A Poem entitled Still Thinking

Still Thinking by Daniel Stevenson

        I, Like in a latter day,
        think away my things.
        Time ebbs on
        because that is what it does.
        With tears that surface-coat scars
         that drive me more than they should,

         I reach for a tomorrow
         guaranteed
         in the hand of the master,
         But framed in the thinking,
         too common
         to yesterday’s reality.

        Time ebbs on
        ever-closer
        to that unsealed future,
        The image in the rear view mirror
        is fading
        but I lean in straining.

        Service and tears
        but even today’s events
        seem distant.
        I am without torment
        but sometimes wondering why my scars,
        drive me more than they should.

        Thinking
        through things
        like in days past,
        when my thought should
        simply be
        of one certain tomorrow…

         The thoughts I think
         may be of today.
         The scars I bear,
         some I thought forgotten,
         drive a present
         seemingly based
         on an old life.

         This new life,
         it is somehow more real,
         Eyes open,
         I,
         like Lot,
         live vexed.

         Moved
         to certain action,
         I work
         though I wonder.
         My help is eternal.
         My pain is temporal.

         One day,
         I will
         stop
         thinking,
         but apparently
         not yet.

Evil spirits

Life is not safe. Stuff happens that is completely outside our control. God is sovereign and has authority to do whatever He pleases. Man has free-will and so can decide to do whatever he pleases. Man's free will breaks down at the place where he submits it to others.



An example: When a person joins the military. Military personnel had better submit some or all of their free will to their commanding officer or otherwise someone may wind up dead.



In non-military society persons must submit their free will to laws made for the greater good and social laws (which actually appear to be getting fewer.) But, there is much greater danger in submitting one's free will to something non-human in design. People are flawed but most realize it and know that ultimately their authority breaks down-thus they do not (where good will and reason exists) try to run you into the ground. Not so when it comes to evil spirits. Mad at God and mad at humans for being made in God's image they want to bring humans to their knees.



Evil spirits: I'll not name any and I'll not say that they are strong. In reality I think they have no power that is not gifted them by humans. They try to influence people and they can act but for a person who has submitted themselves to Jesus Christ there is always a better option-submission to Christ.



Evil spirits: Sometimes I wonder just how far this goes. I don't blieve they have any authority to stand in the face of determined faith. One said, paul I know, and Christ I know, but who are you?! Book of Acts-Bible...

Evil spirits: Still, they have a sort of supernatural qulality about them that is somehow enticing to mankind and our inherent desire to uncover the mysteries of the universe. This desire was of course given us to inspire our pursuit of God and the testimonies of God that the universe gives. Misused, we are enticed by their oddity and we are led into a trap.

So, the moral of the story is don't dabble. Don't glamoraize evil or think that the enemy has gotten one up on God. He never has and never will. Stand strong with the God of the universe, move when and only when He tells you to and don't sample the whares of evil. All who have have gotten caught up in the pull of such things and lost their standing in rightness until they have nothing of eternal value. And there-in lay the goal of those who eternally stand against and without God to get others trapped in the same state.

Evil Spirits:

Don't dabble.