Erik was always a calm man, especially around the word. Even more so around people who were curious about God's teachings. One time I eavesdropped couch counseling, and the quote has always stuck with me.
"All creation obey God. All creatures, all the seas, the storms, and the earth. Of all these things, humans are the only ones that do not obey. Of all creation, WE do not obey the creator"
When spoken like that, I have a flash of just how much of a rebel I am. To think, there be a nation, no, a great sovereignty, and I am but a foot soldier waving a stump of a fist at my orders. How am I to be looked on with any favor? Can I be considered with any courage? No, my purple heart should be made of thorns, and my gold necklace into iron shackles. Even in a progressive society like today, if you rebel against authority, you will be punished severly.
And not only do I find myself stopping in the midst of a battle, but i find myself stopping others also, encouraging or enticing them not to fight. Not to raise arms, but to sit and eat our rations!
In Isaiah 1 it says:
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O(H) earth; for the LORD has spoken:"Children[a](I) have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.3The ox(J) knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib,but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."Though i fully understand this is speaking of Israel as a nation in the old days, my heart still resonates, and my conscience accuses me, I am of the very similar behavior. I do not know, I do not understand.
5Why will you still be(O) struck down? Why will you(P) continue to rebel?The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.6(Q) From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it,but bruises and sores and raw wounds;they are(R) not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
This is not literally happening to me, but why should i be surprised when various afflications come about? Why am I surprised that my books do not satisfy, and my games leave me empty?
Why am i surpised that through all the excitement I have found through the years, i find myself still wanting more?
12"When you come to(AB)
appear before me, who has required of
you this
trampling of my courts?13Bring no more vain
offerings; incense
is an abomination to me.(AC)
New moon and Sabbath and the(AD)
calling of convocations— I cannot endure(AE)
iniquity and(AF)
solemn assembly.14Your(AG)
new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates;they have
become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.15When
you(AH)
spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you;(AI)
even though you make many prayers, I will not
listen; (AJ)
your hands are full of blood.16(AK)
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of
your
deeds from before my eyes;(AL)
cease to do evil, 17learn to do good;(AM)
seek justice, correct oppression;(AN)
bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
How I don't pay attention to how i come to the lord! How true harrison is, coming to the lord is a cleansing thing, a precious thing. Let us take a good assessment of ourselves before we come ot the lord! We just walk right in an pray, which is ablessing, but where has our reverance gone? We are so very very very lucky that we may enter in an have an audience with the Most High, yet we walk in and presume on Jesus' covering to cast about feeble requests like a babbling child.
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