Tuesday, March 12,
2013, 6:57 a.m. – the Lord Jesus woke me with this song:
Broken Hearts /
An Original Work / December 14, 2012
Based off Jeremiah 31:15 (cf. Matt. 2:18)
Weeping in Ramah; Her
children no more.
Rachel is weeping; Her
comfort forlorn.
Jesus is waiting; Her
comforter be,
When she calls on Him,
Down on bended knee.
He has provided our
sins’ sacrifice,
When He died for our
sin, Paying the price.
Our hearts are broken;
We’re feeling her pain;
Looking for answers
and someone to blame.
Jesus is calling us;
Him to believe;
Turning from our sins,
So we can be free.
Trust in His promises.
Lean on His grace;
Living for Jesus,
Eternal life gain.
Days of confusion,
Distress, pain and grief;
Looking for someone to
give us relief.
Our God and Father in
heaven above
Is looking down to us;
Providing love.
Call upon Him in your
Sadness and pain.
Trust your life with
His Son; Live life again.
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Jeremiah 1-3. I saw how Jeremiah 1-2
fit with situations I was praying over at different times yesterday, which then
led me to chapter 3 for today, yet all 3 chapters fit with this song.
Judgment will Fall
In Jeremiah 1, the Lord gave Jeremiah two visions. The Lord
was ready to bring judgment on Israel for her sins, as had been prophesied by
other prophets, evidently. Calamity was about to befall Israel/Judah. The Lord
was to bring another nation and its allies to replace Judah’s government, it
appears. The whole land would be brought under subjugation to this new rule.
The Lord has spoken to me in other writings he has given me (America, the Beautiful?, The god of the Underworld, and Jupiter, in particular) concerning such
judgments coming upon the USA as a nation and against the adulterous and
idolatrous church here in America, as well, and for the same reasons.
Israel/Judah, as a nation, and as a people of God were to be
judged by God because of their evil in forsaking the one true God, whom they
claimed to follow, and because of their spiritual adultery and idolatry (the
worship of “gods” they made with their own hands). The Lord Jesus has spoken
often concerning the idolatry in our nation’s capital – a nation claiming
Christianity as its roots, claims that it trusts in the one true God, and
claims that we are one nation under the one true God, and many of its leaders
lay claim to being “Christian” themselves while their words and actions speak
otherwise.
Israel’s (the
church’s) Sins
The Lord Jesus has also spoken often concerning the
spiritual adultery and idolatry among his church here in America, which largely
has moved away from the true gospel of the cross of Christ in our lives to a
gospel of men that does not call for repentance and obedience but that
entertains the sinner. Instead of allowing the Lord Jesus to build his church,
they have turned the church into a man-made business which is marketed just
like big business. True followers and disciples of Jesus Christ are often cast
aside in favor of those who would compromise with the world, and who would
agree to follow the ways of men instead of the truths of scripture in many
cases.
In Jeremiah 2 we get a good picture of how God views his
idolatrous and spiritually adulterous people, now the church in that same
condition. He describes the problem: Their forefathers went far from God. They
went after worthlessness. Wow, is that a picture of much of today’s church here
in America! They did not honor God for all he had done for them, but their
hearts were wicked and they sought after other gods. God’s people changed what
should have been their glory – their salvation – for what does not profit them.
They forsook God, “the fountain of living
waters,” and they “hewed out cisterns
for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water” (see 2:13).
They rejected the life-giving water of the Spirit of God in
salvation and replaced the true gospel of salvation with what is fake and
broken and cannot hold water (the Spirit of God). In other words they rejected
the one true God and his plan of salvation for their lives in favor of
following after man-made idols, and that is where much of the church in America
sits today, as well. They have rejected the main truths about Jesus Christ and
his gospel in favor of error and man-made religion in order to make
Christianity more acceptable to the world and the gospel more palatable to its
listeners. So, their sins, i.e. our sins will bring punishment upon us.
Repentance and
Restoration
Then, in chapter 3 there is a call of God to repentance and
promised restoration to the penitent. “Return,
O faithless children,” declares the Lord; “for I am your master…”
The promised restoration then moves in the direction of the
messianic age and is reticent of Isaiah 2, which I believe depicts most of what
Isaiah is about – the promised Messiah, his life and ministry, the life of the
church in the last days, God’s judgments against the church for her spiritual
adultery and idolatry, her repentance, restoration and revival, and then her
going forth with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and people from many nations
flocking to the Lord Jesus, to his gospel, to the kingdom of heaven and to his
true church, the heavenly Jerusalem, where he has his throne. I believe with
all my heart this is what scripture teaches is about to take place – both the
judgments of God and the revival of the church resulting in the salvation of
people from all nations.
Behold, we come to
you,
for you are the Lord our God.
Truly the hills are a
delusion,
the orgies on the mountains.
Truly in the Lord our
God
is the salvation of Israel. ~ Jer.
3:22b-23 (ESV)
Living Sacrifices
/ An Original Work / September 14, 2012
Based off Romans 12:1-2; 6:11-14 NIV
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you,
In view of God’s
mercy,
To give yourselves to
God in love
As living offerings,
Pleasing to God, holy
in love.
This is your true
worship.
Do not conform to
worldly lives.
Let God transform you
today.
Then you’ll be able to
Test and approve of
what
God’s will is – His
pleasing
And perfect will.
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you –
Offer yourselves unto
God.
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you –
Do not be conceited.
Humble yourselves
before your God.
Do not be
self-righteous.
The strength you have
to live in love
Comes from your Lord
God, so
Live your new lives in
pow’r of God.
Be changed in heart,
mind and will.
Do this because of
what
Christ did for you
when
He died on the cross
to save
The world from sin.
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you –
Humble yourselves
before God.
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you –
Count yourselves dead
to sin,
But be alive to God in
Christ.
Do not let sin reign
in
Your earthly lives so
you
Obey its evil desires.
Offer yourselves unto
your God
As those who’ve been
born again.
For sin shall no
longer be
Your lord and master.
Give of yourselves to
God
For righteousness.
Oh, holy ones, I
counsel you –
Be alive to God in
Christ.
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