Now is my day.
My chance to obey.
And not just to say,
“He is my lord”.
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Were I to die now,
Temptations abound!
Though I be nowhere
To be found.
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To the work then go I.
Using care what I spy.
To keep my soul’s eye
Fixed firmly on Him.
By His Grace
Tag Archives: death
Profits
The prophet of God is valuable. Who then are they who disagree?
There is profit in the words of the prophet of God. Who then are they who disbelieve?
It is intriguing that men prefer to ignore the messengers of God, when profit and loss are household concepts. By this we can say that men are, by their very nature, lousy accountants.
For this they run the business of their life as if to fail. Yet in business, they will kill to succeed. Why does this tiny wisdom escape them?
It is impossible to correctly speak of the poverty of man. Just as it is impossible to speak of the riches of God.
When we see Him face to face, we will understand. Until then, profit comes by faith. All the while poverty abides in flesh.
Do not be fooled, a man is what he believes. Profit or loss, which do you choose?
By His Grace
The Birthplace of Oxymoron
Did you know that the use of the word oxymoron has skyrocketed since 1950? Before that, the word was hardly used at all.
I gleaned this information from a chart you can find on Google. I assume the chart is born from a computerized assessment of words used in the writings of men.
What is the reason for this? I propose it can be explained.
Consider 1945. World War 2 is ablaze. Forced by death, men embrace science with the greatest of urgent passion. While the men of “The Faith” established Youth for Christ. And so the division begins in earnest. For the sake of fleshly survival, men abandon God.
Relatively speaking, before that year, men were innocent of the hideous abandon we now see. And so the vigorous use of the word oxymoron begins. God calls the dead to life, but the dead desire death.
In that year a serious division between the works of man and the works of God was born. In that year, the beginning of the end began. In that year, technology was released by necessity. In that year, dead men died even more. In that year, the possibility of saving souls diminished.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., “Science will save us”).
(Do you know who said that, those words quoted in the e.g.? It was the current leader of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama.)
In that year, men began to live as oxymorons; living as contradictions between life and death. Forced by the nature of the world, to divide themselves from the Living God. Forced, by the nature of the world around them, to prepare an army which will face The Christ.
If it began there, how established are they now? If your grandfather’s began to separate from God in that year, where are you today? Do you dare ask yourself, “What time is it”?
The meaning of this is clear to me, and this by the Spirit of the Living God. If there was an urgency within the gospel, in centuries past, it is unspeakably urgent now. For as 1945 came without fanfare, so the coming of Christ will be.
But I am forced to repeat the words of the Prophet, “Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?”
By His Grace
Trust
Of the things of Heaven,
I have not a clue.
By force of hope,
I am thrust to trust you.
Not by sounds or syllables,
Are my ears confused.
But by the very truth,
You are forced to use.
You are our eternity,
Blessed and always to be.
While we are of the tiny things;
Death is all we see.
Cataracts born of temporary,
Obscure your Glory from me.
Yet I will dare to hope.
For what You say will be!
By His Grace
Heros Succeed
Who can speak fluently of the glorious challenge that lay before for the people of God? All that is holy is expected, and rightly so, to cover us as if we are dressed in pure light.
Discretion, willing obedience, mercy beyond the ability of man, faithfulness in prayer regardless our current understanding, and a laying down of all that is wicked, these are things placed upon us by the King of kings and Holy Lord.
He is faultless and true in all his Holy way. And his expectations are not too much. For he is willing to grant all that is necessary for us to achieve. It is we who are unwilling and frail. Yet the expectations remain.
We are ambassadors of the One who dispenses life! It is then appropriate that our attitude match the expectations.
How many billions have tried and failed? How very rare that one succeeds.
The world has its set of heroes; those who have met the expectations of the world and surpass them. These are also rare indeed. But the expectations of the world are small compared to those of God. If only a handful meet the world’s expectations, how many less meet those of God’s?
Let us make every effort to rectify obedience. Let us make every effort to add to our love for the Holy One of God.
We have only one day. We are not promised beyond the sunset. Thousands will die today, sealing what they have done. Will it be me? Will it be you? Which of us can know?
Make every effort to enter in: to do, to become and to glorify the one who has purchased us by His Holy Blood. This is the expectation of God. And it is placed squarely on the shoulders of those who profess the name of Christ Jesus.
May God have mercy and grant glory among all his people. May the testimony of each one of us be that God is Holy!
By His Grace
The Calendar of Alarms
We set the alarm to wake up. All day long the calendar is filled with alarms to remind us; to provoke us to do what we should.
The calendar of life begins with birth. Millions of alarms are set during the course of our life.
Have you set the alarm in your life for the day that comes to all men?
“. . . each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9: 27)
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