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Loveless
They said I don’t know how to love.
Well how is that surprising?
Love is lust to men of dust,
There was no need to chide me.
Not one man here knows what love is.
That word belongs to God,
Who sent His only Son to us.
That lusting men may learn from him,
The meaning of that “Word“.
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The Prosperity of Lies
They lied to me by saying, “We can be useful in our selves”. They displayed to me what they consider useful. But as I did those things, they told me I am useless. The only thing they succeeded in doing was proving to me that men are fully liars.
What they proclaimed as the sum of life, I embraced with zeal. Where they were liars, I was more. They perceived me as one who would take the throne among them. For this reason they cast me away.
Within their way of lying, they called me a liar. The casting out became complete.
What reason was there to live; what place might I attain? Shall I be a useless man among them? How can that be, I am alive.
They have blessed me with their lying ways. By their casting out, I have received all there is to receive. How can I hold anything against them? By their nature, they have forced me to receive the King of Kings.
Holy Father, Righteous God, hold nothing against any man on my behalf. But free them all from accusation concerning me. No one has sinned against me. I am no standard of truth.
Rather bless them in their ungodly way. Let the prosperity of Lies be theirs. That they to make perceive, you alone are good.
Thank You, Holy Father, for your excellent wisdom, which you display freely among all men. Let those who desire you ask. Let those who love the lie remain. May your will be done forever in Christ Jesus your Holy and Righteous Son. Amen.
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Can You Explain?
We say with some semblance of a surety, “God cannot lie”. If that is true, then how can you explain your lack? How is it that so many have a form of religion but deny the power of it? You have agreed that God cannot lie! How then are you weak, O’ Church of the Living God?
You are like those who entered near to the land of Canaan. You testify that God will fight for you. But you make not one step toward the war! With proclamation of great and glorious words, you live a lie
You agree with the Holy words of Christ, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free”. But you are bound up in fear. Are you able to explain this?
If a man buys a new car, he is filled with pride and tells all his friends about his beautiful possession. He washes it and waxes it, parks it in a safe place, and takes great care of his great possession. (Isn’t this true among so many of you?) With confidence he drives it, for he trusts it with all his heart. His heart is full of pride and joy as people see what he has.
Great big church buildings! High-tech fills them. The seats are plush. The ornaments of religion are carefully and artistically drawn. You have agreed with this construction and spent good money to accomplish your desire. Yet every Sunday, without fail, they are filled with people who do not believe! Can you explain this?
You leave evangelism to those who are professionally trained to do. Why? They urge you and urge you to do the same, yet you fear to speak His Holy Name. Can you explain this?
The power of God’s Holy Spirit and His people has become forced to hide. There is no difference between those who say they are politically correct and those who proclaim they are Christians. Those who worship the creation and deny the Holy God his Holy place, are the same as those who proclaim they are eternal beings! Can you explain this?
I will tell you why these things are so. But what is done about it is up to you. You have exchanged the Glory of God for the glory of man. It is as our truth-filled God has spoken. “You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter”.
It is true, God cannot lie. Will you take the time to believe his promise toward those who do not love him? Are you willing to fear God and stop fearing man? Are you willing to sprout legs and stop being a worm? Are you willing to soar on eagles wings, abandoning your hole in the ground? Isn’t the choice entirely yours?
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The Storehouse of Determination
The house of light.
The storehouses of hail and snow.
The place where lightning and wind are cast abroad.
The father of rain and dew.
The womb of winter, with its ice and heavenly born frost. (Reference job 38 for more.)
Only God knows these places and ways. They are marvelous concepts to ponder. Beautiful words that beckon understanding. Yet who among us can hope to grasp their full meaning. The fullness of them belongs to God alone.
As marvelous as they are, there is one more mystery I went to present before the Living God and His Holy Christ. And in my presentation, I found a similarly mysterious quality. So I write it here. Let my fellow man ponder it while I wait for an answer.
(Shall the answer come from the Holy Spirit of God, directly to my soul? Or shall he send the testimony of a man, to humble my soul? I will know I have received, when I see it appear in my will to obey. Regardless its source of arrival, there will be joy and praise to God.)
“Where is the storehouse of determination?”
With righteous expectation, the Holy Lord commands all men to become holy before his sight. And he does not ask too much! For he willingly gives the strength to overcome the wickedness of this place of testing. Let us be willing to confess, that it is we who do not provide his rightful expectation.
He has promised that a man may go to him for wisdom, with full expectation of receiving. By this he provides the tools to accomplish His Holy will among men.
But I find a mystery at work in this. Why do so few accomplish his rightful expectation? And what strength do those who overcome employ? The answer has come to me in the form of a question. “Where is the storehouse of determination?”
The Holy Son of God knew where it was. And from it he drew consistently. For he was found fully pleasing before his Father, the Living God.
It is as if each man lives in a spacious place. It is as if his own land. God Himself commands us to farm this place and to keep it in good order. It is His righteous and Holy expectation that we obey.
But what should a man say if he finds a task he cannot accomplish? Perhaps a rebellious tongue abides on his own land. Perhaps his besetting sin grows weeds faster and taller than the righteous crop expected.
Frustration attends the man’s land as if a rebellious servant. What hope does such a man have to accomplish the righteous holy will of his God? Such a man needs another tool. Such a man needs determination!
He has seen that others have it. He has also perceived his own lack. Yet he knows that God is faithful to provide. So he has searched among his things to find determination. Still his farm proves his lack.
With the little time God gives us in our life, do we have time to search the vastness of our own land? And what should we say, if in our search, we have not found the means to obey? Time grows short and we are bound to appear before him. “Do I dare appear with a lack?”
God has required it of him. God is just in all his expectations. But where is the storehouse of determination? And it must be a storehouse for it is not a singular tool! It is a constant, overflowing, and endless resource. Therefore there must be a storehouse of vast potential. But where is it?
Who has found this place on his own land? It is he who has succeeded to give the Living God his rightful expectation. It is he who can be relied upon with excellent faithfulness. It is the kind of man who receives all the excellent titles, both from God and man. It is he, of whom it can be said, “This one has accomplished”, or “Well done thou good and faithful servant”.
So I ask again, with a hope of mist around me, that some man may answer me. Or that God himself will lead me to it. “Where is the storehouse of determination?”
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“I Am God”
Peace, every human wants it. But not a single one is capable of grasping it.
In the struggle for peace:
Some try to fill their lives with their desire; amassing to themselves all manner of trinkets. With what commerce they own they purchase peace.
Some use anger to control the world around them; driving others away, lest desires clash.
Many turn to drunkenness, sexual immorality, and drugs; subduing their perception of reality lest they perceive anxiety (Peace eluding them once more).
Most turn to a form of religion; encasing themselves in a structure of belief in God mixed with social righteousness. They find they have the acceptance of man, but they are still void of the acceptance of God. Peace eludes them even while they reach to grab.
Still a few turn to a life of obscure devotion to an obscure god; wasting away with self abuse for the sake of the god they make in their mind. The fruit of the peace they seek is death itself. A wasting death, void of peace, and filled with anxiety.
There is nothing on the face of this planet, nor all creation, that can give peace. If man makes it, or has anything to do with its production, it is immediately laced with chaos. The very peace they seek is wasted by their own efforts to attain or produce it.
True peace must come from a place of perfect Peace and Truth. This entire creation is but a shadow of that place. At our very best we can only manipulate lies to form what we call truth. Because of that, anxiety is king over all humanity.
It is written in the Bible, “Then they will know that I am God”. I never really grasped the full meaning of that until now. Yet by the very definition of Truth, can I say I have grasped its entirety? (I write this while I am on the earth. I have not yet arrived in heaven.)
God the Father, His Holy Son, and the Holy Spirit; these are Peace. They are from eternity and they are life. They alone are Truth, for the Father alone is Truth.
Peace is given not contrived. Unless we receive what He offers, we will have no peace at all.
And let a man rebel against God’s commands, while he is in the process of receiving, he will find peace removed from him by degree. With the stark difference in his soul, the man will perceive the words, “Then they will know that I am God”. (Let the reader understand, I am writing this from experience not conjecture.)
Anything that is extended can be retracted or cut off. Anything that is given can be removed. For the one who has given is more blessed than he who receives.
It is fortunate for the Christian, that what he has received is regulated by perfect loving wisdom. The very purpose of the regulation is to “draw” the Christian to Truth.
If this article provokes anything, let it be this: anyone who is drawn to Truth must go where Truth lives. God alone is True.
It is in this drawing that we begin to understand the words, “Then they will know that I am God”. If you seek Truth, with diligent and humble heart, you will come to understand those words.
Read what God said through Ezekiel. “I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. [He who struggles with God.] I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand.” (39: 2,3)
God himself will lead us to himself, and this through Christ Jesus His Holy and Righteous Son. Anyone who is drawn to God will lose his own perception of truth. In its place, Christ Jesus becomes King. Progressively, chaos is decimated.
It is not possible for man to manufacture his own peace. But True Peace comes with a price. The cost of redemption has been paid. But the cost of Truth is very steep. A man is forced to pay everything he has.
Who, among God’s people, is willing to pay that price? I suggest to you there is not a single one. But it is God who comes to us all to give what we are neither willing or able to pay.
God provides the place where understanding of these things is far more than academic. It gets quite personal! Isn’t that what he means when he says, “Then they will know that I am God”.
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Words From There 