February 20, 2007

Joel Akin

The Choices are warring

 Where would we be if God were to fail? I do not say he did fail I only say where would we be? The answer is we would be in time. In time means we fight in time and on time and through time. And that means God has not forgotten.

 Now I fight with desire for an answer and an answer is to be blessed. I desire to be blessed. Desire is like fire and I am named AISH. AISH is a Hebrew word which signifies that material which burns to fire of light. It is based on a term that means disability or disabled. I am disabled and I have been for years. I don't claim to be perfect but I claim one thing and that is God is with me.

 I desire to be on fire for God and I am. Only you won't hear me in sermon only in fire of word. I love God and I serve Him. Yet I've learned God will not answer all prayers. Some prayers are beyond the ken of men. It isn't that God doesn't desire to bless because He does. And I will be blessed as compensation of what I want or desire for the future.

 So why then doesn't continuous prayer work? Think of it this way. Imagine God wants to teach you a lesson in faith and in preparation of faith. Imagine it takes a long time to train up a man in the way he will go. Now imagine I am being prepared in ways I cannot imagine. That means I want Gods will above my own. That isn't in doubt. What is in doubt is that while being prepared I fell to Sin. Now I didn't give in to Sin but I fell to Sin.

Think of it like Jesus who fell to crucifixion. I didn't get crucified but I fell in a similar manner. I was taken and torn from my roots and from everything I loved except maybe Pepsi. For some reason I was allowed to keep that most of the time. Maybe Pepsi might appreciate it as part of their history.

 The fact is I pray for things that sound stupid. I pray for Pepsi. My brother joked that in Heaven, or his Heaven there is only Coca-Cola. I like Pepsi and I and my brother are torn from the root of Coke and Pepsi. We both want it but it really is from a similar recipe which is why no one knows who is drinking what half the time. It is a strange story and one God will tell when He has time. For Coke and Pepsi is the story of two brothers who wanted it their way no matter what the cost. And it broke them in half because of love. For one couldn't share Pepsi and one couldn't share Coke. So the two had to fight over it all of their life. So God set it up that they would be similar if not the same. So along the way there came a Dr. and he could be called Dr. Pepper. He was spicy and delicious and an inspiration. And I loved him and so did my brother though not as much. He came to signify the hot, cold and lukewarm aspect of life. And he came to signify the Holy Spirit who was the Dr we needed to produce fruit. For the Dr was home and in the house and I had stocked up for a long time to come.

 Now the fact is I have been inside of this story so long I forget some people don't know me. They know my life but they don't know me. I don't share it all but if I did they would see that I fail. And in failing I find myself getting off track. Why? Because I care and in caring I fight. And it so happens that when I fight I fight for things. Not because things are evil but because things are of people. If I fight for Pepsi I do so with love because I know there are millions who drink it and millions who want it. If Coke were in Heaven only those who were Coke fiends would have it. For they would keep out the other half of the story. So in a way God switches the story with others so they would be happy. And in Heaven Coke might be Pepsi or it might be Coke. But what He wants is for us to be Happy. And that is a real thing to Him.

 Now He knows my heart. He knows I love Pepsi. He knows I like things. He knows I want people to be blessed. So when I pray for Pepsi and the people who are of their ledge I also pray for Coke because that is for my brother. And I keep alive one thing God wanted to die. And that was competition.

 So if competition is to die that means that no more baseball or golf or anything. But in reality those are games of fun and not meant to be of competition in the sense of money. They are but they were not meant to be. They are simple games that were around before they had a name. And those are simple truths. For Golf has been around since time immortal. And that was a billion years plus. And the same for Baseball. Not because of us but because time tends to carry on favorite things and those are simple games to create. Like Croquet.

 So if these were around then why have an end to competition. The answer is a defense. The defense of life. Compete means to repeat and no one wants Sin to repeat. So competition has to end. It will mean people don't want to compete. For the prize? Perhaps but not for financial gain. And that is where men will find it difficult to rise up. Or some will think. In reality it will mean we can focus on God.

All those things are true but not meant to discourage. Life is meant to be of life and hope of hope. And joy of joy. There may still be some sad people. Some sad songs. There will be history and some things will still make us cry. We will see stories that God will write that will make us weep. He will wipe away all tears but no forever. Tears are there for a reason. To weep for joy or weep with laughter or weep with hope and with life.

 All these things are part of the measure of tears and we are not meant to compete. So Coke and Pepsi are meant to be changed to the perfection of taste and that means time will change the form but not the formula.

 It is essential that creation be competitive. But not of Sin. So it is like time will be no more. It will continue but in different nature. The same for death. Otherwise we can't eat and food has to die, even the lettuce. So don't mourn over the salad bar with your tears. Nor over the booze for that will be reduced so its power over men will be broke. And that is of time for men will fight for their booze.

 The other thing is God will restore life to things. We don't understand time and that is the quickening of things so they rust and fall apart. Things will last for a thousand years with ease and we will have to destroy things by fire and by faith in recycling. As in giving things to worms or animals to eat. And poisons will end so they don't last forever. Don't worry, God has ways of ending those things that harm.

 Now I started this because I want to be blessed. I want to help man as well. So in a way God helps me with ideas. And people will read these things and hopefully marvel at what God wants to do. And rejoice as well.

 So if I am to be blessed it will be in Gods way.