What does the world say?
“Love me while I am wicked, with no intention to do what is pure and good!”
What is the response of the Christian?
“Get your hands off my throat so we can talk.”
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What is the Nature of Love?
The parents of a murderer are pressed hard against the wall. They remember when he was a baby; purely innocent and full of potential. But now, like he, they must face the fact of the things he has done. If he is sentenced to life in prison, they have to wrestle with the understanding that he will never come home again.
With the purest possible love, and the greatest possible regret, they remember him when he lay so sweetly in their arms. But mistakes, the influence of outside forces, and the choices of the man, have ripped potential from their dreams. Who can voice a sadness like that? Tell me that loss isn’t personal.
Tell me they don’t think of how much better it might have been if their sweet baby had been stillborn. Better for the victim’s family. Better for the society that was robbed of precious potential. Better that a prison cell should house anyone else, and that for lesser crimes. . . PLEASE! Better for the sounds that the walls of their house remember. Better for their aching hearts that cannot find healing.
They cannot love their child to the potential they once desired, for once a deed like that is done it cannot be erased.
But you will not rip away what love remains, from their hearts. For they will seek with great diligence to find the shreds of their baby that remain in their son.
Love is not passive.
Love is not blind.
Love is married to wisdom.
Pure love understands what is pure.
Love makes way for reality.
Love may experience restriction.
Love may be forsaken!
But it is impossible for love to die.
True Profit
I do not respect the customs of Men. I have no regard to the differing “customs” of certain groups. One eats just these things. Another eats other things. Certain clothing is appropriate for differing circumstances, relegated to the demands of pomp, pleasure, and expectations of society. What do I care? Eat what you will. Dress as you desire. What is that to me?
But the things of the soul. Now these things matter! Differing languages, differing customs, differing surroundings, differing expectations of society, what are these things? When it comes to the soul, none of these things have any bearing at all. For we are all created for the singular purpose of being profitable to the Most High God.
Profit, profit, profit! That’s all the body desires. We wake to “do”, that we might gain profit. To one man profit is pleasure. To another, profit is to gain, that he might add to his mountain of treasure. But profit to God is that His Holy and Righteous Son be glorified.
Some call profit for God in various and differing terms, each according to the religion he has been taught. But God has elevated His Holy Son to the place of First Above All. And wouldn’t it matter that God has done this for His Righteous Son? What does it matter if man considers another religion above Christianity? It is God, alone, who dictates what is Righteous.
But let it be said, Jesus is the King of kings. He is the Lord of lords. He is the Mighty One over all! It is to Jesus that every knee will bow and give Glory to God the Holy Father.
You say, “This is your opinion. You were raised up under the constraints of Christian teaching. But we were raised under the constraints of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Baha’i, Confucianism, Jainism, Shinto, atheism, humanism, [or a million other worthless tripe of human reasoning]. To you, Christianity is singular. Realize that our faith is singular to us”.
But God has chosen His Christ. God has secured salvation by His own Holy Hand. And this is the message that has no dependence on the customs of man. For it comes from Heaven. It is delivered to God’s chosen ones to speak. And it is secured in their souls by the Holy Spirit’s presence.
Do you want profit of Man? Or do you want Profit of God? Seek the Holy Father’s advice regarding this. Strip your mind of the customs you were taught. Strip your expectations from your soul. Seek His Holy Face in Truth. As we humble ourselves before the Living God, so the Living God responds. Likewise, as we stand proud in our own understandings, the Living God is shrewd in his response.
Profit comes from humility. True profit. The profit of eternity that is dressed in the Glorious Living God’s Holy Son, Jesus the Christ.
Now you take offence at these things. For I have spoken that Jesus is the singular means to God the Father. But Christians should take no such stance as you. We do not take offence at the accusations against Christianity. We do not defend the Christ. It is the Christ who defends us. We have no means to sustain our teachings. It is God who sustains the teachings of Christ. We are witnesses, not defenders. We testify that the Living God has secured our salvation. We do not defend the Faith He has given us.
Perceive the difference. Listen to what I am saying. There is no salvation for anyone outside the Holy Son of the Living God.
Relinquish With Joy
The world looks on compassion as a weakness. They consider that a weakened man cannot sustain his hold on the things he has. So their hideous greed approaches, emboldened.
Let them take the things their eyes see. For they do not perceive the Christ of God. But let your precious belongings be those of Christ. For these things you will keep though you die.
They cannot steal what they cannot perceive. They will not take those things which are distasteful and worthless to them.
But let the man add to his treasures, those things of Christ Jesus. Amass the things that are unspeakably beautiful. Pile up the things that are eternal. Become a connoisseur of what is Holy.
No one will touch your riches. And you will find yourself void of fear to protect. Sleep will be peaceful. And you may even encourage the thief to take more. For the things of this world can only detract from the riches you are amasing.
If the wisdom of our Holy Lord is determined to take from us all that can be held, how does the man of God say no?
“No” comes from the lips of the one who is not yet complete. The weakness in him causes him anguish to consider relinquishing what is filthy. How can it possibly be right that a Christian should do such a thing?
By His Grace
Heaven Bent
Oh precious gems,
These doubts of men:
The gates twix
Death and healing.
How gladly we
Protect the locks.
His purpose
Deftly stealing.
Would you believe?
Then grab the keys.
Throwback the gates!
The Holy One waits!
Render him your life.
And don’t just say,
As everyday;
As if a dream you dreamt.
But do the deed;
Become the man!
Whose soul is:
Heaven bent
By His Grace
Not From Man
Let it be known that the Gospel of Jesus Christ belongs to God. In his Holy wisdom God has disseminated the Gospel unto men, for all men are of the same language of flesh. But the entirety of the Gospel belongs to God.
The world looks about them and complains, “How can there be purity and the Gospel? Everything man touches comes to nothing”.
There can be purity and the Gospel, and surely is, because it did not originate among men. The entirety of the Gospel is from God and belongs to God. It cannot be touched or destroyed by any man. And the Gospel is sustained among men by the power of the Holy Son of God.
If the Lord has given the Gospel to one man, and that man destroys it, the Gospel itself is not touched. God will seek another man and give the Gospel to him. By the strength of the Holy Living God, the Gospel will not cease from among men until the last day.
This proclamation is true and faultless. How it is received is not up to me. What is in my care is to uphold what has come to me from God. And even this the Gospel says, is not of my own it is a gift of God, lest any man should boast.
The world is correct. Everything it touches becomes destroyed. But the message of God moves through men untouched and unchanged. If a man waters it down and destroys it, then the judgment comes upon him alone. But if he keeps the Gospel that is given to him, then he becomes a pleasure to the Most High God and is given more.
This should be taken as a warning to all who are in Christ. But it is also a vast encouragement. Christ Jesus will lose none of those the Holy Father has placed in his hands. But let us live with great caution in our soul, for the charge we have been given is Holy.
By His Grace
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