Monday, June 17, 2013

Broken Hearted

I've know, what it feels like, to be outside,
the resigned bitterness, when all hope has died.
the emptiness left, when all the tears have been cried.
Don't let the anger, keep the light, from coming inside.

To be able to love, you must first feel pain.
Only sin's worst effects are sufficient to explain
the reality, that self sacrifice, made to Him, is what will gain
the peace and joy, only a heart at rest in Him, can entertain.

Meanwhile, there's another sorrow, that the godly must endure,
those returned to wide eyed innocence, with eternal destination now secure,
who long to see their loved ones, sanctified, made pure,
bowed at the feet of the Holiness, that only His blood can procure.

A prayer for the brokenhearted, we are called to bear,
we are examples of His grace, that we are called to share,
we carry the seed of hope, for redemption from despair,
far beyond our strength, is this gift to us, beyond compare.

Voices of opposition can but tell the lie,
that it's in God's heart to condemn, to deny,
the needs of those who love Him, when to Him they cry!
A loving Father has promised their every need to supply!

Are you the one, after all He's done, who tells Him to leave you alone?
Your self destructive behavior, you're expecting Him to condone?
Do you think He'll be patient always, the settlement forever postpone?
When the very air you breathe, He owns?

He became the Man of Sorrows, the Brokenhearted, to rescue us all.
His is still the loving patience, while sending out His call.
The wounds He suffered for us, should appall,
to persuade us from the cliff edge, of the destruction soon to befall.

Be prepared for powerful answers, when you dare to question the King,
the grand depth, of His wisdom, instilled in what He is fashioning,
the deep meaning imbued, in the very air, we are breathing.
How could you doubt the very One, the Only One, who gives.........everything?








Saturday, June 8, 2013

God Because God

Oh, but of course! That one small phrase covers an infinity of beauty, wisdom, and power! The Almighty is sufficient unto Himself, both in His demands for perfection, and in His complete fulfillment of His own requirements. His power is total and so is His giving. Giving is the nature He constructs in us, so that we become like Him and part of Him: totally His. He cannot give less than all of Himself, and He wants this for us too. It's an all or nothing scenario.

If we defy His ordained order, attempt to short circuit His plan, we end up with this baseness called religion. Religion is about our own effort (on our own behalf). The need to worship is there, but in a deteriorated, ineffectual state of only what we have to offer. The gods of religion, the overseers of futility, can only exhibit our very own feet of clay, the weakness of an evil nature. They are poisonous shadows of the all sufficiency of God.

Christ is the only One who offers us the transcendent, the Superreality. Only He can bridge the gap, being both man and superscedant of the flesh, God Himself. No religion, coming from man, can offer  what He gives. Religion is only a fraudulent counterfeit of The Reality. Religion can only validate the truth and verify the claims of the Savior it so uselessly attempts to imitate!

Monday, June 3, 2013

Now and Then

2 Peter 3 "Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”

This is how the unfaithful treat with grace. If you know you are untrustworthy, then of course you would extend that same lack of consideration to others. The Highest authority would receive the greatest disrespect. These are the very ones who have taken over possession of, and residence in, the vineyard of the Lord. Yet violence will not be given a portion of the inheritance. The usurpers will be evicted, dispossessed.

Grace and the preaching of love, will soon end. God will soon deal with the faithless as He always has, with the judgment that is their due payment. The great sign, of the removal of His beloved, the church, will be the announcement of the beginning of the "Day of the Lord." As it was for Lot in Sodom, so too the Bride of Christ, the inhabitants of the Heavenly Jerusalem (city of peace) will be removed before the time of God's wrath. The inhabitants of the earth will clearly understand, because they will hide themselves in caves, and under mountains. 

The time is late. In fact, it's just before midnight. The Good Father knows where all of His children are. He has to know. He must pull them out fast when He opens the way for the evil one to return to full influence and power. Does the Father know where YOU are? Have you asked Him to save you from the judgment? Don't let ANYTHING distract you from this most important settling of accounts! He's paid it with His blood. Now ask Him to apply it on your behalf..................