Daily Archives: November 23, 2013

The Convient Conspiracy

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Source of original image Category:Images of the United States Congress (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Let us conspire to conveniences.  Let us fabricate with the most expensive materials.  Let us melt down antiquity and build anew.  We have been caught in lies before.  And our desire to secure our own way has met resistance at every turn.  We need an entirely new approach.”

They looked about for materials and ideas.  They have settled on a rather convient approach.  Grace is a solid foundation as well as a sufficient covering.   Not to mention that it requires no effort at all to raise up and maintain.  But to call it by its proper name will not do.  For they have conspired to bring down the Holy language of antiquity.

“Love, yes.  We will call it love.”  Who can disagree?  And let us examine what implements might fit within that definition.  Most convient, this ‘love’.  Most convient indeed.”

Look how they have left off holiness.  Look how they shed righteousness.  Look how they accuse comment as judgmental attitude.  Look now, see them carry a new banner.  Legislation will now enforce love.

Even so, Lord Jesus, come.

By His Grace.

No Work?

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English: Digital clock of a basic design commonly found in hotels. Original photo shot by Derek Jensen (Tysto), 2005-September-29. Improved by Althepal using Helicon Filter. category:alarms Category:Tysto-general (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I have had words with those who are caught in sexual immorality.  They are caught because they do not love the Lord.  I do not mean that as an accusation.  It is a truth.  For as we love Him, we learn to abstain from the things unholy.  There is a volume to say on this subject.  But who would read it?  If there are questions, I am more than willing to discuss.  I understand the problem.  I know the fix.  And can testify that the Lord is able to redeem.  We do not just cover our sins with Grace.  We are encouraged and commanded to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in us according to His Good purpose.

Grace?  Work?  Which one applies?  How about both.  Let Grace cover you as you work for His Glory.  Why is that so hard to understand?

The Day Is Near

11 And do this, understanding the present time: The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. 14 Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.”  (Romans 13)

Fear

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Wooden roadways in Montana

Wooden roadways in Montana (Photo credit: N Vision Photos)

I was walking into town one day, in Troy Montana.  As I came into a straight street, I saw a man walking toward me.  He looked dirty.  His beard was long.  His clothes were rag-tag.  And his hair was long.

I crossed over to the other side of the street, as if I would cross the rail yard.  But before the terrain would let me cross the yard, he and I passed by each other.

I was busy trying not to be there.  I didn’t want to talk to him.  All I wanted to do was what I had come to town to do.  But he had no respect for my fear.

“Don’t be afraid of what you don’t understand”, he said to me.  I just looked at him and nodded.  Going on my way as fast as subtle feet of panic could take me.

Are you afraid of what you don’t understand?  Do you fear what the Lord has graciously given me to write?   Do you think that behind these words there lurks a monster of a man?  Or are you irritated that I just refuse to disappear?  I may not be as hideous as you think.  And the words I am given to write may just taste pretty good after all.

By His Grace.

Where is He?

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Angel 013 (Photo credit: Juliett-Foxtrott)

All day long and into the deepest of night, men roust about doing what men do.  From time to time trouble visits.  It is then that man asks, “Where is God in all this trouble?”  Since there is no answer from the Most High, men fabricate answers of their own.

But God is here, my friends.  He is working even to this day to sustain the very place where you question His motives.  He sustains the sun that crops might grow.  He brings rain and life that you might look up to Him and give Him proper worship.  He is life.  Wherever you find life, there is God.

We can’t hear it, but there is a great amount of activity in heaven for the sake of those who ask where God is in all their troubles.  You can’t see them come and go on your behalf.  Regardless, the Lord is busy sustaining this place of testing.  Even while He and His Holy servants are building the place of Joy for all who are found to love Him.

I wonder if man would care if they could see the activity of the Lord all around them.  I fear that man’s tendency to be profane would discount holy Angels as mere irritants.  Perhaps it is to your benefit that you can’t see or hear their activity on behalf of the Holy Lord of Life.  For then you would fall into a sin which, for now, you are incapable.

The Choice is Yours

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English: Choice of way. Stiles on Offa’s Dyke continuing on the path or leading the a footpath round Moel Llys-y-coed (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Listen to who you will.  Adhere to what pleases your heart.  Chase after all the winds that graze your cheek.  There is but one “way”.  It has been carved out of this world with the Holy hands of Jesus.  He has spoken the manner of approach to the Father’s Holy Throne.