Daily Archives: October 29, 2012

Seeking Encouragement

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lips (Photo credit: kavehkhkh)

My God, what would give me joy?  As I consider what You have shown Your servant regarding the coming judgment, what would give me joy?

I would be joyfilled to hear Your Holy name on the lips of all Your people.  Even if they spoke of Your ways with half a heart I would find encouragement.

It is impossible to ask You to relent.  For all Your ways are Holy and Your judgments beyond reproach.  And I would not have the people die for lack of knowledge.  Thus a purification is necessary.

There will be wailing and misery.  So be it.  But I seek encouragement.  To know that they will receive knowledge of Your ways.  That Your name would begin to leak out of their clamped lips, as even if drewl from a mad man.  To hear Your precious and lovely name escape their lips, as a snore escapes from the lungs of he who sleeps.

I seek that encouragement of Your Holy Spirit which has found a place to grasp within the wayward of Your people.

By His Grace.

Filthy Hands

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Holy Hands

Holy Hands (Photo credit: richard.aguilar)

The people, those who call themselves children of the Most High God through Jesus, have cried out for blessings.  They have gathered to themselves riches of this world and hidden them within their houses.  They have amassed great wealth which glows putrid within their homes.  They cry out for healing while they hold tightly to all that is an abomination to the Lord they beseech.

How do we consider that God will turn and bless that which He has condemned?  How can we hope to please Him while we do the things He hates?

And now a judgment is considered against these people.  A wicked bend is in their hearts.  They will not receive the blessing they seek.  But a blessing of purification will be sent.  Will they notice?  Will they understand?  Will they throw down all they hold so dearly and fall toward God with repentance?  We will be witnesses to their response.  And God will watch intently to see their hearts.

Do not ask for peace within your members.  Ask for righteousness.  For the ones who hunger and thirst for what is Righteous will be filled.  While those who hunger for reward in this world will go hungry.

“Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.  Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy.  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor (due season).”  (James 4: 8-10)

Two Bottles

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English: Pontiled soda or beer bottle excavate...

English: Pontiled soda or beer bottle excavated in New York City. The cobalt colored antique bottle is embossed “J.H Yale – Middletown, CT” (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Red Bottle

A room full of bottles.  A warehouse also filled with bottles.  The warehouse sits in the city square.  The room is in a temple far removed from the city.

Men are born and given the bottle of their parent’s choice when the child is old enough to understand language.  Most are presented that blue bottle from which they are enticed to drink.

The contents are sweet to the tongue.  But in time the child’s teeth rot from its use.  Their bodies begin to waste away.  Their hope for health is dashed as if they were trying to swim near jagged rocks along a violent coast.

But the men of the temple proclaim throughout the city of the healing power of the red bottles they are sent to distribute.  Some take from those men, open the bottle, and taste of its contents.  The flavor is bitter to the tongue., and causes convulsive facial expressions.  So bitter is the contents that men who taste it frown, cry, and wail at first.  And we shall not be able to put voice to the pain endured by those who drink this liquid regularly.  But its healing power soon manifests itself in those who continue to drink as they have need.

Some taste the red bottle’s contents and throw the bottle away, preferring to return to the warehouse from which their parents have delivered them their portion at first.  To these the temple is a place of poisons.

Others remove themselves from the city, for their sustenance remains locked away too far to travel when in need.  And the city slowly becomes void of their company.  They have come to understand the difference between the effects of both bottles.  Their choice abides within them toward health.

Woe to the city whose god is self.  Woe to those who prefer the sweet and deadly drink of the sinful nature.  Blessed are they who have desired to enter that life of promise.  Blessed are they who drink from the provided Gift of God.  God has been pleased to divide what is true and what is false.  Though the healing is painful at first, life is worth every uncomfort.

Psalm 1

1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.