Tag Archives: Holiness

The Fabric of Life

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Once a word is spoken, it is impossible to take it back.  The one who spoken it has ripped the fabric of life and placed his speech among the things that are.

Once an action is done, it is impossible to take it back.  It has ripped the fabric of Life and placed itself among the things that are.

So it is with sin.  So it is with righteousness.  It is delusional to think otherwise.

There is a place where God will sweep the fabric of life.  By His Holy will, he will clean all that is.  From that moment to eternity, wickedness will appear no more to rip the fabric of life. 

Only righteousness will add itself to the fabric.  And life will prosper beyond the bounds of man’s imagination.

What is not God, will be done away with.  Though one may ponder and search for it, it will not be found.  This too will affect the fabric of life.  And it will be known throughout eternity that God has done this; by the strength of his Holy Son’s faithfulness, God has done this.

At that time an age will have come, and that age will have passed.  To which age do you desire to belong?

Shall you be of those who are swept away?  Or shall you be of those who eternally praise God for His strength and righteousness?  Will you be among the eternally dead or among the eternally living?

Do not be foolish and answer with what is obvious.  Any sane man can say he chooses what is best.  Rather understand these things and become.

The mercy in God’s Holy sweeping of the fabric of life, is toward those who love his ways.  His eyes of love are in his hand as he sweeps away all that kills, divides, hates, and detracts.  None will escape.  He will protect his own with frothing vengeance.

Jesus has provided the refuge for any who will come and take the promise of God that has been written eternally in His Holy Blood.  But who is wise among men that he will consider these things and forsake his wickedness?  Who will prove he desires to remain?  Who will forsake wickedness that he may live?

Line of Sight

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We try to perceive what is.  And if one will carefully follow his lines of thought there is a progression in our perceptions.  Finally we reach fullness of our perception.  “Thus far will come and no farther.”  Says the Lord.

How then can a man say that he knows what is true?  At best, he can only say he knows he who is true; and this to severe limitation.  For the wisdom of God and His glorious nature are hidden from man by his excellent will.

We are forced, by the constraints of his creation, to wear humility instead of pride.  So it is for us, so it was for the Holy Lord Jesus; who being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God as something to be grasped.

Where is the pride among men that divides and destroys?  Not only among the men of the world but of the children of God.

But men compare themselves to other men, thus pride lives among them.  What would relationships look like if our comparison were exclusively between ourselves and the living God in Christ Jesus?

Humility would be the rule.  Pride would be the anomaly.  But as we look at the nature of people’s interactions that is not what we find.

Truth is truth.  Who dares to live the promise of eternity today?

Winter

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Holy Father I thank you for your majestic wisdom.  You tell us truly, that we are all without excuse before you.  For the things you have made, and the place where we live, testifies brilliantly of your Holiness.

You have caused all men to consider these things.  Not one man lives, but that he considers the nature of the place you have caused him to live.

You have written this way in unmovable stone, and it will not be taken out of the way.

Sovereign Father, by the mercy of your Holy Son, I come to you for explanation.  In your righteous expectation we are to understand and to obey.  So I am right to expect an answer.

In all that you have done, creating this place. you have made all things as they appear.  You are righteous Holy Father.  Therefore what you have done is what must be done.  But I have failed to grasp the meaning of Winter.

I understand that you are pure and pure light; the Light of righteousness, life, holiness and eternity.  And so you have made the snow to fall pure and white, virgin and innocent.

Your righteousness is deadly to all that stands against you.  For sin cannot appear before your Holy Throne.

In my imagination I perceive that the heat of our judgment to be burning and endlessly hot.  Yet with all that could be we find things as they are.

My mind is betrayed by a lack of understanding.  How is purity that appears in the coldest and deadliest of times?  Yet it does not appear in the time of heat.

It is not possible that this can make no sense.  It is therefore the weakness of my mind to fail to understand.

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In the purity of winter man is forced to rest on the previous days of labor.  It is a time of extensive difficulty.

If he has prepared well, survival is guaranteed, but for the weakness of flesh in disease and sickness.  But if he has failed to provide, during the time if necessary labor, difficulty will increase even unto death.

To venture into the purity provided, a man must be properly clothed.  Anything less then what is appropriate will surely demand too much.

It is a time of forced rest.  The time of preparation is past.  It is the severest season of testing.  And brilliant purity will force it on all.

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You are Holy and true.  You have set a place which is unavoidable to all men.  You will command and we will appear before you.  The labors of our days will be tested.

If we have prepared in your Holy Son, we are dressed in his pure clothing to protect us from the onslaught of your judgement.  But who can stand that day without your loving compassion?

It is a time of abject horror for those who have not considered its demands.  And no man can provide for himself the things that are necessary.

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Hide me in your majestic shadow Sovereign Father.  Dress me with the strength of your Holy Word, even Jesus your Holy Son.  Have mercy for my weakness.  I appeal to you by your promises. 

You are True, Holy, Righteous, Pure, Eternal, and your compassion is endless.  I run to you, that you may burn away to things that are displeasing.  That what remains may live.

All my letters are signed, “By His Grace”.  You taught me to do this many years ago.  May my soul appear before you with that signature.  For salvation belongs exclusively to God the Father and God the Holy Son.

You will answer me

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“Answer me.” God says. “Show me what is in your heart.  Confess what you have done.  Confess what you are. Confess what you desire.

I clearly see all these things, but I demand an accounting from you.  Confess now, that grace may abound and cause you to become a godly man.  Or wait until you appear before me where your confession will do you no good.”

Each man will choose what he will do in response to these commands.  The word of his lips, uttered to another man, will do him no good.  God demands the response of action.

The cross of Christ has opened the door to freedom from sin.  Who has guts enough to take it?

The glowing cross

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Bob:  “That’s a great saying!  I’ll have to practice that one.”

Nancy:  “Oh I adore it!  We’ll have to use it in our evangelism  push this year.”

Drew:  “Absolutely!  Nobody in the world would take offense at that.  We start saying things like that and the entire world will realize we love them.”

Ben:  “Well I hate to be a stick in the mud, but I have to disagree with all of you.  Its sayings like that that turn the offense of the bloody cross into a pink warm fuzzy one.  A cross that glows at night so nobody gets scared of the dark.

We ought to be so different that we scare the socks off of people.  They hated our Lord why are we trying to make them love us? 

I just don’t get it.  I realize I don’t fit in here.”

The Limits of Can

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The list of limits, which restrain the life of man, is long.  He is bound up and constrained by the Holy dictates of God’s great Wisdom.  The list of “can” is shorter, yet no less sure.  The first constrains rebellion.  The second unleashes holy righteousness with the unlimited power of God himself.

Man presses against the limits of restraint.  They invent machines to push into those limits, and succeeds.  There will be no glory from God for such pernicious strivings.  How can rebellious desire be rewarded?

But who, among men, reaches to the limit of “can”?   It is written for all to read, “With God all things are possible”.   In the way of obedience, this was said.  In the way of salvation to obedience, this was said.  Who, among men, reaches to the fullness of God’s Holy words?

There are the limits of this world.  The final limit, among men, is reached at the point of death; the release of the soul from the constraints of flesh.  All men will surely reach this limit and pass through.

Many will reach the next impenetrable limit of condemnation; they will go no farther.  No rebellious striving will produce success.  But who will reach beyond that finality to the unspeakable limits of eternity?

God is a God of order.  He has placed limits for all creatures.  In this age, he has constrained.  So it will be in the next age.  In this age he constrains rebellion.  In the next he will constrain Holy order.  Yet who, among men, reaches to the limit of “can”?

Jesus offers righteousness to man now.  Jesus is the righteousness of man forever.  Yet what shall be said of the fullness of possibility in this place of testing?  Who has reached the fullness of God’s willingness to give?  Who, among men, reaches deep to become what God is willing to give?