From eternity to eternity, Christ Jesus acts on his Holy Father’s Word with absolute obedience and immediacy.
Jesus, The Christ, is the same yesterday today and forever.
What man can count any of those things among his belongings?
Do we need Jesus’ strength? Is the Sun a ball of fire?
If you are in Christ, your sins are like a corpse that lays exposed on the ground. They are detestable and grotesque. But they can do you no more harm than a dead body. Turn away from them and do not fear them.
When temptations come, remember your release. They are no more then a band of fog or a mist that comes before your eyes. Pass through them they have no power over you anymore.
What do you owe the Lord Jesus for such a glorious release? You simply owe him everything. You owe him all your fears. You owe him absolute allegiance. You owe him adoration, praise, and thanks. You owe him your very life.
If you busy yourself with a love for Jesus, you will have victory over the things that used to defeat you.
The inverse of all these things is also true. But we are not like those who, once released from bondage in Egypt, complained and desire to go back. Instead, we are a new nation of peoples. Our bodies will not litter the way to the promised land. We will love him with all our heart and arrive set free.
2 “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it, the LORD is His name, 3 ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’ ” (Jeremiah 33:2)
They have said, “Prayer is such a burden”. They respond to me, “When have we said such a thing?” The compassionate answer comes: “Every time you did not do it.”
But this can be given to you: you did not do it because you did not understand.
You think that prayer is like writing a letter that may or may not be read. You have no faith so you do not bothered to write. For lack of faith there is lack of understanding.
God speaks. But who hears him? He speaks in what is. He speaks in what did not come. He speaks of his Holy promises; those things which will be, for he cannot lie.
Prayer is only a letter if it is given by a faithless soul. And truly such letters are sent among the wind, to blow to this place or that. But the faithful will believe and wait. They will have patience for they know that God is true.
The faithful will live abundant lives. They will be blessed in all they do. For what they do is to trust and wait. What they do, is ask for ears. They ask for eyes that see. Ask for understanding, and that their lives may testify. See how abundance arrives.
Ramah: In Biblical, the meaning of the name Ramah is: Elevated, sublime. People with this name have a deep inner desire for love and companionship, and want to work with others to achieve peace and harmony. (It is not a name given by the mouth of man, so much as it is a name given by the horrors of this place.)
For such people to witness the tragedies that come from sin, it is too much. And if the horrors associated with sin come home in a personal manner, destruction has a whole new body.
This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” (Jeremiah 31: 15)
Take away the best of hope from Man, and you will see deep and irreparable mourning. This is the kind of sorrow that is born in the crucible of war. But don’t we also find it in our streets? Isn’t it also in our homes?
Such sorrow does not choose between male or female. Money or social position is no barrier for this kind of destruction. And those who taste this are never the same again.
But this does not mean they cannot have hope. God is able to open our eyes to a hope that is stronger than death; that death which is the end of Man’s greatest possible desires.
Even while we mourn the loss of what could have been, we rejoice inwardly at his Holy promise. He has written perfectly in His Holy Blood. “I stand ready and willing to give you eternal life. I will wipe away all your tears and sorrow. I will give you a joy in your heart that cannot be crushed. And never again will you be disturbed in your place of holy peace and joy.”
Such is the power of the Living God’s promise. Such is the strength of Righteous Mercy. Even those souls, blackened with sorrow, can be filled with joy. They can become useful to Life in this place of death.
I testify that this is true. For I am one of those who has had exceedingly great loss yet has become useful to the Living God’s Great Mercy.
Take heart and understand. Seek the face of the One who has tasted even the grave for your sake. All his servants are broken and shattered in this place of “Perfecting Afflictions”. Where sin was born to take away, Life has come to restore.
Amen.
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I could hold a straight pin in my fingers on one day. For a moment, I could describe what I perceive. It is an object for specific use, and has certain provable dimensions. Then, I could hold that same pin on some other day. With the Majesty of God within me, I could perceive an entirely different description of that same pin.
Endless is the Majesty of the Living God. To say His beauty is rich in variation is to speak like a little child; not understanding the fullness of those words. But here is what He provokes His servant to say this morning.
Will any man or woman dare to say they have understood all things? Will the sum of your own religion (understanding the meaning of the word, religion) be the true sum of what God is willing to give? Will “you” be satisfied with such a trivial basket of truth?
Do we perceive that God is endlessly Majestic? Or do we gladly keep what we have, without desiring what is More? Will we ignorantly restrict the Living God’s testimony to a world that knows absolutely nothing about the Sovereign One? How can that be proper.
Yesterday morning, I was considering the saying, “What would Jesus do”. I could not give that saying the same quality of respect that others have done. For I perceived it to be more incomplete than true or useful. A man might perceive that saying as if it were a guess from the history available. If that is what the saying comes to mean to a man, he will live his “life” with such restraint as to be a useless life.
God IS. He is not the history of being. He is the current moment. He is all moments to come. And, in the history of moments, He is so richly dispersed with Glory that no one can live long enough to decipher His fullness. Even with written record of history in the man’s hands.
Is the Majesty of God, that which He holds out to us all, truly summed up in what we have become? Or is He willing and desirous that we should become something astounding here. Will we wait for the promised dawn of transformation? Or are we willing to take what can BE today?
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