What is more important?  To understand all mysteries among men?  To be able to see the trajectory of man’s accomplishments?  To see what is hidden behind the deceit of power?  Or to know the God who has created and allowed all these things?

Without question, to know the God who made us is supreme.  To understand His Holy judgment is best.   Men will twist and misuse the life they are given.  But to know the life that God holds his hand for all man is better.

This was brought to mind this morning as I considered the nature of things around me.  Men are excited about free internet for every person in the world.  But their excitement raised an alarm within my soul.  Where men are excited about the things of men suspicion comes like a dark cloud.

Immediately I understood.  What men propose is man’s version of prayer.  There are men who would be gods.  What they have lacked is a means to complete control.  With the advent of Internet in every household these men achieve their desire for control.

They, as men who are of supreme power, will speak to the masses.  And there will be expectation of obedience and praise.  Only they who are fools will speak against it.

Man will not relinquish  the works of his hands.  This is what God has fore told.  It is the greatest of sins to desire to replace the living God.  But is this not their intent?

I will not be a fool in their eyes because I reject their desire.  I will be a fool in their eyes because I support the living God.  This is as it should be for all men.  And it is this place that, by His grace, I will inhabit with his wisdom.  Come join me.

By His Grace.

By His Grace

Men and women who love what is wicked;  you who see no difference between what is the Righteousness of God among men and the wicked things you adore.  Why do you refuse to look into the things of righteousness?

Not one of us is “Righteous”.  There is One who is Righteous alone.  There is none Good but God.  Yet you despise your fellow-men who desire to imitate what is good.  You despise those who appeal to God day and night.  They are not like you, so you despise them.  You love them well enough when they offer you peace.  Why won’t you love them when they explain the full message of God?

I do not speak for myself.  Nor will those who have found the river of Righteousness that flows from the Lord.  We do not condemn you, for we were once like you.  We too condemned those who love the words of God.  But we found no reason for our folly.  Thus we succumbed to the will of God that we might learn.

Since I do not condemn you, let me ask the question again.  Why do despise those who seek and speak of the Righteousness of God?  What have we done to you but to point out what God has already spoken regarding the wicked things in this world?  Is this what offends you; that we should willingly give the warning we are conscripted by love to proclaim?

We mean you no harm.  Nor does the Righteous God mean you any harm.  He has not come among us to take away our pleasure.  He has come to give us the greatest possible pleasure: Righteousness, Peace, Fearlessness, Hope, and Eternal Life.  If you could be sure to have those would you drop your despising?

Ask and we will share.  Come taste and see that the Lord is Good.  The offer is to all who will be bold enough to look past the trinkets of this world.  The offer is to all who will humble themselves before the Living God and receive.  His name is Jesus, for the Living God has ordained Him as High Priest to all who accept His offer of peace.

By His Grace.

If I tend animals, I fence them in.  If I want to herd them, I must go to where they are.  If I travel by foot there might appear a fence I must cross.  To cross the fence is not enough.  I must continue on to my destination.

Where is the threshold of salvation?  For the thief on the cross, it was his confession.  For Stephen, it was a life lived in the fullness of the Spirit.  Let us not reflect on the threshold.  Let us not rest, either atop nor just the other side of the fence.  Far too many consider minimum sufficient.  Few pursue the fullness of their calling.

Let each man consider his own journey in the Lord.  How far have you traveled from the moment of your own salvation?  How far are you willing to travel still?  When we reach the end, we will have reached the end.  Will you truly be satisfied at the distance you were willing to travel for His sake?

I present this so that we all might consider the cost.  We do not consider the cost once and then endure.   It is a continual and daily considering that provokes a fruitful tree for the Lord.  Is He worthy of such “upward movement”?  Judge for yourself, this journey you’ve been taking.  Look to the end and consider His testimony of the work you allowed Him to accomplish within you.  How much more can be done by Him if you are simply willing to travel a little further?

This morning, while I prepared for the day’s demands, I listened to what they had to say on the morning “news”.  I considered what they said regarding the glory of man to accomplish.  I listened to what they called “good”.  Then I began to consider how to reach those who adore the language I heard.  Desire raised up within me to reach them with what is true.  It was then that I heard what the Lord had to say concerning this.

“There is no room in them to appeal.  There is no place or door through which to enter.  They have closed out the truth of God with vigor.”  As long as the body is the focus, there is no room for introduction of the Spirit of God.  It is when the lack of strength appears that man realizes the falsehoods of this world.

Desire remains in me, and within the Lord who bought me, to share what is true.  I am His servant.  His desire is to share what is Good.  But what place will appear for the Glorious One to grasp?  All day long, what is man reigns supreme.  All day long lies take the place of the One who made us all.  Where will a beginning begin?

By His Grace.

9“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”  (Isaiah 55)

Let us be careful not to despise His word, even if our ears should hear it from the mouth of a man in earthly humble position.  For the Gospel has been, “. . .once for all entrusted to God’s holy people.”

Thus the hearts of men are tested.  Where is the humble heart?  Where are those who crave understanding?   Where is he who is willing to become a fool for the sake of his God?

A miraculous WILL has appeared among the people in this place of testing.  God has spoken His Holy demand that the very same people who have received His Word will now proclaim it to others.  Therefore do not allow despising to fill your heart, but hear, believe and be saved.

By His Grace.

By His Grace

False religion does not necessarily omit the name of Jesus.  Nor does it necessarily toss away the Holy Bible.

Rather than meet the Holy Lord in this life, most men will gladly receive a likeness of His fruit in His people.  They call them holy doings.  They call His words holy words.  But they often only speak and act as if they are trained animals.

All the while the Lord’s promise stands true and sure.  If we will diligently seek His ways, abandon our shame, and seek his beautiful face, he will see from heaven and turn and make us human.

In this promised humanity is godliness.  But in the false religion of mimicking,  there is only lie; a mocking of what the Lord is willing to provide.

That is why it is written, “They will have a form of religion but deny the power of it.” 

Such practices ignore what the Lord said himself, “39 You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” 

They have not escaped the coming wrath.  They have only invented their own salvation.  The Lord is not blind.  “The Way” is not obscured because they do not search for it.

Be wise and hear these things.  He who is of God honors Him and does what is of God.  He who is of man dishonors God and does what pleases man.  Flesh gives birth to flesh.  But the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

Holy Father in heaven, I will honor You with what You have given me.  These words I have written before Your Holy Face are true.  No man has unless he has received. 

Your compassion is endlessly great.  I testify to Your willingness to share what is good.  Be honored by Your words.  Accompany them with great strength and promise.  You are the Living God in Jesus your Holy Son.  By Your grace alone, in this you are glorified.

By His Grace