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 

HARD WORDS TO BUAI CHEWERS

The woman's death is not just a wake up call to the government and the police. It should be a wake up call to all buai chewers.

The buai problem (the ban, the illegal buying and selling, the wrongful deaths at the hands of an undisciplined police force, etc.) is not a problem of SUPPLY, it's a problem of DEMAND.

The only reason buai sellers defy the ban, despite the presence of a brutal police force, is that you chewers are willing to buy from them on the streets, the busstops, and the undesignated spots. They risk their lives and limbs to meet your craving. They take the beating while you selfishly walk away with their merchandise that the city rangers or the cops foolishly scatter all over the pavement. Despite them servicing your addiction, you won't stand with them or for them when the ugly arm of the law treats them like animals.

We rubbish the buai seller like he's an animal that has no sense of compliance to the law? "Ol olsem blu lang! Polis rausim ol tasol stil ol kam!" But what of the chewer who seems to have no control over his addiction? Aren't we like animals, who must have what our body craves despite the sacrifice of the one who supplies it? Do we deserve to be beat up as the buyer, to be fair to the seller?

Buai chewers who facilitate the breaching of the law should be fined and locked up. Or dealt with exactly the same way that sellers are dealt.

The blood of the poor woman who died is on you.

She was trying to supply your need. She knew the risk of exposing herself to the thugs in blue. She knew the deadness of of their hearts. Yet she was trying to bring to you one of your most important needs. She knew you'd meet her at the busstop to collect your supplies. And despite the risk, she went out to meet you. But when the cops came they didn't see you. You were right there. You're always there. But they didn't see you. They saw her. Now she's dead.

SHE DIED FOR YOU.

But you didn't defend her. You never tell the cops "If you're going to beat her, then beat me up too!" She was the one who ran in fear. But at that instance, and every instant like it, you're the real coward.

So stop.

Stop buying where you aren't suppose to buy. Stop chewing where you aren't suppose to chew. And stop spitting where you aren't suppose to spit. Stop encouraging the seller to risk his life and limb just for your moment of high.

God made us to have cravings. But he gave us a will and an intelligence to resist feeding that craving when we are required to. That's why we're not animals.

Heavenise weekend.

#TokautTokstret #policebrutalit #buaiban #deathoverbuai

Ganjiki D Wayne

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Sin is Sin--And sometimes Human Rights Can be Human Wrongs

Sin is Sin—And sometimes Human Rights Can be Human Wrongs

Since the debate is popping up again I probably need to warn you non-Christians about something.

If Christians condemn homosexuals to exile or death and hell, they aren't behaving Christianly, or as Christ would. Just like when the Crusaders went on a rampage, claiming a mandate from Christ, they were actually acting on their own volition. If Christians express hate for the homosexual, rather than the act, they aren't doing what Christ would do.

Don’t assume that they represent God when they express such sentiments. They are representing themselves. Every ambassador must represent his sovereign within the rules and within a mandate allowed him by the sovereign. If he breaches those rules or that mandate, he cannot claim to represent his sovereign in that instant. Although he could cause disrepute and shame to his sovereign.

The same applies to those Christians who react in a way that Christ never intended.

But.

Don’t expect true Christians to accept and tolerate the exaltation of immorality by the activists for human rights.

There is a moral law that exists. Everyone has a perception of it. Christians recognise it as God’s standards found in His Word. We all breach that moral law all the time. When we do it’s called sin. But Christians don’t accept that our sin is ok just because “almost everyone is doing it”. Or because “that’s the way it is”. Or because “the law does not prevent it”.

And we most certainly are not willing to accept it just because the UN and the human rights movement says "it’s ok.”

Christians recognise sin both in others and themselves. We don’t like the fact that we or anyone else sin. We pray and preach against everyday sin all the time—despite the fact that we are prone to it. And to the extent that a sin is increasingly becoming acceptable and encouraged, Christians will respond with righteous anger.

The problem arises when the Christian’s understanding of right and wrong clashes with the human rights advocate’s perception of right and wrong.

Christians are not mandated to curse and condemn, for they themselves are not without sin. But they are mandated by God to (1) stand up for truth and righteousness, and (2) to  stand against the rise of ungodly and immoral practices.

The most unchristian thing that a Christian could do is to say “it’s ok” to sin.

Christ never said it was ok to sin. He condemned sin. When He saved the woman caught in adultery yes He did say “He who has no sin cast the first stone.” But He also said to the woman:

“GO AND SIN NO MORE”.

When the Pharisees brought her to justice they had recognised and had already condemned the sin. But Jesus kept them from condemning the sinner, because He would not allow a sinner to condemn a fellow sinner. By doing what He did He stamped the authority of His Father as the only righteous Judge who had the authority to condemn the sinner.

But at no point in time throughout His ministry did He tell His followers to be silent about sin and accept it in others, even when their sin did not affect us. Instead He commanded them to spread the Truth—to preach the Gospel.

And that is what Christians have been doing, are doing and will continue to do as long as they have breath in their body.

They will speak of the truth about sin—including the sin of the practice of homosexuality. They will not be silent when human rights advocates, in their ignorance of truth, unwittingly try to promote a grave sin in the society and country in which those Christians live.

Lastly to fellow Christians, remember: SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE.

Heavenise day!

GDW