Showing posts with label Isaiah 61:1-3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isaiah 61:1-3. Show all posts

Friday, December 8, 2017

HAPPY SABBATH + Popular ... Convenient + PRAYER: Fix Our Faith!





It Is Gloriously Popular To Be Unkind!
It Is Enormously Convenient To Be Cruel!
It Is Sincerely Expedient To Sacrifice Another
BUT
It Is Not Considered Practical To Believe That
Jesus Christ Saves
Nor That Loving Trusting
Worshiping And Obeying
The Living Holy God
Will Cause A Brother Sister
To Be In The Eternal Kingdom
A Precious, Precious, Jewel!

It Is Considered Hopelessness
To Find Faith In The Creator God Helpful!
It Is Considered Foolishness
To Believe In The Invisible God
Who Is Higher Than Oneself And Any Earthy Other!
It Is Considered Weakness
To Acknowledge Need Of A Forgiving Savior
BUT
Indulging
Free-Basting
In Rampant Wickedness
Marks One An Emulatable Success!?!

The Exchanges ...

Laud Ashes And Call Them Beautiful!
Indulge Ungodly Fears But Don't Shed Repentant Tears!
Wallow In Base Lies And Hurriedly Bury Truth!
AND
Walk Pleasurably In Darkness 
AND
Hide Living Light
From Our Struggling Youth!

Robbery Is Fair Exchange!
Murder Is A Saving Grace For The Earth!
Idolatry Is The Vehicle For Financial Blessing
AND
True Truth Is An Inconvenience
To Be Fixed
As One Would A Root Canal
For An Exposed Nerve In A Troublesome Tooth!

Will You Answer ...

How Did We Get Here?!
Why Are We So Proud?!
Will We Ever Learn Our Lessons?!
Or
Will Edification Only ... Finally ... Come
When Christ The King
Suddenly
- As The Thief -
Appears In The Eastern Sky
Riding Upon The Cloud?!

Now Raise Your Voice In ...


PRAYER:

Father,
Eternal God In Heaven
Blessings Come Only From You
Pity This People
Made By Your Hand Of Creation
And
Help Us
For We Really Truly
Urgently
Need You!


Up Is Down!
The Priests Call Black, White!
The Curse Is Considered Causeless
And
The Known, Bold, Sinner
Is Believed Faultless
So, Please
Help Us, Dear Father
By Lifting The Occluding Cloud

And
Shining The Light Of Truth
In The Felt Darkness!

Help Us Our Known Sin To Confess!

Renew Our Minds!
Grant Unto Us The Promised New Hearts!
Unstop Our Dull-Of-Hearing Ears!
Place A Cleansing Coal
From Heaven's Altar
On Our Glibly Lying Tongues
And
Wash Our Obviously Blind Eyes
With Your Healing Tears!

Help Us, Lord
To Run To
And
With Alacrity Enter
The Safe
The Sheltered
The Protected
Sheep Fold!

Let Not Fear Of Unmighty Man
Who Cannot Destroy Our Souls In Hell
Cause Our Trembling Hearts To Grow Cold
And
Help Us Not To Sell Eternal Gold
To Get A Few Coins Of Burnable Silver
And
Questionable Earthy Power!
Help Us To Deny The Gross Liar Bold!


Father, 
We See Our Need
And
We Have The Need To Know You Intimately
And
We Acknowledge
That You Are The One Alone 
Who Feeds Heals
And
Mankind Seals!
Give Us This Day Our Necessary Food
For
We Consent To Be By Still Wates Lead!

We Know With Assurance

That You Alone Save
And
We Bow, Now
In Contrition
Before Time Is Over
Or
We, Uncooperative
Visit The Long-Home Grave!
Help Us
For We Have No Desire
Ever Again To Be Sin's Slaves!


Lord,
We, Few
Do Not Use Our Liberty For License! 
We, Few
Choose To Walk The Path Of Righteousness! 
We, Few
Know That You Alone Are The God Able
And
Choose
To Honor And Glorify You!
In This Make Us Valiantly Bold!


Please, Lord
In Your Mercy
With Your Grace
Because Of Your Known Sacrificial Love
Fix Our Faith
Anchor Our Souls
And
Ready Our Mansions
For, We Few 
Choose The Unpopular Path
And
Have Heaven For Our Soul's Only Goal!

Hear Our Prayer, Oh, Lord
For We Pray All
In The Worthy Name Of 
Jesus Christ The Righteous!
AMEN.