01-10-09
After finishing the “Answers book” I felt in the mood to read some more. This tends to happen. Reading is addictive. Get yourself hooked on it.
I read something I had saved. It was a post on the crimethinc blog. It was about keeping the momentum for the revolution after the election of Obama. I read crimethinc stuff every now and then, and I have to say that it almost always inspires me, if nothing else, to dream, and you know how that goes, you may call me a dreamer... But this dream is really reality. One day Jesus will come back and overthrow every terrible system we humans have set up and when declared King by all. He will smash all our idols whether they be flags, or i-pods.
Without Jesus what sort of hope is there really? I admire the passion some of these fellow anarchists have, but really seriously, their revolution is hopeless.
“Apart from me you can do nothing.” Jesus said that.
Recently I have been trying to take captive every thought to Jesus Christ. Whether it is an anarchist blog, or an Emily Dickinson poem book. Apart from Jesus these things are meaningless. Apart from Jesus this revolution is hopeless.
But let me rephrase all this, lest you start to get the wrong idea of what I am trying to convey. I am not taking their (crimethinc’s or any collective’s) revolution and trying to squeeze Jesus into it.
I am living Jesus’s Revolution and fitting everything into it.
Allow me take these potential swords and beat them into plowshares. Let me turn them into something useful for His kingdom, eternal, perfect, radically different kingdom.
The following is from the (far east blog - crimethinc) written by, ret marut:
“The lesson is that, however inconvenient a particular historical juncture may be for [Disciples of Christ], it’s always easier to maintain organizing than to start over from scratch.”
[Don’t fail to gather together as some have been in the habit of doing. HEB?]
“Rather than entrenching ourselves on the losing side of the pro-or-anti-Obama debate, we should sidestep that trap to pose new questions.”
[When Jesus was asked if it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar he side stepped the trap, and said “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and Give to God’s what belongs to God.” Matt? By the way your body, your mind, your soul belong to our Father God. Money is so often a trap. It is itself a neutral thing, however, Caesar and the rest of the world has turned it into an idol. You cannot serve both Jesus (and His Kingdom Come Revolution) And Money at the same time. Matt? Likewise, when people are arguing about whether or not Obama can save this country, realize our Hope and Change is never ultimately in the next president of these divided states. Our real Hope is in Jesus Christ and Him Crucified]
“We cannot afford to withdraw into the shadows as we did after [name your reason]; a world sliding swiftly into catastrophe cannot afford this either.” [Listen, us revolutionaries of Christ, whether depressed about Obama’s victory, Overjoyed about Obama’s victory, or completely indifferent to it, we can’t withdraw into the shadows. We are the Light of the world, brothers and sisters! And this world IS sliding swiftly into catastrophe. Our Father has decided to bring about this Kingdom Revolution by using us, those who have been born again, and have been seated with Christ. May the Holy Spirit guide us as we eagerly Fight this good Fight.]
Monday, January 12, 2009
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