Daily Archives: July 29, 2011

The Deal of Eternity.

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The Lord.  The Lord Most High is calling.  “Make your paths straight before My sight.  I have offered you My Son, that you might clothe yourselves in His Righteousness.”

“He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.” (Rev. 3:5)

We walk according to the ways of man.  But God offers us His way.  Seek His offer and submit to His leading.  There is no other way to Life.  All who ignore His offer will not see Life.  But to the extent you receive His offer, you will not be put to shame. 

By His Grace.

The Mire of Anxiety.

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How desperate are my fingers.  How anxious is my mind.  That when I read a hopeless post I do not possess the remedy.  I see you struggle and in agony you cry.  For you miss the strength to drag your limp legs another inch.  The mire of problems has bogged you down.  And your soul is black with the sticky mess of life which has bought you. 

I know the One who can rescue you from your toil.  And I hold out the words of life to all my brothers and sisters of flesh.  His name is Jesus.  He is The One who was slain on your behalf.  But unless you take Him to yourself these words will hold no tone of help. 

From His perspective He sees the world as men and women who drag themselves along each day.  The words and power of His help has hovered above them with a gentleness.  But they continue to ignore His loving hand.  And what shall be said of this plight?

Call out!  You’re in a horrible trouble and you know it.  He is the answer.  I know you don’t believe.  Neither did I.  But to all who muster the strength of a whispered scream, He will respond.  Even the faith of calling out on what you can’t believe yet will yield help.  Yell once and receive.  Yell twice and receive more.  Continue to foster a desire for Him and He will continue to help.  Let it become your daily and instant resource and He will become your daily and instant help.

Some have said to me, “I called out to Him once.  But nothing happened”.  Something happened:  you called out to Him once.  But did you make Him your desire?  Did you desire His will for you?  Or did you simply want your eyes wiped off that you could see where you are? 

If you want clear of the mire of your troubles, turn to Him with all your heart, and with all your mind, and with all your strength, and with all your soul.  It is in the entirety of the matter that you will find His continuous help.  He is not like a light switch.  You can’t simply reach up once and switch His help on.  He rightly expects us to develop a resolute desire for His ways.  I have called this a “Place of Testing”.  And this term comes about for a reason.  God is waiting for you to enter the test of His Holy demands.  He will never change.  Yet, without Him we will surely die.

By His Grace.

The Carpet of Potential.

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Before me lay the day.  It is rolled out in front of me as a clean white carpet.  I have never stepped one foot on this new “place of possibilities”.  And as I look about me I perceive the carpet to extend in every direction for the distance of a day. 

Where shall I set my first step?  How shall I know which direction to begin?  And haven’t I been here before?  I remember the days like this from years and years past.  How they settle against me now.  They are like an army of days of darkness.  I walked about on their carpets as a blind man.  And now they have amassed against me as an army.  They hold in their hands weapons of regret.  They hold my potential hostage, and wait like lions in the bushes to grasp this day’s hope.

I know what I will do.  I will call upon the Lord of Life.  He has in His hand the days of eternity.  He knows the way of each day.  And has seen the end of things from ancient days before.  I will beg His Glory to guide my first step.  I will set my face in the direction of His Holy whisper.  And I will allow the wind of His Pure Flame to direct my strength upon that foot. 

From the beginning, His Son was slain.  He set the foundations of the world with the intent of sacrificing His Son for a people blind, naked, hopeless, and purposeless.  This is the God who now directs the steps I make on this pure carpet about me.  I will walk in the strength of my God.  And I will not be ashamed. 

Rail against me, you days of regret! 

Speak of my failings, go ahead! 

I walk these days without your help. 

For I rest on the Lord of Glory!

By His Grace.