Daily Archives: March 18, 2014

Prepare

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Prepare old world.  Gather together your weapons.  Purify your ranks; let only the haters of God survive.  Sharpen your wits; gather together the wisest among you.

You will face your enemy on the ground he has chosen.  The very ground you use to prepare for battle will be ripped from under your feet.

You will find yourselves as naked souls; prepare to stand before the Most High God.  Lord Jesus, the one you have despised so greatly, will stand before you in all his majestic and blazing splendor.

Prepare to weep.  Prepare to gnash your teeth in violent anger.  You have desired independence for your pleasure.  You have not desired him to be your king.  Prepare to meet your God.

By His Grace

The rocks

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I sit by a mountain stream.  Listen to its voice.  Clear as glass, shimmering like liquid diamonds, the water is entrancing.

Where it is from I cannot tell.  Where it goes is a mystery.  But the water will not leave its banks; by sovereign command it flows deeply entrenched.

The rocks within are not like the rocks on dry land.  The land exposes their nakedness.  But the rocks in the stream are coated with a silver cloak.  What is exposed is useful to man.  What lies beneath is useful to the creatures who inhabit that place.

Behold how the Lord has left us a story.  His people are set apart.  They are willing captives to the water of truth.
Once they are in “The Way”, they are immediately set upon by a singular musical sound.  The voice of God encompasses them.  A soothing and promised embrace is theirs forever.

If the land will not hold them and gives them up to the stream, the water of life will smooth their rough edges.  The water will not toss to them back to where they came.  And they will become dressed in silvery tranquil robe.

By His Grace

Holy respect

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God is no respecter of man.  This is understood to mean he does not respect a man’s position in this world .  But God does not respect the wisdom for works of man either.

Even if a man were to gain respect of all men for his great wisdom and crafty ability, he is not right to expect a warm celebration when he appears at the judgment of God.

God respects only what is true and faultless.  God alone is true and faultless.  Therefore we can conclude that God respects only himself, and rightly so for he is life.

To whatever measure a man contains the righteous truth of God, he can be sure he has the respect of the Sovereign Lord.  Whatever is not of God within a man will be burnt away and utterly destroyed when he appears before the Most High.  What remains cannot be shaken.  For what remains is God.

The Apostle Peter warned us, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?” 

We have only one life to prepare to meet the Holy Lord.  Therefore we are encouraged by these words to strive all the harder.  Put away from ourselves the filth of this world.  Allow the Lord Jesus to dress you in what is his Father.  Only then can you rightly expect a warm welcome.

By His Grace