Jan | 27 | Lady Commerce: The dominatrix of death

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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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