Curious and Curious


I find it curious, this attraction sin.  People strive so hard to live at peace.  They do not necessarily try to live at peace with one another.  But everyone wants what they want.  And they don’t want to be bothered about keeping it.

What is curious to me is: Peace is only found in making peace with God.  Peace of any other sort is just a temporary bandage on a gaping wound.  So why do people choose to remain his enemy?

I assume they not only want peace, they want the freedom to do as they please. 

Hmmmmm.

Righteous Anger


In the Spirit of God, I find myself incensed.  I dare not bring accusation, for no good can come of it and it is forbidden.  But the desire to share is upon me.  May God grant what is good.

In Jeremiah 33, God speaks of his promise.  To give meat to his promise he speaks, if you will, as a man to a man.

20 “If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night no longer come at their appointed time, 21 then my covenant with David my servant—and my covenant with the Levites who are priests ministering before me—can be broken and David will no longer have a descendant to reign on his throne.”

In my feeble mind, a righteous anger appears.  How is it right that God should say such a thing: “If you can break my covenant. . .”?

How is it that the Righteous Sovereign God has been betrayed?  Yet this is as it is.  Such words are given as if to an enemy.  How is it that the Holy One should have an enemy?

Glory belongs to God, all Wisdom and righteousness too.  Who am I that indignency should appear on my soul?  I do not desire to give counsel to the Most High.  Nor do I desire to cast accusation, as if I hand full of stones into the raging sea.

But death has come among the things of God.  We testify by our very life and death.  There was a place where this was not so.  And by his great promise that place will be revived.

By this revelation I am impressed with the Holiness of God; his excellent patience and mercy.  But consternation at his plight consumes me.

Is this a whisper from the things that are?  Let the reader ponder.

Spiritual Fashion


The old man sits on his porch dressed, and covered with a white blanket draped around his body.  While it was yet dark he appeared.  No one saw him emerge. 

It is his habit to go to God early.  And the blanket has become this spiritual fashion of choice.

Cigar in hand, he ponders the things that man, rarely knows or senses.  So on the front porch, he sits as light begins to dawn.

Lost in a world invisible to men, he is not aware of approach.  Feet carry another; perceptions cross as two paths conjoin. 

One sees truth.  The other is lost in lie.  Nothing is spoken, yet God hears:

“Teach me ‘Great Sovereign One’ what is true, that I might serve You with faithfulness.  I beg You, let me become your desire.”

“What an odd excuse for a man.  May my future have mercy on me, that I may not become as he.”

As time moves quickly, they part present company.  Never again opportunity.  One has won.  The other has loss.

The Math Man


The child is taught,

“1 + 1 is 2;

2 Plus 2 is 4.”

And as “one” proceeds,

One multiplies the more.

And as he grows

The teaching throws

Confusion upon him.

The lie is born,

and he becomes:

A man.

“Many is greater than less.

Strength is found in mass.

‘United we stand!’

And thus we are blessed!”

Yet God will single him out.

The millions drop,

Along the “Way”.

And few are found,

In this very day,

To stand with strength;

The weak betrayed.

God’s wisdom:

Will single you out!