I have never found a Music more lovely than a sad song. It’s not the lyrics they use, it’s the melody that accompanies it. When the soul cries through Music it is exquisitely melodic.
What melody accompanied the crucifixion of Christ? The fullness of God’s will in all eternity. Death trying to consume heaven.
Man’s ears are not made to hear it. Even the soul cannot taste it’s fullness. It is the song of God’s victory over unspeakable sorrow.
Written on the ocean on March 2, 2017. But ever so eternally poignant.
The waves beat against the hull of the ship.
With a silent and determined anger;
With gluttony for autonomy,
They desire “unimpeded”.
See how the steel says, “No”.
See how they are forced to go,
Dissipated.
How the strength of their ruin is utterly devastated.
How, with present Will
pressed against them,
they turn to white frothing.
At the majesty they encounter;
They turn to –
Mere nothing.
Like they do as the wind whips them up,
in small measure
The sea is dotted with purity.
Yet:
With impassable Will
All is turned back.
“You will not pass.
I cannot relent.
I move through your midst,
My strength never spent.”
Be still!
Cease your work!
Bow to Me!
My people will pass
Speaks The Maker He.
Move Holy Spirit.
Move through my soul.
Be the ship that carries
The desire of Your own will.
As it has been from old.
Be in me the strength of your love.
Keep me on the
“Inward side.”
You got to this post across a certain trail. Stop a minute. Pick a rock. Have a seat. Let’s do a little traveling that doesn’t require legs.
I’ll tell you about the trail that brought me here. I was practicing guitar this morning using YouTube; A little Skip Ewing, a smidgen of Vince Gill, a sliver of Keith urban, and just a dab of Carrie underwood. I just finished “mama’s song”, and looked down at the next few songs. There was Willie Nelson singing “Seven Spanish Angels”.
In a flash, I was no longer playing guitar. I was transported to this place where you meet me.
15 minutes of thought can be rolled up in one question. Does Man have a right to play games with the concept of heaven, angels, salvation, death, vengeance, and what is Holy?
It’s kind of sentimental and cute to think that seven Spanish Angels even exist, let alone that they immortalize people just because they die. But is there any possibility that it’s true? Is everyone taken to heaven simply because they lived here on earth? Take a look at what happened to Isaiah. Then tell me what will become of the godless and the sinners of this life.
1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3. And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4. At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6. Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7. With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” (chapter 6)
God is HOLY. Everything of heaven is Holy. Angels do not come from Mexico. They are of heaven, where everything is holy.
Those who live by the gun will die by the gun. And in the end they will be assigned the place of those who murder and are of vengeance.
I am caused to consider this, how much of my own life is a room of lies filled with stupid and ignorant tapestries that will most assuredly destroyed me? What are you thinking?
Thanks for having a seat. Thanks for listening. May God bless the path you take from here.
Will you enter into heaven by virtue of your own religion? Will you set your own standard of righteousness and accomplish it, saying to the Holy guard of heaven, “I am a righteous man let me enter”?
Have you been to heaven? Have you seen the surpassing glory of the creatures there? Have you understood the nature of their holiness? Have you understood the Holy commands they have received?
Will you now, you who are so feeble of mind, hold to the traditions of your own? Or will you seek the unmovable, Holy and pure traditions of eternity?
You cannot spend the currency of Man’s traditions in the store house of God. In that place, by your own strength, you can be no more than a beggar.
What have we done that God should honor us? What consistent holiness do we display that we should expect anything from His Righteous hand?
But I perceive the Lord Jesus; The Word of God eternal, who delivered the words of God which spoke of his trial to come.
“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
against the man who stands next to me,”
declares the Lord of hosts.” (Zachariah 13:7)
Who is your God? How honorable is he?
The water of a well worn river rides on rock. It spent it’s time gouging out the temporary. It has found its place and has no need to seek another.
The River of Life from God has gouged out the temporary among us. He not only found his place upon the permanent rocks, he has become the foundation of the Waters of God.
People use cute phrases to sum up what they call “good things”. But that’s like assuming that sand can be a good foundation for a permanent river.
No one is good but God alone. No good thing exists but that which is the will of God.
What should we do about this? Doesn’t God say that he will give us wisdom without judgment? Doesn’t he command us to make a distinction between what is holy and what is common? Doesn’t God expect us to pray earnestly for all the things that are good?
Does more need to be said?
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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