Good Day

"...this is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it."- Psalms 118:24

sometimes i wonder what is so good about a day when people tend to get on your nerves or everything that whole day is just going from bad to worse.

what is the only thing consistant in a day? time. whether we want it to suspend or whether we want it to fleet from our vision, we are experiencing time.

it speaks in the book of Ecclesiasties, the third chapter that there is a time for everything. so back to the original statement...this the day the Lord has made...this is the time the Lord has made. what do you do with your time? do you waste it on careless things? do you focus on the bad things that may or maynot or actually have happened? they say time is a precious thing. so would you rather focus on the bad or the good...

..let us rejoice and be glad in it...

how can we rejoice? i know the answer and its just taking a breath,step and pace at a time. looking at the morning sky, looking at the beautiful sunset. having your eyes flash open from sleep. having breath come in your nostrils and out of your mouth. having limbs that arent confined to a bed. having words the flow from your lips and a voice to speak. having two ears to hear the sounds of life itself.

it speaks in the book of Phillipians to rejoice in the Lord always and again i say rejoice. so now we have something to view as a positive, the time and the feeling that comes along with the time.

this is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it

BRIII

Blessings fall from heaven

"...streams of living water will flow from within him."-John 7:38b

peace is something we all want and need sometimes. i notice the after all the fun and games we're still thirsty. we lose all desires for the things that continually come our way. there are some relationships that leave us unfulfilled. there are some levels of education that we can have, but we seek even greater knowledge than before. is there a void in you that makes you thirst? not that typical thirst where you just want something just to stimulate that level of desire...im talking about that thirst that makes you feel you need to have that answer or you will feel like life itself is not worth living if even the simpliest of questions.

what do you thirst for?
what makes you thirsty?

this simple verse states that the living water will flow from within Him...who is this him? he is Jesus

notice that water is the only liquid known to man that quenches your thirst...im speaking from a physical sense not a spiritual. notice that land is surrounded by water for agriculture to keep us humans alive. notice that water is 70 % of our bodies so where does the other 30 % percent come from? notice that when you swim or if you do swim that your able to stay afloat if you are still and calm...

notice how water flows in many directions it exhorts all types of feelings..anger,love,pain and lastly peace.

so i ask again what do you thirst for?

there are times where my flesh calls for the juice. now juice is good in the physical sense it has many wonderful flavors but notice alot of them are artificial. juice in the spiritual sense is a test. juice comes when your spirit is weak and your flesh is strong. juice are those weird scenarios we say we'll never enter when we first become saved, but here we are months or even years later in these situations we know are permissible but not beneficial.

juice can be that weakness, that lifestyle, that environment, that relationship, that friendship or friendships. juice is a complimentary drink. it satifies for a little while, but water is something that you intake and feel full, alive and refreshed.

what do u thirst for? God is the living water.

BRIII.

Realization: God is too awesome to fathom what He thinks towards us

As i was watching television today i watched this documentary on these two families that went through a horrific tragedy which changed their lives within a 5 week period. Now the case was two females were mistakened to be each other. One had died in this tragedy, so one of the families suffered and the other had survived so a family was joyous. But it turned out the families were greatly connected by one thing that stood true, God still was and is the finisher and author of our destinies. To end their little tragedy, came a great benediction that I can truly say is something we should all take into account

God knows when you've done all you've could and you've exhausted your full potential...He calls you home because your part has been done... Your harvest has been implanted and it is up to the person whom you've shared that seed of growth with, to go forth and yield more fruits for the next seasons that come along. God is the finisher and the author of our faith.

It speaks in the book of Ecclesiasties that everything is meaningless and that we must enjoy our youth while it lasts but we must be mindful to put God first in your youthful stages of life. It speaks in the book of 1 Corinthians that If you have faith of a muster seed that can move mountains and have not love, we are nothing. If you give all that you possess to the poor and you have not love, you gain nothing.

So the questions that arise are: if God is the finisher and the author of our faith, what have you written in the accounts of your life that God has spared you a new day? What is the measures that you take for granted when getting a full fledged opportunity to share with someone the greatest gift of all, God's love? How can you reach your full potential? Where are your fruits?

God is Good...=)

signing off...

BRIII

Just thinking out loud...

Life has a way of dealing you cards that sometimes you just look at and think to yourself that they are messed up or just plain unorganized.

True or False?

Divine intervention

God is so good. its funny when the will of the spirit denies the flesh and the situation that would have come to pass has been removed with an excuse and removed with a even greater obstacle....i didnt want my flesh to sin due to the will of my Father. God allowed this obstacle to come and remove me from the equation of the sin. no one knows the weights and measures of sin because in all honestly when we do sin we feel the heaviness of it in spite of our real thoughts towards our actions...we may have good intentions but when its permissible is it really beneficial is the question?
all the money and pleasures in this world is not worth my soul....God chose for me...amen and amen again

Be careful

it is 12:30 a.m. the day has just begun and already my mind is formulating thoughts about the meaningless things that people do and say. one of the many creadoes i live by is to not make a promise you cant keep. there is no point in going into a marriage based on assumptions that everything will work out for the better...to even fathom a thought of uncertainty, then its in plain view that it wasnt meant to be. meaningless friendships and relationships that make it seem that your consistantly giving a part of yourself and never receiving something; to hold you in a sincere plane of thought where you have a hint of what is to come. friendships that are meaningless are seasonal friendships...they come to teach you something or to better your character build you and shape you into a more concrete person with a sense of self. they are not to be kept for years and years this is what causes a great deal of damage. some people hold on to false hopes and things that make them look really hopeless. relationships that are meaningless mold you to the truth seeking person whom after a while doesn't give a damn about what facades are out there but the matter of the fact is you can see though them and to be blatantly honest you want the reality of life to really strike you. these relationships are just a tool helping you to build all levels of self. i'll edit this later on today...its time for some sleep

Focused on the Love

Today is Good Friday and alot of people think that Easter is all about coming to church that one day of the year to show off their new outfit hence thats what the Easter tradition has been molded and conformed to. But to be blatantly honest, the feast day of Easter was originally a pagan celebration of renewal and rebirth. Celebrated in the early spring, it honored the pagan Saxon goddess Eastre. When the early missionaries converted the Saxons to Christianity, the holiday, since it fell around the same time as the traditional memorial of Christ's resurrection from the dead, was merged with the pagan celebration, and became know as Easter.

It was something celebrated to honor renewal and rebirth, and to be honest thats what God did for us through his son, Jesus Christ. We are renewed by his blood, and we are given new life by his grace.

Easter is not a day to look all holy and santified just because the day has come around, it is a day to really reflect on the Goodness and the favor God has shown upon us.

"As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take eat; this is My body." Then He took the cup, and gave all of you. For this is My blodd of the new covenant which is shed for many for the remission of sins"- Matthew 26:26-28

So you see as we reflect on that covenant, we should be thankful just because God is the answer when the question seems so difficult to even fathom. God is the shield when the world wants to disgrace you because of your past wrong doings. Everything that has been done by you whether good or bad is the past once its been accomplished. God is....the essence of Easter. The renewal and rebirth.

signing off.

BRIII

Started something light...

Well i had to write something in order to comment my friends interesting post.

WELL the Student Government in CUNY York College is contaminated. Its rather obvious that they represent George Orwell's Animal Farm, No concrete or firm decisions made. Allegations surfaced and tempers flared. Simone Lamont is the Student Gov't President and i have yet to view how she represents the student body...so therefore im going to heat up her seat as president since she's gotten so comfortable with the fact that she's in that position hence the Town Hall Meeting they are holding on April 8th...They say they get no feedback from the students so im going to bring these students to them and hence they have no excuse but to deliver. this should be interesting....

signing off the 1st blog.

BRIII.luv