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Some are led to listen. Some can't hear. Some think they hear, but what are they hearing?
If the Divine Intention was to give Perfect Hearts, then it would be so. Obviously that is not the case. So what in the world is really going on? I might propose, exactly what God wants to be going on at any given time.
In the O.T. God gave certain laws, directives, instructions, performed miraculous actions, etc. Yet God also did not give very many hearts understandings. And what understandings there were then, were Divinely hidden, obscured, shadowed. And God dealt harshly with the people He called out, eventually scattering them. Literally, destroying them.
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Paul concedes to the truth/fact that he too only saw in part and as "as" somewhat darkly. 1 Cor. 13:12
In politics we are always promised changes. But even the masses know that changes can only come from the top.
We can "try" to change ourselves, but these are largely "acts" of "actors." None of us are "fit" with powers to engage the very real problems of this present world. We "reflect" very PALE matters of sharing things like Mercy or Grace or even Faith. We share in the dark. Nor are all the promises any good without the power to actually change, and to see such change, as A Divine Reality, which can only come from Above.
Romans 15:8
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
And, therefore, we wait for same:
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
To even be enabled to see such things, as obscure as they presently are, is a miracle. We are all familiar enough with the problems and the suffering of this world, in all it's present forms. And whom of us can "define" Perfection? I certainly can't. Anything I might see has no semblance to Perfection, but is only a very pale and dark reflection.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
These are the questions I too observe.
Only God in Christ can do with creation, what His Intentions are with same. I, personally, am headlong, purposefully, Divinely so, into weakness. It is from there, that I look to Him for His Promises to unfold. These things are in none of our hands.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
All the talk talk and guess guess in the world does a man in weakness no good. I know this weakness, intimately so. God loves you when He pummels you into the whole of weakness. Power mongers and manipulators are a dime a dozen in this wicked wicked world. I am finished with such manipulators, demanders, pseudo controllers.
God in Christ has aligned His Goal:
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
Anything I have to say to God would probably seem incoherently ignorant to Him. I know it would. I have nothing to say to God. Better to keep silent before The King.
And make ready for the storms that will put down.
Yes, I expect "change." I have no expectations of anything from this wicked world other than more wickedness and more death, til this place runs the wicked and death cycles that God has ordained for same.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
There are baby goats in the yard next to me, bellowing like little children for their mother and their mothers milk, waiting blindly, completely unknowingly for their last minute of complete and utter panic to their deaths, to be slaughtered and cut apart for meat on somebodies table. Are we any different?
Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
God, I hate this place. It is where bloody butchers live. And sadly, I am one also, by participation. Anyone who thinks they see life in this land of death is optimistically blind. They see nothing, but the temporal and passing into dust in the wind, where it rightfully belongs.
Psalm 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
If the Divine Intention was to give Perfect Hearts, then it would be so. Obviously that is not the case. So what in the world is really going on? I might propose, exactly what God wants to be going on at any given time.
In the O.T. God gave certain laws, directives, instructions, performed miraculous actions, etc. Yet God also did not give very many hearts understandings. And what understandings there were then, were Divinely hidden, obscured, shadowed. And God dealt harshly with the people He called out, eventually scattering them. Literally, destroying them.
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Paul concedes to the truth/fact that he too only saw in part and as "as" somewhat darkly. 1 Cor. 13:12
In politics we are always promised changes. But even the masses know that changes can only come from the top.
We can "try" to change ourselves, but these are largely "acts" of "actors." None of us are "fit" with powers to engage the very real problems of this present world. We "reflect" very PALE matters of sharing things like Mercy or Grace or even Faith. We share in the dark. Nor are all the promises any good without the power to actually change, and to see such change, as A Divine Reality, which can only come from Above.
Romans 15:8
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
And, therefore, we wait for same:
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
To even be enabled to see such things, as obscure as they presently are, is a miracle. We are all familiar enough with the problems and the suffering of this world, in all it's present forms. And whom of us can "define" Perfection? I certainly can't. Anything I might see has no semblance to Perfection, but is only a very pale and dark reflection.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
These are the questions I too observe.
Only God in Christ can do with creation, what His Intentions are with same. I, personally, am headlong, purposefully, Divinely so, into weakness. It is from there, that I look to Him for His Promises to unfold. These things are in none of our hands.
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.
All the talk talk and guess guess in the world does a man in weakness no good. I know this weakness, intimately so. God loves you when He pummels you into the whole of weakness. Power mongers and manipulators are a dime a dozen in this wicked wicked world. I am finished with such manipulators, demanders, pseudo controllers.
God in Christ has aligned His Goal:
1 Corinthians 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
Anything I have to say to God would probably seem incoherently ignorant to Him. I know it would. I have nothing to say to God. Better to keep silent before The King.
And make ready for the storms that will put down.
Yes, I expect "change." I have no expectations of anything from this wicked world other than more wickedness and more death, til this place runs the wicked and death cycles that God has ordained for same.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
There are baby goats in the yard next to me, bellowing like little children for their mother and their mothers milk, waiting blindly, completely unknowingly for their last minute of complete and utter panic to their deaths, to be slaughtered and cut apart for meat on somebodies table. Are we any different?
Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
God, I hate this place. It is where bloody butchers live. And sadly, I am one also, by participation. Anyone who thinks they see life in this land of death is optimistically blind. They see nothing, but the temporal and passing into dust in the wind, where it rightfully belongs.
Psalm 39
1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am.
5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
