A little candle is a blog dedicated to my views on faith and world events that are inescapibly tied together moving humanity toward a conclusion that most people are not aware of. It is my desire to help people see the world differently and how practical, essential and real Christianity is.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.C. S. Lewis
Why I wanted to share this quote is because there are so many people sitting on an imaginary fence in their lives. Many people live believing there is a God but put absolutely no importance on Him. Many people spend no time seeking the life that God wants them to have. Worse yet, many people make up their own version of God and what they want Him to be. The reality is that God is God and there is no making him up and there is no changing him. If he is real then He exists just as He is. If He isn’t real, then there is nothing to consider.
My point is simple… if you are living your life on the fence about God consider the above quote… if true there is nothing else that could be more important than seeking His will and relationship with Him. If you we’re asked the question “Do you believe God is real?” and you answered yes does your life reflect the kind of living that goes with that answer? The reality is, there is no fence to sit on when is comes to God. That was a big idea for me to consider, and when I stopped treating God with moderate importance it changed my life for the better in every way.
This song is by a rapper from London Ontario that goes by the name of Shad K. I have never been a fan of rap but this guy has turned me with the positive messaging that he puts into his music. His music made me realize that I didn’t like rap all this time because of the empty and meaningless garbage that most rap is comprised of. The lyrics for this song are below that video. I am going to feature a song of his from time to time going forward. I wish more youth were listening to stuff like this. What enters the ear enters the mind. I believe what we listen to and watch does influence us whether we admit it or not. Watch MuchMusic for 30 minutes a day while then paying attention to the youth of today and try to tell me there is no co-relation between music, TV, movies and their pursuits. So for your consideration, Get Up by Shad K.
Before I take a mic, take a break beat or a break to write
Break me down Lord please and shape my life
We need leaders, these elitists got nothing to teach us by they strength
Our children need to see Jesus in their weakness
And keep seekin’ where free speech is rare
And realness gets kept less frequent than these secrets
Share a couple stories like a townhome or brownstone
Over loud phones about my hang ups and dial tones
Swim in heaven and at worst you get drowned toe’d down
To the place where the clouds roam
So we get up
All my people feeling bored and strange
If you don’t feel at home in this conformist state
Then don’t ignore the pain
That’s the Lord that’s sayin
To you stand up King you were born to reign
That’s the war that’s waged
And the important thing
Ain’t what you’d die for
Its what you live for today
Get up
Even if they knock us down
They cant can’t stop us smile right back at em laugh and then
Get up
Actions speak louder than a thousands talkers
So make em blast that in their walkmans (x2)
Its hard to stand in a nation where the masses sit idle and passionless
Politics is polls
In the papers all the facts are skipped
Can’t ascertain so the scholars place an asterix
And stories on the stars to dumb down and distract us with
We can’t help but feel detached from this capitalist confusing communion of coportate sponsors and advocates
Where every actor is an activist
But a movie cast wont fix these broken homes full of fractured kids
Our broken bones you can wrap up quick
Folks trying to master this game that I call money for masochists
Where if you wanna make a cut
Gotta match their risk
Dig in your pockets, not for cash
But to slash your wrists
And fashion’s just a game of who can follow fads fastest
Where some kind of miraculous world change can happen quick
But these problems don’t take seconds to solve
And getting mad aint the same thing as getting involved
We need to…
(chorus x2)
Get a mic
Get ill
Get ice
Get bills
Get the life that you always wanted and then get killed
Get slain cuz the rappers that do get fame
Its insane all they talk about is who should get blamed
Young brothers get steel before they get aim
And they wanna get it pulled before they get trained
Cuz they wanna get respect
Get cheques
Get dames
Things we all wanna get
But end up getting drained trying to get em
We get stressed and we get strained
We don’t all get the ghetto
But we all get pain
Before I get to the refrain
I hope you get what im sayin
Its messed, but we just might get some change if we…
This is a video series in which a few people share testimonies of their near death experiences. What is uncommon about these stories is that they all claim to have been to hell or had hell like experiences before coming back to life. What seems like grim stories end with happiness and reformed people that have experienced something that brought about positive changes in their lives. The narrator/host of the video isn’t all that good and the last story didn’t seem to fit with the others in my opinion but never-the-less I hope you catch the common thread through all these, that both Heaven and Hell are real and what we are doing with our time now counts towards our ultimate destiny. If you’re like one of the people from the street interview portion you need to consider where your ideas are coming from and what they are based on. None of us have the authority or control to make up our own destination after death… that is completely up to Christ and God as the people in the videos below found out.