Last Updated on November 3, 2025 by LookingUntoJesus

Mark 5:25–34 – I use to go to Amish farmer markets pretty regularly, I would buy their icing sugar raspberry whipped butter cream spread, super amazing on toast. I was invited to one of their barn hymn sings, they smelled like tires that did a burnout upon a grassy field at an elementary school, during a rainy midnight, from a dare. We sang hymns, while eating these soda crackers they made with freshly churned butter. I asked them what was life like? He invited me over to have dinner with his wife, his son and their new daughter. I printed 6 verses of the Bible, and we chatted for around 2 hours, they played with their baby, her toes touched this ice cream cake I brought. He told me that he tried sharing the gospel to many people but the congregation barely grew, at all, people in that town were content already with their lives and there wasn’t a need for God. He  mentioned that there were many things crowding out everyone’s time, and people didn’t realize how little time is left for God. When I look back upon that story; this comes to mind: something actualized that can intersect the timelessness of Christ into an immediate outcome with our temporal time?

Acts 22:25-28, 2 Tim. 1:7 and 1 Thess. 5:21 – a long time ago in Chalk Rivers, Ontario; when I almost got killed because of Satan. The Nuclear Response Force Officer’s finger was on the trigger of the automatic weapon while shouting at me, we were within 300 meters away from a nuclear reactor. I rolled my eyes, “would a spy eat a cream cheese bagel to get busted like this?” He squinted, as if his training manual hasn’t come across something like this before. His coworker pulled up in a truck and waved at me, “he was in the same training orientation as me, we called him, joker.” “I see, I haven’t seen you around here before, I apologize,” and he walked away. The spiritual counterpart to that story is that we get all sorts of people, things, thoughts, and the unspiritual, asserting their jurisdictions in our lives and they don’t belong there nor do they have any place in our lives. We have to understand that, instead of wasting our mindsets entertaining those unfruitful dramas and being apprehended by useless phantom old nature thoughts. I spiritually discern that this is a major conflict right now with majority of Christians at local churches, they keep entertaining “what ifs”, it even impacts their time at church on Sundays, and variables for finalizing choices + opinions about others. This also creates more unspiritual ensnarements upon members in the church, a form of division. Also, if the Lord is disciplining someone, and successfully improving that person’s inward life; it is a useless poison to use emotions and the old ways, as a form for retaliating against these changes that the Holy Spirit is pursuing for the betterment of the church. 

Numbers 9:17 – not moving is just as important as moving with the Spirit. In my lifetime, I have seen people focus on the end-goal, wanting to move on ahead that they miss out on all the prep-work to get there. ‘I wanted to work for a job but I wasn’t prepared enough, for when I got the job,’ an example. Both of these stages of stopping and going serve an underlying purpose. I understand that society will pressure us to compete with one another but we need to remember Gen. 16:2; I was once told a story about a farmer that wanted his crops to grow faster, so he watered twice as much and it ruined what he should’ve got, that wasn’t what the goal was. In Ecc. 3:11 – there’s a timing that sees a bigger plan than we understand, so we have to ascertain -> Psalm 119:19 and Eph. 5:17, there’s something there, a stepping-stone for the next journey of the path. Zech. 4:6.

Matt. 6:28-30 and Ezekiel 1:28 (NKJV) – I travel a lot on spur of the moment Christian adventures to try and make the short stories I write more vividly alive. I’ll take the ferry a couple blocks away near-midnight or catch a bus to Horseshoe Bay and flip a coin for a destination or jump on the skytrain and figure out my adventure with a backpack full of zero sugar pop. I was looking at a plant, the plant was looking at me, I noticed these little jewels of rain on the petals, after a huge rainstorm. These jewels were arrayed with the beautiful reflection from the rainbow above (Luke 24:49 ESV). We are meant to dazzle this Light of Christ, inwardly to others, to help them see, something so much more than what meets the outward eyes, to let them “behold the beauty of the Lord” (Psalm 27:4). The flower looked better, after the storm, it didn’t faint or give-up, something so brittle became more radiant (2 Cor. 4:1).

Joshua 24:15 – I was given a life and death situation, in the middle of the night. My friend who misused his spiritual discernment gift for charming, video-called me. “You are the first person that I am telling this to. Make that choice for me…..I wish I could take a photo of you right now.” My jaw remained dropped for a few minutes. I told him, “the baby lives.” I couldn’t be part of the idea that any death occurred, from my options. We all have to make these decisions, regarding the spiritual destiny of the people we come across. Whether people succeed in their walk with the Lord from our interactions and how that impacts the generations going forward.

Proverbs 27:17 – around 2 decades later, I decided to look up a student of mine, from the time I taught children ministry, who went through a very tragic situation in her life. I was wondering how she was, if she turned out alright. After so many years of prayer. I hadn’t realized how much she inspired me to be the person that God’s people needed me to be, till I wrote about her. Life is going by too fast, I feel like it was just last week that we were back in children ministry class, when she asked for my opinion about her turtleshell glasses.