Jan | 31 | Enhancing covenant love

LOVE

Enhancing covenant love

Song of Solomon 7:13
The mandrakes give off a fragrance, And at our gates are pleasant fruits, All manner, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, my beloved. NKJV

We live in an age of sexual enhancement. We live in an age where Christians undergo breast augmentation surgery and theology professors take viagra. I ask you though, should the upright church, disdainful of this worlds fleeting pleasures even consider being involved in the

use of sexual enhancements?

Our text for today finds Mr. and Mrs Solomon still enraptured with one anothers love. Frankly, I find myself exhausted even in the reading of their mutual delighting of one another. Still, delight they do. Much and often. How can this be so? No really, you have to admit that this is one magnificant marathon of intimate loving! How do they do it?

 Now friends, the spirtual application of Christ having at His right hand a bottomless bag of rpeapred delights which He shall give to His church for evermore is most obvious indeed, as is the necessity for the church now and in the glory to come to prove herself (and she will) a reiprocal and perpetual delight to Him. These are deep spiritual things to which the intimacy of epressed sexual love betwean the covenanted man and woman is merely a backdrop to paint these poorer pictures of all the pleasures to come. Never the less, Mr and Mrs Solomon here appear to be painting that poorer picture several times a night and three times before church on Sunday! Is this simply a peoetic allegory gone gargantian on the page, or, could there be some truth to the outowrking of this prowess, indeed, have some sexual enhancements been brought into play here?

The history of the Mandrake, in its varying composition and concentrates has shown itslef to be regarded as mythical, mystical, medicinal and even ‘magical’ in its aphrodisic and fertility propensities, providing inebriating, hypnotic, euphoric and erotic effects on the users. There are two old testament references to this particualar love and fertility enhancement; Genesis 30:14-16 and here. It would appear that in both cases that their use is factually acknowedlged and not commented upon either one way or another.

Regarding sexual enhancements, I would say this today then, that the marriage bed is holy and undefiled, and within such holy bounds, whatever happens betwean a man and his wife in all the mutual and intoxicating and intimate expressions of covenant love is just fine. Am I saying that whilst the Scriptures forbid perversions of love they acknwoledge sexual enhancements of the same? I think I am.

My friends, life under this present sun may be complicated but love is not. Love is easy to discern as is all accompanying unadulterated happiness and joy. Let your Scrupture shaped conscience and your guilt free soul be your guide then in all your convenant intimacy and enhancements of the same.

Listen:- Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, help me to be ‘grown up’ about these things. Regarding my spouse, help me to maintain my garden as a place of welcome and preapred delights. So help me God. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 30 | True and straight with lots to offer

BE

True and straight with lots to offer

Song of Solomon 7:6-9
How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! This stature of yours is like a palm tree, And your breasts like its clusters. I said, "I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches." Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, The fragrance of your breath like apples, And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. NKJV

Our text for today undoubtedly is the most quoted text of smiling young theology students, all reformed and restless and ready for bed. The sooner they get married the better. A few years down the road with two kids under their belt and they will be longing for a rest and happy to camp out at the bottom of that palm tree after a long day at work and an even longer driver home.

Again, the Song of Songs speaks on a number of levels here and three in particular. First around Mr. and Mrs. Solomon, or Solomon and the Solomoness. Secondly, around the physical life relationship between a husband and a wife, Thirdly around the relationship between Christ and His church. Concerning the physical relationship then between a husband and a wife, bucolically speaking of course, the husbands focus should be his wife's breasts. Hers and no one else's. Listen up fella. The lifelong comfort of your wife's own arms and the delights that lay between them are the only place of your visual, thoughtful and practical comfort. No where else! Listen up lady. You had better make sure the bed of your being is open to your husband and is both welcoming and giving. Some might say that this is just ‘base’ comment. I say it is basic to the holy marriage bed and is thoroughly biblical. If you are open, welcoming and giving, then physical love is simple as is all its mutual pleasures. “Drink water from your own cistern, And running water from your own well. Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, Streams of water in the streets? Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you. Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; And always be enraptured with her love. For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?” Proverbs 5:15-20 NKJV

I have lived for some time in south Florida though eventually bored with the foliage, was still truck both then and now with the upright nature of the Golden Palm trees. Yes, and I am still struck now by their concrete solid standing,their straightness and their most majestic height.

 Concerning the church then, how should we walk look upon this earth? We should walk like a golden Palm tree, we should walk like a fine fashion model. Yes, we should be upright, true, high and lofty, our eyes focusing straight ahead in the far off distance and may I say, to the things of this world, we should be somewhat disdainful and very aloof. In the Song of Solomon we have already seen that the church is going to be the most special thing ‘ever!’ in all the ages to come. There is every reason then that the church militant, that is, the church alive and spirtually battling to spread the gospel of Jesus in this world right now, should be exhibiting this ‘model like’ behaviour right now. Christian, you are part of this upright Golden Palm. May solid uprightness, true dignity and worldly disdainfulness be the marks of all your working this fine expectant day.

Listen:- Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:11-12 NKJV

Pray: - Father, fear bends me out of shape. Father, unbelief undermines my straightness. Comfort me with the uprightness of Your presence and stand me upright in the experience of Your steadfast love for me. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 29 | Told you so!

WORK

Told you so!

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. NKJV

So the bald and aging white collared vicar sits in front of the five year olds, again, and says "Well children, as I looked out in my garden this morning, I saw my friend. He was grey, with large front teeth, a large fluffy tail and was sat on my table eating hazelnuts. Can you guess who he was? Most of the children knew it was Mr Squirrel but it was smart little Jonny, seeing that it was the vicar who thrust his hand in the air father than a rocket shouting "Was it Jesus?" I know I’ve maybe told you that one before, but it still makes me laugh so I thought I would tell you once again. 

One definition of 'epigenetics' is that it is ‘the study of heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by changes in DNA sequencing.' Or how about this definition: "epigenetics is the study of the structural adaptation of chromosomal regions so as to register, signal or perpetuate altered activity states.' Or better still, "epigenetecis is the study of heritable phenotypes resulting from changes in a chromosome without alterations in the DNA sequence." Yes, I much prefer that one.

Epigenetics proposes that a genetic sequence, without being altered, can in fact be 'packaged' or 'wrapped' in such a way that the 'expression' of those genes changes. Indeed, epigenetics suggests that not only the physical environment we inhabit, but also what we do in our life, changes and effects the epigenome in such a profound way that the expression of our genetic makeup is not only changed but those changes are also passed onto our children and then on to theirs. Some scientists have suggested that because men have always historically chosen younger women to mate with, that older women's bodies have therefore ceased to be fertile and consequently, men are to blame for the menopause. Most husbands would say that whether they are to blame for the menopause or not, they are still surely going to 'get it in the neck' if that estrogen patch comes off in the shower again.

Speaking as a poor theologian and an even poorer scientist, I never the less always smile when all the drip, drip, dripping in the dark caves of the so called 'deeper discoveries' of science, eventually echo the simple statements of the revelation of God in the Bible. Truly, the more man uncovers, the less he seems to know. Even so, the 'unifying fact’ ( not the theory) of all things is clearly and wonderfully placed before us in the Scriptures. Jesus the Word, you see, holds all things together. He is the unifier of all that is seen and is unseen. He is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question. He is the answer to your question. That is, unless you are wondering what color to paint your bedroom. You get my drift. Read your Bible and believe your Bible, especially if you are dabbler in the depths of all the expressive perfections of God Most High. Oh and remember….whatever you sow, so shall ye reap.

Listen:- God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Hebrews 1:1-4 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, son and Holy Spirit, you have made be body soul and eternal spirit. In these three areas, guide me to the good that I might reap the same and so be blessed and so be a blessing. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 28 | Riding the chariots of Amminadib

DESTINY

Riding the chariots of Amminadib

Song of Solomon 6:10-12
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. KJV

The bridegroom, in every way, has been ‘delighting’ in his most delectable of brides. He is a happy man, for even after a night of love the morning shall burst forth for him like sharp and naked, scimitar rocking moon bathing in fresh yellow sunshine of another decidedly and delicious day. Indeed, when he looks at his bride in the morning after the long and happy night before, her beauty is nothing short of the double dose of the dawn to him. Do not underestimate the power of the poetry of passion in these verses for the bride’s beauty entices him all the morning to seek some further loving, and whatever allusion you will make of nuts, vines and pomegranates, the bridegroom went into his garden to get some. Moving on quickly now before we get too hot under the physical collar here, allow me to rightly spiritualize these red-hot words.

 This garden is of course the church. The bridegroom is of course her Master, Jesus Christ the Lord and our Savior, my friends, goes into His garden in the cool of the day expecting that He might delight Himself further on the satisfying fruit of ecstatic fellowship. Now I am pleased to say right here that He is not disappointed! On the contrary, His experience of His garden, the church, makes His heart race. He is like a man stepping from a double seat Ferrari, after being driven by a member of the McLaren Mercedes team around Monte Carlo on a blue-sky afternoon, only to then be met by a diamond-bedecked beauty, bearing a bag full of brown poker chips from the Casino, and twirling a golden key to a penthouse bedroom in the Metropole. Look now: Amminadib might indeed mean something like ‘my people of generous nobility’ but here it is used as a proper name and this geezer was obviously renowned for owning a set of wheels that ate up the ground of Jerusalem in glorious wheel spinning wonder, causing excitement and comment wherever he went. How would you like to ride that chariot?

Two quick points then, for our contemplation today. 

The greater point is again the great statement of fact that ‘in the age to come the Church glorified, of which we Christians in part together form the whole, is THE MOST EXCITING object in the heavens and THE MAJOR thing of beauty that occupies the heart and eye of the Savior.’ Saint of God, you must learn then to live right now as a thing of inestimable beauty, value and delight to the heart of God. This very fact should make even your drab day Mondays twinkle in the mists of expectancy. Think about that.

The lesser point is that souls which are ‘sent’, have had a roaring engine put into them and I tell you now, if what ‘sends’ you is both right and good, then whatever your ‘chariot of Amminadib’ might be, get on it, or get in it, and with exultant joy, go as fast as you can. Oh, and do not spare the horses! Tell me Christian; what is that makes your heart race?

Listen:- Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon you! Song of Solomon 6:13 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, in the age to come I know that I shall so surely shine! I know that the church shall be the glory of the coming ages. I know that to gaze upon us will not only be Your chief delight but even that the rest of Creation will this time groan with continual disappointment whenever we leave its view, indeed, all creation, even the angels, shall shout for the display of that fantastic future glory which You shall forever reveal in us! Ah but this morning O my Lord, ah but this side of the adoption my Father, please, for this another day, send me a chariot from the garage of Amminadib that I might at least blaze past the local bus stop and turn a few heads there. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 27 | Lady Commerce: The dominatrix of death

GOODNESS

Lady Commerce: The dominatrix of death

Psalms 24:1
The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; KJV

The third London Royal Exchange ceased to function as such in 1939 and is now simply the habitation of plush coffee shops and expensive retail outlets. Even so, the Victorian Biblical fingerprints of Prince Albert in particular are featured once again on the large west facing tympanum, where the sculptors by R A Westmacott stand on the pediment above the eight pillars, where, in the centre of eleven allegorical figures, a ten foot high statue of ‘Commerce’ leans against the prow of a ship; a cornucopia and a beehive at her left side being the emblems of plenty and industry; while, on her right and left, English merchants are talking and bargaining with foreign traders. ‘Commerce’ stands on a large block for all the trading world to see, upon which is inscribed so very clearly the words of our text for today: “The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.”

Interestingly, the two previous exchanges were destroyed by fire. In addition to this, all those rich merchants who once traded in this triple testimony of the centuries to commerce’s true failure, yes, those merchants who sometimes financed the building of empire by acquisition, by war, by skullduggery and even by any and all financial means, are all, like their sailing ships, sunk beneath the ground, the skin stretched flesh of their fat bodies long since being made the commercial provision of food worms and fat little fish.

The terrible testimony to Commerce’s true failure is that though it can bring wealth for the now, it cannot bring with it life perpetual for the body nor eternal life for the soul.

Food, fashion and fine roofs to live under are still the three main commodities, which can enslave the Christian in this life, and ‘Lady Commerce’ is still the leather whipped and black clad dominatrix, which runs this three-ring circus. Dreams, visions, desires, opportunities of spiritual greatness, eternal riches and the priceless treasures of heaven have all so been so happily


consigned to the ash heap of end of life regret, for a lifetime of abuse in the so-called pleasure house of real commercial gain. Yes my friends, mark this well: For I have observed that for the Christian of the present day, that ‘end of life accounting’ which comes upon the aged and the soon to be departed, leads mostly to an unredeemable regret. It can do no other, for when you see that your roof will be given to another and your great wardrobe to the sales of a charity shop, then Lady Commerce and her three-ring circus is finally seen to be not just the pain of our now lost gain, but also the truly perverted witch of all our eternal nightmares.

 For the horse of revolution to rush once more from our stalls carrying the rider of revival on its back, Lady Commerce must become the chambermaid to the Kingdom of heaven, even the servant of the King of the whole earth, fulfilling His great commands. Until that dominatrix becomes the churches very own demure servant girl, fire and plague, loss and horror, disappointment and regret shall be all our eventual portions. Mark well, your own true accounting at the end of all your days shall either be a testimony of the goodness of your God or a sorry tale of rich regret.

Tell me today then, which Trinity are you truly serving? Food, Fashion and a Fine Roof? Or, Father Son and Holy Ghost? 

Listen:- "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? "So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; Matthew 6:25-28 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, may food and drink be my daily contentment, for the earth is Yours O Lord and all its fullness. May health and strength match the measure of my faith in obedience to Your good commands, for the earth is Yours O Lord and all its fullness. Food, fashion and fine roofs all I drag beneath my sharp healed boot, and heed not neither their cry nor their sob, for I am the Lord’s and the earth is the Lords, with its treasures and fullness thereof. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 26 | Convenience: The pink pig of death

CHOOSE

Convenience: The pink pig of death

1 Kings 12:28-30
Therefore the king asked advice, made two calves of gold, and said to the people, "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!" And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. NKJV

When the word ‘wisdom’ is used to qualify and justify ‘convenience’, then more than often than not, someone has very simply put a petticoat on a pig. It is a ridiculous thing to do for one big reason, and that is, that no matter how much cloth is used to make the petticoat, the pig’s big pink fat ass will stick out still for all the world to see. Try this: When you see that little curly tail hanging down from someone’s coccyx just give it a swift kick! If the curly tailed wearer squeals and grunts a bit, and they surely will, then you have found the not so fair pig of convenience.

Convenience for the Christian is an opportunity to lay aside the difficult convictions of His conscience.

Convenience for the Christian is compromise of the worst kind, for it means killing all the children of their conscience, it means committing infanticide upon those desires and visions, those certainties and seeming absolutes, which if rightly maintained, shall grow straighter still, mature, guide and provide for them in the future.

Convenience for the Christian is a gross act of cowardice, it is the apartheid of the conscience, and it is the selling out of one’s own soul.

Convenience for the Christian is a step over the style into the grounds of giant despair.

Convenience for the Christian man is the shaving of the beard, the donning of a mini skirt and the baring of one’s stone cold pimply buttocks to all the laughing world.

Convenience for the Christian is a base covenant with mediocrity. It is journey down the trail to reefer induced mind numbing awesomelessness.

Today, if following your convictions means separation and hard choices, then still choose the way of conviction. If, however, some nice numpty suggest that to be wise you need to really disregard your convictions, just for a while, you know, cover them up and gag them, just for a bit, then friends, turn him around real quick, and, if you see a curly tail hanging down from his coccyx, give it a swift kick. The grunt and squeal is merely the discovery of the pink pig of death. Remember. Pork was to be avoided for a reason.

 So, tell me boy, would you like some applesauce with that slice of convenient compromise? 

Listen:- Then David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me." So David sent by the hand of his servants to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the people of Ammon. And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David really honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Has David not rather sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?" Therefore Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return." 2 Samuel 10:2-5 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, give me the courage not to compromise my convictions for the sake of convenience of any kind. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 25 | Look at Me!

 HAPPY

Look at Me!

Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is most sweet, Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, And this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem! NKJV

Our text for today is a summary of a description of Christ by his church found in verse 10-15 of the same chapter and the description itself as an answer to the question posed in Song of Solomon 5:9 which asks: “What is your beloved More than another beloved, O fairest among women?” 

Now, dear hearts, we are privileged today to sense way over the horizon and in the so doing, to hear from the church in glory, from the church redeemed, from the church adopted, from the church now at last so clearly seeing, the concluding summary of that so great a description of Jesus the bridegroom. It is evident that such a vision does not disappoint, indeed, the conclusion of the matter is so very clear: He is ‘altogether lovely.’ Yes, He is the only fulfillment of our focused affection, He is the realized destination of all of our desires, He is found to be the centre of our satisfaction, even the pleasure ground of our purest of joys and the infinite laughter in the giggle box of eternity. Yes, Jesus is found to be for us in glory, ‘altogether lovely.’

 Such deep love like this may well be described in terms of deep sexual intimacy, but I wonder if it is more truly expressed in child like trust and happiness, even in hopping; even in skipping; even in jumping. The Kingdom of God is serious stuff, so serious I think, that it can only be received and enjoyed when done so in child like wonder and simplicity.

I wonder if it is true that a song written for children fully sums up the great Theology of heaven: “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so..., ” and I wonder if the firm grasp of such love makes us more like little children in ways which as adults we can now so barely imagine? If so, then with some depth of childlike silliness we might hear God saying to us: “Count to four and you can have some more. Continue to ten and know that I love you. I might be alphabet even your Alpha and Omega but stop at ‘J’ and think of Jesus My Son and My love for you. Whatever your color: black white green or red, yes, even if you were, pink, brown, orange yellow or blue, I truly, madly deeply do, so very much love you. You are the friend that is coming to my tea, so, sail the ship; chop the tree; skip the rope; and look at Me! Yes, altogether now; look at Me for I am altogether lovely.”

There is a joyful expression of life and an innocence of being that only a child can fully display, and these displays of joyful innocence come from depths of the Holy Spirit. If you do not ‘get’ this yet, then you maybe need to mature for a good few years more before your faith can become that of a little child.

Listen:- My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. Song of Solomon 5:10-16 KJV

Pray: - Father, I can only imagine the joy of the innocent, even the jammy faced smile of the untouched and the unsullied. Oh what heaven to be so free. Father, come satisfy us early with these good things, and allow us a more innocent glimpse of Jesus our Savior who is altogether lovely. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 24 | The dipped delights of God Most High

LOVE

The dipped delights of God Most High

Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is your love, My sister, my spouse! How much better than wine is your love, And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices! NKJV

The Holy Trinity is complete within itself. In terms of all that is needed for wholesomeness, sufficiency, perfection peace and happiness, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are, in all sense and understanding, one and complete in each other. So, in the Holy Trinity, there is nothing missing, there is no lack, there is no need for any ‘Je ne sais qua.’ Therefore, the Holy Trinity has no need to look outside of itself for satisfaction or fulfillment. I repeat then, that the Lord is one, complete and happy in every single way.

Even so, here in the Holy Bible, that revelation of the I AM, the Lord who is three in one, shows us that He finds delight in those ‘external expressions of His perfection’. In other words, all creation is that expression of His perfection in which He Himself takes great pleasure. We are created for His pleasing, you see, and therefore we can only find our completeness of creation when we are being well pleasing to Him.

Now, there are, of course, as we all know, various depths to delight. Yes there are various heights to the same. Chocolate, for example, is to me a delight. Ah, but Chocolate of a certain kind, dipped in hot milky tea simmering with a dash of bourbon and devoured with delectable and tongue licking pleasure on a cold winters night in front of a blazing log fire, well my friends, that is a whole new level of scrumptiousness! In a similar way, I think, it is evident that God also ‘experiences’ levels of delight from that expression of His perfection, which is creation at large.

Yet, despite the many pleasures which God finds in creation, the Scriptures reveal that there is but one delight outside of Himself that God the Most High sings about most of all. Yes, there is but one deep and deliciously dipped delight outside of Himself that God the Most High dreams about, eulogizes over, looks forward to, indeed, even allows His spirit to bathe long in the milk and honey bath of anticipation about, the contemplation of which seems to thrill His very heart. That singular delight dear hearts, is the passionate love of His blood bought church toward Him. Yes, outside of Himself, the church is the only thing revealed in all creation whose love delights the very heart of God.

Now then dear reader, as if I have not failed enough in describing the electron edges of this vast and deep mystery, allow me to fail a little more today, for wonder of wonders, the source of that delicious delight of our love for Him which thrills and satisfies the Most High’s heart, is no longer outside of Himself, but somehow, as expressed through the mystical imagery of water baptism and marriage, is now brought within the very Godhead and is called, the body of Christ. We, without becoming God, are now found IN HIM. Yes, we are seated WITH HIM even in the very heavenlies. That's right, all of us, as individual parts of this great body the church, are in Him and He is in us.

Christian friend, today you will either bring pain or pleasure to the very heart of God, for the workings of either sin or love being expressed under this present foul and setting sun can do no other. Look you; as a wife may satisfy and please her husband with every part of who she is, with every expression of how she is, with the kind intent of every thought and action that she does, so we today, shall do the same to God. Or not.

On the tippitoe shores of this great mystery, with the quick shoes of the journey removed from our feet, standing with the trouser legs of our understanding rolled up to our knees and holding the smelly socks of imperfection in our own right hand, the warm waters of this great contemplation lap now around our souls and tenderly tickle our ten so very little toes. Feeling this therefore, know now this one great thing: We, the church, are God’s supreme delight. Let us then make sure we live to please Him both today and every day to come.

Listen:- No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 2 Timothy 2:4 NKJV

Pray: -  Father, we see though dark glass. Father, we gaze at the future through even darker mists of misconception and misunderstanding, even through all the craziness of our great confusions. Father, it is only Your Word, which brings us light, and when we catch a glimpse of the coming glories of we Your church, then our spirits long for the then to become the now. Father grant us this day, a sip from the cup of Your great delight in us, that we might walk taller, that we might step stronger, that we might breath more easily in the knowledge of Your great delight in us, that we might walk taller, that we might step stronger, that we might breath more easily in the knowledge of Your great love for us, so that we truly can live this present life in a manner which is so very pleasing to You. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 23 | Does God like horse meat?

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Does God like horse meat?

Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,"Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? NKJV

You know, everyone has an eschatological view point. I mean everyone! The Muslim, the Atheist, the Hindu, the Communist the Christian, etc. Yes, everyone holds their own eschatological view, whether it is that the end of life is the personal and utterly pointless oblivion of brain death, to becoming just food for worms, fuel for the fire, or even the return of the Jesus and the resurrection and judgment of the dead. Everyone has an eschatological view point, and with it, though it may be unacknowledged, a very strong rider that strides and directs their present galloping horse. Yes, everyone has an eschatological view point.

As for me, I fall into the historical pre-millennial camp. Indeed, when someone takes a sensible and consistent literal interpretation of the Scriptures then they can do no other. This world view, this end of the world view, even this eternal Biblical world view I hold to is a very strange set of ideas and a very demanding counter culture lifestyle to inhabit, indeed, it truly outstrips any present day lunacy you might see frothing up from the ever purporting ice-cream float flavored futurist or conspiracy theorist.

The Pre-Millennial position is quite simply summarized in this: “Christ has died; Christ has risen; Christ will come again; and when He does, it ain’t to make nice.” Indeed, the Pre-Millennial message, for some two thousand years now has been quite simply this: “Flee the wrath to come.”

Now friends, I acknowledge that there are some a-millennial brethren and a few ardent post-millenniasts of their own volition still out there, somewhere, but most, I suspect, are by now very heavily medicated. However, the vast majority of Christians and this is my point so don’t miss it, are very happy to be ignorant of the choice they have already made regarding their own eschatological position. I mean c’mon, is there really an eternal hell of perpetual suffering that their family and friends will be cast into? Well, looking at their unwillingness to fast and pray, weep and wail, tell with tears and sense of terror, you have to conclude that really they do not think so. Will Christ come and kill ‘billions’ in the so doing? Do we really have a message that is peppered with the various threatening's of ‘wrath to come?’ Are we truly in an unprecedented time of amazing grace, which at any time now, will be called, to a very sudden close whilst the molten lavic vengeance of God Most High is poured out on the planet and its populace? Well, judging by the majority of Christians life choices for both him and his family and his future prosperity, you would have to say “No and most definitely not." Yes, these plain Scriptures, which though part of their churches statement of faith, are often tucked away in a virtually undiscoverable page in a small paragraph in a watered down sentence, 'somewhere' on their churches website, are in all practicalities, rejected.

 You see, Jesus, for most Christians, is just another life policy. For sure, He's an eternal life policy but like all policies He is mostly kept in the drawer with all the other stuff for a black day, providing just a little bit of present comfort for the now, not too much really, but mostly enough to help folks live their life with a few other nice people, all trying to produce a society which will in turn provide the peace and protection needed for them to pursue dreams of present peace, private property and a good pension plan to boot, and it is the three riders my friend which ride their present eschatological horse and I tell you now, that God will kill that horse and make the riders eat it until it is vomited out of their nostrils.

Look now Christian: Your life choices betray your true beliefs.

Listen:- CThen the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying,"It is done!" And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great. Revelation 16:17-21 NKJV

Pray: -  And so Father, we wait for Your Son from heaven, whom you raised form the dead, even Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come. Amen and amen.

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Jan | 22 | The leashing of Castor and Pollux

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The leashing of Castor and Pollux

Acts 28:1-6
Now when they had escaped, they then found out that the island was called Malta. And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold. But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, "No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live." But he shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. However, they were expecting that he would swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had looked for a long time and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god. NKJV

Paul is a prisoner on his way to Rome. His watery prison, that shaking ship of a jail has most recently been through an horrific storm and Paul, escaping being put to death on board the salt spray and vomit covered wood splitting hull, has recently, together with the ship been smashed in pieces upon the black rocks of Malta’s open jawed shores. The devil has been at work here and he ‘aint finished yet.

 Just when you think the enemy has spent his last bullet, there often times comes the very bad twist at the end of the film that has what looks like a final happy ending. This is life and the obedient Christian workers life in particular. May I also say, that this serpent from the rising fire, is a also picture of the devil himself biting the hands of the messenger of God who comes as prisoner, yes, comes wet with a present salvation, utterly destitute of this worlds goods and on his way to judgment. These messengers of the Most High will always be attacked; viciously, repeatedly and from every angle, and their bodies shall bear those marks, as will their wardrobe, their family life and their bank account. Suspect those smarty, well suited, and so called apostles. Yes, I tell you, check underneath the bonnet of those bed reclined old ladies, those fat cows of Bashaan, and you shall surely find some fangs: “All the better to eat you with my dear.”

The devil is unrelenting here and so must we be too. Look now at our text at four great pictures for us today:

First, the apostle smarts at the surprise attack as the devil fastens upon the object of those very appendages, which shall surely be used to bless so many. Look at that! What the devil fears he attacks. What will bring the coming blessing, the devil fastens onto to poison and to atrophy. Do not be surprised at a double fanged attack, especially when you begin to generate some heat.

Secondly, look at how the apostle responds. He shakes it off. Just like in Luke 9:5 where the dust off a rejected messengers feet is also shaken off, wiped off, vigorously brushed away back to the ground with irritated and cleansing strokes full of visual intent, the serpent here is also shaken off, not onto the ground through where it might attack both him and others again; not into the sea to drown, for that judgment will not be repeated, but he is shaken off into the fire, where that attacking serpent so rightfully belongs. So shall each messenger of God deal with the viperous attacks of the enemy.

Thirdly, look now at the blessing that came through those fang-punctured hands. Big chief Publius, fevered by a bloody flux is healed and along with him a great many more from the island who came to be healed.

Fourthly, look now how that all necessary things which were lost in the storm, where restored to them by grateful and healed people.

Fithly, see how Castor and Pollux, the Gemini twins of the underworld are leashed like dogs to pull the watery sledge of Paul onward to His divine destination.

I tell you today dear hearts: BE UNRELENTING!

Listen:- And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary. And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. ……. And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him. Acts 28:8-12 &16 KJV

Pray: - Father, turn us all into movers and shakers, into undaunted history makers at the end of all these lightening fired days. Amen and amen.

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