My heart breaks for everyone. The fragility and pressure and heartache and struggle . . . for every single creature, large and small. . . .
I'm a nothing, barely nothing . . . but within my meager divinely templated, mortal heart . . . I hear the echoes of the pain and suffering and the lonely cries of all. I fathom it is because, being made in the image of God, there is some sort of (albeit miniscule) semblance of His grief and passion. Indeed, I shall re-iterate, it is but a mere MINISCULE semblance of His sorrow, mixed within the joy and glory and wonder, in this realm, but here it is.
He is so profound. He is sovereign. His ways are mysterious and unfathomable to us mere crawling creatures. . . .
Yet, here He Is!
It is actually a special, unique and un-looked for joy . . . to share . . . in even the tiniest particle of His majesty which comprehends, yes, dire suffering amidst the majesty and breadth of His Creation.
He blows my mind. Thank GOD!
Otherwise, I might find myself getting too full of myself and mistaking all of His gifts of existence for something that I, or we, or they, or any one creature concocted.
HENCE . . . why the wicked . . . always truck . . . to find a way to make themselves a god of sorts. They get frustrated and angry that He does not fit into their scheme of things. . . .
Every cult, every religion, every urge, every pretentious pose, every thoroughfare OUTSIDE (as if it could EVER be OUTSIDE GOD) is THE fool's errand.
When He says, "I never knew you." . . . . He means it.
There is a reason that the angels sing and glorify and seek endlessly to glorify God . . . forever!
There is nothing else. There is no one else to be Praised, such as He! And they who did not fall, are even now singing His praises and endlessly grateful to be a speck in His Eye, I dare say........
He is magnanimous to bestow a plethora and menagerie and intricate, complex designs throughout all of creation to bespeak His nearly unapproachable Nature/Being/Character . . . . . . . (THANK GOD HE ALLOWS THOSE WHO LOVE HIM TO APPROACH HIS INEFFIBLE BEING AND LITERAL PRESENCE!)
Then, there is the absence of His Presence and blessing..... Oh LORD! NO! NO! NO! Please Lord never leave me or cast me out of your Presence! Your Word says there will be those who go there....NO NO NO Lord God, have mercy on me!
Indeed,
His majesty . . . surrounds all experience and being.
Fools dare to take a mere slight sliver of His glory, and try to make it their own. FOOLS! And I would not wish such fate on anyone! But I . . . you . . . are not God and have no business telling Him how and what He ought do with HIS creation and creatures.
Well, AND HE OBVIOUSLY HAS A PURPOSE IN CREATING SUCH A REAL SCENARIO that we find ourselves amidst!
One can complain, cavil, rebel, reject, puff-up in degenerate pride and spiraling violent angst, etc,. . . .
But to no avail.
For HE IS LORD.
He IS GOD!
Bow down, submit, relinquish foolish pride, PRAY PRAY PRAY that you shall be spared from His wrath!
For He is HOLY. It is His Nature, His Being. Seeking His Holy Being that Is That He Is, is The Way
And He is personal! He will meet you like a friend--one YOU can interact with, personally, intimately.
The Liar . . . seeks to deflect and obfuscate and subvert and pervert and control and oppress and torment to the point that the poor little soul is so beaten down that it gives up Hope and Faith in God, and just then, limply relinquishes to the evil one(s).
Well, and they (the evil ones) have a place that they desire and deserve, made for them, and are celebrating, parading about their way to there.
Those who thirst for righteousness and for peace and for love and above all: love of GOD ALMIGHTY SOVEREIGN KING OF ALL KINGS, CREATOR, I AM THAT I AM, GOD LORD SPIRIT . . . shall be comforted in the quietest moments--it's a still, small voice--the voice and Spirit of Truth, Who He promised to provide us with, regardless of the times, the chaos, the distractions!
Praise GOD! LOVE GOD! GOD IS LOVE (a supreme mystery which the Chosen will, God-willing explore FOR THE REST OF THIS ETERNITY!)
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