I am the dimensions of painted shades
Dish for the oppressors plates
An invalids’ condition
Maybe I should understand than overstand
But….
either complicates this oversight
Injections form the paranoia
Conspiracies were the blood in my veins
I forget how I think
impaired
Many times I think of several bible characters whom had to wait MANY years before their ‘dreams’ were achieved. Think of the shepherd (yes another one) who gets anointed as king and has to wait over 20 years and the young man who gets sold and lands in jail for doing the right thing. Last year around October/November I went to a certain church and during worship the pastor gave his testimony bout how he waited on God. He waited close to 20 years for God to do something he had promised. At that point I was thinking “am TIRED of waiting”. In fact there are some things I think I gave up praying for because ….. because …..
I recently read an interesting story about Jairus. He wakes up one day and finds his daughter sick; by noon he realizes his daughter could die therefore he decides to go see the teacher/rabbi whom rumor has it heals the sick. After asking around he finds him by the lake. Pushes through the crowd and tells him about his daughter and asks him to come put his hand on her. As they weave through the town and large crowd the rabbi/teacher stops to address the issue of someone ‘touching him’ they spend a few minutes as a certain lady finally admits and as the rabbi/teacher is blessing her Jairus sees someone from his home who informs him that his daughter is dead.
Pause for a while and put yourself in Jairus shoes. Would you be truly happy for this lady? Were it not for her the rabbi/teacher would have healed your daughter and she would be alive. He must have thought, “Yes, yes yes I know it’s a miracle because I have heard the story of her suffering HOWEVER ……” I don’t know about you but I have found myself in positions where in the midst of great and awesome things happening to others I have questioned God’s commitment to me. I have asked, “what about me? What about my prayers? What about my promises?”
Notice however what the rabbi /teacher tells him immediately after he (Jairus) receives the bad news; “Don’t be afraid, just believe.” Note the 2 words he uses the first being FEAR. What are you afraid of? I believe fear is good. It’s makes us realize we need to rely on God for everything. In fact the bible gives a formula for overcoming fear: LOVE (“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love”)
The 2nd word he uses is BELIEVE: Believing means to have FIRM faith. Faith on the other hand is a ‘substance of things hoped for and assurance about what we do not see’ when you return to Jairus story you realize this is what the rabbbi/teacher was asking Jairus to do. To have hope all will be well despite it looking so grim and finished.
Here is my encouragement for you or as my pastor says if you forget everything you have read, remember; “Don’t be afraid believe”
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus
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He stands at its sights
Don’t know what the words mean -a glimmer of hope
When all he does is walk on the road of hopelessness
A change of mind but his brain has been washed
They talk about dancing in the rain
The balance of the joys and sorrows of the earth
A total flaw, only exposed in his grin
God shines the sun, but the city is buried under a cloud
The birth of the sophomore era dwellers
Those who walk with their noses high in the air
a world of ghosts- ghost workers, ghost writers, ghost gods and dead ghosts
they feature that God is nigh
but how does He do it in the cubes of the faithless
we live by many-a-words but bury them inside buildings
the beast swallowed us whole
he spit in its belly to constipate it
they ask me to ponder on it while time flies towards my graveyard
if I don’t decipher it, that’s a burden to my seeds
troubled selves in percentage places
20 percent this, 10 percent that, 5 percent, 50 percent
remove the face masks, the wigs and the toupees
unprogramme.
