It APPLIES to us old... (sorry "oLder") foggies as well :P Maybe EVEN MORE so....

Hi,

I will try to find a link appropriate of this blog entry to use later... but right now I am at a lost for words. Kind of like that quality podcast I listened to this morning since I couldn't make it to church due to bad headache on Saturday night. But it did give me a chance to do a lot of things I don't normally get to do on Sunday mornings... like wish my dad a happy father's day (we haven't seen him in over 10 years he has been "AWAY" in Asia)....

So anyhow, as I wait for my attachment to load in my e-mail on the other window... I HOPE that this blog does not fall on death ears/eyes... that the MSG of the speaker or more importantly GOD does not go unheard... and that is my wish always for my blog entries as well... it's like "Pastor Agent K's very first sermon"... kinda like that "my first holophono" in that POP TV show Futurama except I am PLAYING FOR GOD... not PLAYING THE FIELD (for a girl...) So this is me... the early days.. am I any good? Or am I one of those preaches/speakers/bloggers that put people to sleep instead?

This entry might also be called "A FRESH START... A NEW PERSPECTIVE"... and if it were a worship, I would put that "PERSPECTIVES" song by Kutlass, "Rescue" by Desperation Band (Urbana 2006) and maybe that "Why" (Nicole Norderman) song in the line up. Since I am not leading singspiration this time around, but "preaching" instead... I will forgo that section of that sharing and "get to the point..."

So what is my message, well it can be short and simple, not necessarily sweet, but it can also be LONG and "INTERESTING"... yes, interesting :P At least I hope so... Hey, I was "supervisor" for Elections Ontario in the past, my speaking "skills" can't be THAT BAD now can they? And they "normally" don't give the job to a total "NEW KID" as I was....

Anyhow... my theme for this message is like it's too late for ME to get a fresh start and obviously more so for those who are more advanced than me in physical years or IS THAT REALLY the case? I know people who "passed away" as young as 16... A sister in Christ who was outreaching with us who's only 13 once said "I feel like I've WASTED MY LIFE..." 13... but yet the "young looking :P" 31 year old sister said no such thing, but it was good this quote of the 13 year old the 31 year old did convicted not only her, but me and most of the people in that room!!!

Like that line in the MCBCSL opening ceremony skit today "Love... yea yea...." Jesus is LOVE.... God is LOVE... but what are we doing in response to his love? Do we "bring Him more than a song"? Perhaps as a classic way of doing things, let's look into this word, to make it more analogic and dramatic like Pastor's do trying to use analogies from "movies" or other sources, I will use the AMPLIFIED translation of the bible:

1 Corinthians 13 (Amplified Bible)
Amplified Bible (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation

1 Corinthians 13
1IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such [a]as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2And if I have prophetic powers ([b]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody).

3Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or [c] in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.

4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

8Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy ([d]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].

9For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).

10But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded).

11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.

12For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as [e]in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand [f]fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been [g]fully and clearly known and understood [[h]by God].

13And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.....


(hehe "love")..."yea yea..." :P

TO BE CONTINUED (haha, like a lot of my other unfinished posts... same on me, like my cell group leader said, I need to "FOLLOW THROUGH" on my commitments regardless of whether I like them or not...)

But at least as the speaker at CC2008 said, I've "relieved my spiritual constipation"... :P