What attribute of Christ do I see people needing most?
Godly patience to replace their lethal greed.
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Desire for Cleansing
I have noticed that the more familiar I am with the righteousness of God, the more blatant the wickedness of this world appears.
And the more aware of God’s mercy I become, the easier it is to look past the profane. It’s not as if I don’t see it any longer, but it’s more like I can more easily ignore it. Like the man who constantly lives with a barrage of flies, you kinda get used to the irritation.
People can say what they want about Lot. They can ridicule his choice of dwelling. But I understand what was written about him; how his righteous soul was tormented, day and night, by the wickedness he saw all about him.
How I wish the American church would put away the soft soap gospel, and bring out the bar of lye.
The Singular Miracle
The gospel is minimized to the best of Man’s ability. Within the days of Man, all the chores of the flesh take precedent. And today so very many even actively campaigning against miraculous work of God.
Blind, blind and blind are all the people. Who has considered The amazing puzzle. Who sees the Christ of God for what He is?
It is not as though the Christ suffered periodically among God’s enemies; as if once every 30 billion years the Holy Word of God must enter a creation that despises him, and be crucified for their unholy sake. The precious miracle of God has blossomed; the Son of God has been sacrificed. But who sees it as it is?
From Adam until now billions of men have come and gone. Yet only a handful have understood.
In his excellent Holy wisdom, the Living God has made this place of testing. It’s a done deal folks, and we’re living in that moment. The Eternal God has performed his eternal task. Even while we rested in Oblivion. And even while I write this, that particular oblivion continues.
The reaping is next. The final word will be spoken and all the souls of men will appear before the Living God. Still men minimize the grand work of God to create this place.
The illusion of the temporary is that powerful. Days come and go, and the mind of man is captured by the things that are not eternal. How easily we push aside the reality of eternity. “I’ll consider eternity when I get there.” Perhaps many even blame our limitations and use them as excuses.
This is not written to make people feel guilty. It is some faulty and meager attempt charge our minds according to the truth of God in Christ.
See the gospel for what it is. God’s Holy Son has been tested and found worthy to be granted exceedingly great Glory. Once and for all he has become Master by the test he endured among us. For eternity he had not been glorified. But now for eternity he has!
Wake and consider these things. We do not live in a place that will continue forever. And at the sum of our days we will appear for the reward that belongs to us for the sake of our doings. Where does the Holy strength of God rest in our minds?
By the wisdom of God we are not “just passing through”. We live our days inside eternity. Today IS forever. Christ Jesus is glorified. Once and for all eternity has done an unspeakably beautiful work.
The Sum of Love
The prowess of the inkwell is on vacation. Tis the Sabbath of expected diligence.
The following article will not be dressed for the egg head ball; that certain gathering of literary elegance. I will not even bother to knock on the door of the seamstress. Considering the content, let this article be ugly.
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In my youth, we constantly moved from place to place. I don’t remember spending a full year in any one school. I was always the new kid. I was always the threshold for the wannabe bullies. No one knew me, no one cared, I was a walking target for hatred. No more than an unknown animal in society, I was prime to be abused.
My first 17 years of life taught me that there is no such thing as love. There was only social acceptance. But social acceptance took time that I never had.
I quickly learned that this is what men call love. I endured their hatred, despising, outcasting, and beatings because I knew there was no end in sight. Needless to say, I became a despicable human being.
I found that the love of man is based on competition. If you perform well, according to their expectations, they embrace you readily. But let a fault show and they are heartless pursuers. And I was full to overflowing with faults.
I saw the accepted ones make mistakes. But there seemed to be an unwritten code of tolerance. A “one off” is accepted as if a simple mistake. Yes they paid a price for their mistakes, but it was not terminal.
If you want to beat the bully, believe in Christ the Son of God. If you want to strip your life of the competition that men call love, believe in the love of God.
God is not a man that he should pit us against one another.
God is not a man that he should honor the strength of body and social position.
As you are willing to believe, the power of God becomes greater than any persecution.
Blessed is the man who endures because he believes. The man who does not believe endures all things as punishment. And to whatever extent a man believes so his perception of punishment is lessened. His perception of life’s difficulties is reduced.
Where there is a solution to a problem a man may be willing to wait patiently for it and endure the problem. Such endurance confounds those who live to hate. When they find they cannot break something, eventually they become bored and walk away.
Looking over your shoulder is no way to live at peace; always in fear of punishment.
Do we believe our problems are temporary or do we believe they are the end of us?
Consider what Jesus has told us.
In the Beginning
84 steps required
Before the engine can ever produce.
Miss or replace even one tiny one
And the product becomes juice.
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So the world was created:
From all that never was.
So void chaos clothed in body
Holding to God’s Holy Laws
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How many of us endeavor
To crack the Holy “Code”;
To produce their own salvation
And that, by their own accord.
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Please take note of Genesis 1: 1
How the Spirit of God gave creation Birth.
Void and empty,
Man’s work undone.
We surely struggle in vain
Without God’s Holy and Righteous Son.
Water and Fire
Who can explain with words, those things that come from the Living God’s Holy and Righteous Son Jesus? Yet haven’t we been given that “perfection” of words among us to testify? And isn’t the testimony also given, more accurately in our doings? Thus is the language of Heavenly Things among us and forever.
Water and Fire combine to provide Life. They are deadly alone. But with the Holy Wisdom of God, He has prepared a place where they become one.
How can that be explained by the words of man? How can the mind of man understand these things without God’s revelation to his soul?
He has spoken the Words of Life to Man. But the doing of those words requires that Man should enter the Fire of war against the flesh. Water and Fire. Who can explain it without the “Doing”?
Words From There 