uncreativename on purevolume™

This Beautiful Republic

Alternative / Rock

Destroy The Runner

Experimental / Metal / Rock

Lifehouse

Pop / Rock

The Unseen

Punk / Rock

Dragonforce

Metal / Progressive / Rock

Beneath the Sky

Metalcore / Metal / Hardcore

view all 353 favorite artists

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

My God is the epitome of true freedom through true, pure, real love. This love is a love that considers others better than oneself. A love so real that when one asks for the shirt off your back, you hand over your jacket, pants, socks and shoes as well. A love that asks that you love your neighbor as yourself. If we sit in our happy homes, fed and content, safe and sound, and never look out our windows to see the dying, disease ridden, starving, abused, mistreated, raped, tortured, isolated and bleak lives that surround us we do nothing we not only fail to love our neighbors as ourselves, we simply ignore them.
-Josh Dies.

Leave a Comment	1 Comments	Leave a Comment
Leave a Comment	Leave a Comment	Leave a Comment

view all 33 photos

March 6

Take it all away

Come with me for a minute and take everything away from the earth that was made by man. Take away all the music, all the sitcoms and movies, take away the theme parks and the highways and the bright busy cities. Take away the internet and the novels. Take away fashion. Strip the world of its armour--what's left?

God.

Take away what we accept as our world or maybe, just maybe then we'd be able to really see Him. For who He is in His entirety. Beyond what we see now. Bayond what we know now. Beyond where we've been.

I get frusterated at how easily distracted we are. At how powerful such a unpowerful world can be. I grow tired of being blinded by things He never even inteded to be a part of Hid flawness creation.

I desire intimacy. An intimacy unscarred by sparkle and glam. I want to stand in wonder of the birds and the rivers that are so much more amazing and yet so much more overlooked than any ipod or computer system will ever be. I want the stars and the sun and the clouds to be what make me marvel. His designs are flawless-never out of date. Never over or under done. Everything about Him is perfect - yesterday, today and even tomorrow. Unchanging. He dosnt need to be updated. Tomorrow isnt going to find Him as old news. Everyday fresh. Everyday brand new. And yet forever unchanging.

And we look all over for something elst to be new; for something else to be good enough, fresh enough, or more "cutting edge". We want the newest fashions, the latest trends, the most recent gadgets. Its all going to wear out. Tomorrow it wont be enough. We lose ourselves in frusteration. We find ourselves drowning in our inhibitions. We're never quite good enough.....but maybe this new mascara will make it better, or at least hide it a little better. Maybe if I buy a new dress or a new pair of jeans - perhaps thats what I need. Perhaps then i'll finally feel like someone..

Now, if you have a minute, come away a little further...this time by yourself.

Alone in a desert. Just you and miles and miles of sand and sky. Stripped of everything you own, every last possession. No family, no friends, no cute skirts of designer jeans. No sports or movies or music. Nothing. Just you. Alone. Void of everything save what lies within.

Who are you?

When you take it all away- the glam, the glitz, the closets full of confidence, the hours at the gym, the straregies for a happy household....

When you take away the man made temples that are growing stronger and stronger by the day, who are you? Outside of the image reflected back at you in the mirrior, beyond the assurance of others, beyond status and rank, beyond everything you've built for yourself- who are you? On the inside. If we all looked the same, who would you be? If physical distinction was non-existant, if talent was non-existent, if atheletic ability was nothing - who would the rest of the world say that you are? Or maybe even more importantly, who would you say that you are?

If your not enough stripped of all you possess, alone in a desert, void of everything save what lies within, you're never going to be enough.

You were born for more. You were born for greatness. And yet none of it is yours. It's not your greatness. It's not your victory. The battle isnt even yours. But he wants to take you higher. He wants to take you deeper. He wants to lead you to a desert...just you...with nothing in tow. Just you and your heart. He wants to whisper in your ear; to reveal things about yourself and your life you never even realized before.

He wants to show you who you are - through tears and laughter, through smiles and frusterations, He will show you who you really are. On the inside.

-onetruth.com

Great Bible verses

Psalm 37:4 Take delight in the lord and he will give you your hearts desire

Proverbs 17:22 joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

1 Corithians 13:13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Duteronomy 6:5 You shall love the LORD your God (H)with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Psalm 24:4-5 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood and has not sworn deceitfully. He shall receive a blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation

2 timothy 1:22 22 Now, flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:12 In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 15See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.

Isaiah 52:2-9

2He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.

9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.