An Audience of ONE

disclaimer: you don't have to know what i'm talking about, but i'm going to talk about it anyway. it's definitely not a poem... its just something going on in my head

I gotta hold on stay strong keep my eyes fixed on what's really going on... or maybe they've lost their focus looking to temporary gratification with a coveting gaze, but that's not supposed to be your issue. There is too much at stake for you get sucked back into what you were rescued from. Even when it's going on all around you, you must remember that you know what's real. I'm wanting a boyfriend again, but I won't go back on my word because I know that it was a Divine instruction. I'd forgotten what intimate neediness was like. I'm so poor, yet I continue to leave God on the shelf that I've created for him in my life and what's worse, I know He whispers to me daily. When will I stop being hedonistic in everything in my life that doesn't matter? Don't you know spiritual uprootedness yields superficiality and meaninglessness and tomorrow is not promised? Little girl let's get grounded before it's too late. If all you do before you die is decide in your heart to jump back on board with Jesus it would be much better than what's going on right now in your life: nothing. How can your friends look to you if you're drowning in your own life experiences with your back turned to a God that empathizes... the only One? Dare settle for less-than interactions with less-than godly men, with less-than godly intentions and goals, oblivious to their true purpose? I mean, do you have time for that? You used to know that you didn't and what God was doing was all that mattered or at least you were striving to be at that point. God blessed you once with so much more than that, but He also took it away... You search for contentment by turning your back on the only One who can give you peace... until then you will always search, insecure in yourself, your life... waiting to be loved first... living for others instead of an audience of One.


And now a battery of bible verses that speak about peace...

Job 22:21
Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you.

Psalm 34:14
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 29:11
The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.

Proverbs 17:1
Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.

Isaiah 26:12
LORD, you establish peace for us; all that we have accomplished you have done for us.

Isaiah 48:22
"There is no peace," says the LORD, "for the wicked."

Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Isaiah 54:10
Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 57:2
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.


Micah 5:4-5
4 He will stand and shepherd his flock
in the strength of the LORD,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
And they will live securely, for then his greatness
will reach to the ends of the earth.

5 And he will be their peace.


Luke 8:48
Then he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace."

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

John 16:33
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."

Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 3:11
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.




Posted on 11.2.2005 at 1:31 AM