The decal on the back of an old white van:
“Catch and release
I don’t think so.
Nobody released me
When I got caught”.
A cute saying. But it lacks the fullness of clarity. A simple question gives it a thoughtful purpose. “But don’t you wish they had.”
I don’t care what he does in his life. But whoever purchased the decal for that saying was not thinking with the clarity of the gospel of Christ. How fragile is the righteousness of man, that he should speak words that are not eternally strong.
We are taught to give up.
We are taught to be trivial.
“Do these things and you will be satisfied.
Abstain from the things of God;
See how complicated and unknown are God’s things to man.
See how many versions of God scream to be first.
See how it is right to give up the search.
Be satisfied with what you have, and do not seek more than is reasonable.”
Rather be trivial.
Rather live with the love that you have.
Rather be diligent with the things you already know how to do.
Perceive the beautiful things of living life;
among your fellow men,
Among the sustaining of this world.
Among the limitations of chaos,
Among the decaying pattern of this place,
And among the innate desire to laugh.
Truth says clearly:
“You KNOW this is not the sum of things.
You KNOW there is More to be had.
You KNOW the ways of man are not the fullness of life.
You KNOW you will one day cease here.
You KNOW you will be inspected with absolute scrutiny.
Do you KNOW the name of the One who will inspect?
I could hold a straight pin in my fingers on one day. For a moment, I could describe what I perceive. It is an object for specific use, and has certain provable dimensions. Then, I could hold that same pin on some other day. With the Majesty of God within me, I could perceive an entirely different description of that same pin.
Endless is the Majesty of the Living God. To say His beauty is rich in variation is to speak like a little child; not understanding the fullness of those words. But here is what He provokes His servant to say this morning.
Will any man or woman dare to say they have understood all things? Will the sum of your own religion (understanding the meaning of the word, religion) be the true sum of what God is willing to give? Will “you” be satisfied with such a trivial basket of truth?
Do we perceive that God is endlessly Majestic? Or do we gladly keep what we have, without desiring what is More? Will we ignorantly restrict the Living God’s testimony to a world that knows absolutely nothing about the Sovereign One? How can that be proper.
Yesterday morning, I was considering the saying, “What would Jesus do”. I could not give that saying the same quality of respect that others have done. For I perceived it to be more incomplete than true or useful. A man might perceive that saying as if it were a guess from the history available. If that is what the saying comes to mean to a man, he will live his “life” with such restraint as to be a useless life.
God IS. He is not the history of being. He is the current moment. He is all moments to come. And, in the history of moments, He is so richly dispersed with Glory that no one can live long enough to decipher His fullness. Even with written record of history in the man’s hands.
Is the Majesty of God, that which He holds out to us all, truly summed up in what we have become? Or is He willing and desirous that we should become something astounding here. Will we wait for the promised dawn of transformation? Or are we willing to take what can BE today?
If I were witness to a great godly movement in America, I would not write so much. But instead of a godly movement I see a movement toward hell itself. A scurry toward all that is wicked.
So I will share what I am fed. If it is too much to eat, you are welcome to go exercise until you are hungry again. And perhaps it is best, for when you are full you leave the seat to he who is hungry.
By His Grace
Oh, Holy Living God! What thanks belongs to You. What praise comes from those You have set free by the Holy Blood of Your Holy Son!
What words will man summon that correctly and fully give You praise? His mouth is full of failing, even such men of faith. The words we know cannot fully allow proper praise to become. It is required. It is given; this life of the Living God. Only by the doing of Your Holy Living Will, are our words profitable before Your Holy Face.
By our ignorance we have spoken those things which should never be spoken. But You have secured that living hope. You direct, to salvation and restoration, that which has been broken; even Your Holy Law among men.
I will praise You with words and doings, directed by Your Holy Spirit. Then You will have what is rightfully Yours. Then alone will Your Holy Son be Glorified among Your people.
We wake from sleep, both that of body and that of darkness of soul. To come to You and confess, that we might receive the joy extended from Your Holy Living Love.
Be Glorified among Your people, O’ God of Life! Raise us up for Your Holy Name. Raise us up for Your Holy Love. Raise us up in the Holy Joy that belongs to You alone, Lord, Master, Giver of Life. Let Your Holy Son consume us with desire, that desire that causes us profit. You alone are Profit.
May Your Holy will live among Your people in great strength and continuance.
The day will come when we are filled without seam or relenting. Let us taste what this means, even now. Let us become, that You might have the sweet odor of obedience to life among Your people.
Praise the Lord! Give Him praise with fullness, those who have seen what is Holy from the day of their creation. Let all God’s people worship the Living God’s Holy Son with abandon born of His Holy gifts. He has never asked too much. He has always given what is sufficient to accomplish His Holy will. He will never cease to give in this manner. He alone is Holy, Holy, and Holy! He alone is LIFE!
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty. Who was, is, and is yet to come. Salvation belongs to our God and to the Lamb. For He has secured joy eternal for all who will be willing to listen and become! Glory to our God forever, and this through His Holy Son.
In Jesus, the Christ of God, these words are brought together. In Jesus His Holy Son, praise of life issues from His people. Words of praise flow. Doings of obedience for the sake of Love flow out. Mighty, among men, are those who are purchased by the Blood of the Holy Lamb of God!
Amen, Amen and Amen.
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