Billions will bow and give glory to God for the Beautiful Regal Majesty of His Holy and Righteous Son on the day he is fully revealed.
Who will do so now?
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The Woman
I watched a woman drive by me. With both hands on the wheel, she watched carefully straight ahead. But the car spoke louder of her character than her attentiveness. It was a rusty beat up old boat from the eighties.
Obviously, she is trying hard to do the best she can with what she has.
But I wondered about her hope. Being a born protector, the woman is concerned about her family, children, parents, friends, sickness, stability. Does she know how intensely greater a protector is the Lord Jesus?
Has she learned to be protected? Does she have joy inside all that dutiful good habit?
Setting a man on one side, and a woman on the other, consider their characteristic behaviors. If a man could lay his hands on the father of lies, he would tear and punch and kick and scream venomous violence, as he tried to take down his foe. How would this woman act in the same environment?
Would she huddle with her children in a darkened corner? Or with excellent fearless violence, would her face explode with fierce anger as she rushed to dismember this one who has harmed her so; this one who threatens her great instinctual desire?
Would she cower in abject terror, or would she do as Peter has told her: Be fearless! Believe! Live your life in Christ with complete peace of heart. Show no fear, trusting that God is greater than you.
With all that he has, I watch Man search for peace.
Entertainment and distractions abound.
Yet Peace eludes him with the agility of eternity; avoiding without boundaries.
Entertainment and distractions abound.
Peace lives and thrives in the brilliance of perfect righteousness; the place where the eye of Man is not fit for perception.
All the while:
Entertainment and distractions abound.
He who abandons the futile path of discovery, can go nowhere else but the path of the Holy Lord God Almighty.
There he will find Peace, pleasantly and joyously waiting to receive him.
Who will be patient enough to abandon the pursuit of entertainment and distractions?
This one is likely to find Peace.
His name, is Jesus the Christ of God.
“Well, He Did it!”
We live in a world of compromise. Is that how God’s people should live?
Go ask Ananias and Sapphira. If you don’t know who these two are, go look it up.
Go ask Achan son of Karmi.
Go ask Cain.
Go ask the Apostle Peter, as he separated himself from the Gentiles.
Go ask Demas.
Ask Jim Bakker.
Ask Jimmy Swaggart.
Billions of people live the life of compromise, and they pay an enormous price. Billions more have led an equally compromised life, but they were never caught; they lived just inside the rules of social legitimacy. But even while they have lived, their reward waits for them.
I can force no one to live a pure life in Christ. But I can certainly warn about the cost of compromise.
The Sending
Take your eyes off the things that are broken. For to ponder these things is sadness without repair.
Let your ears forget the noise of the crash. Let your eyes cease to remember the shattered pieces on the floor.
The Fullness of Life stands at the door. Turn to see how He watches you.
Send your ears away that they may listen to His words. Forgive them their duty as your servants. Let them go and learn, so that when they return they will give you knowledge.
Send your eyes away. Let them go and see the things the Living God has in His hand. When they return to you they will not squint at the brilliance of light. The shadows will no longer be an attraction.
Do not shrink back but become!
Inhumane Cruelty
The world is cruel and inhumane. By the structures of its society it creates incredible need. So it rakes in money for police, psychologists, psychiatrists, and all manner of medical profession. It creates all kinds of instruments for dealing with food, clothing, and housing. Still it makes no headway against the horror it creates.
Then it advertisements remedies for the trouble it causes, showing pictures of saddened and agonized faces. It is as if they say, “You deserve to feel this way, and we can help you”.
All the while, they make rules and regulations that bar worship of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Righteous and Holy Son of God stands ready and willing to repair all these insane troubles. But the world would rather manipulate the broken hearted and elevate their own pride.
Shame on you!
UTTER BLIND FOLLY!
Words From There 