if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself?
you who ban nuclear projects, do you drop bombs?
you who demonize dictators, are you a tyrant?
you who fight terror, do you terrorize?
what does murdering murderers accomplish?
why do you have the right to weapons of mass destruction?
who made you judge?
you try to make peace, but you cause more chaos.
Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.
from the book of Isaiah 12 “ When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts? 13 Bring no more futile sacrifices; Incense is an abomination to Me. The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting. 14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. 16 “ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow. "
Its so easy for me to take a scripture like this and always relate it to someone else, how someone else is doing something wrong, and how they need to change. A lot of times when I'm reading I find myself pointing the correction towards someone else, which may have its place, but it can only be after we've examined our own hearts. Jesus said "first remove the log from your own eye, before you try to remove the twig from your brother's eye". Finding the log in your eye, can sometimes be an obvious thing, but sometimes it can be difficult and you only find it when you really meditate on how you are affecting or not affecting your world by your actions.
This can really happen when you immerse yourself in different social justice issues. You see all of these terrible things and you want to call people out on it. It may be the right thing to do, but do I have the right to do it?
God show me the injustice I cause! Is there blood on my hands?!
Creative Loafing covered the festival we just played, and they wrote a little review of our set which I found pretty entertaining.
"The night was getting late, and I was getting tired, having been back and forth between the two venues several times on a half-healed broken toe, so I decided to swing by New World to catch one final local act before hitting the road: Alexander & the Grapes (pictured below). Lead singer/guitarist Alexander Charos looked the part of mountain man with his thick, gnarly beard, well-worn plaid shirt and cowboy boots, his emo-twangy vocals paired with the band’s easy-going roots rock. Bassist Tom Dicks brought the good-natured bounciness to his low-end frequencies and looked like he’d just got back from summer vacation with his youthful appearance — sloppy tee-shirt, boat shoes (no socks, of course), and a tendency to smile goofily while staring off into space. Drummer Philip Charos (the younger underage brother of Alexander) played with lively enthusiasm and grinned all throughout, wearing the blissed-out expression of a person perfectly in his element, his dark curls and dressy casual attire (white collared shirt and tie) reminding me of Tom Everett Scott’s stick-wielding character in That Thing You Do. And support guitarist Chase Swan played electric guitar but was best when he was drawing out the long, lazy sliding notes from his lap steel, adding a nice texture to the band’s countrified leanings."
you say you've got the answer well ask yourself is this something you deserve more than someone else you say you're a prophet speaking for God to man but if God is love why is there a gun in your hand?
televangelist, stop telling me how to exist, i don't want to be your prize, another trophy for you to wave around you keep running your mouth waging wars but this isn't what i was looking for i'll just wait till someone with more love comes around
the blind are leading the blind into a fancy house but Jesus is out on the street and he's crying out "I never knew you seer, get away from me, I never knew you healer, do you even recognize me?"
i feel like crying out to God and i don't want your help i feel like crying out to God for help
