#closer to god

[ruinedholograms]

closer to god (1994)

halo nine: uk vinyl part 1

We shot for two days, the second day was a lot of the band portraits and the first day was just the bugs, which is that Closer To God cover. I never shot still lifes of bugs before. We shot like 50 different pictures of bugs, and this is the one that turned out to be the cover. Trent was there the whole day, because he wanted to hang out with the bugs - Joseph Cultice

[t-800]

Nine Inch Nails - Closer To God 1994 Germany CD release

[nymphvoid]

Ocean Vuong: Time is a Mother

[prettyh8mach1ne]

𝖄𝖔𝖚 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖒𝖞 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌

[violetbudd]

[your-heart-is-a-treasure]

Everything gets a little clearer, the closer you get to God.

[momentsbeforemass]

God’s will

Someone asked me: “How do you know if you’re doing God’s will vs. your own? How do you ‘let go and let God?’”

The answers to the two questions are kind of connected. Yesterday, I answered the second one – “How do you ‘let go and let God?’”

Now, for the first one – “How do you know if you’re doing God’s will vs. your own?”

The reason that we have to answer the second question first is because of what happens when we let go and let God. When we are able to that, we receive “the peace of God that passes all understanding.” (Philippians 4:7)

Because it’s from that peace of God that we can hear God’s voice. That we can know we’re doing God’s will.

It comes back to something from yesterday. The way to have peace is the only way to be sure that we’re listening to God, that what we’re doing is God’s will. “Cast all your worries upon Him because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:7)

In practice, sorting out if you’re doing God’s will or your own will has less to do with what you’re doing, and more to do with how you do it.

Ask yourself, who are you relying on to do it?

Are you trying to figure it all out? Maybe even “what-iffing?” Turning to your own “brilliance” for the next step? Are you worrying about it? If so, then you’re not relying on God.

Which means? Whatever you’re doing, it’s not God’s will.

Are you reaching out to God about it? Day by day, and even hour by hour? Turning to God to for the next step? Are you at peace about it? If so, then you’re relying on God.

Which means? Whatever you’re doing, it’s God’s will.

Because with God’s will comes God’s peace.

That’s not to say doing God’s will be effortless. Or that God will always hand us a roadmap to let us know exactly what’s coming.

Sometimes following God’s will can be hard. Even things we would not have willingly chosen. If we had known what was coming.

For me, if I knew in advance everything that I would have to go through, there are a lot of times that I probably would not have followed God’s will.

I would have taken one look at what was coming. And without saying “I don’t trust you” to God, acted like I didn’t trust God. By not doing it.

God knows me better than I know myself. Which is why many times He doesn’t give me the big picture. Just the next step.

Looking back, after having been through them, the same things that I would never have agreed to? Are the very things that God has given me to draw on for strength. To use to uplift and support others.

The things I wouldn’t have done on my own have allowed me to do more for people in crisis. They are what God has used to make me a better person.

And that is the other way to tell that you are doing God’s will.

Ask - Is it drawing you closer to God? Is it deepening your trust in God? Is it helping you to be a better person, to be who God made you to be?

May God bless you richly as you continue to seek His will. And know that you are in my prayers.

Today’s Readings

[captainpirateface]

[chronivore]

[euesworld]

"Every second of every day brings me closer to you, and there is no greater treasure than that.."

I want to be up against you like paint, haha - eUë

[ruinedholograms]

MTV Japan Closer (Thrust) Get Down, Make Love (Queen cover) Self Destruction (II) Burn Underneath The Skin Heresy (Demo) Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now) Ruiner Dead Souls (Joy Division cover) The Beauty Of Being Numb (Feat. Aphex Twin) Eraser

[t-800]

just like an animal

[nymphvoid]

the Secret History - Donna Tartt

[lifewithboity]

I’ve come to realise that I have been spending so much of my time trying to create my own path for this thing called life. I have been trying to organise and plan it so much, that each time something small didn’t turn out the way I had anticipated it to, I’d slowly find myself believing that there was something wrong with me. (Generational curse)

I have been fighting for my education, to be able to go to a university and work towards getting my degree or even better, a masters, and all I’ve been getting, are either rejections, being placed on the waiting list, or getting accepted but not having the finances at that particular moment.

I have been fighting for my finances, applying left and right for jobs and getting no responses back.

I have been fighting for love, fighting for someone to be mine and only mine, and instead what I got was rejection from him.

I have been trying to control my life, who comes in and out, and at the end of the day, I’m all alone with no friends, and not close relationship with any of my family members.

Here’s the twist.

I’ve come to realise that what I’ve been doing wrong, all along, was to try to control my life, whereas all I needed was direction. All I needed was someone to guide me, to create the path for me , to lead me to where I am destined to be, to show me the door that’s waiting for me to open it. A door of abundance, a door of blessings, a door of joy and happiness, a door of financial breakthrough, a door of endless possibilities,

All I need, is for God to guide me, and I will walk in his path.

I am taking this time, to stay away from specific social media platforms because I want to block out the distraction and focus on my growth and my healing process. I’m dedicating this time to me and God.

[the4chambersofmystery]

"You get me closer to God

Through every forest, above the trees

Within my stomach, scraped off my knees

I drink the honey inside your hive

You are the reason I stay alive"

[rastronomicals]

9:24 PM EDT May 19, 2022:

Nine Inch Nails - "Memorabilia" From the EP Closer to God (1994)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Throwaway cover of the brilliant Soft Cell song, featuring a recording of a prank phone call and God knows what else.