Daily Archives: August 5, 2014

The Search

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I am not an accomplished professor of all things.  There are vastly more things I do not know than what I do possess.  I am not a smart man, as men would call one smart.  I am vastly more a fool, than wise and elderly.

The time I have left, to be among the things of this world, is far less than the years I have already seen.  And my time to become what men speak of a “special” is passing quickly.  If it has not passed already.

But I will impart what I have learned.  Perhaps there is benefit to some.

I have examined the world from the perspective of sin, and found it utterly lacking.  In the way of sin, I have walked more vigorously than most.  And so I can testify with surety.  Life is not there.

I have examined other religions from a distance, as I sought release from my pathetic state.  I did not have time, nor inclination to immerse myself in their teachings.  To do so would have required pledging myself.  I did not possess such earnest intent.  Nor would time allow.

But every religion established by man is full of fault and worthless tripe.  None of them held sufficient truth to remedy my plight.  They said “do”, but I could not.  Therefore life is not found among them.

I examined the law of God and found it true.  I speak of the law of God as found in the Holy Bible, not as men say is the law of God.

I found the law of God in the Holy Scriptures to be founded on eternity.  But one does not need read far, to realize the Holy Law of the Living God is more than man can accomplish.

In the law of God I found life.  But by the law I found I was put to death.  At last my struggle is over.  But what should I do, am I to die?  Is that the summation of this struggle?  I still had desire to live.  So though law of God is life, I found myself dead in its reading.

Now I will testify of what I have found. 

There is one who has fulfilled the law of God on behalf of all men.  He is willing to enter a man’s sin and drive it out.

Now this is life!  All he asks is that I am willing.  Having searched what is, of course I am willing.

I have proof in my soul that he has come and made drastic change.  I have proof in this testimony that he is true and able to save.  I find that I believe.  So I proudly wear that name.  I find myself doing the things I thought were too hard for a man.

If I had last words, these would be it.  Search for all you will, you will not find anything greater than Christ Jesus.  He is Life!

Earnest Heart

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What man has an earnest heart?  No man is fully earnest.  When the Lord Jesus prayed in the garden, his sweat became as drops of blood.  Holy and full earnestness filled him!  What man has shed his blood in such a manner?  There is not one fully ernest man in all of men.

You have.  But God, in his wise mercy, divides between what is and what is not.  He sees with perfect eyes, and grants with perfect wisdom. 

None will ever rise above his Holy Son.  It is enough for the student to be like his teacher.  Yet who has aspired to such a place?  Who has attained to the measure he will grant? Their names fill such a short list.

This list is written by the Holy Lord Himself, kept securely in his Most Holy Temple.  He alone knows the true definition of “earnest”. 

A man can only do what he knows.  Beyond that, he seeks for help; that he may be taught by the one who is greater.

Many have taught, that we are to “become” by our own volition.  “If you can read you can do.  If you can hear you can accomplish.  All you lack is the doing.” 

Such words are akin to asking someone to make a beam of steel by using only his hands.  Where is the furnace and the forge; those indispensable helpers who are vastly more than we?

“To perfection there is a limit.”  For God has placed things as they are.  If we would reach the summit of his Holy expectation, it will be done only by the strength of God himself.  Even the Holy One has overcome by this same help.

Let us reach in prayer, earnest as we can.  Then let us believe, to receive, that we may do.

Unwillingly and unwittingly, the world awaits the testimony of those who “become”.  They say, “Come and teach us what we do not desire.  Come and teach us what we do not know.”

Even now the world waits.  Even now it is still waiting.  How long must it endure waiting?

This Day

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What is this day?  What name shall we give it?  Shall we call it Tuesday?  Shall we make a gold plaque and hang it on the wall ascribing numbers to the day; a month a day and a year?

Shall we call it our birthday?  Shall we use it to count down to celebration?  Is it a day to prosper in the things of our desire?  Shall we name the day according to the desire of someone else?  Shall we observe the day as a socially acceptable holiday?  (Understanding that the word “holiday” was originally set to mean holy day.)

This day has no number.  This day has no name that man can pronounce.  This day is void of specific celebration.  This day does not exist separate from all other times. 

Man has said these things are false.  Man has divided time into day and night by compulsion of the nature of things around him.  But before the Holy Lord God Almighty everyday comes without break between.

Name the day as you will, each according to his weakness of understanding.  But let us also strive to give glory to the Most High.  For the Holy One IS.

As we walk in the Spirit, the things that denote this place fade.  We begin to see more clearly, that the labels and understanding of man are insufficient to describe eternity.  Eternity must be lived.

Strive to see.  Strive to desire.  The flesh and this world captivate.  But the Lord has come to set us free. 

God alone can grant what is God’s.  No man has on his own.  May God grant understanding, in the beautiful strength of Jesus his Christ and our Lord.  Amen.