Monthly Archives: July 2014

Preparation

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Is there a sane man who will go out to cesspool, cover himself with filth, then go immediately to be seated as a royal guest at a royal banquet?  Don’t men go through all pains to clean themselves in the best of possible ways?  Don’t they make every effort, lest even a hair be out of place?

The royalty of men is not to be compared to the royalty of the living God.  Many men think they will be seated at the royal banquet of God; the wedding banquet at which no sin will sit.

“Come and let us reason together, says the lord.”  There is a promised dressing for the most earnest of men.  For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.  But how shall a man dress himself today?

There is a Royal Proclamation to be made in this place.  How shall a man proclaim what he is not willing to hear?  And if he has not allowed himself to be dressed for royal proclamation in this place, how shall he expect to be dressed in the royal garment of the Royal Banquet?

Preparation is now.  Preparation does not begin at culmination.  They are two distinctly different times and places.  Is there more that can be said?

The Way it is

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The gravel lays where it is placed and is forced to be ground to powder.  Once a majestic singular mountain, it is now but blowing dust in the open space.  Dust that is now forced to mingle and no longer be singular.

Raindrops fall by orders from creation.  They take their place together to create a body of water that was not before.  What was taken away is giving back.  A brief independence is forced to reunite.

Tree roots split dirt and rock to produce obedient fruit.  In its proper time the fruit appears and does not fade until ordered to fall.  With a crash the limbs shatter on the ground.  What was once tall and magnificently beautiful becomes rot for the growth others.

Three specimens to show God’s will dictated.  He alone is life, there is no life apart from him.  Yet what shall be said of man?

His body follows the dictates of God: to grow, to do, and to die.  But man is not faithful, as all creation endures.  He contrives means of rebellion.

How many ponder these things as they sit in open places?  How many allow themselves to be struck by the nature of sin?  And how many of those will fall on their face and beg for mercy?

Salvation belongs to our God and to the lamb.  What errant creature is able to save himself? 

Malicious Shadows

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I cannot blame the Sun

For intensely being bright.

I cannot blame the moon

For shining through the night.

I cannot blame the wicked

For hating what is right;

For embracing all that is not God,

In his blazing Holy Might.

God Himself ordained the Sun

And gave it a place to remain.

The moon remains and serves him well,

Despite its shifting name.

God has given truth to man;

Displayed abundantly.

Account we’ll give on bended knee,

When his face we all will see.

This land is shadow and now proclaims:

“Your wickedness will end!”

When shadows cease and God appears,

No longer means to mend.

Malicious thoughts against the Lord;

A taunting threat displayed.

The great proud smiles of those who hate,

Their filthy lips, like tattered strings;

Unravel and are frayed.

Who has ears to hear these things?

Who has eyes to see?

Let him acknowledge Jesus Christ,

And bow his wicked knee.

Even so Lord Jesus come!

The Mind is Slave to the Soul

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The mind is a very fertile and powerful organ among the members of our body.  Regardless our state of affairs, it is able to rise to the occasion.  Though it is not the source of decision.

If a man is depressed, the mind can drive him to death.  If a man is joyful, no Depression can touch him.  If a man strives to accomplish a task, within the reach of his body, his mind will quicken.  If he determines to say, “No I will not”, his mind will shutdown possibilities.  The man is soul.  The body is the place where the soul lives.  The mind is therefore, the slave of the soul.

Within the boundaries of man (within the nature of constraints God has placed on this world), the mind is able to accomplish the things the soul desires.  This can be bad or good.  For if a man’s soul is darkened, so his mind will be darkened.  But if a man’s soul reaches for God, his mind also will reach for God.

God will respond to the soul who desires him.  Though the mind is full of wickedness, God can cause righteousness to grow.  But let the man, in his soul, first search diligently for what is God.  Let him also continue in this searching as he sees the fruit of God appear.

If I go to an apple tree, in its season of fruit, I do not expect to find skunks growing on it.  If I have planted the apple tree I will be quite miffed at its produce.  I will cut it down and burn it to ashes.  It will not matter if the tree has produced apples for years.  I have no use for skunks.  There is no place for them among my things.  And though they do exist, independent of my orchard, I will not grow them willingly.

Can we expect less of God who plants righteousness?  If a soul has once desired the holiness of God, receives what God graciously gives, then turns to embrace wickedness, can we expect God to embrace that soul?

The righteousness of God will cease in our things.  Though they will continue for a little while, as we have developed a habit, they will dissipate overtime.  In the place of the righteousness of God, we will find the fruit of wickedness.  How can we expect that to be received by God?

Let us be wise and press the mind to accomplish.  What our soul desires, the mind is forced to endure.  Therefore if we desire God, let us continue to desire more of God.  If he has blessed us with a crop of righteousness for a small desire how much more for complete desire?

Man is not body.  Man is soul clothed in a body.  The deception is complete enough to keep the fool a fool. 

No man has seen his soul.  But any man can readily see his body.  Most people believe the body is who they are.  They have not noticed the subtle difference between the decaying nature of the mind and the eternal nature of the soul.  They are caught in a deception, and there they will remain eternally.

The body cannot do the will of God if the man’s soul is in rebellion.  But let the man look up and desire his maker, and he will see marked difference in his life.  The problem is, most people do not understand this.  So when they once receive the grace of God, they fall back to the desires of the body.

If a man’s body is healed by God, men consider it a miracle.  But the real miracle happens when a man’s soul agrees with God, and of the body is forced to obey.  The mind will do as the soul commands.  Will the soul do as God commands?

What Time is it?

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The group, “Chicago”  sang, “Does anybody know what time it is”, in 1969.  The world didn’t know what time it was in 1969.  I would doubt the world is any closer to figuring it out now, 45 years later.  To be honest, even Christians won’t know what time it is till the Lord returns.  But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t check the “errant” clock from time to time.

I call it an errant clock.  It’s not errant because it’s always wrong.  It’s errant because it is written in the language of The Most High God.  It doesn’t signify hours or minutes.  It signifies the end of this age.  The current time is expressed in “happenings” on earth. It’s errant because we perceive with the flesh, and are not privy to the activity of heaven.  It’s errant because it is written by a spiritual hand, in a spiritual manner.  If we could see it, we couldn’t perceive its meaning, form, or message.

Certain aspects of our world can help us unravel the “hour”.  The praise of wickedness, for example, can denote nearness to the end of this age.  Yep, we see that.

A subjection of Christianity to the status of non-relevant by the entire world.  Yep, that can be witnessed.

Protection for world religions; elevation of man’s interpretation of the meaning of holiness.  Yep, we can point clearly to the rise of Islam.

A means of subjection for all Peoples of the world under one leader.  Yep, technology is running ahead of that plan.

All things point to a really late hour on that spiritual clock.  Nobody has heard a chime out of it.  No one has even seen it, that they might describe it.  The clock is in the mind of God.

But look around.  Read the Bible.  Pray earnestly and see how God answers you; pay attention to what is.  There is a stress upon the world.  Like an orange being squeezed, it will “Pop” when the time is just right.