titles.

People seem to be obsessed with titles now-a-days.  Maybe it has always been an issue with man-kind; if you go back to Adam & Eve, the fall of man had to do with a title...  You see with a title comes power, and all throughout history, from Adam to Brutus, who betrayed his own friend Julius Caesar for Rome, to average Americans of today, everyone wants just a little more power, a little more control over there situations.  Titles give us a sense of power, that inner desire to feel important among our peers.  Many times it seems we give ourselves titles that we don't even deserve.  Just think of a title of a book or a song.  What would you think if you saw a title that read "Sally Goes to the Park" (lol that's all i could come up with!) and then you went to read the book, and it talked about a guy named Billy who wanted to be an astronaut??  It's the same way with people and mainly Christians.  They give themselves that title, and then go around cussing and acting exactly the opposite of how Jesus called us to live!  But that's beside the point!  You see titles are something that we don't give ourselves, rather they are something someone from the outside gives us.  Titles should be given by someone other than ourselves...

"we are Hosea's wife, we are squandering this life using people like ladders and words like knives.  but if we've eyes to see and if we've ears to hear, to find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near.  shed that shallow skin, come and live again.  leave all you were before, to believe is to begin"--Brooke Fraser, Hosea's Wife