If sadness does not accompany us on our waking. If what is first in our desire, is to be full of joy and laugh. If we find we can look back at our past with great pride. If there is no fear within us for the things we love to do. I submit to every … Continue reading
Arrival
Morning comes. Despite the desire of drunkenness, daylight arrives. Sleep ends. Despite the depression of soul, waking dawns. Sobriety dawns. Despite the obsession with sin, Souls awake. Judgment explodes. Despite the secrets of man, Accounting yells. Who was ready? Who was prepared? Who saw it coming? Who shouts with joy? Whose mouth is opened despite … Continue reading
The Rising Din
Every man who ever lived has heard the murmur of noise. It is like a quiet hum in the ears of our souls. If you listen, you’ll hear it even now. Activity in Heaven is the cause of the noise. A sustaining of all the vastness of that Holy space. All the preparing for those … Continue reading
The Hungry Sea Creature
I woke from sleep this morning, from a dream that most would call a nightmare. A sea creature had taken to land. It was a creature who had a taste for man. I was perched on a narrow outcropping of rocks above the surf. He was perched along a slightly lower place. With confidence, I … Continue reading
How to Escape Condemnation by God.
Originally posted on Words From There:
Image via Wikipedia These are the top 10 excuses God will happily allow for not letting the Lord Jesus be your King. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
God’s Presence
One day, when I was in college, I was called in to a certain teacher’s office. Another teacher came to sit with us two. A question was asked. I don’t remember the exact phrasing, but it sort of went like this: “What makes you think that God appears to men today?” I was relatively young … Continue reading
