MY REASON

You are the reason I reason,

The in season seasoning to the bland world,

The light to the blind world,

I stand, corrected by His stripes

Collected in His arms, I can stand now

The only solution that corrected me,

Water n blood,

Dissolved my sins away,

Tempest don’t toss me,

I rise with the waves, bcoz the light house is still beckoning,

Like JOB I work my Faith,

The outcome is higher than w(ee)d  thought,

That when my whole body sores up, my spirit soars higher

Coz  I am past chained, I Am CHANGED.

Kamah©2012

OUTSIDERS

The fortified walls cant keep in,

The routines that is my life is boring,

There has to be more to life than this

Am met with bewildered looks when I query whats beyond the wall

Some says nobody lives beyond this walls,

the life out there is too hard for mortals

Some cant even understand why I cannot just be contented with the security of confinement

I try suppress the urges but I cant hold it in

My morbid fascination with the outside has got people worried about me

Whispers going round, “another one has caught the disease, he may be leaving us soon”

getting me worried and happy at the same time,

so there are people out there?

I heard, outcasts, rebels, lepers

I guess am already one,

I venture out to the unknown

The vastness is overwhelming

Am met by few faces, who had left the confinement way back

with them, I belong.

on the outside, I can roam

on the outside, am boundless

on the outside, am free to run

on the outside I found a home

I AM AN OUTSIDER

kamah 2012(inspired by NEEDTOBREATHE – Outsiders)

You owe Him give Him His breath back…(Propaganda)

Genesis 2:7(NLT) . And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul

God had just finished creating the universe with the Word of His mouth. It would take eternity to start describing  the universe as it is. How marvellous, wonderful, amazing, astonishing the creation is.  No words can describe the magnificence of the known universe, leave alone what we do not know. But just to exemplify my point. The earth as compared to the universe is almost practically inexistent. The closest star to the earth, apart from the sun, is a 38,000,000,000,000 km away. And there are other stars which are a billon times farther away. There is a star which is  1400 times size of sun 1000 more luminous.  In our galaxy it just a spot, an illustration would help here. The pale dot that is circled is  earth.

 

fromhttp://news.softpedia.com

A famous astronomer( Carl Sagan) put it this way. We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you know, everyone you love, everyone you’ve ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam(http://news.softpedia.com).” Profound right?

God made a man out of dust, earth , from mortal decaying things, then he breathed immortality into man. He breathed a part of Himself into man. He breathed divinity, deityness(if there is word like that) and charged him to go and rule the world.  Lets explore a little bit what it means to have a part of God in us. He is the creator of not only heavens n earth but also the universe. By his word alone the heavens came to be. the universe is literally on the palm of his hand.

Where am I going with all this well  here I go, with the same breath he used create the whole universe, he breathed it into you, So every breath you take in remember where it came from.  Remember the significance of it. When God says He created you to worship Him, you are just breathing His breath back to Him. Worship is His.

With the same breath we however use it to malice, gossip, slander and insult people, we even go further to curse n blaspheme GOD, to even question His existence. with His Own Breath!! Ooh thats how bad it is. But that we are still breathing ‘God’, in our insignificance we are hence significant.  Jeremiah 1:5 “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.(NLT)

And the owner of the universe tells you James 4:8 8  Come close to God, and God will come close to you. .(NLT)

 

If  that’s not humbling enough, I don’t deserve to breath Him, I should give  his breath back.

 

kamah © 2012.talk to me fam

 

 

Shall-owe LOVE

We loved with the flesh,

Shallow love,

Did not go past the first meat (meet),

We never saw our skeletons,

Our closets, firmly shut,

But not our shirts,

Each day butchered by guilt,

Empty promises filling our counterfeit love with fake feelings

And dreams too,

She said “I see myself in a white dress”

Actually she saw a façade of our bodies covered with leprosy,

Eating up our flesh,

Revealing our skeletons,

I remember am flesh and blood,

My fingers can’t count to ten,

Regretting the tens I spent on half empty crisp bag,

But that’s past tense,

I am no longer fighting it solo

I got me a new Sensei in my dojo

He said he is gonna love me to death,

He kept that promise..

Am at odds with Him again,

even then, He counts, leaves the 99,

pursues me, rights my wrongs.

I used to count losses,

Now I have lost count,

Of the blessings!

 

Leviticus (LOVE SIDE)

Leviticus  (LOVE)

I really find it hard to read this book, all the laws that we have been “graced” from, but in my quest to read the whole bible I read it, or scanned through. It mostly talks about the seventh year, the year of restoration, restoration of property, u know those thingsthat our pastors like to tell us, but i came across some specific passages that made me grin

leveticus 25:35(GNB) ³⁵ If any Israelites living near you become poor and cannot support themselves, you must provide for them as you would for a hired worker, so that they can continue to live near you.³⁶ Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.³⁷ Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them.³⁸This is the command of the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt in order to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

 If any Israelites living near you become so poor that they sell themselves to you as a slave, you shall not make them do the work of a slave.⁴⁰ They shall stay with you as hired workers and serve you until the next Year of Restoration.⁴¹ At that time they and their children shall leave you and return to their family and to the property of their ancestors.⁴² The people of Israel are the Lord’s slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery.

I have put in bold the sentences which are the back bone of this article. It marveled me how God would not stand seeing his own under any form of enslavement, by fellow Israelites and more so by foreigners. He didn’t deliver them from Egyptian slavery to be Canaanite slaves. He says  they(Gods people) are the LORDs slaves

God doesn’t change, how he viewed His people then is the same way he views us, he doesnt have double standards in dealing with whom He calls His. He can never contradict himself. The bible calls us his people, by faith. Galatians 3:7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.ie anybody who has accepted Christ as their savior I believe is what He calls his own.

To us now, this much love he has for us, he is so jealous for us. He can’t stand to see us being  slaves to other things especially as who he has called, chosen. He didn’t give u wealth, spouse, children, family to be our gods. He delivered from sin to be free to obey Him alone. He delivered us from enslavement from wordly desires to be slaves to righteousness only. He demands our whole hearts be totally sold out to him.

 

Circus

I took her to the circus not really my thing but, I love the sight,

The attractive array of colors, the glimmering lights

The merry children, the cheering crowd

Clowns wearing rainbow crowns, with made up faces, and smiles

Trapeze artists  doing death defying leaps high in the sky,

Walking on the thin poles, living on the edge, enjoying the rush,

The jugglers, sharp knives, flaming torches, but they do it so effortlessly

I think I can do it too, someday

And the crowd reciprocating with applauses

I thinking it would just take one wrong move, just one simple mistake……

The lion tamers, my favorite, making the Kings of the jungle dance to their tune,

Secretly hopin one goes rogue,.ouch!

The magicians, with their cards, just knowing how to make us believe, illusions, make belief

We tried out, I won a club, her a flower,

The merry go round, knowing it would make me woozy but  I would do anything, for her.

She joked that we should try th fortune teller, I was hesitant but hey, its part of the fun

He said we are forever,..:-) I believed him ..

Motion dancers capping my rather kinda awesome day

As long she was happy

They wiggled, gyrated,  the looked spineless,

And I think so I am too…..

Kamah ©2012

 

 

Testimony

what drives me…

Someone told me, I like you, you are nice person. I wish there are more like you in this world. It got me thinking. I am I really nice person? Is this person they like a nice person at all.  Then I told her no am not a nice person. It’s the God in me. If you take God from the equation of my life I am as evil as any other sinner. It’s I, the Christian who is the likable and a nice person. Otherwise I am as Jesus said  (Matt 15:19“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.”) Which also brought another question why am I not sinning. Is it because I fear sin? The only reason I don’t do those evils is because I choose to obey God and pursue holiness.

(John 14:15“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.)
The fundamental reason is not because am afraid of the consequences of sin. But because God says don’t do it and God is God His word is final. (Rom 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness)
I hence refrain from sin essentially in obedience to God. The rest added benefits of my sin free life follow me. And this verse makes total sense to me now (Matt6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.)

So in everything I do, it’s God first me second, It’s His word that drives me to not sin. E.g chastity. If the reason am chaste is because I am afraid of STDS, unwanted pregnancy or I just want to pass on as a decent person I am totally following the wrong goals. Am treading on thin ice, because those barriers can and will always be overcome or there is always a way to go around them, and at my weakest you will definitely fall. But if my main reason is purely from obedience to God first, that will never change his word has already been written with an indelible ink. So wherever I am or whoever I am with, His words stands and that’s victory right there.

So what drives you in holiness? Why don’t you sin?
So my friend, I know you will read this, I am not a good person, and there a lot of people like me in this world. They are just living a self directed life instead of a Christ directed life.(if u want to know how to live a Christ directed life http://4laws.com/laws/english/flash/) But Kamah with Jesus makes all the difference.
Talk to me…..
kamah©2011

hatin Hate

I hate that I Love you, but you don’t love me back

I hate that you gave me your heart, but I left you with hurt

I hate that I promised to love you forever, but now you hate me forever

I hate that you love the fake me, the real me you would loath

I hate that you love me, but I love you for the wrong reasons

I hate that sex & drugs claimed to give me the right love and fulfillment, but they left me feeled with emptiness n hate

I hate that I thought I had seen love, but I actually sinned against Love

I hate that my mouth professes love, but my heart is brewing hate

I hate that media is spreading hate, in the name of loving my neighbor

I hate that they have convinced many that sex scenes (sin) is real love

I hate that people love me, but I hate myself

I hate that I laugh at your jokes, but inside am sneering

I hate that I hate you for no apparent reason

I hate that you tried to correct me out of love, but I called you a hater

I hate that I claim to love Him, but continue doing the things He hates

I love that Love loved me before I knew what Love was, and taught me to love ‘em like Love would

Kamah 2011

Kill ma Own

The herd is walking together, strength in masses. Oblivious of the lurking danger.  The hungry lioness camouflaged in the long brown savannah grass. The wildebeests know better than to stray from the herd, but in a moment of excitement one jumpy male loses its consciousness and goes capering towards the lioness. It wastes no chance and pounces on the hapless wildebeest, on to the jugular. The herd gets ruffled and all scamper for safety. The lioness grips the throat, the loud cries turns to low moans as life slowly slips from the wildebeest. The limbs become limp. It struggles to keep a straight gait as the heavy lioness weighs it down. The rest of the hundreds of wildebeests look from a distance as their brother leaves them, a norm now, each wondering who is gonna be next.

But in a moment of luck the wildebeest lets itself loose from the grip of lion and with the remaining strength jumps over a shallow creek, but he has lost a lot of blood. The lioness knows the disoriented animal would eventually  stray to its path. The wildebeest after much struggle rejoins the herd. The herd however seem to avoid him, they do want to be associated with him. His slow walk is slowing the migration; he is even making them more susceptible to attacks. So the wounded walks at the back of the herd. Eating what other animals have left. Exposed to all kinds of perils. The healthy ones don’t seem to care, each selfishly guarding their own lives.

He now can’t keep up with the fast moving herd; its weakened body fails it. The lioness after jumping over the creek follows the trail of blood. It is already used to this scenario, the herd abandoning their weak when they desperately need them. The lioness can now see the frail wildebeest, he has given up. He lays waiting for his fate. The lioness approaches and he doesn’t even make an effort to run, it has given up hope. The lion sinks its huge incisors and breaks his neck. He doesn’t put up a fight, he was dead already, killed by his own kind.

1st Thessalonians 5:14

And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone.