Monthly Archives: November 2013

Enemies of God

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Psalm 34,18

Psalm 34,18 (Photo credit: NEWS OF PEACE)

You who think the Lord is an angry beast of a God:

You do so because you are His enemy.  How does it make logical sense to consider your enemy in a good light?  He desires you to become His friend.   But your pride is holding you back.

Look how you curse His Holy name.  Isn’t that to be expected?   Won’t an enemy curse his foe?  But that is not what God desires.  He sits ready to forgive your unholy, godless, and utterly profane life.

Your enemy is beautiful, lovely, righteous, eternal, endlessly powerful, forgiving, and full of grace.  This is what you hate.  Don’t you think it a bit odd that you should hate what you adore in yourself and others?

Yet, we warn.  Yet we speak on His behalf among men.  Yet we invite as He has taught us to do.  Yet we pour out our words and very lives to convince His enemies to enter His camp as friends.  But who hears?  Who understands?  Who bends their wicked will so that they can peer out at what is Good?

8Taste and see that the Lord is good;

blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

9Fear the Lord, you his holy people,

for those who fear him lack nothing.

10The lions may grow weak and hungry,

but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

11Come, my children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12Whoever of you loves life

and desires to see many good days,

13keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from telling lies.

14Turn from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.  (Psalm 34)

Give? Give What?

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Christian Cross

Christian Cross (Photo credit: freefotouk)

Could I give my all I would still feel inept.  All I have is what has been given.  What should I give that belongs to me?

Ah, I will give my desire.  But I will get hungry soon.  Thirst will come to me.  And what good is it if I die in my desire to give Him what is mine?

I will give Him my words.  Evidently, I have plenty of those.  But He already has The Word.  And one was enough to satisfy the Living God.

How about I just give Him thanks.  And put down any thought that I can offer Him something He doesn’t already own.

How about I give Him my ear.  Let me strive to hear what the Lord has already said.  Then, perhaps, I will be allowed to hear what He is ready to say to me now.

How about I give Him time in prayer.  Yeah.  That’s a good idea.  I’ll make it my desire to sit before Him and lift up my soul to His Holy Throne.  And while I’m there, how about giving Him the troubles of others.

What can I give Him?   I can give Him my very life.  From now to the end of my days in this place of testing.  Isn’t that what He has already told us He desires?

Questions regarding a question

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1.  Why did Jesus need to speak with Moses and Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration?

2. Why do I think it is important to know the answer to that?

3.  Is there something about that meeting that surpasses a desire to know for the pride of flesh?,

4.  Will knowing the answer to that question help me in my walk before the sovereign God?

The work

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The Lord commands us to do what is right in His sight.  My mind searches the day and considers how wicked our age has become.  My heart says to me, “Indeed that righteousness  is incredibly difficult to obtain and maintain”.

The Lord has seen my thoughts and responds, “Forget the day.  In the best of days it is difficult to perform the righteousness of God”. 

This causes me to wonder.  What is to be said of those who overcome in this wicked age?

Quizney Land. ( the place of testing)

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He spent his time here in this place enjoying what he could.

Some rides were scary, some not, all told the trip was good.

The last event was in a place where caring hands await.

To slow him down and wipe his brow before the exit gate.

“We hope our rides have brought you joy.  We really give our best.

And how shall you be paying sir?  You’ve been a wondrous  guest.”

” I have no money left my dear.  I am told this card will do.

Tis from the one I owe my all.  His purse you may well sue .”

“Oh yes sir this will do just fine.  Tis paid with priceless tears.

I see His angels have arrived to take you from these years.

Marvel

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How has the Living God put up with being hated and ignored for so many thousands of years?   All the while He gives life and freedom to His enemies.

We, who serve Him, taste rejection but for a few decades. Yet they do not reject us.  They reject the things of God we bring.

In all things He is first.