Time for self analysis, again.
Who are the people you agree with? Are they up and comers or bottom feeders?
I’m not talking about Economics.
Do the people you agree with have a burning desire toward godliness? Or are they perfectly satisfied to live striving after all their pleasures?
Take a real good look at the people you agree with, and you will see misty mirror of yourself.
If a man walks out of this life proud, thinking he is righteous, he is a liar. Humiliation will take its pound of flesh.
We might fool others. And we may allow our imagination to fool ourselves. But you will not fool truth and purity.
We can play games in the dark. But the Light will shine straight through our souls. What we are, what we have done, and what we think about ourselves, will be utterly blatant.
Let’s be real. That moment of unveiling is only a few minutes away. Gain humility by truth here and now, letting humiliation show our weaknesses, or be humiliated for eternity.
This is probably better said by 1 million other people. But it’s never so clearly spoken as when we hear it and obey.
Has he found a doorway?
By rationale, they say, “We can perceive the eternal things by the work of our own hands. We don’t need Christ Jesus to see God.”
Really now.
Then what is the use of Christ’s sacrifice? What is the use of God the father elevating his Holy Son to first of all creation? Why has he said to us, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to God but through me.”
If a man can save himself by the work of his own hands why did God bother to suffer for our sake? If the work of our hands can bring us near to God, then we don’t need Christ! SUCCESS! Right?
Tim Linhart is famous for his ice music. A friend of mine says we should go and see this. So I looked it up.
I will not go and see it. The what he has done is interesting and wonderful. But in his explanation he attributes spiritual aspects he has no right to attribute. He says that since we are made with melted water we find a connection to spiritual things through the music of ice. Really?
Is there a door to eternity that a man may pass through by the work of his own hands? Or is the spiritual emphasis only found in the imagination of a man with some talent to wield sharp objects against ice? And, if self-salvation can be achieved through ice, why not cow pies too?
Read the Gospel. You determine for yourself what is true and what is imagination. The entirety of eternity is at stake in such presumably small details. Either Christ is King or he is of no value.
There is Beautiful.
There is justice.
There is purity.
There is utter righteousness.
It is not in religion; those things a man does because Beautiful is.
It is at the table of the Living God.
The place where millions come every morning and every night.
Do not be ashamed of what you eat there.
Of all the things you hold so dear, the meal prepared for you is an invitation to every man.
Invite, speak well, encourage, offer the humility you have received.
His name is Jesus.
Come to him and live.
Where does justice begin? In whom does justice remain?
When the perpetrator owns his crime. When he lets God’s light on his misdeeds shine.
When the clouds of self-righteousness are blown away, by the Holy and Steady wind of God.
Then, the victim’s words are heard. Then, the burden’s shared.
Then, an anger filled brush from the tip of a feather stings;
Deeper than the cutting of a cat-o’-nine-tails whip.
Oh! Lighten the load in his brother. Justice, worn like a cloak, cannot do better.
A whisper, a look, and he “guilty”,
Is undone!
No need anymore for revenge. The prisoner of regret knows his place.
There go we all, but for God’s Grace.
The words of Christ are so beautiful, perfect and pristine, they rise immeasurably above the things of Man.
How frustrating to see the beauty and not be able to paint the picture with my life.
Add to that frustration the compelling urge to share His words in the world that talks about everything but what belongs to God.
Encourage one another to Leap, while no one can do much more than crawl. Encourage one another to fly, while no one can do much more than look up.
It takes the Spirit of God to do the things of Christ. It takes the Spirit of God to speak of the things of God. As often as we look at his beautiful face, our lips will betray the frightful (yet willful) silence of Man.
Frustration will abound, that’s inevitable. Which gives me reason to remember and be in awe at the patience of the Living God.
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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