
What could you do? I guess you could pray.
You're probably thinking that that would be a waste of time, or that God can find you a parking lot but he probably can't cure Ebola because they haven't found a cure yet. But you have to have faith like snow, because Jesus cured the blind and the week and the crippled. Why won't he just cure Ebola then? Because those people had faith! In the bible they had herd about this guy called Jesus who made someone see and they pleaded for him to take mercy on them, they pleaded for healing and they received it.
It still happens today you know? People will imply that its a rumor or that Christians are brain washed, but unless you seek God you will find him when you seek him with all your heart.
So are you going to have faith in God? Because he has faith in you.
Don't.
If someone gets diagnosed with Ebola they get quarantined straight away, isolated from everyone. Ebola is spread by bodily fluids, so for instance if some one with Ebola sneezed on you, you would catch the disease. But lets be logical, if an Ebola patient is isolated from everything and everyone apart from the doctors and nurses they can't sneeze on you. Meaning you CAN'T catch the disease.
So how did it spread so much In Africa? They wouldn't have known what Ebola was when it first started, as the first symptoms just seems like the flu. Once one person had it it spread to another person, and the first person died, following the second till it lead up to a craze where they figured it was no normal disease and in fact it was Ebola.
Don't think for one second though, that we should close of the boarders of West Africa from the rest of the world.
Yes, Ebola is scary; we would never want the disease, nor our family members to get the disease, nor our children. But in reality we would never want anyone to get the disease and closing of the borders of West Africa would imply that we don't care, its like putting flowers away in a dark box because they are dying yet ought we need to do is feed them water everyday and keep them in the sunlight.
Yes people are dying from Ebola, People die everyday. But we won't just close them off from the rest of the world because they are apart of it.
What could you do? I guess you could pray.
You're probably thinking that that would be a waste of time, or that God can find you a parking lot but he probably can't cure Ebola because they haven't found a cure yet. But you have to have faith like snow, because Jesus cured the blind and the week and the crippled. Why won't he just cure Ebola then? Because those people had faith! In the bible they had herd about this guy called Jesus who made someone see and they pleaded for him to take mercy on them, they pleaded for healing and they received it.
It still happens today you know? People will imply that its a rumor or that Christians are brain washed, but unless you seek God you will find him when you seek him with all your heart.
So are you going to have faith in God? Because he has faith in you.
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Rejection
You want to know something? Every one has been rejected
and it hurts.
Two years ago my parents were fighting over me in court. Fighting is a harsh way to put it, but how else would I describe it? I ended up living with my dad.
Word around our family situation surely spread through out the church, and my Dad and I stopped going to church, because he was just really busy. What was stopping me from going though? I was afraid.
Afraid of the looks they might of given me, Afraid of going and having no one to talk too, afraid of being talked to. My own baptist church I grew up in, my community, my family. I do remember when I was at church, and whenever something had happened to someone else, if they were going through a disease, or in hospital, if their was a death the pastor would all ask us to close our eyes and pray. Every time we bowed our heads were we really bowing before Christ and asking for healing?
I imagine my family would of been asked to be prayed for, That means a lot, but only till now I realized not one person from church had reached out to me, or my family. Not one person called and asked how I was, or if I was okay. Not even the pastor, who helps to lead us in our faith. It was like as if we had become strangers.
One morning me and dad had decided to go to church, then as we walked in we got our hello's and how are you's but after the service everyone had faded into their groups. Dad introduced him self in some conversations, but I stood their like I was at buss stop. I had wondered what happened to the connections we had made with everybody.
And at that moment I felt rejection, Dad felt it as well, he looked at me and must of seen my sad eyes, then he exclaimed that we should get going. I still remember looking out the window well we were driving home, feeling so lost and so hurt and angry with God. I learn't this year that it wasn't God who rejected me, God had always stayed with me, it was a church and a church isn't perfect because a church is fulled with people and people aren't perfect.
After all, they have been rejected too.
You want to know something amazing though? When you leave your church or when you leave a situation where you have felt like you have been ignored or not noticed you have to remember that at least God doesn't think you're imaginary.
Don't rely on your church for the " loaf of bread ", rely on God.
and it hurts.
Two years ago my parents were fighting over me in court. Fighting is a harsh way to put it, but how else would I describe it? I ended up living with my dad.
Word around our family situation surely spread through out the church, and my Dad and I stopped going to church, because he was just really busy. What was stopping me from going though? I was afraid.
Afraid of the looks they might of given me, Afraid of going and having no one to talk too, afraid of being talked to. My own baptist church I grew up in, my community, my family. I do remember when I was at church, and whenever something had happened to someone else, if they were going through a disease, or in hospital, if their was a death the pastor would all ask us to close our eyes and pray. Every time we bowed our heads were we really bowing before Christ and asking for healing?
I imagine my family would of been asked to be prayed for, That means a lot, but only till now I realized not one person from church had reached out to me, or my family. Not one person called and asked how I was, or if I was okay. Not even the pastor, who helps to lead us in our faith. It was like as if we had become strangers.
One morning me and dad had decided to go to church, then as we walked in we got our hello's and how are you's but after the service everyone had faded into their groups. Dad introduced him self in some conversations, but I stood their like I was at buss stop. I had wondered what happened to the connections we had made with everybody.
And at that moment I felt rejection, Dad felt it as well, he looked at me and must of seen my sad eyes, then he exclaimed that we should get going. I still remember looking out the window well we were driving home, feeling so lost and so hurt and angry with God. I learn't this year that it wasn't God who rejected me, God had always stayed with me, it was a church and a church isn't perfect because a church is fulled with people and people aren't perfect.
After all, they have been rejected too.
You want to know something amazing though? When you leave your church or when you leave a situation where you have felt like you have been ignored or not noticed you have to remember that at least God doesn't think you're imaginary.
Don't rely on your church for the " loaf of bread ", rely on God.
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
God Defend New Zealand
GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND
My friends, the other day a speaker at our church told us that we have to wake up, I don't remember his name which is sad because he inspired me to write this. I'm still going to write what I have to write, so if you get offended by this you should ask God why you have been, or if you aren't religious that's good because Jesus is different from religion, a you tuber called Jefferson Bethke quotes religion says do, Jesus says done. I encourage you to read on.
" We have to wake up " He said " We have our heads buried in the sand " He said. As the days come by the more I start to realize what he meant.
The Ebola Outbreak has made headlines, still no cure. Some say that it won't come to New Zealand, that nothing ever happens in this small country, in my home. Why do we think we are safe? I remember the speakers words " We need to wake up " Is it because in the lyrics of our national anthem the last line pledges for God To Defend New Zealand? He told us. Is that why we think we are safe? Yes, I thought.
I thought truthfully. All this time I've been using God like a coat hanger, just hanging my faith up on the hook but when the storm comes and its pouring outside with rain I grabbed my coat, hoping that it would stop me from getting wet. Though it shouldn't be like that. God wants us to lean on him so, alas he doesn't want us to sit around thinking that ' no matter the weather ' everything will be OK. That we will just presume that we will be saved.
He wants us to go out into the world, to share the holy spirit and to pray for changed lives!
To change lives.
We could be wise followers of Jesus with nothing in our way. Why not take a stand? Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
So Will God Defend New Zealand?
He will defend everyone who spreads his GRACE.
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