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Does your face shine with the glory of God? Have you got such a faith in God that strangers who need answers to their needs come to you? Are you spreading the light and purity of God in your walk before men? Are you a city set on a hill so that for miles and miles humans may see you shining bright? OUR TEXT Matthew 5:14 (New King James Version) – 14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Imagine that you were walking and walking for say fifty or a hundred miles on the promise that there is a town that is going to be up in front where persons will give you a meal and a bed and numerous love. Imagine you come through a deep valley and of a sudden you see a a bright light on the top of the next big rise. As you get closer to it, it is shining more brilliant and your at last get real happy as soon you will have something to drink for your parched throat, and a good deal of feed to fill your stomach as you have not eaten for three days, and a bed out of the cold to sleep in. How great would be your sorrow then, when you arrive, no one in the city wants to feed you a nice meal, and no one wants to give you a drink and no person wants to give you a bed and the person who told you with regards to this city was faulty with regards to it? Do you recognise that the poor homeless live that scenario a few hundred times a night. They don’t ask each single person that passes them for money, they only ask humans that look to them might have a compassionate heart. And do you recognise what most Christians do that I know of when they are asked? They say “no, I have no spare change.” Let me share a mystery with you. The closer you are to Christ in your relationship, the more your face shines and a homeless person may come into a restaurant with a hundred humans and only ask one person and that person be you? Do you recognise I may watch a person standing 100 feet in front of me and person after person go past them, and yet when I go to pass, they ask me for directions? Do you know that, they pick me as I some how seem to look to them as a person that would be helpful and who would recognise the answer. Jesus said that we are all to shine with his light. Our Christian faith ought to be so apparent to humans that are not saved through the way we deal with people, and through our works of mercy and love, that we are like that city on a hill that may been seen from a heap of miles away. The way to actually shine folks, is to obey the teachings of Jesus. Jesus didn’t just come to die on a cross for us, he came to show us what we need to do if we are to be righteous Christians. He spelled a lot of it out in this sermon on the mount that we are going through. Not giving to poor humans who ask you for cash is disobeying Jesus. We will get to that command later in this series, but suffice to say here is the fact that the reason why you get asked a lot for cash is that they see your face shining and think you are a kind person. But a doctrine of man says that we ought to not give a drinker or heroin addict cash as we might kill them. We have formulated our own reason not to give, but our reason makes us disobey Jesus. The way to become a great light of the world is found in denying yourself, taking up your cross and obeying Jesus in all he taught we must do. We are to do all the things he taught us to do, and we are not to do all the things that he said we ought to not do. When you live the sermon on the mount, you genuinely are a great light in the world, and you will be the only one a poor person picks out of a hundred when he only needs two more dollars. If you chose to live a radical sold out life for Jesus and commence to obey the teachings and commands Jesus had, then people will mock you and revile you and persecute you for the righteousness in your life. People who have been taught doctrines of men and doctrines of demons in the church will always rise up versus you. Most helpful customer reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. In “On Scorpions and Swallows” Will delivers the maximum present moment: I go blank so when I look skyward and in “The Deluge in Formation,” birds continue driving forward Gertrude Stein’s continuous present: I am speaking of chastisement within this condition neither Chinese nor Shinto —and in this poem the Blood Penguin of an earlier poem shifts through totemic corvids: which persists by daring saying such —so the poet transmutes time into figures, nerve and thistles rebraided into frayed cordage, knotted language like the Andean quipu taut between verbal present and living presence. In tensile lines that are his most direct ever, fraught with somatic pungency, graced with seemingly (and very wonderful) “purposeless kinetic” jolt, the poet folds Sun Ra into Garcia Lorca, Bob Kaufman into Cesar Vallejo: I am speaking here of your disrupted seasons I am listening to the salt inside your hunger… (“Combustion & Leakage: for Cesar Vallejo”) —in an age old orality extending through Shakespeare’s sonnets to e. e. cummings and beyond the present, the poet pronounces numnerous poem’s intents and purposes in the figures of his lines, reflexively purposing his “content’s dream.” In this delivery Will Alexander bodies forth his poetics whole, elegantly edged and fully at our service: they can’t see my approach it is my approach therefore …I am considered being leakage from a barbarous index province (“Coping Prana”) The short poems are striking, and the longer sequences replete with moving, wild compressions: the horizon being mist (“Horizon as Parallel and Sonar”) Compression & Purity is wholly Will Alexander’s gift, nerve steel thistle violet. |
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