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The Lord, The Sovereign Lord, the Source of life, ever-present Righteousness, Glorious mercy and justice.  He has all things, doesn’t he?  He lacks nothing, how true.  That’s what Sovereign means.

But let me speak to the rich man.  Let me speak to the perverted drunk.  Let me speak to the beautiful woman.  Let me speak to the greasy whore.  Let me speak to all those who have a place among Man, whether glorified or horrified; those with clean hands and those whose hands are covered with blood.

God has all things for he is all things.  Yet what he does not have, he has poured out his life to gain.  He does not have your love.  He does not take first place in all your days, though he is first in all eternity.  All creation honors His Holy Name, except here.  His name is Jesus the Christ, look into it.

“You ask too much of us!  You sit in your religious Chapel, carved of pure Ivory, and judge us.  You have forgotten the demands of life that are far more then we can bear.  We cannot put God first we must defend our home!”

Your home?  Your home is a soleless pair of old shoes.  Your home is a worn-out pair of jeans filled with holes, and leaving your buttocks bare.  Your home is an umbrella missing it’s purposed fabric.  Your home is a cave filled with Wolverines and poisonous snakes.   The floor of your home cannot be cleaned!   Why can’t you smell the stench of your household enemy’s feces, which lay in the crags you can’t reach?  Precious place, isn’t it, this place you call your home.  The place where you fear even in what you call solace.  You light a lamp, but still darkness pervades.

8 “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.”  (Micah 6)

He is your potential friend.  He is your potential Guardian.  Already he provides what you call your home. 

Who causes the lava to harden?  Who plants the seed of a tree in its craggy niches?  Who brings the beautiful erosion to cause a paradise?  Who gave you this place?  Who dressed you with skin?  Yet you would fear and keep him far from you?

Trust him and do the things that belong to him.  Then you will have a home that is not filled with stench and death.  Your home provides you no pact with death.

Deeds Done in the Body

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The Hope of Christ causes we who believe to agree:

God has placed us among His belongings in Christ.

6 “Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. 7 For we live by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”  (2 Corinthians 5)

How much of this does each of us believe?  It is easily determined, how much of this we believe, by an assessment of our “doings”.

May sobriety tend to us as a caring nurse.

The Way HOME

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Open, wanton, sick and twisted;

Is the box of flesh your soul resides in.

Closed, Holy, Life and straight;

Is the path of life we’re given from Him.

Say you are able to find the way Home,

And your tongue will make you a liar.

The only way Home to a wayward soul,

Is consumed by The Holy Fire.

How can the flesh endure His great thrashing?

What strength does it have to remain?

The soul either emulates all that is passing,

Or submits itself to be tamed.

By His Grace

We Know We Know.

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If I say, “I know what is true”, you will ask, “Then why don’t you do it?”  What am I like?  I am like a man who needs to resupply his food.  He knows where the store is.  He has a car outside.  He knows full well how to start the car, drive the roads, park, and shop.  But he sits in his chair hungry and desiring.

 

The statement is true.  He knows how to get food and has the money and means to accomplish what he needs done.  But he chooses folly instead.  This is a truth about all men, isn’t it?  Folly attends our waking hours like some kind of black mold.

 

Your question is fully warranted.  But we must realize something here.  Asking “Then why don’t you do it?”, shows that you too know that it should be done.  We are all at fault for not doing what we KNOW needs done.

Unsure Studebaker Desiring Other Plans

Unsure Studebaker Desiring Other Plans (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

pitiful, ain’t it?

How Much Longer Lord?

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You might think this post is a bit strange.  But if I say nothing, who will?

I have found myself considering the end of my life.  Where will I go to meet the Lord?  How long do I have left in this rotten place of sin?  How much longer must I be tested?  This is the reason for wondering about it.  How much longer can I expect to live?

So I looked up the stats on life expectancy in America.  I’m 58 this year.  When can I reasonably expect to go home?  My mom and dad lived into their early 80’s.  So genetically, I can expect to live quite a while longer.  Dang!  I was kind of hoping it would be less than a year or two.  Frankly, I would have been satisfied with a couple days.

I know I haven’t achieved much of anything, in the way of serving the Lord or men.  But I’m tired now.  The world is quickly disintegrating in this decade.  And I fear for man for what is surely to come in just a short couple years.

So how long are men living in America?  About 78 years, on average.  For those of us who hate math, that’s another 20 years for me.  Sigh.