The thorny vine that is no more

The thorny vine that is no more

Oh thou thorny vine in my garden...

Thou has wrapped your thorny branches in my tree,

to make it's tender fruits unreachable.

Thou has sorounded the shade of the tall tree

and made its shadow and rest be far from me.

Thou has grown out tall and said:

"I have no master.

I stand tall and proud and no bare hand can uproot me!

Although many have tried, I have remained.

I have kept you from goodness and goodness from you!"

Behold, I have made the fruit and shade altogether useless.

But I walked through the garden to clean and subdue it

and you stretched out your deadly arm to entangle me

and lo you did and so I was bruised and you said to yourself

"Look, see, I have bruised you, leave me alone to grow."

and you grew prideful in your heart over the night.

But lo, I went home, and slept and and rested and the next morning I returned

and though your thorns were many and long and deadly and sharp

the sword in my hand was sharper

and strength was given me to cut you and tear you to pieces

all of the day I toiled and fought

and you were uprooted from the stump of your roots

and you were utterly destroyed and not a trace of you did remain

and you were gathered in bundles to be prepared for the fire

that you would not grow again and no trace of you shall be left

and lo the ground is now free from your thorns

and the garden from your deadly trap

and the shade of the tree is come again

and the fruits are become reachable

and now oh thorny vine, you are no more

and the bruise of your thorns shall be remembered no more

of soil and seeds

The soil is as important as the seed that is sown. It doesn't matter how good the seed is, if the soil is dry and hard, the seed will not sprout. So is the soil of a man's heart, and even if the seeds are of truth, it will not sprout or give fruit, for the seeds will not take root.

Spiritual Hunger

‎"And though I seek and seek and seek I do not find any food to eat, not from men, not of meat,
so I turned to the Spirit as we should, lest week by week we grown not strong but weak."

The Republic of the United States of America

Once upon a time there was a Republic that "In God we Trusted"... Slowly it was turned into a Democracy where "in congress we trust." God has been taken out of all, of us, of businesses, schools and even churches, where even their speech is limited. We have given up all our freedoms. We have ceased to be good, we have been dumbed down, we have been made ignorant, and we have no hope but for God himself to deliver us.

world becomes amiss

In a day the world becomes amiss, shaken and drowned by the fury of the deep.
A day of sorrow, a day to weep, but the living still do sleep.
Awake, awake from your deep slumber.
Awake, awake, here comes the stumbler.
The time now is to feed your hunger,
the time now is to quench your thirst.
Come unto me says God almighty,
come unto me, for I am first.