Tag Archives: Love of God

Freshly Pressed?

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I thumb through “Freshly Pressed”, to see if someone speaks something of value.  All I find are short articles regarding the things of men.  I didn’t stay long there’s nothing on the table to eat.

Some would call me stuck up, arrogant and self-righteous.  To think that I consider what I write to be of more value than theirs.

Okay that’s fine.  Let’s hold up every word they speak against every word the Angels speak.  What’s missing?  Jesus, the Christ of God.

Now who’s train of conversation will last longer, the eternal angels or man who lives but a few years?  Whose words are full of holiness and whose are full of rott gut thoughts?  Whose is the language that will last forever?  Whose string of words will change within an hour?  Who gives glory to God?  Who gives glory to man?  Decide for yourself.

Do you really expect that I should love the things of men more than the things of God?  You would call me names because I do not appreciate what you write.  It was such people who treated the Holy Lord of life like human trash, when he was nailed to the cross.

Write what you will.
You will answer him still.
Account will be given in full.

Accuse has you must.
Ostracize in disgust.
He reigns from His Holy Hill.

By His Grace

The Holy Predator

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I am caused to be a predator.  I create the trap.  I wait patiently to devour.  I am hungry, with constant hunger.

Stealth attends my every movement.  Great and ceaseless strength attends my wiles.

I build the trap where feet trod unsuspecting.  They walk without knowledge of my presence.

I am a predator of life.  I create the trap of life.  I wait patiently to devour with the Love of God.  I am ever hungry for salvation to appear among my fellow men of flesh.

Faith attends my every moment.  Great and ceaseless faith attends my holy wiles.  Wisdom from God, granted with abundance, flows within my blood.

I present the Gospel in the very place where the feet of men trod, unsuspecting, unsearching, and without awareness of knowledge.

Come!  Pass me by.  Sneak up upon me with the stealth you own.  Surprise awaits you.  Life is yearning to violently embrace your soul.

Sin will die!  Holiness will appear!  You will die to the things of this world, that you may life for the things of God!

Come!  Indeed, come!

The Most

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What’s that mean, “The Most”?  The most daring?  The most alluring?  The most powerful?  The shiniest?  The longest?  The quickest?  The most.  Define it any way you can.  But there is a “MOST” that will escape our ability to define.

Jesus is the Son of The Most High God.  What’s that mean?  It means He’s the MOST.  “Well”, some might say, “He is the Son, there is still the Living God above Him”.  I would respond that such words show a distinct lack of understanding regarding the Love of God for His Holy Son, and the nature of God.  And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”  God isn’t just “ok” with Jesus.  He has given everything over to His Son. 

Those who hate the Son, hate the Father as well.  Those who lack a relationship with the Father will not have one with the Son either.  There is no separation between the Father and the Son.  Why is this important?  Because, curiously enough, the world speaks of marvelous things and calls them “most”.   But you’ll never hear the world speak of Jesus in those terms.  God speaks of “MOST” and refers to His Son. 

 

I know what this does to other religions.  I know what these words mean to all other views of religions.  There is one religion, one most, one salvation, one Father, one Jesus, one Holy Spirit, one body of believers marked out by the Lord Himself, and one salvation.  I don’t say this to gain anything.  I say this because God, the Father, has said so Himself.  

 

I can’t possibly care what you think of me for saying so.  Go hammer that out with God the Father.  Right about now, there’d be a fight on the school play ground.  But you can’t fight the Lord of Life.  You’re not even close to His “Play Ground” yet.  And frankly, when you get there, there won’t be an ounce of fight left in you.  But there is sure to be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”.

 

By His Grace.

Origins

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A Sefer Torah, the traditional form of the Heb...

A Sefer Torah, the traditional form of the Hebrew Bible, is a scroll of parchment. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

How amazingly striking is the difference in the writings of the early Church Elders and the writings of men today who consider themselves elders.  What began our faith is not the same power among men today.  We hear the constant ringing of a limp bell which touts the Love of God in Jesus.  But the dedication unto death is the blazing fire which should have strengthened that bell.

What is called the Church today hands out fuzzy blankets to a people stranded in Arctic conditions, wishes them well, then abandons them to the wiles of wickedness all around them.  I do not say this without foundation.  Purity toward the holy life has dissipated in the rising heat of hell itself among the people today.

I urge you to consider what I have posted here.  The world is not void of their writings.  Yet how many take the time to look into these things?  We have all heard the constant voice which appeals to us to remember the height from which we have fallen.

I am no more than anyone who reads these words.  Indeed, I am far less than even the saints of this day.  But why should we settle for a diluted message?  The call of God is urgent, pure, and sure.  It is the same today as it was in the beginning.  It is only the adaptation of this age which waters down the Gospel to a sweet savor of “love”.  As the love between a husband and wife has been reduced to sexual behavior between adulterers, so that LOVE of God has become dispersed to simply mean kindness or restraint from murder.

What of warriors for Christ Jesus?  What of men and women born of the Holy Spirit into a holy life?  How can what is Holy give birth to anything less than Holy?  But the world and the corrupt message of certain men regarding the Gospel have allowed any sin to attach itself to the life of their people.  How will such things become acceptable to the Holy Lord of Life?  Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever!  It is man who has determined, in his “eternal” wisdom, that he can change that pure message from water to tar.

Grasp and return to that message which God has delivered to this day.  He has given His very blood to keep that Word through the ages.  And we would do well to read and learn of the kind of men and women who were used by God to found our faith.  Listening to the message today and reading the message of the starting, one would think we are serving an entirely different God.

By His Grace.

Got it? Really?

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Open hand. Original description: 2000. Español...

Open hand. Original description: 2000. Español: Esta es mi mano a los 20 años. El anillo era de mi madre, estaba hecho de hueso y un día, al poco de hacer el dibujo, se me rompió en dos. 😦 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Men are mistaken in their apprehension of God.  Even those who worship Him cannot fully understand His Holy ways.  Right about the time we think we understand, another test or teaching appears from the hand of He who Lives Forever.

When we find ourselves empty in our prayers, there is a reason.  If we have sinned, that silence may seem like an angry God.  But I do not see it that way.  He is stern with us, demanding that we adhere to His commands.  But not that pouty little boy way that men foist on those who spurn their advise.  His face is beautiful!  Even if it is looking away from us for a moment.

The Love of God is not like the love of man.  He is actively searching our wicked hearts so that He can lead us into all things best.  I have said it before, and say it again.  I would rather the rebuke from the Living God than all the fame, love, wealth, and pomp this world can muster.  The first builds me into something eternally valuable.  The second only serves to hold me hostage until a remedy can be found to enslave me once again.

 

A Necessary Bad Idea

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Never taunt an angry drunk.  Especially, don’t taunt a very large, angry drunk.  You will become his target.  And the violence he had done in the past will become a storm of hatred.  He will become like every vicious animal.  And you will regret it.

The world is angry because it can’t have what it wants.  And some, if not many, are drunk with desire.  Unless you are willing to die, it is not wise to taunt them.  Yet, isn’t it the effect the Gospel has on the world? 

The Gospel speaks of the wickedness of man as leading to certain death.  And it speaks of the glories that await those who obey the Lord Jesus.  The combination presented to those drunk with desire for the things of the world will certainly rouse their anger.

Look at the situation in America, Egypt, Lybia, Grease, and others.  See how desire for riches, power, and world strength have killed so many already.  And I am confident that when they have attained enough power and riches they will turn to God’s people. 

Yet I will taunt them.  I will speak of the Love of God displayed in His Gospel.  I will present myself for their salvation, if they will have it.  But I will also brace myself for what surely comes of that.  I remember how some were treated before I knew the Gospel.  I remember how they were cast out of friendships.  I remember how the whispers about them were abundant.  And I remember how they lost what was dear to them as they served the Lord.

Bring a Bible into the home of a happy couple.  Allow that one of them will believe the message.  That one will start to pull away from the world’s ways.  While the other will hate this change.  There will be tension.  There will be a falling out.  And, if one remains in unbelief while the other grows in Christ Jesus, there will be an explosion between them. 

It will be the same for everyone who believes the Gospel in this world.  Though they were once married to a hatred of God, now they learn to love Him.  As their love grows, so do the tensions.  And at some point, His people are cast out.  If you think this isn’t true, then I ask you, “Why are so many who think they are Christians keep their mouth shut?”  It is because they fear what they know is certain to happen. 

But I will proclaim!  I am not afraid of being cast out.  The Lord has allowed that I should be cast out all my life.  And it has become my advantage now.  You have nothing I want, world.  The Lord’s ways and promises are my desire, and this by His Grace.  I urge you to come and consider this strength.  You think it is strong to remain in the world.  But the world is a coward before the Most High God.  He will appear.  And all who put their trust in the things of this world will be utterly ashamed.

By His Grace.