As an adjective, cathartic means psychotherapeutic or emotionally beneficial; viewing art or listening to music may be cathartic experiences.
I have found writing to be cathartic. It seems that stress brings on a catharsis of the fingers and is a cathartic of my mind. As a noun a cathartic is a laxative. Which means my mind runneth over.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Hello Blogger My old friend
It's been a while since I've posted but nothing drove me to the passion of writing. Over the past month I have been to Camp Meeting at the Texas UPCI campground and heard some marvellous preaching. Then my wife brought back some recordings of the messages at the Senior Youth camp. These messages gave me hope that there are still Pentecostals that believe in a holiness lifestyle.
Above all else we have to have a prayer life and spend time reading our bibles. I know that I don't do enough of either of these but I do spend time meditating on the things of God and what he would have me do. With these messages I've been listening to I've been like a dry sponge tossed into a well. There's more than I could ever soak up but that doesn't mean I'm not trying. God is breaking me little by little but like the scripture says, after all is said and done, may I come out like gold tried in the fire. I need to be as clay in the potter's hand, continuously malleable to his will.
To this end once again I have been admonished to be in services where there is very little going besides inflated egos. There will never be a change in that attitudinal situation. It feels it has been slighted so therefore will never see that I am working for a change in my life. That change is after God's heart not man's. I have heard from the pulpit that there is a new thing. It was kind of like an old whore dressing up in pigtails and calling herself a virgin. On the outside it might look new and different but on the inside it's still an old whore.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Is this the new thing we are being asked to accept. There has been a lot of talk this year of change Some it political and some of it religious. There is a commonality in this change in that it is not difined or at best vaugely defined. Where do these people want to take us. If you read on in Revelation it is straight into perdition riding the back of the beast all the way.
Above all else we have to have a prayer life and spend time reading our bibles. I know that I don't do enough of either of these but I do spend time meditating on the things of God and what he would have me do. With these messages I've been listening to I've been like a dry sponge tossed into a well. There's more than I could ever soak up but that doesn't mean I'm not trying. God is breaking me little by little but like the scripture says, after all is said and done, may I come out like gold tried in the fire. I need to be as clay in the potter's hand, continuously malleable to his will.
To this end once again I have been admonished to be in services where there is very little going besides inflated egos. There will never be a change in that attitudinal situation. It feels it has been slighted so therefore will never see that I am working for a change in my life. That change is after God's heart not man's. I have heard from the pulpit that there is a new thing. It was kind of like an old whore dressing up in pigtails and calling herself a virgin. On the outside it might look new and different but on the inside it's still an old whore.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Rev 17:5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Is this the new thing we are being asked to accept. There has been a lot of talk this year of change Some it political and some of it religious. There is a commonality in this change in that it is not difined or at best vaugely defined. Where do these people want to take us. If you read on in Revelation it is straight into perdition riding the back of the beast all the way.
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