Wednesday, July 08, 2009

damn good address for a rat....

there's a line of a song ('hoist that rag' by tom waits) that keeps going through my head:

"The sun is up the world is flat
Damn good address for a rat"

the song is poetry, the life of a pirate. ...the two lines i quoted speak to me of a recognition of one's innate depravity, and the unmerited love and grace God bestows on us, while we are yet sinners... pirates... rats. i love how God can speak to us through the most un-spiritual of songs!!! lol



...i look up and see the blue skies, and think, 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i look up and see the majestic dark clouds and electric sky, and sigh, 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i swim fresh in a cool lake, and breathe, 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i look around my comfortable home and realize, 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i hold the hand of a 'mom' who loves me, and i whisper through my tears, 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i worship with my brothers and sisters, and thank God for this fellowship, a 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i breathe a breath of air in my lungs, i'm alive... 'damn good address for a rat'...

...i'm destined for heaven. that's one 'damn good address for a rat'!!!

"oh i know i've been changed... the angels in heaven done signed my name"... (skip ahead to 25 seconds to pass over the dubbed intro). :)


Clover

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THIS BLOG IS IN NEED OF AN OVERHAUL. there are posts from years back i would not be able to post in good conscience now. i plan to overhaul the blog, and either delete or add a disclaimer to those posts. but that is gonna take time....

The Radical Summons: "
Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come." Hebrews 13:13.

"The Spirit never loosens where the Word binds; the Spirit never justifies where the Word condemns; the Spirit never approves where the Word disapproves; the Spirit never blesses where the Word curses." —Thomas Brooks

‎"God receives none but those who are forsaken, restores health to none but those who are sick, gives sight to none but the blind, and life to none but the dead. He does not give saintliness to any but sinners, nor wisdom to any but fools. In short: He has mercy on none but the wretched and gives grace to none but those who are in disgrace. Therefore no arrogant saint, or just or wise man can be material for God, neither can he do the work of God, but he remains confined within his own work and makes of himself a fictitious, ostensible, false, and deceitful saint, that is, a hypocrite." --Martin Luther (W.A. 1.183ff)

i will not let You go: "Jacob's sense of his total debility and utter defeat is now the secret of his power with his friendly Vanquisher. God can overthrow all the prowess of the self-reliant, but He cannot resist the earnest entreaty of the helpless." --Albert Barnes

i will not let You go: "Jacob's determination did not flow from his strength, it flowed from his weakness." --Charles Leiter