Tuesday, October 16, 2012

latest thoughts

how many times can i watch others fall?
how often do before it takes us all?
how many times can i doubt?
before I am considered down and out?

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

capital

I major in business
But i'm not a capitalist
and honestly
I cant stand business
A nation built on the selfish
We've lost joy in the simple
such as a shellfish
I cant stand this greed
thats blocked sites
of what we need
we complain about rights
but when were offended
we want them ended
Its an endless cycle
we put ourselves in
and always hurt
as we sin
I stopped believing in the land of the free
I've realized its not for me
i care more about community
than that capital based society

made me

God didn't make us to be consumed by money
God didn't make us to have a system based on greed
God didn't make us based on the american dream
God didn't make us to love suburban society
God didnt make us to ignore the poor right by me
God made me to give
God made me to share
God made me to follow
God made me to be simple
God made me to feed them

what am i doing?

Am i a man yet?
This body i've built it up
just to break
Because i've only been a fake
I just can't make it want
am i a man yet?

Thursday, December 8, 2011

power

power, it so easily corrupts the men
and they dont even know it.
they just chase it.
You see. we like power.
Money, and Time, are power.
Control is power.
We love them all.
when we dont have them.
we fall.
It Scares me
How much I, we, i hate to admit it, but its me
Love power.
You see, we corrupt something great
to make it, so that we have power.
Dont get me wrong, but God is empowering
but we take it all to claim,
to use it for our own aim
We use lines to get out of the serving we hate.
we so quickly say,
"God didnt call me to do this"
I just dont feel right here.
Get over it,
were called to serve,
BUT really, instead,
we love power
Remember falling to your knees?
you said, Lord make something of me?
THen you turn away,
as you cant give up your power.
You strop reading your bible,
youre afraid of what you'll read
when uncomfortable.
something that takes time money and control.
3 things whatever youre asked to do will require u to give
we say, I just dont know if thats God
We worship Power.
Lord, fix me in this.
Help me say yes to you.
And no to the power, that i so so so much love.
power, it corrupts men without us realizing it.


*not a poem, just how i stated my thoughts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

worth more than this

SO here's a real blogpost.

Today i had the unfortunate experience of being sick.
However prayer helped. you see when i woke up having multiple problems that would cause me to not be able to make a floor event that i had planned. (not a good thing for an RA to do haha)  I found that God had something better in mind.  You see, i could have been a sourpuss all day, been angry, and hated where i was, but i had wonderful friends, take up leadership roles. cause things to happen, bring me medicine, bring me food, and even just entertain me to keep a smile on a face that by all means shoulda been grief filled.

However as this day went on, I had multiple times of showers, and just time by myself to think.  So i thought. and thought, about ways to grow.  This is where what i have to say comes in.

You see, here's a story, about YOU, ME, and EVERYONE we now. this is like ultimate rad gossip ok?

When the earth was created.
God just existed,
"in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.  He was with God in the beginning"

However, he did something.
He did somethign truthful and good.
He created things.
Over time. (time lapses to be debated) needless to say, he is all powerful, he can sort of do what he wants. he set up a nature for us to understand him slightly and know exactly what he is doing though, and has promised not to break it.
Well he had created living creatures, and light, and plants, and water.  Then he always said they were good.
However next, when he creates the last thing he creates.
He, our Father and God, did something different he breathed life into us.
he made us different, he made us, after himself.
This ALL FREAKING POWERFUL GOD, made us to be like him.
However, he didn't put natures on us, for how we would act, like himself.
all He asked, is that we obey him.
Guess what?
We failed.
This seperated us from him.
(i know this sounds like a get saved now pamphlet, but its leading to something different i promise)
He then spends the rest of this book, explaining his search for Humans.
Ya know, its the Bible, check it out, its a good read.
(tons of good stuff in it, especially the Old Testament, like corrupt leaders, violent deeds, debauchery, ya know everything we fallen beings like in a good read. However, there's more to it)
You see he still breathed the breathe of life into us.
I believe, this is part of why he chose to show us ways to be saved.
If you are reading this, you probably know the rest of that story.
The point is the breathe of life.

Now,
Lets talk about people
You see, we fell away,
SO we are not perfect.
we let this sin nature take over us
but we have this hope in us, the breathe of life.
and we have this exterior hope, of God manifesting himself through Jesus

Well here's what this is all about.
Your Worth.
You were worth, the most perfect being, making a being to reflect him.
You see. we have let this breathe of life slip away.
To be honest, its sad, how negative we CHristians are.
You are worth more than the past of your life.

Youre worth more:
Than the attention from women you crave
than the fact that youre so madly in love with this guy, who will never give you the time
than how much you hate your past
Than the burdens of your family and friends
than the jobs you have
YOURE WORTH MORE THAN THIS
the fact that you've slept with so many people
the number of girls or guys you've kissed
youre worth more than the negative things i or he or she says about you to your face and behind your back
youre worth more than the ministry you wish to lead
youre worth more than the clothes you wear and the subculture you love
than the amount of money you have
than the political beliefs you have
than the arguments you can make for or against a belief
than the items you own
than the music you can play
then the music you wish you could play
than the bad poems you write
than the culture that tears you down
youre worth more than the self deprecating jokes you always make
than the defenses you always put up
than the music you love

You see, YOURE WORTH MORE THAN THIS CRAP
God, Abba, breathed the breathe of life into you.
why oh why do we keep cutting it off?

We spend our days gossipping, calling it seeking advice
we spend our time hating our actions, and talking about it to people
we spend our time complaining about situations
we spend our time seeking love in all the wrong ways

How about this,
Spend the next day, only speaking positively about life,
no matter what, if youre sick, if youre broken hearted, if youre hate filled at corporate culture, if youre tired of corruption.

Be the positive change

you see as humans we've learned that hatred is an easy way to unite each other,
IE, holocaust
Racist Groups
Gossip
war
beligerent responses to war, and acts of war
political feuds
the different denominations

But as people made in God's image
We have the breathe of life
Start breathing that
Start speaking positively.

Christians will be known by their love.
SO speak love, and life into people's lives.
Don't relate through negative stories, try and bring the downers up.


Norma Jean, a christian metal band i saw this summer, hit the nail on the head, as they were speaking about one of their songs.
The singer, Cory Brandon, said, This song is about the words you say, and how impactful they are. he then said, were always so negative, and pointed out that God never says to be that way. and said "I'm sick of that SH*T" a negative statement in itself, followed by yes, were a Christian band and i just cussed, but the point was made.  This negative statement ran through my mind, but it got me thinking.

Please, take the next 24 hours, and speak only positively, even about the smallest things
Love Love,
Ezekiel Miller

Thursday, November 10, 2011

commit

are you in, or are you out?
Because i have all these doubts
You'ce claimed change
But you'll always be the same
Just a flirt
string words together to bring a guy to hurt
see when youre not someone i can trust
You were solely an act of lust
and well honestly
You deserver better from me
and honestly
I deserve better from thee
The respect i've lost
Is from everything you tossed
that night you walked
away and talked