There is Beautiful.
There is justice.
There is purity.
There is utter righteousness.
It is not in religion; those things a man does because Beautiful is.
It is at the table of the Living God.
The place where millions come every morning and every night.
Do not be ashamed of what you eat there.
Of all the things you hold so dear, the meal prepared for you is an invitation to every man.
Invite, speak well, encourage, offer the humility you have received.
His name is Jesus.
Come to him and live.
Word frames to paint the repercussions of sorrow:
How much sorrow in this world is swallowed by humanity? The pain we feel inside never finds a place of release. What is the sound of a wounded heart? Humanity doesn’t have the ability to voice it.
How much sorrow is dished out in this world and the people eat it all day long? What is the size of container necessary to keep it all bottled up? I don’t think such a container could be on the earth, it is just too large!
This is the reason the world is isolated from the glorious throne of the living God. This incubator of godly traits will not find an audience before purity.
If sorrow made a noise what would it be? And if the volume of that noise from one man is loud, what is the sound of all humanity from Adam until now.
Once the sound is uttered, or a feeling of sorrow kept inside, it can never be dismissed or extinguished, it can only be ignored. The deed is done and the payment is in the soul.
It is the mercy of God that we cannot hear the horror of what we do. But God surely hears.
A wailing is heard in heaven. A constant sound of torture, echoing off walls of peace. It is not so much the volume that should be disturbing, it’s the sound itself.
Do we think a little sin is no trouble when compared to a large sin? Doesn’t a small sin add to the roar of sorrow? Who are we to divide what is righteous, what is moderate, and what is deadly?
If God gave us ears to hear what we do, would it subdue our selfish desire? Or would the sound of our own wickedness caused us to wail even louder?
Withdraw from the war against your brothers. Minimize regret.
Sin is a curious predator. The stocking of its prey is sufficient pleasure. It doesn’t kill to eat. It doesn’t destroy to retain its property. And it really doesn’t care whether the sinner is pleased with its work or not. I doubt that sin is even purely selfish. The only thing sin has in mind is to destroy purity. And if you could ask sin why, it wouldn’t have the slightest clue of an answer.
What should be done with an enemy like that?
2 questions:
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1. Why do we need faith?
2. What does the voice of God sound like?
Beginning with the second question:
The voice of God is life. When the Israelites were released from bondage in Egypt, God displayed his voice in a thunderous noise from the mountain. But this was for the sake of the people, that they may worship Him and obey. As he spoke with Moses, however, he used no such voice. Rather, God treated Moses as a friend. (What does that say about those to whom he spoke as a thunderous noise?)
The voice of God requires faith to hear. God is thoroughly life. Everything he is, everything he says, everything he does, is life. Ask yourself then what does life say, what does life sound like, what does life look like, what does life feel like? Look carefully at the situations and things that come to you.
Please don’t consider that God is like a man. The life I am speaking of is Purity, Holiness, Righteousness, Justice, Mercy, and in the end Grace to us through sustaining toward the same things.
He would prefer that we gain his wisdom to perceive with our eyes and ears, mind, heart and strength. Isn’t this why the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength and with all your soul? Then you will begin to hear his voice. How do I know this?
Romans 1:20 tells us how we know this. “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
(And we have the testimony of those who do hear his voice through faith. The one who writes this testifies. And some who read this testify. The voice of God, one may say, also comes from those who know him. Perhaps better said, those God knows in Jesus His Holy and Righteous Son. The people would find advantedge listening to the words of such people, instead of pre-judging them as worthless.)
He speaks to us from what we can say “IS”. Because life “IS”.
And we must inject another slice of information here. God does not demand too much, for he gives us everything we need to accomplish his Holy will in our lives. To say he does not, is to join with satan in the primary accusation that has caused creation of this place of testing in the first place. We find the second slice of information in the following scripture.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do. (James 1)
Rejecting this promise is a sincerely precarious place to choose to live! For if we do not receive his wisdom, that God is so willing to give freely, we will surely lack precious gifts. (Even, perhaps, finding death in the end. For not a single one of those who of those who heard the Thunders from the mountain receive the promise of God.)
Having read this, it is now your responsibility to act. Though having said that, (it sounds like a threat) the Wonders that God is willing to give to any man is far worth the struggle to suppress our rebelion (That which is crouching at our very door, desiring to have us. But we must master it. [Taken from Genesis 4:7])
Think about this deeply: we need faith because it will never cease to be necessary.
Go and see if what I have said is true.
P. S. The voice of God is called Jesus. Think about that for the rest of your life.
The beginning of a matter is the same as the ending, if indeed the matter is carried through to the end. This is the nature of a sinful act. The severity of the sin determines Gods reaction at the onset.
This is where God has been misunderstood in his judgments against Man’s rebelion.
We think something is a small matter. We can’t understand why God has turned his face from us.
See how we don’t understand the nature of Purity, Righteousmess and Holiness.
To cap this all off, this must be said: at the beginning of every sin we find that we have conveniently forgotten the laws of God. This is because we are not the laws of God, but God is.
Define purity.
Three men appeared to Abraham. At that time a marvelous blessing was given to Abram. And at that time, a horrible declaration was understood (surprisingly quickly). They were in route to visit Sodom for the sake of Destruction.
As two of the men left to their destination, Abraham detained the One with questions about justice. And I read these words, “Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening”.
When I read the words I didn’t have a slice of time to wonder. I knew. The Majesty of God will never set foot in the place of Destruction. It is enough that He should hear the reports and send emissaries for the sake of His will.
If you wonder why Jesus, the very word of God, appeared among us (in our place of destruction), it’s because Jesus was sent as an emissary – for the sake of his Father’s will, and for our salvation.
Do not take these words at face value. Think as deeply as the Lord’s wisdom will allow.
Consider this, and answer with truth, define purity.
We: Live, Die, Face Judgment. Jesus or die twice.
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