idols nikolaitës

i spy
with my eye
steeped in pergamum-thyatira dye
charles stanley's "idol" definition wry
"anything that distracts from God" is woeful cry


if i were a rich man
then i can tan
conceive deceiving plan
feel important in the clan


if i had power
then i can shower 
fear and beer on those who cower
who needs God as a wowser
when u can have balaam browser
and multiple pleasure arouser


if i know it and have it all
i can make the call
people on my feet fall
i can parade ten feet tall
squandering in nicolaitan mall
frolicking in superiority hall

REUTERS/Aly Song

what's the epicenter of your quake
am i asleep or awake
before i shake and bake?
no earthly thing can i take...


2 timothy 3:1-4
but know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, 
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal,
despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, 
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God....

playing god

you want me to do what?

kicked my butt, spitted me from the gut

wiped my smut

but, U angered my heart

how could U forgive ninevite crut?

U should have spurned and burned evil

they should have been obliterated in Your fury swivel

i am stumped, U averted holy trump

i am grump, there's no point living, U prevailed and i am dumb crumb 

anger, like worms

eats away the gourd of my terms

how dare i, to play god and desire to die

what a trap and lie

Your grace and mercy to complain, accuse and defy

it is me who should repent

instead of Your compassion upon sinners resent 

i am jonah mad 

to hurl at my maker and Dad

so i'd rather insignificantly die

as though it'll erase my significant sinful dye

o what satanic logic i've narcisstically applied

to limit God who gives life to me graciously supplied

who am i kidding? why am i bidding? 

doing it my way is not succeeding

results in only pride and rage bleeding

what's the point of speeding

without divine heeding

an infested gourd wake-up call needling

the God-placed seedling

i have been out-of-line

forgive me, pull me out of self-centered slime

let me sup and dine with the Vine

who am i to nickel and dime

don't let defiance and anger retard spiritual growth

let Your love and grace nurture my worth

job's right - You giveth and taketh

without God, i nothing worthy of Your glory maketh

all else is vain

a doomed soul brings no gain

Lord, deliver me from self-inflicted pain

arguing with God over a gourd tree

o God, set me free

get me off blasphemy spree

hurl me into obeying Thy decree 

through jonah's strife U show it's foolhardy god to be

drawing on right is from wiki commons

proverbs 25:28

he that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

ephesians 4:27

be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.

ecclesiastes 7:9

be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

habakkuk nook

psalm 96

"oh sing to the Lord a new song... 

...for He is coming to judge the earth. 

He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with His truth." 

Michelangelo's Last Judgment from wiki commons 

so here i am...You brought me to this nook

You provided me time, health, mentors, habakkuk book  

what lectio divina food to cook?

open my eyes to see, not just look

filter out worldy din so i harken Thy babbling brook

intake fruitscent, taste Thy goodness and holiness, touch in love to spook

o God, i am weak but Thou art strong

it's hard to live in a world gone wrong

it's easy to substitute You with false gods 

and worship decaying sods

i place at Your feet, the idols of what we desire to be

smash them, release the design in us that You decree

remove doubts, darkness and delusion

reign in our fears, refrain us from evil collusion

help me stay upright in but not of world of babylonians

Thou art the only God to revere and fear, tame my bohemians

people write to me, i only have you to write

but You already know my woes and might

i do not need to be uptight and right

o God, let me not lose sight

that You formed me for your delight

direct my nostrils to smell Your perfume instead of hellish stench

control my heart, head and hands that i feel Your touch and taste the fruits of Your ranch

hear me God, be each other's iTune 

unplug my ears to listen in You  

that's my mew on Thy pew

thank you Lord, my spirit to renew.

good grief

to others, she encourages; alone she feels sick 

no mortal seems to understand her tick

left with her only God of hide and seek

she transforms

against tide of conforms

but time and time again, it bombs

hurled to depths to well of reforms

back to Potter, the pot 

is not so hot

time to divine crush 

time to repurpose its lush

dizzy trends

she's so dizzy, her head is spinning

like a whirlpool it never ends

self-control gears needs cleaning 

hit by fandango gale

clay turned a whiter shade of pale

time to revive its sheen to rustic shale 

when out of control

healing balm psalms to troll

...because He is at my right hand, 

i shall not be moved. 

psalm 16:8

He healeth the broken in heart, 

and bindeth up their wounds.

psalm 147:3 (kjv)

fruity series - temperance

when i gaze at Nature to understand its laws 

homeostatis is basis to correct excesses and flaws   

every organism so intricately designed

energy forms of multi-dimensions interact unconfined

to everything, there is a tipping point

mere mortals get easily out-of-kilter, out-of-joint

self-mastery to bridle desires requires energy and attention

it's wise to temper and heed proverbs 25:16 contention

if you find honey, eat just enough 

too much of it, and you will vomit stuff