The religious snob is devoid of Truth
Snobbery and truth are irreconcilable.
A.W. Tozer
Until a christian accepts he knows most when he realises he knows little and that we will never understand this side of heaven until we see in His eternal light the meaning of it all, the rest is guesswork and sadly there's an industry that feeds off the searching spirit.
Every born again believer knows that when you are buried in Christ you die to your old nature and rise to a new life. If you are still returning 'like a dog to it's vomit' to your past sins and proudly sheltering under the umbrella of 'saving grace' its time to stock take, self examination is the order of the day before it's too late. The biblical clock is approaching the hour.
There's a popular euphemism 'we all drop our cross' and while sadly that is true, a repentant saved soul will find the sins of the past abhorrent and the blows inflicted by a refusal to 'dance to the devil' are worth the pain and rejection by others. Your soul knows the prize at the end of the road.
When you realise something far above your pathetic intellect is in control and you are just an insignificant grain of sand on God's shore you are finally starting to grasp the concept of humility. Like the pieces in a jigsaw you fit into your place in the picture and regardless of your standing in this world the great equaliser, death, comes for us all.
Meantime I rejoice in my spiritual youth, a mere 24 years old, pushing against the mud and slime of the dark places seeing only the incredible beauty that remains. The awesome trees that will outlive the puny fragile creature that hugs its trunk. The amazing sunsets and rainbows that colour God's creation.
How lonely, lost and frightened are the elite of this world clutching their possessions tightly realising underground bunkers are not available for everyone and time is running out. The most precious jewel they could ever own belongs to the downtrodden sheep of His flock.
As the global unrest continues there is still work to be done and souls to be won and where one truth seems to contradict another the wise will hold to the basic precepts of their faith and wait for God to resolve differences.
John 8 - 31-32
Then Yeshua (Jesus) said to the Jews who believed him "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed (32) And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Time Lord
I wait on the shore of your life
until the sands of time have run their course.
Whisper in your dreams,
as you journey on the road ahead.
Ever near as you dance
through the sunshine of your days.
Laughing at your antics,
counting the tears of your grief and joy.
Uphill struggle, downhill slide,
life's roller coaster ride.
Until the day you gaze in childlike wonder
at the simplicity of My truth.
I AM.
T. Hills
2005
SHALOM.
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