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 title seems like an oxymoron. But everything on earth has a beginning and an end.
That statement alone is something to ponder for three weeks. But let’s take a look at this:
Something strikes me that’s worth thinking about. I don’t exactly know how to prove it by the Bible. But I think there’s enough general knowledge to give this some support.
From the very beginning God created animals on this planet that had to consume other life in order to survive. I don’t believe that kind of activity could be found in heaven. But then I just don’t know.
Evidently death was already on this planet before Adam was created. At least a certain kind of death was already here. A plant would grow, produce fruit, and have it be consumed by some other creature. At the very least existence, then nonexistence, was already here.
Ponder that a few minutes. I would love to know what you think.
A certain point is very interesting to me: Eve had some understanding of nonexistence before she ate the forbidden fruit. That’s how satan could make a play on God’s words, and expect Eve to understand.
Even while the people stood amazed at the freedom given to the man of the tombs, the legion of demons found new homes. While the bodies of pigs floated out to sea, the people received as open doors with welcome mats.
The demons begged that they should not have to leave the region. I guarantee you they didn’t leave. They begged to enter the pigs. I guarantee you they didn’t drown with the pigs.
No, they were alive and well. They went to work on the people of that region immediately. Read the response of the people; and they begged the Lord to leave their area.
People are being healed by the Lord these days. Where do their demons go? They go to anyone who is willing to embrace their filthy ways.
“What’s in your house?”
(Mark 5)
You can live inside of a lie. But not for long. There is no lie in Life. And you know that.
If something “is not” yet is promoted as if it is, those who promote it are living inside a lie. Such people are filled up with grand notions of self importance, all the while what they think they have will evaporate to what it was while they thought they had “something”.
What I’ve just written is a law of eternity and will never be pushed aside.
And something more:
If you promote a lie that injures the lives of others (no matter their nearness to you) you are an accomplice to their troubles. Therefore, such a person is guilty of willingly living death, and spreading that death to others.
I know such people think they are being useful. But ignorant harm is no less damaging than willful violence.
Examine the fruit of what you are promoting. Does it create peace and Life? Or does it lead to more divisions and violence.
This truth does not address Christians alone. It remains in place for all people.
Why add to your own condemnation? Be a servant of Life, or remain an agent of death. Doesn’t the choice belong to everyone individually?
There is a place where a child has learned enough. From that place he is expected to do the things of an adult.
It is not appropriate for someone who has learned what is required of an adult to go back to his childhood and claim ignorance. It is no longer ignorance, it is rebellion. But isn’t the world teaming with such individuals? And isn’t there a lot of childish behavior among the Church of Christ?
Yes. The same is true with the things of God. One who has newly encountered the things of holiness does not have the same expectations placed on him as the one who is well-versed in the things of God. And just like the child, ignorance can be no excuse when there are so very many possibilities to learn.
But when the time is right, God will expect of us the things appropriate to the understanding we have achieved. Provided that the Christian applies himself to learn.
Be childlike in your faith. Be responsible with what you have been given. See how a family is ashamed when one of its members refuses maturity. Let us not be a shameful member of Christ’s bride.
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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