I can tell you constantly that life is hard, but that would not be proper speech for the man of GOD!
I can tell you of my weaknesses, my pain, the sufferings of life, and the things that make me a man torn apart, but that would be unbecoming language for the man of GOD!
I can sell you dreams and false expectations about my JESUS/GOD, but that would make me no different from the false teachers, false prophets, and the false men of GOD!
I can be your Tom Brokaw a famous news caster broadcasting news on your television, and tell you the most beautiful lies to your already failing vision!
But would that make me a man of GOD?
Or I can sell you the truth, sell you the free word of GOD, and make merchandise out you for money, a cost, and a price!
Or I can be like your super stupid star televangelists and make you believe everything they do wrong is actually right!
Or I can use all my gifts to tell the truth, proclaim the truth, and shine some light!
And you can see the ugly truth about the American dream pie lie, and the ugly-beautiful American way of life!
I can tell you about my past, the back and forth to the penitentiary, the whore mongering, the womanizing, the murder case, the drug dealing, my troubled soul, and my fatherless home!
But would that make me wrong?
Would that make me wrong to call myself a man of GOD?
I can tell you no man ordained me, no man taught me truth/JESUS, and no man taught me GOD!
No man told me to write everything in my own blood, and let it all come from your heart!
This is what makes me the man that I am, this is what makes me A man of GOD!~
Now am I become you enemy because I tell you the truth?
Am I become you enemy because I love you enough to tell you the truth?
A psalm, The Man Of GOD, by Reese Kemp
(Acts 9:1-31) And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest you me?
And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you persecutest: it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,
And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.
And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.
And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.
Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.
And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.