Distraction: a riddle, what does it mean?
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Marvel at the beauty of shadows.
But stay you too far from the light.
And the shadows will overcome you.
They will strip you of all your might.
The soul is like a chameleon;
Dressed in black or brilliant colors.
Of the black ones there are billions.
While the number of brilliant is smaller
Oh! People of the world; those who despise the Rule of the Holy One. What do you have to show for all your toil?
Your people melt in the streets from the demands you place upon them. They rot in their flesh and soul, for the strength of your demands. What do you have to show for all the chaos of your toil?
Isn’t the Word that can heal among you? Isn’t the power of Salvation from God extended?
Why will you not take it? Why will you not ask? Why will you live like abandoned children?
Why will you honor the unholy gaggle that you yourselves have glorified? Why will you not humble yourselves in prayer?
Why is the Holy Scripture left untouched, day after day? Why do you not speak to one another about pure things? Why are lies vastly more abundant than God’s commands?
See how you falter and fail. See how you lack the strength to continue. Yet you continue; as if this continuing is righteously demanded of every one of you.
The leaders of the people die. They thirst and will not drink. They hunger, yet waste away like those who fast to death.
The children are not fed, for the parents have no food. Filth is the delicacy on the table at night. Precious and good food is kept far from the front door to every house.
What more can be said to a people who desire death and abhor life? Do you want a sweet word from the Living God’s Holy Son? How shall He who tells the truth speak a lie? You have what is true to say.
Amen.
I have seen the body of an animal reduced to bones and fur within the space of two days, by the bugs along a stream. That’s not a place where I’d choose to sleep the night. You would be swarmed within the space of an hour.
As I consider this, I am put to remembrance of the souls of men. The decay of a rotten soul draws the attention of many. Yes, man is dead, even as he lives, if he refuses the life that God extends through Jesus.
Sleep in this world of destruction, if you have no will to notice the swarm which stands against you. Or listen to the wisdom of God to turn away from those places where a man should not “sleep”. Come away from the muddy, unpalatable and slow-moving water of lies. Answer the call to climb the mountain of God which leads to the living place of rest.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”(John 3, ESV)
We are taught to give up.
We are taught to be trivial.
“Do these things and you will be satisfied.
Abstain from the things of God;
See how complicated and unknown are God’s things to man.
See how many versions of God scream to be first.
See how it is right to give up the search.
Be satisfied with what you have, and do not seek more than is reasonable.”
Rather be trivial.
Rather live with the love that you have.
Rather be diligent with the things you already know how to do.
Perceive the beautiful things of living life;
among your fellow men,
Among the sustaining of this world.
Among the limitations of chaos,
Among the decaying pattern of this place,
And among the innate desire to laugh.
Truth says clearly:
“You KNOW this is not the sum of things.
You KNOW there is More to be had.
You KNOW the ways of man are not the fullness of life.
You KNOW you will one day cease here.
You KNOW you will be inspected with absolute scrutiny.
Do you KNOW the name of the One who will inspect?
I see a fearsome mistake that men far too often make. I see it for two reasons. First I see the mistake because I saw it in other men. Then the mistake came to life as I saw it in myself.
The mistake is that any man should think he holds the truth in his own hand. And the mistake becomes evident when our actions and words do not reflect perfection and purity.
I know that many will not understand this. They will think that the body of religious words have power in themselves. But this mistake happens when people forget that the body of religious words are but a shadow of He who is immeasurably pure and brilliantly righteous.
The mistake happens when people look to their own history, or even the history of any other man, and think the truth they perceive can belong to man.
Man, in himself, can never hold the fullness of what is true. I used the word never and meant it with all the fullness that that means. Man’s reliance on the Living God’s Holy Son does not cease at our eternal appearance in heaven.
Truth is the Living God himself. Truth is not a body of evidence among men, whether in word or in deed. Truth is the Living
Person of Jesus the Christ of God.
Failure to pray will surely lead us into things that are not completely true. Failure to humble ourselves before the Majesty of God, will surely cause us to live abundantly in a Body of Lies.
True humility is not a brand of servitude. It is a joyful and willing acceptance of one’s place in life, according to ALL that is true.
Pride is the exact opposite. Pride thinks it is humble. But such false humility only weighs itself against a certain compartment of life. Pride refuses to take into consideration the fullness of what is offered.
Humility receives all and is glad. Pride rejects all, and sadly keeps what it thinks is his.
But let’s not be mistaken here, pride seamlessly believes it is humble. Therefore it is fully incapable of understanding true humility. It is fully incapable of receiving anything. Pride will gladly die, in abject poverty of truth.
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