Why can't you see that she's
with him and always will be.
You want somebody and i need someone,
but why can't you see that it could be you and me.
When i say that i want you
we both know that it's true
and my love will grow like
a storm and then you will see.
Juliette
Dearest 'Juliet'
ReplyDeleteI care for you as my sister and so I will share with you a poem I have never shown anyone else except my parents before. Why? Because I want to if I chose for myself? No. Then why? Because I want you to understand that both the words that you have written in your poem and the words of love that God has written in the bible can both be true. We can follow in God's ways with Jesus, a friend who IS love, and still love other human beings or one other human being intimately in marriage without forfeiting any joy. In fact to follow God in love would indeed increase your joy and peace in life. But to reject God's love and Christ's death on the cross would be to treat the most honourable lover to the church that there ever was as a doormat and walk to hell, not in ignorance (as you have heard the message of the gospel many times), but in rebellion. You indeed can love God (who IS love) and maybe he will still give you a husband to love.
For...
"Seek FIRST the kingdom of heaven and all these things [blessings such as love] will be added to you" (emphasis added)
ReplyDeleteFor what do you benefit if you gain love but lose your own soul?
changed from Matthew 16:26 which says...
~And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? (New Living Translation)
As Anjelica J.Chestertown from the United States says truthfully and "Most importantly, I am completely and totally in love with Jesus Christ. He makes every day worth living and He simply takes my breath away."
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“Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I’m back home in the house of God for the rest of my life.”
Psalm 23:6
I always heard He was a Provider. They always told me that He was a Redeemer. I read somewhere that He was a Deliver. Rumor had it that He was a Savior.
But when I look back on my journey with God, I realize that I never knew these things for myself. Sure, maybe He provided for my parents. I don’t doubt that He redeemed that girl with the amazing testimony. I could believe that He delivered that man who spoke in church one Sunday. And I didn’t find it hard to trust that He saved those people at the altar. But what about me?
Then something happened…"
I would encourage you to read her blog to find out what *did* happen at:
~A Beautiful Struggle~
http://anjelica-beautifulstruggle.blogspot.com/
Anyway here’s my poem that expresses something that I hope you will learn to understand,
Jessica :-) ...
Which Equality?
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http://www.1of8kids.blogspot.com/
Freedom, Passion and Equality
slyly wonder through the streets
Saying, “Come love with Passion and Equality
and surely all will be free.”
Will you date your Freedom while you can?
wond’ring in the streets until…
Your heart’s moral police come knocking at the door;
“Why gamble FREE Purity?
Pure Freedom to choose a love
that will last,
Free Passion to live with the
God both will love,
Free Strength fused through a
gold furnace of prayer.”
Will you now follow Passion’s feelings?
wond’ring in the streets before…
Moral police who come knock at your door demand;
“Why gamble YOUR purity?
Your Passion to live with the
God both will love,
Your Strength fused through a
gold furnace of prayer,
Your Freedom to choose a love
that will last.”
You dare play with Equality games;
diff’rence in gender deny?
Conscience’s police should knock at your heart’s door;
“Why gamble PURITIES strength?
Pure Strength fused through a
gold furnace of prayer,
Pure Freedom to choose a love
that will last,
Pure Passion to live with the
God both will love.”
One day if God chooses
Man and women both shall be
Both of them filthy rags
Sinners serving together
A Jesus who did not
Count Himself equal
Before His Father;
Now that is
Two humans together with…
A Freedom to choose one love
that will last,
A Passion to live with the
God both do love,
A Strength fused through a
gold furnace of prayer,
A Prayer where two loves
become one in equality,
An equality where two
people share in the
humanness of humanity.
Freedom, Passion and Equality
slyly wonder through the streets
Saying, “Come love with Passion and Equality
and surely all will be free.”
Which ‘equality’ do you chose?
ReplyDeleteSee also:
The Parable of the Four Boyfriends (Part 1 ~The Story)
http://mwindulambewe.blogspot.com/2010/07/parable-of-four-boyfriends-part-1-story.html
and
The Parable of the Four Boyfriends (Part 2 ~The Interpretation)
http://mwindulambewe.blogspot.com/2010/07/parable-of-four-boyfriends-part-2.html
1 Corinthians 13 (New King James Version)
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1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Footnotes:
a. 1 Corinthians 13:3 NU-Text reads so I may boast.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013&version=NKJV
“The necessity and advantage of the grace of love.
ReplyDeleteThe excellent way had in view in the close of the former chapter, is not what is meant by charity in our common use of the word, almsgiving, but love in its fullest meaning; true love to God and man. Without this, the most glorious gifts are of no account to us, of no esteem in the sight of God. A clear head and a deep understanding, are of no value without a benevolent and charitable heart. There may be an open and lavish hand, where there is not a liberal and charitable heart.
Doing good to others will do none to us, if it be not done from love to God, and good-will to men. If we give away all we have, while we withhold the heart from God, it will not profit. Nor even the most painful sufferings. How are those deluded who look for acceptance and reward for their good works, which are as scanty and defective as they are corrupt and selfish! (1Co 13:4-7)”
About this commentary:
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible is available in the Public Domain.
http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/1Cor/Necessity-Advantage-Grace-Love
Yes, in this sense just described in the commentary , I love you (biblical love). Yes, I love you 'sis' and I am praying for you.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing you in the holidays as well!
may i post ur poem... it's amazing... u can be annonimous if u want, i just thinks it great
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