To just look like a Christian is cheap, just to sound like one is cheap, to really be one is expensive it will cost you your life. 

A Cry to God

I see evil all round.

I stand frozen like a statue I'm bond.

I see a brother and sister fall to the ground.

I stand frozen as tears fall down.

I stand frozen for I don't want to look like a fool.

I stand frozen for I don't want to lose a friend.

I stand frozen because I don't want to offend.

 I stand frozen Oh Lord take me back to Your school.

Lord help me to break free.

Lord help me not to care what others think of me.

Lord give me victory over my fears.

I want to fight for others, I want to wipe away their tears.

Lord give me strength to do all You would have me to do.

Lord I want my life to glorify You.

Lawn Statues

Sometimes when I am in Orchards garden center I look at the lawn statues. I always wanted a couple to decorate my yard and garden with. I like the gray cement bird baths or fountains that have frogs and lily pads, or flowers. I like cement fawns and other woodland creatures painted to look real. I day dream about where I would put them. I remember seeing one once of  a stable boy holding a lantern looking as if  he was searching for a horse. Sometimes I am like a lawn statue all the inward and outward signs of  being a Christian. Sometimes like a statue I stand frozen in my tracks when it comes to taking action. Don't want to offend, don't want to lose a friend, don't want to make a fool of myself, these thoughts turn me into a statue. This is wrong if  I don't speak up in love when I see wrong being done, that person may fall more and more away from God. If  I don't say or do all I can in love to turn someone back to God, then I don't really love them and aren't being a friend to them. Friends don't just let friends fall away from God with out doing or saying something, even if  it mean I will lose my friend. If  I don't take a stand against evil, if  I don't take a stand for the oppressed, if  I don't use the gifts or talents God has given me I am as good as a useless statue. I would rather be fool for God doing something. Than a fool doing nothing. I pray God will give me strength and wisdom to stop being a statue.

Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained a brother. Matthew 18:15, Let brotherly love continue. Remember the prisoners as if chained with them-- those who are mistreated-- since you yourselves are in the body also. Hebrews 13:1 and 3, Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:27, 

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