Morning comes.
Despite the desire of drunkenness, daylight arrives.
Sleep ends.
Despite the depression of soul, waking dawns.
Sobriety dawns.
Despite the obsession with sin, Souls awake.
Judgment explodes.
Despite the secrets of man, Accounting yells.
Who was ready?
Who was prepared?
Who saw it coming?
Who shouts with joy?
Whose mouth is opened despite his will to keep it shut?
Every man who ever lived has heard the murmur of noise. It is like a quiet hum in the ears of our souls. If you listen, you’ll hear it even now.
Activity in Heaven is the cause of the noise. A sustaining of all the vastness of that Holy space. All the preparing for those who are coming to love the Living God’s Christ.
Holy weapons of love for the Living God’s Christ have kept their place within the very essence of each creature who abides in Heaven. The hum of truth from their activity reaches even to the depths of this unholy mob of creatures here. If you listen, you’ll hear it even now.
What is the vastness of Heaven? The answer is, “Endless volume of Life”. But I will open a secret. I will expose what has remained promised since the day of Adam and Eve.
A moment approaches. Even now, as each letter is laid in its proper place, that moment draws closer. Let your soul’s ears hear the impact of this revealing. Draw close to listen, as one might, as friends gathered around the camp fire to hear the ending of a stimulating story.
That moment will come when the Holy Father speaks “the Ending” to His Holy Son. Without a moment’s hesitation, the Holy Son will move to seal this place of testing forever.
And here is the impact of that revealing moment:
Every Holy Creature, which lives in the vastness of Heaven, will fix his Holy eyes on earth. Countless billions of creatures will turn from their holy work, to work toward the end of this unholy place. The entirety of Heaven will focus on this place of abhorrent wickedness.
Are men afraid of a mob, which comes against them to tear them apart? Enough fear of such things rises to loose the bowels. How much fear will rise up within every soul, when the Holy Mob of Heaven turns its attention to the annihilation of this unholy place.
For now, men live as if in secret. As though every thing they do and desire are removed from the attention of the Living God. As though no creature has any interest in men’s doings. Blind! Such understanding is utter blindness! Attention is simply waiting to be unleashed.
Give these things what thought you might. The Holy moment of attention will come! It will happen, for the Living God cannot lie.
Seek the Gospel of Christ Jesus. In that Gospel alone, does peace toward that moment exist.
I woke from sleep this morning, from a dream that most would call a nightmare. A sea creature had taken to land. It was a creature who had a taste for man.
I was perched on a narrow outcropping of rocks above the surf. He was perched along a slightly lower place. With confidence, I challenged his right to hunger for the likes of me.
But, to my horrible surprise, he was able to reach toward where my feet stood. I was in no fear of being caught. But as he reached, the rocks beneath me began to loosen and fall into the sea, one by one.
“No need to remain in bed”, I thought. So I got up to start the day. It has taken two hours for this dream to find meaning. But the meaning is more threatening than the dream.
The world moves from one moment to another. What is past is like those rocks which were falling into the sea. The foundation that saved me from becoming food, was a place I should not have been. Was I where I should be? Hadn’t I remained too long in a place that was no longer useful? If I had moved on from there, I would never had seen that creature. I would not have been vulnerable. I would never had known what follows.
God leads His people from place to place. He is always drawing us nearer to His intended goal. What we can be, in His Holy Power, lay before us. What we were standing on, becomes a crumbling foundation. The past is not a firm place to live. Security belongs to today.
The Living God’s protection applies to the moment. It does not rest in the future, as some believe in the Gospel. It does not reside in the past, as many waste away their lives in regret or accolade. He is the NOW. Remember, His Holy Name is “I AM”.
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One day, when I was in college, I was called in to a certain teacher’s office. Another teacher came to sit with us two. A question was asked. I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but it sort of went like this: “What makes you think that God appears to men today?”
I was relatively young in Christ. And I don’t remember my response. But in retrospect, I am still amazed that these two should ask such a thing.
It was a Bible College! It was a popular Christian College on the west coast. Yet there were two teachers there who did not believe in the living presence of the Living God.
I was stunned by the question, I do remember that. I was angered that such people, in such a position of ability, should even dare to challenge one of their students with such a foolish and unbelieving question.
I could not give powerful answer on that day, I do remember feeling rather weak before their “mighty” minds. And I do remember how I relegated their teachings to “small” after that day. I had doubted their power in Christ before that. That doubt only grew from then on.
But doesn’t the question remain? And isn’t it asked by far more than two unbelieving teachers in a Bible College? There are millions of “Christians” who have wrestled with this very question in their heart for years.
The answer does not appear in physical proof. It comes to us by faith. Yet, I can testify that the power of the Living God does rest upon those who believe.
We hear the Word. We believe the word. And as we apply that belief to our life, the Living God moves in. The more we turn to that belief, as our singular power to live each moment, the stronger is the presence of God.
The answer to their question is something like this: “If God is not willing to reside within His people, then everything you stand for is a blazing lie. Everything you’ve taught is worthless trash. Therefore, your position, title, and all the money you make here, is stolen.”
I wish I had said that. I wish I had sealed my lips after speaking it, got up from my chair, and left them to ponder.
Today is the day, established by men, to give one another gifts. They say it is to honor the Holy One of God.
Will you know the nature of the True Gift of God? Is your soul strong enough to learn?
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”
How does the “giving” of man, to one another, compare? The Holy One of God offers the gift of Life. Will you stash it under green boughs? Will you wrap it in flammable paper? Will you place the names of the dead within the labels?
What man gives rots, even as he prepares it to be received with joy. But what God, in Christ Jesus, gives is a growing body of life; pure Light of Holy Life.
Will you pray with humility of soul, at the opening of each gift today? Will you strive to give proper place to the Holy Gift of God? Eye entrancing beauty adorns the gifts of men. But the precious Holy Blood of the Son of God adorns the eternal offer.
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