Distraction: a riddle, what does it mean?
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Marvel at the beauty of shadows.
But stay you too far from the light.
And the shadows will overcome you.
They will strip you of all your might.
The soul is like a chameleon;
Dressed in black or brilliant colors.
Of the black ones there are billions.
While the number of brilliant is smaller
You know the language of Man in all its various translations; superstition, fiction, history, sports, entertainment, finance, politics, social etiquette, music, slang, death, pleasure, elegance, and a million more subdivisions. Why do you not know the language of God?
We will pass away. This earth will pass away. Superstition, fiction, history, sports, entertainment, finance, politics, social etiquette, music, slang, death, pleasure, elegance, and a million more subdivisions will all pass away. How is it that you do not know the language of eternity?
Oh! People of the world; those who despise the Rule of the Holy One. What do you have to show for all your toil?
Your people melt in the streets from the demands you place upon them. They rot in their flesh and soul, for the strength of your demands. What do you have to show for all the chaos of your toil?
Isn’t the Word that can heal among you? Isn’t the power of Salvation from God extended?
Why will you not take it? Why will you not ask? Why will you live like abandoned children?
Why will you honor the unholy gaggle that you yourselves have glorified? Why will you not humble yourselves in prayer?
Why is the Holy Scripture left untouched, day after day? Why do you not speak to one another about pure things? Why are lies vastly more abundant than God’s commands?
See how you falter and fail. See how you lack the strength to continue. Yet you continue; as if this continuing is righteously demanded of every one of you.
The leaders of the people die. They thirst and will not drink. They hunger, yet waste away like those who fast to death.
The children are not fed, for the parents have no food. Filth is the delicacy on the table at night. Precious and good food is kept far from the front door to every house.
What more can be said to a people who desire death and abhor life? Do you want a sweet word from the Living God’s Holy Son? How shall He who tells the truth speak a lie? You have what is true to say.
Amen.
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.
I have seen the body of an animal reduced to bones and fur within the space of two days, by the bugs along a stream. That’s not a place where I’d choose to sleep the night. You would be swarmed within the space of an hour.
As I consider this, I am put to remembrance of the souls of men. The decay of a rotten soul draws the attention of many. Yes, man is dead, even as he lives, if he refuses the life that God extends through Jesus.
Sleep in this world of destruction, if you have no will to notice the swarm which stands against you. Or listen to the wisdom of God to turn away from those places where a man should not “sleep”. Come away from the muddy, unpalatable and slow-moving water of lies. Answer the call to climb the mountain of God which leads to the living place of rest.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”(John 3, ESV)
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