9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”  (Isaiah 55)

Let us be careful not to despise His word, even if our ears should hear it from the mouth of a man in earthly humble position.  For the Gospel has been, “. . .once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.”

Thus the hearts of men are tested.  Where is the humble heart?  Where are those who crave understanding?   Where is he who is willing to become a fool for the sake of his God?

A miraculous WILL has appeared among the people in this place of testing.  God has spoken His Holy demand that the very same people who have received His Word will now proclaim it to others.  Therefore do not allow despising to fill your heart, but hear, believe and be saved.

By His Grace.

By His Grace

False religion does not necessarily omit the name of Jesus.  Nor does it necessarily toss away the Holy Bible.

Rather than meet the Holy Lord in this life, most men will gladly receive a likeness of His fruit in His people.  They call them holy doings.  They call His words holy words.  But they often only speak and act as if they are trained animals.

All the while the Lord’s promise stands true and sure.  If we will diligently seek His ways, abandon our shame, and seek his beautiful face, he will see from heaven and turn and make us human.

In this promised humanity is godliness.  But in the false religion of mimicking,  there is only lie; a mocking of what the Lord is willing to provide.

That is why it is written, “They will have a form of religion but deny the power of it.” 

Such practices ignore what the Lord said himself, “39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” 

They have not escaped the coming wrath.  They have only invented their own salvation.  The Lord is not blind.  “The Way” is not obscured because they do not search for it.

Be wise and hear these things.  He who is of God honors Him and does what is of God.  He who is of man dishonors God and does what pleases man.  Flesh gives birth to flesh.  But the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Holy Father in heaven, I will honor You with what You have given me.  These words I have written before Your Holy Face are true.  No man has unless he has received. 

Your compassion is endlessly great.  I testify to Your willingness to share what is good.  Be honored by Your words.  Accompany them with great strength and promise.  You are the Living God in Jesus your Holy Son.  By Your grace alone, in this you are glorified.

By His Grace

We teach the child to tell the truth.  Later we will punish him for speaking too loudly about the only One who is true.  How very curious.  

We send the child to church to learn to do what is right, while we sit at home nursing a hangover.  How very curious.

Do we think the Holy One doesn’t see because we do not hear Him yell out our three names?  “Paul Stanley Horton!  If you don’t stop that I’m going to. . .!”

But isn’t that what the child learns well?  Because God is hated, ignored, silenced, and made fun of, it becomes useless to go to church.  Behold!  An adult comes of age!

God DOES see. 

By His Grace