July 9, 2014
MY FRIENDS I HAVE A TESTIMONY, SO MY SOUL CRIES OUT IN PRAISE TODAY, JUST BECAUSE!!!
And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might and honor, and glory, and blessing.! Rev. 5:11-12 (ASV)
“The heavenly host Gathers around the throne “WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN they sing” but It was no angel that was crucified they honor and It was not for their sins that our Savior gave up all the glory in the heavenly realm to reincarnate Himself as man and die a cruel death at Calvary, and yet they live to praise their Lord!
So my friends this is where I need you to focus today as you make this personal and ask yourself. If the SINLESS angelic host can praise the lamb that was slain for the sins of MANKIND JUST BECAUSE of the love and admonition of who they serve, then what is our song we sing each day and who do we praise, or have our schedules become so full with the things of this world that we have eliminated such performances from our daily agenda except when we claim to be filled by the Spirit at our churches once or twice a week.
As God’s chosen we should ask our-self is it possible for a wretched sinner like you and I to fully “appreciate,’ that is, to love and delight in praise to the worthiest of all in heaven and on earth, and simultaneously at every moment delight in a perfect expression of love, [as our soul experiences] supreme blessedness,” Would we do it and if so why haven’t we?
And if we could “praise God fully as our joy and happiness flows out from us incessantly again and again in an effortless
and perfect expression. [and then once this occurs] our joy [will be] “no more separable from the praise in which it liberates and utters itself than the brightness a mirror receives is separable from the brightness it sheds.” (C.S. Lewis.) Would we do it and if so why haven’t we?
My friends without God in our life where would we be for “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” Consistent with this, they are also corrupt, they do abominable deeds…” and “every imagination [and] thoughts of [their] heart is only evil continually.” “But as for a Child of God we should have the passion to know God and feel God in our presence Daily, like the sinless angels JUST BECAUSE.
In addition, I feel our JUST BECAUSE has to have so much more meaning JUST BECAUSE “the wages of sin is death,”for all who were “brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did [our] mother conceive [us].” Ps. 51:5 (ESV) but because of love God’s Promise is “the free gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus”
Also our Lord must mean more to us then someone we run to when we need a rapid response in an emergency. But He must become our friend and companion JUST BECAUSE and once this becomes a passion within us, we then have the right to say in total praise my God is JEHOVAH – RAPHA: “the Lord who heals us of all of our infirmities,”
or JEHOVAH-SHALOM “Our perfect peace in the time of my many troubles” or JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH “The One Who is with us everywhere for He is Omnipresent” or JEHOVAH-RAAH “Our Shepherd Who tenderly leads us, loves us and will keep us safe.”
So yes MY FRIENDS LET”S MAKE IT PERSONAL AND GIVE OUR TESTIMONY AS WE CRY OUT IN PRAISE TODAY, JUST BECAUSE!!! And then one day soon the question will be asked “Who are these arrayed in white robes, and where did they come from?” And the question will be answered. “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. Rev. 7:13:15 (NKJV)
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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