Today and Yesterday (Long)

Life for me these days is always internally peaceful, but it’s never “easy” in a worldly sense because it no longer aligns with the current system. That’s the truth.

A friend of the world is an enemy of the Almighty and vice versa (James 4:4). So I absolutely do not have the world’s favor. Sometimes that means I have zero human support, and sometimes it means I have difficulty acquiring the monetary resources necessary for mere survival. Other times, it’s all of the above, lol. Such is mentioned in Scripture many times, but most gloss over it.

We get nothing without sacrifice. So either we will sacrifice to Yahuah, or we will sacrifice to some lesser-than-Him entity. It depends on what we want out of life and what’s most important to us.

Is it seemingly endless money or infinite wisdom? Permanent wholeness or temporary massive surface-level admiration? Man’s approval (family, friends, corpos, etc.) or Yah’s approval? Dime-a-dozen “friends” or an angelic family? Superficial “love” or eternal cherishing? All the kingdoms of the world or the Heavenly Kingdom and its King?

It is entirely possible for the Almighty to bless someone with wisdom and financial wealth (Solomon, etc.), but it’s not promised as every believer’s portion. To preach such a thing is to lie.

There are definitely days when I get tired of the daily battle against the system — the system that tries to undermine my faith and worship time, whether I feel like warring with it or not — the system that wants me to conform to it or be in the street — agree with it or be an outcast — bow to it or suffer.

So I do have days when I’m fed up and more than ready for the end of this world to come, lol. But I don’t have days when I want to trade my faith for worldly acceptance and ease of life. There is no compromise on the table at this stage and point. It’s as is, faith included, or not at all.

There are times when I plead (to HIM) for relief from my current circumstances, but then I always follow it up with, “Thy will be done.”

If He opens my eyes here on Earth another day, it means His will is for me to be here and continue doing whatever He has me doing. If I’m still in a season of misfortune, it means His grace is sufficient, and He will see me through it.

MOSTLY SUPERFICIAL RAMBLINGS FROM YESTERDAY

I came home and got a good unintentional but  much-needed chuckle listening to numerous C impersonators. I found that many people wrongfully believe they sound like him in their own minds, lol. No one lasted even three seconds without me saying, “Nope!”, “I’m sorry, NO!”, “What the HECK was that?”, or unintentionally bursting into hysterics. Bless them for trying, but no.

I listened mostly out of curiosity and somewhat because other people had mentioned some other folks who were supposedly “good”.

No one came even close. That Bobby A guy has a nice voice and is American, but he just doesn’t have the secret ingredient.

Ivo is definitely the only one who got “touched” with a wee bit of the Chessence. All he has to do is relax a little bit and stop grimacing so much, lol, and he’ll be just fine.

I believe New Divide was the song I got confused about when listening in the car. I thought it was LP performing the chorus, but it wasn’t.

I ate a one-person pizza and listened to some actual C. Discovered the song “Wastelands” and thought it was cool. The reason I had never heard it was because it was on The Hunting Party album. Most of THP gave me a “strange and off-putting vibe” when flipping through, so I steered clear and only dealt with “Final Masquerade”.

“Wastelands” goes very hard on the guitar and rap and then tops it off with amazing choruses. The album version of that one was cool. However …

I watched a live performance of it, too, and I heard a random “entity” during the chorus. I’ll just say that those last really deep “the wastelands of today” chorus lines … didn’t … exactly … come from C. Many of those distinctly dark screams didn’t, if you know what I mean.

**Stop scrolling here if mentioning spiritual matters make you uncomfortable**

When people say they are battling “demons,” they are almost never speaking in metaphors. All of us can acquire them through life’s sins, traumas, and vulnerabilities, but it’s not always our fault or doing (childhood trauma, abuse, etc.).

But once we become aware of the situation, we need to seek deliverance from The Most High. Keeping them within is never a good idea, even if it brings wealth, fame, or the illusion of being with someone. There are no friendly demons, as their goal is always to rebel against The Most High, block the righteous path, and destroy the “host”.

Source: Battled demons in the past, had a lot of pain and angst within, and performed some dark music.