For some reason, maybe length I could get the blog to post until I just did the first part. So here is the second.

I’d like to explain my poem. You first must understand that I am a follower of Christ. Second you should know there are two parts of Christianity. The first part many know, you hear it all over north america, "CHRIST DIED FOR YOUR SINS" many people will tell you, shove it down your throat, or bombard you with self incriminating questions to belittle you until you accept it. I will merely inform at this point. To better understand you might have to learn a few other things that, for some reason or another, many "Christians" don’t seem to know.

Why would Christ need to die for my sins?
Because we are sinners. - the part that I had not realized was that it has nothing to do with the fact that we sin. Think about your grandfather for a moment, if he had died before your birth, where would you be? You would simply not have been born. In that sense you could say that if he died before your birth you would have died IN him. Odd thought for our greek thinking mindsets but it’s true. Keeping this in mind I’d like to point to scripture. Rom 5:12 Because of this, even as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death passed to all men, inasmuch as all sinned. Just as we were in our grandfathers, we too were in Adam. When he sinned we ALL sinned. Who we are was now is defined as sinner and we are were born dead. Spiritual death is what I am speaking of at this moment. That said, with our identity as sinners and dead to God, we of course know nothing but sin. i.e. do you need to teach a toddler to be greedy or hit someone out of anger? I can tell you from personal experience, if you haven’t witnessed it, you don’t need to teach that.

Now getting free of sins is the part you always hear about. I used to hold hard to the "four spiritual laws" and while they are helpful in leading someone in a prayer to accept Christ I don’t feel they portray the entire truth. If you are unfamiliar they are;
1. God LOVES you and offers a wonderful PLAN for your life.
2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God’s love and plan for his life.
3. Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY provision for man’s sin. Through Him you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life.
4. We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives.

RIGHT… so accepting the sacrifice of Jesus essentially pays for our sins committed and that will be committed. But if it were just that and then up to us to try really hard to not sin, good luck ’til you’re in heaven! Then Christianity would be really shitty, and it is for many people that live in some sort of bondage to a religion instead of living life unhindered and empowered through Christ. That brings us to my point about the second part of Christianity. I have found that we are not only freed from our sins (the actual individual acts of sinning) but from the power of sin itself. I struggled like many with sins in my life trying to overcome and/or just NOT sin. Well that was a complete failure and resulted in misery and frustration. The problem is a that of revelation to the truth, this only comes from the holy spirit, so I pray it is revealed to you as you read this. You can think of this in a theological construct, it is position vs. condition. A man who has a million dollars in the bank but doesn’t know and is starving from lack of funds is in the position of millionaire but lives the condition of a starving poor man. CAN YOU IMAGINE!? Well for most that have accepted and believe into Christ I have seen that as the case. It often seems that to reach the point in which the spirit reveals these things we have to be broken. And then to live with everything Christ has already given us it takes us not living to serve ourselves but to be wholly submitted to God. THAT is why my poem reveals of my heart.

I added the last few lines in just sentances but I could have expounded for another few paragraphs on each sentance alone. I won’t do that to you but if you have questions please ask them.

If this hit home for you post a reply or send me a message I’d love to chat about it. If you would like a prayer I have copied one from the "Grace Life" stuff that might help.

Dear Father,
Thank You for delivering me from life in Adam and placing me in Christ Jesus.
I confess that I have been a selfer and a total failure in and of myself. I have been struggling to live the Christian life out of my own resources.
I admit that I have been trying to get my needs met through people achievements, and possessions.
I now give up on my self-sufficiency and do hereby commit my life unconditionally into you hands.
I give up all my rights and expectations, and give you permission to make me into the kind of person you want me to be.
I believe your word that I have been crucified with Christ, and have been buried and raised with him into newness of life. I claim resurrection life as my life. I have been raised into the heavenly places and I believe that I now am seated at the right hand of the Father.
I choose as an act of my will to claim that Christ is my life, my power, and my identity. I thank you that my identification with Christ makes me totally acceptable, and that all my needs are met by Christ Jesus.
I choose to believe these truths regardless of my circumstances, and I trust you to make this real in my experience in your timing.
I yield myself totally to the indwelling Christ for obedience. Do with me whatever you choose.
Glorify and manifest your son in my life.
In His Identity,
ME
 

Way to go sweet heart. Love.
 

wow i didnt know you were a poet brother! i like it!
 

I've written a lot of poetry and had some published... *shrug*