You know? I could speak in words of eloquence and dazzle your ears with wonderful sayings. Encourage you to build your house on the sand and enjoy the fleeting pleasures of today. Yet my heart grieves within me. What is the point of our efforts? What is there to enjoy in our mist of a life? What will stand?
Don't give me some crap about truth standing. Or your achievements. Or your memories. Or your family and friends. Or anything.
NOTHING. but the Lord.
I hurt with the pangs of creation. I mourn for the emptiness of our desires. We are being led astray by the harlot Babylon. By the adulteress lying in wait for her prey. Where is Wisdom? Why do we not hear the clamor and her cries for notice? We ignore the Word and go to our own philosophies and the random mutterings of our own mind.
Come on. Seriously. You think you or any man can come up with something real and substantial? Any thought to rival the mind of God? Any discovery or invention to match the Behemoth. Any strength or ability to tame the seas and set the world in place? Steve Jobs? Isaac Newtown? Name your genius. Name your idol. K-Pop? Jeremy Lin? You?
Nobody can stand before the Lord.
Why do we not have the fear of the Lord? Why do we not fear? Until we are caught in the snares of death itself, we do not cry out for help. Maybe perhaps after one drink too many, or after our momentary high runs out, we think soberly for a second. WHAT AM I DOING? WHAT IS THIS LIFE?
Yet we silence ourselves. Or the world shuts us up. Our true desires are enveloped with a counterfeit culture of cheap drugs and fantasies. You want romance? You want acceptance? You want pleasure? You want happiness? Buy it. Can't afford it? Watch it on TV.
Go ahead and inject yourself with that needle. Swallow those pills. Be loose with your body. Be filled with your own depravity.
Or go the intellectual route. Scorn the stupid. Look for revelation and grow wise with the knowledge of this world. Get approval and admiration from peers. Fill yourself up with the fruit of your labors.
Or be the romantic. Get that woman, or women. Fill yourself up with emptiness and offer fake emotions to another. Lure them into your trap. Never let them open their eyes to see that you can never offer anything to them but destruction. Just take what you want from them, then leave them to continue your journey for love.
There is nothing new under the sun. Yet we do not fear God.
Continue on your route. Pretend as if you know the Lord. Live your life and comfort and pretend the freedom of Christ extends to your life. You're a more confident person? Congratulations that's the limit of God's power. You are satisfied and content and living well? Congratulations that's the blessing of the Lord. AND THAT IS ALL THE REWARD YOU WILL GAIN.
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We have lost our place in the story of redemption. We are the wayward sheep wandering from the only Shepherd who will take us to truly green pastures. We rob ourselves of truth and freedom and close our eyes and ears from the voice of our Shepherd. We are not concerned with the person of Christ. We have no regards for His will. We only want to eat more fodder and live in our filth yet have a clean conscience.
What do you know of Christ?
What have you experienced of Christ?
What do I know of Christ?
What have I received from Christ?
Let me speak in humility.
Brothers and sisters. Be guarded for you are being SOLD to the prince of the air and the principalities of the current darkness. You give away yourself for something that gives no satisfaction. You bring destruction and wrath over your heads.
Seek the righteousness of God and his kingdom. SEEK it. For it is not here yet.
What do you truly desire? What do you truly want?
I desire love. I desire to experience the GLORY of God. Not in words or conjectures of theological soundness. I WANT TO EXPERIENCE HIS PRESENCE. To see His BLINDING GLORY. His EYES are like FLAMES OF FIRE. His HAIR is WHITE LIKE WOOL.
I want to fall as dead before the feet of this Messiah. This is the LORD that I will serve. He will lift up my head if only I walk humbly.
I will seek out His heart. His passions. His desires. He seeks the redemption of this world and restoration of perfection in this world. For a NEW Earth, not the annihilation of this earth. We will NOT be sent up to Heaven to live forever as a spirit.
We will be resurrected from the dead. Just like Christ. We will inherit this earth. We will reign with Christ in righteousness forever.
That is His ultimate plan for the end of this age. I will submit myself to His plans.
He will bring great trials and tribulations upon the church. Upon Israel, his chosen people. We will suffer and many will die. The rest will fall away and follow the call of comfort and ease. They will take the mark and join against Christ. Israel will face great pain from the Anti-Christ and only a remnant will remain.
We as Gentiles need to gather the full number of Gentiles to faith so that at the end all of the remnant of Israel will be finally provoked to jealousy and repent to turn to Christ. Their Messiah.
Then He will descend. And bring recompense. And reign.
Then the Day of the Lord. Where all accounts will be settled and the wicked thrown into the lake of fire. At this point, nobody can question the holiness and power of the Lord. His judgments are absolute. There will be much gnashing of teeth.
As for the righteous? The one who conquers? The faithful servant will enter into the joy of their Master. They will be raised into an incorruptible body. They will receive a crown, robes of righteousness, and even a new name. They will reign with Christ in glory.
If this is the plan of the Lord, we must follow Him. As a Christian, we alone have any hope in this world. To escape the coming judgment and enter into the coming kingdom. We must live as such. We cannot succumb to the folly of this world.
We must follow Christ. Embrace the cross! Live it out. Count all as loss and die in order to find life. Deny yourself and be led by the Holy Spirit. BECAUSE IT WILL ALL BE WORTH IT.
Live in reality and utter sobriety. Love the LORD.
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