Place In This World Posted by Rom on Friday, June 06, 2008 at 23:39

"Their cries... ascended to God. God listened to thir groanings... God [never forgot] His [promise]... God saw what was going on... God understood." Exodus 2.23-25 (MSG)

hey sojourner, your circumstances do not determine the sovereignty of God. trust his word over your feelings. separate emotions from truth. see, there are no right or wrong emotions, all these are understood by God. he may or may not agree with what you feel, but he perfectly understands them all. however, it's that very property of emotions (being neither right or wrong) that invalidates them to be the basis of anything, much less decisions/indications of God's relationship with you.

Perfect Church? No Such Thing. Posted by Rom on Sunday, June 01, 2008 at 20:23

when christian believers gather in churches, everything that can go wrong sooner or later does. outsiders, on observing this, conclude that there is nothing to the religion business except, perhaps, business – and dishonest business at that. insiders see it differently

FAQ For The Soul Posted by Rom on Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 16:53

1. if God were such an all-powerful ever-caring God, why is there so much “bad” in this world? wars, diseases, crime, quarrels, accidents, injustice, poverty, hate, pain, suffering, death?

Holy Different 2: Faith Posted by Rom on Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 23:32

“...Be holy because I, God, your God, am holy...” Leviticus 19.2 (MSG)
“...this faith...is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.” Hebrews 11.1-2 (MSG)


last time, i couldn’t sleep because God just blew me away me with how holiness really meant “differentness” - him being holy refers to how different he is, not just being one of a kind, but him being the only one of his kind - the reason why he deserves the most wasteful and excessive devotion far above all.

now i can’t sleep again.

Holy Different Posted by Rom on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 23:44

“...I, God, your God, am holy...” Leviticus 19.2 (MSG)


i can’t sleep.

when i tell God, “you are holy,” do i really know what it means? in an age when holiness is religiously overrated, does this word “holiness” still arrest me? when i hear that holy means “set apart”, “consecrated”, does something even remotely stir in me?