Encased in forced waiting
The leaves crouch for spring.
Those curious buds from a stick.
What was rendered by autumn,
The end of the harvest,
Will blossom about, oh so thick!
Encased in forced waiting
Saved souls crouch for spring.
Those curious men like sticks.
What was rendered by autumn,
The end of the harvest,
Will blossom about, oh so thick!
By His Grace
Sometimes the prospects of heaven excite me. To hear the name of Jesus spoken by His Holy Father. That name only his father knows.
To listen to the stories of ages past long before this world was created. The exploits of our Lord, and all the noble deeds of great creatures.
To see the great honorable ones of different ages. And to worship among billions with not a shred of shame or doubt.
By His grace we have such a great hope!
By His Grace
Do the angels in heaven fail to tell one another that they love God? No they say it in praise to Him openly and to one another. Is only among men the such words and praise are forbidden.
But who should we align to? Shall we join men or shall we join the angels in heaven? For we will surely be among them. Will it be known of us that we were ashamed before men?
Let us not praise God only with words, but with actions also. But good actions among men are a welcome addition to society. It’s the words they hate so much. And those who keep them to themselves for fear of reproach, prove that they hate those words also.
By His Grace
Oh, Man! Look and see what you have done. See how you quibble over a clod of dirt; dried into a hard, tiny, rock. You see it in the hands of another. You desire what the other has. So you threaten. You plot. You contrive reason to steal. And with various means, you attack with purpose filled vengeance. You take what is not yours.
First you offer compensation to the other, that you might have what does not belong to either of you. For all things belong to God. Then, if he refuses, greed burns within you. The clod fills your dreams in the night. The clod preoccupies all your thoughts during the day. And the man who holds it secure in his house becomes your enemy.
How is this right? What right do you have to envy another man over a clod of dirt? What folly is this that men do? Yet you call it reasonable! You call it legitimate business.
Go! Finish what is in your heart to accomplish! Kill the man so that you can have your desire. Take from him what does not belong to either of you! Go ahead!
Then, then you will both find yourselves in another place. Your hands empty of dirt, but over flowing with greed, and every wicked thing. Shame covering your face, you will see the One to whom the Living God has given all things. You will both stand before the One who owns it all! Your life having been filled with greed for what you have no RIGHT to own.
What then? You have lived your entire life full of purpose to gain. Now you have nothing.
Why won’t you hear these words? Why do you pay money for that which is not food? Why do you hate and murder your brother for what neither of you owns? Why won’t you look into these things before you are forced to appear before the owner of all heaven and earth? Why would you finish your pathetic days in shame?
The Gospel answers you. The Gospel waits to be read. There is understanding, so very near the tips of your fingers. Why won’t you pick it up and learn?
As I drove along in the dark last night, I let my thoughts drift to the nature of heaven. With whatever my imagination could provide, I thought about peace, living creatures, a safe and inviting environment, and a people that will never again know any sin.
I tried to think of heaven millions of years passed the day of judgement. I thought of a place where what is here is never mentioned. They do not remember the wicked greed of man. They do not remember sickness and death. And for eternity this will be their life.
As I woke up this morning I tried to consider my thoughts about heaven. I recognize that they are only based on what I can perceive here. And then I found myself amazed at how little God has revealed about eternity.
His message to man does not contain the indescribable beauties of his heaven. God and all his creatures have lived in splendor for millions of millions of years. But exceedingly little information has been given to man.
Partly, the restraint has to do with our language. And partly the restraint has to do with the frailty of this creation. But more so, the restraint has to do with God’s will toward Man.
God is not interested in making us happy here. The entirety of this place is designed to cause us to hate it. Nothing is stable. There is no secure place. Nothing is friendly unless it is manipulated. And the strength of our bones wears out so that we can no longer manipulate.
The entirety of this place is designed for faith. We have hope in faith alone. We are to put our trust in the Living God and His Holy Son Christ Jesus. Even the very character of our mind is full of unrest and unpredictable behavior.
God did not desire that we should live at peace here. It is God’s desire that we desire his peace. So instead of describing what is his, he tells us that he is firm and true, peace, safety, strength, purity, and that his promises are fully reliable.
The nature of this place is designed to test the heart of every man. The question hangs in the sky over the head of every man here:
“Do you desire what you have; this place full of chaos and unpredictable things? Or will you open your heart to honesty; looking about you and confessing the true nature of this place of testing. And that you yourself are not able to do one right thing.”
If we will turn to God out of despair, for the sake of the things we can see that are wrong, he is willing to embrace us. But if we want to dig in our feet, and live in this place of lies, full of rebellion, full of unbelief, full of hatred for our fellow man and for God, we will suffer unto death then be cast away as unprofitable.
If you want to know the glories of heaven, listen to the righteous words of God and do them. Allow yourself to believe in the Holy Son of God, do not harden your heart with restraint.
Read his Holy words that HAVE been sent us. Believe them and stop second guessing the Holy Word of the Living God. Listen to your conscience and confess your sins to him. Ask him to strengthen you in the things that are pure and right. Then do what you are told to do.
All of these things can be gained in Christ Jesus. He has promised, and is reliable, overcoming this place of chaos is possible. Heaven can be attained if we listen to him. Then we will know the nature of the eternal heaven of the Living God. Then our language will be like his, for the place of our perception will be an eternal place.
So many like me desired to know what is in heaven. What a perfect example of wasted time. A better deployment of the minutes is to teach myself godly restraint, and this according to His Holy Word and the prompting of His Holy Spirit.
May God have mercy to grant understanding to those who read these words. Those who desire will hear. Those who hate God will stop up their ears.
In Christ Jesus, the Righteous and Holy Son of God, I pray. Amen.
By His Grace
September 9, 2010, watched me write my first post on this blog. I’m glad to see I had an iota of wisdom. It was a good beginning.
I hadn’t learned what the word “paragraph” meant yet. So I tried to inject returns where they might have been. Otherwise, I didn’t change the words. Let the man I was testify by himself.
There are many who will tell you various ways of ensuring your place with God for eternity. Some will talk about doing certain things, saying certain things, thinking or praying certain things. It’s easy to be confused.
If you are expecting me to give you a formula now, you’ll be mistaken. There are millions who will give you a formula; a step by step procedure to follow to ensure acceptance by God. So many claiming to know the “way”. How can you really know?
But let me ask you something: Who do you seek to be accepted by? Isn’t it God Himself? Then why are you looking to humans for the way? Before you begin, you turn away from God, in that you look to humans for the answers. The only way to avoid all the pitfalls laid before you is to go to the source.
Consider something: you’re seeking eternal peace, right? So why look here on earth for it? There are some simple truths. Look at the creation and think it through. Anyone seeking God, and expecting to please Him must, believe that He exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. So, humble yourself before Him and earnestly (with all your mind, heart, strength, and soul) seek Him. If you do so, He will be found by you. You’re not seeking a burger at a fast food joint, so why act like it?
God is the God who searches through out the earth seeking those who humble themselves before Him. Admit that you are full of lies, hatred, envy, strife, idolatry, and more. Look inward and consider your ways. Listen to your mind and you will see it is full of these things. If anyone says they are without sin, they lie. So, humble yourself before the Lord of Heaven and Earth.
When the time is right, from God’s perspective, He will lift you up.
Jesus is His Son. There is Salvation for eternity in His sacrifice. But you will find that God desires truth from His people. You will be required to lay down all sin in your life. Through the cleansing of Jesus, you will find the power to do this. But make no mistake, the way to eternal life is a VERY narrow path. There are billions of ways to hell, but ONE way to eternal life.
Walk to God in Faith, Believe Him, accept and admit that your failings are fatal and eternal. Then. . . prepare to meet your maker.
Pray and act as though you want His approval. Be ready to lay down your present life if you find Him. Consider what he said about that: “IF ANYONE COMES TO ME AND DOES NOT HATE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, WIFE AND CHILDREN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, YES AND HIS OWN LIFE ALSO, HE CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE. AND WHOEVER DOES NOT BEAR HIS CROSS AND COME AFTER ME CANNOT BE MY DISCIPLE” (Luke 14: 26, 27).
If you want a quick, sure fire way to find God’s favor, go looking. You’ll find thousands of them. They might make you feel good. But they might lead you astray too. Want God? Seek God. “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13, 14).
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