Man and woman.
He created us in
Perfection.
The design He had in mind:
The Human race.
We exist for the glory and edification of our Maker.
God create my biology to demand a counterpart,
an opposite equal,
that both satisfies and multiplies
Me.
Unfortunately, the reality of sin has perverted the design
to include deviations that prefer to consume me.
In a culture that cultures my appetite to indulge in
Me
To do
Me
To be
Me
And put
Me
First
It appears that even sects of this
Christian faith
will perpetuate a
hedonistic approach to salvation.
One cultivated to mollify
oppose to crucify
Me.
It's a feel good faith
that alleviates the pressure
to submit to a Master who knows
Me
and would hold
Me
to a higher standard.
A Savior who knows that
My
heart is deceitful above all things
and out of it are the issues of life.
I'd
curated a Christianity that
I
was comfortable with like many before
Me.
I
discovered it easier to manipulate the scriptures so that
I
colored complacency profound.
This "new faith" only challenged
what secular society has cautiously ordained grey,
giving me
agency to modify the expectations of my Creator.
So though no one likes a liar,
There are some lies that can be excused.
It's a badge of honor to make a nun blush,
but her standards are something to be admired,
not replicated.
I
sorted through God's mandates
and chose only to adopt those principles
that were perceived as honorable to men.
To be only more forgiving,
more kind,
and more generous than my contemporaries
allowed Me
to place
Myself
closer to a Heaven
I forfeited
the moment I deemed my own altar
sufficient to worship at.
I failed to understand that,
any faith not based in the reconciliation of my soul to Christ
is pagan.
Idolatry
No matter how well I can quote scriptures.
This newfound belief in
Me,
meant that my god
(small "g")
was I
My feelings
My body
My biology betrayed by the sin in
Me.
A deity:
Dei-Me
So I repent.
For do I now persuade (me)n, or God?
or do I seek to please (me)n?
for if I yet pleased (me)n
I should not be the servant of Christ.
And
No man can serve two masters
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one
and despise the other
So I
lay me down
before the cross,
to serve my Creator.
I lay me down and surrender to my Maker.
Choosing to let Christ reign in me.
Because
Greater is He that is in me
Than he
that is in the world.