The World Versus The Word

By GDW

The World says man's greatest need 

Is Self-Actualization

"Be true to yourself

Follow your heart"

But Truth says "Deny yourself

And Come follow me"

The World says "follow your heart"

Truth says the heart is deceitful

Above all things

The World says if it feels good, do it

Truth says what you FEEL like doing, don't

The World says Me First

And Be the Master

Truth says Be Last

Be the server 

The World says from Monkeys we came

You can be any other sex or specie

If you can afford surgery

Truth says you are fearfully and wonderfully made

Made to be like me

An opposite thing I forbade

The World says you can marry your own sex

Forget that it's not natural and nothing fits, 

Or that its unproductive

Truth says a man shall to his wife cleave

What is together let no man put asunder

And what is separate let no man put together

The World hates Truth

Yet Truth loves the World

The World would kill the Truth

But the Truth already died 

Died for the World

And now lives again

The World says "there's no absolutely truth"

Can that be absolutely true? 

Truth says "I am THE Truth

I live again

And to Testify to the Truth I came

Who shall we believe?

As both scream "come follow me!"

The World screams powerfully 

But only Truth can set us free... 

---

Ganjiki 

Dead World

Dead World

By GDW

What does Jenner and the Irish Gay Marriage Referendum tell us about the world?

and what of the celebrations of the transitions? 

Let's just say they are the epitome of blindness, confusion and lostness

The hallmark of this sinful world we live in

A world that ushers darkness on 

Darkness is "dawning"

While the light is drawing

A world that shuns the light of Truth  because it hates the heat that's produced

It's a numb world that celebrates perversity 

Calloused by the overuse of wickedness

Whereas before the dark receded as light approached

now light is strangled by cords of darkness

Whereas before right and wrong were set by highest order

Now there's not even a line to put asunder

Whereas before a moral compass gave us direction

now there's just one pin on the compass

Tuned not to true North, but wheresoever we say is "North"

Not just lost and struck with moral leprosy 

Worse than that

This World is Dead

Dead indeed

So dead we don't yet know it

What can dead people do

To make themselves less dead?

How can lepers feel again

When they don't even know the pain?

What can save us from this mysterious strife

I have no answer, save for one

For this dead world 

What we need is Resurrection and Life

--

Ganjiki

Lessons from the #Dreamjob: How my son teaches me True Worship

I have heard it on and off that fatherhood can teach you what true worship is supposed to be. I'm now proving it to be true, as my son occasionally invokes in me what I should always be invoking in my Heavenly Father. 

There's a natural joy and satisfaction about being a father. You have a constant reason to smile at any given time as the faces of your children enter your mind. Or you're there at home watching them do whatever they're doing. When they're achieving some milestone like walking or graduating. I think fathers are a lot more constantly happy than non-fathers. I should know cause I was once a non-father. And now I love being my kids' father. 

But here's what I get a kick out of most about this daddy-role. It's not just watching my son play from a distance. It's not just enjoying his progress and crossovers. It not just in seeing him healthy and happy in his world. What warms my heart and gives me a kick like nothing else... 

It's when he wants me. When he wants to come to me. To run into my arms. When he hugs might tight because he's feeling vulnerable. When he needs me. When he wants to be like me. When he tries to do what I do. To imitate me. When he wants to do my sit-ups with me in the mornings. When he lifts his hands in re-enactment of worship after watching me in church. When he's crying after enduring some pain and seeks comfort from me. When he's cuddled up in my arms despite receiving discipline from me. That's when I'm most happy. That's when my fatherhood is re-affirmed. Father (parents) know the feeling.

And this is what I think true worship is. It's not in simply being aware of our Heavenly Father. Worship is about re-affirming our reliance on Him. Making sure He knows that we need Him. And trying to be like Him and to do what He does. To acknowledge Him as Abba (daddy), not just God and King. To re-affirm His fatherhood over us. To allow Him to get a kick out of just being our daddy. 

Worship means running to Him. It's reaching for Him in every circumstance. To give back to Him a thumbs up. Giving Him the satisfaction that fathers have when their kids acknowledge Him. 

As we worship Him this weekend, and every day thereafter, I hope we can make His father-heart glad. Satisfied. Warm. Happy. 

That's true worship. 

Heavenise day!

TOKSTRET THIS WEEK: MEANING OF LIFE

By GDW

I watched a Richard Dawkins talk one time, during which a member of the audience asked him, "What is the meaning [purpose] of life?"

Dawkins responded (paraphrase): "That is a question much like the question 'What is the color of jealousy?' Just because that question has a grammatically correct construct, doesn't mean it is a valid question." 

Effectively what Dawkins is saying is: don't bother yourself asking what is the meaning of life. It's not even a question. Really? I'm sure he would have had an opinion on the meaning of components of life, such as work, play, relationships, etc. And I'm sure he would have tried to answer the question "what is the purpose of YOUR life?". Perhaps he was trying hard not to say "There is no meaning for life. But we got it so we have to live it". 

What he and people like him are saying is when you watch a basketball game, it is no use asking "what is the meaning or purpose of this game?". But you may ask what is the purpose of the player bouncing the ball or passing the ball or chasing the ball. 

You can't argue that ultimately life doesn't have a purpose (or that you can't even ask the question), yet give meaning to its components. A vehicle has purpose, so does all it's parts. The parts of a vehicle don't have a purpose except to contribute to the vehicle's ultimate purpose. 

The components of life, such as pleasure, pain, work, study, play, relationship, wealth, language, morality, ethics, politics, and so on, have individual purpose only because life itself has ultimate purpose. If you find meaning in those things, then you must ask yourself how those partial meanings add to your overall purpose in life. 

Are we stuck with a meaningless activity (life), and have no choice but to do (live) it? 

Is that how you engage in all your activities. It's there for you to do so you must do it, without knowing its end or purpose? No. Usually there is a purpose that you pursue with activity. Even if it is as vain as giving yourself the illusion of happiness (e.g. drugs).

Be Careful who you listen to.

Dawkins and friends will tell you life has no meaning. You can't even ask the question they say. I think if life can't possibly have meaning, then Dawkins is wasting his time trying to make sense of it with his attempt to rid the world off of a belief in a Divine Creator (per his book "The God Delusion", which I asked before and after reading it: What is the meaning of this book?). 

Basically the purpose of Dawkins life is to tell the world that life has no purpose. 

I think life has purpose. There's clues everywhere if you take the time to pursue them. 

Heavenise week! 

Ganjiki

IT'S THE POLICE

In light of recent police killings in PNG, more particularly in Hanuabada Village, people have been calling on a review of the so-called Buai-Ban by Gov Powes Parkop. Somehow those voices seem to think the Buka-ban caused the deaths. This is my response. 

Stay focused people:

This is about the ill-disciplined Police Force. These are not buai-ban-related deaths. These are police-related deaths. 

In fact the every media organization should have a collection of files grouped as "POLICE-RELATED DEATHS".

Lae, Tatana, and now HB...not counting the countless other deaths at the hands of The Police. 

Stay focused on The Police. 

The Police murdered these people. 

The Police abused them first.

The Police is immature and have very very low emotional control.

The Police lacks discipline. 

The Police hierarchy lacks control. 

The Police is Terrifying. 

The Police training is insufficient. 

The Police protocols on use of firearms is as good as toilet paper. 

The Police is a conglomerate of small gangs in uniform. 

The Police have terrible psychological and pathological problems that have been unchecked for years. 

The Police reserves don't even have basic training yet are given guns to use.

The Police is feared more than respected.

The Police is feared more than criminals.

The Police seems to bring more terror than security. 

The Police is sick and dying. 

The Police needs to change. 

Stay focused. Addressing the buai-ban WILL not correct the problem of Police-related deaths. Trigger-happy cops WILL always find another excuse. 

Stay focused. Let's help the Police change so we can one day trust them again.

#IamMoanna #IamNicholas #IamToka 

#PoliceBrutality #undisciplinedforce #RPNGC