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street preacher by E.Baptiste

The silence is deafening but the sirens are definitely razor sharp, piercing through the darkness especially these are the sounds that surround him so deadly the violent vibrations of violence suggest that he join in the chaos if these fools try to step to me but if he continues this cycle then death is his destiny and not just the physical, but the spirit that desperately wants to survive and connect like telepathy he searches the Scriptures for truth so carefully unsatisfied by the world that's so sexually driven it's a given they attack men collectively no man's exempt from the temptation that's next to me he says "I will run to the One that was there for me to the arms of my Father who promised to care for me swallow my pride I need Him so terribly then I'll dance in these streets despite how they stare at me

"Lord if it's you..."

25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. 27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” 29 “Come,” he said. (Matthew 14:25-29) Have you ever wondered why Jesus didn't tell Peter to stay in the boat and row out to him? I mean, that way, they all could have gotten a closer look at Jesus. Wouldn't it have been more reasonable and safer to tell a man who couldn't walk on water to "stay in your boat with your friends and row to me" or at least, "stay where you are and I will continue to walk to you"? Seems to me that Jesus was not interested in being "reasonable and safe" when he offered the invitation to come to him on the water. I wonder what was going on in Peter's mind when