“THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE MINDS OF FALLEN MEN OR DEPENDENCE ON
CHRIST’S MIND?”
BY:J.FARRELL FISHER, JUNE 12-14,2019
PSALM 31 IS A POWERFUL WORD WHEN A MAN DOESN’T SETTLE IN TO ‘FALLEN-AWAY-FROM-GOD-MINDS’ THAT SADLY CAN’T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ‘SIN’ OR ‘RIGHTEOUSNESS’, BUT JUST SATISFIED WITH A CARNAL MIND TO ‘THINK’ (?) “AS I WANT TO THINK OR BELIEVE OR DECIDE FOR MYSELF WHAT MY MIND & MENTAL STATE WILL BE AS I PLAN FOR MYSELF-REAL MEN DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WITHOUT YOUR GOD’S HELP!!” & IN THEIR PRIDE & ARROGANCE THEY WAVE THE HANDS, THE EYES, THE FEET, AWAY FROM “ETERNAL TRUTH” BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DESIRE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING OR ANYONE WHO SPEAKS ABOUT ETERNAL MATTERS – “ALL THAT MATTERS TO ME IS TO DO AS I PLEASE – I HAVE A MIND OF MY OWN – & I WANT NO DIVINE INTERFERENCE IN MY LIFE – I’M SATISFIED WITH THE ‘TEMPORAL’, NOT THE ETERNAL; I’M SATISFIED WITH THE BEST MY ‘FLESH’ HAS TO OFFER –I’M NOT INTERESTED IN YOUR GOD’S SPIRITUAL SLANTS; I’M SATISFIED WITH A WORLD VIEW THAT LEAVES GOD OUT – HE HAS NOTHING TO BRING ME IN TO HIS ‘RELIGIOUS JARGON’, I’M SANE, NOT SINFUL!” & YOU HEAR FROM A BLINDED MAN IN HIS FALLEN STATE AWAY FROM GOD’S LOVE, GRACE, MERCY, & HIS ETERNAL PURPOSE IGNORED BY A SELF-SUFFICIENT MAN WHO LIVES IN DISOBEDIENCE & REJECTION OF THE KING OF KINGS & LORD OF LORDS.
“THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE MINDS OF FALLEN MEN”? IN ROMANS 1:18-20 PAUL CLEARLY & CONVICTINGLY REVEALS “THE MUD, THE MIRE, & THE MISERY OF FLESHLY DECEIVED MINDS” THAT IGNORE SOVEREIGN GRACE & MERCY! HE WROTE: “FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL UNGODLINESS & UNRIGHTEOUSNESS OF MEN, WHO HOLD (OR SUPPRESS) THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS; BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN OF GOD IS MANIFEST (OR UNVEILED) IN THEM; FOR GOD HAS SHOWED IT UNTO THEM. FOR THE INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER & GODHEAD;SO THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.”
FALLEN MANKIND DOES HAVE A CHOICE! ACCEPT OR REJECT, RECEIVE OR REFUSE, CELEBRATE THE BLESSING OF KNOWING TRUTH OR CONDEMN THOSE WHO DO! PROVERBS 6:18 SPEAKS ABOUT THOSE WHO HAVE “A HEART THAT DEVISES WICKED IMAGINATIONS, FEET THAT BE SWIFT IN RUNNING TO MISCHIEF.” OH, & THEN, YOU READ JEREMIAH 23, ONE OF THE MOST ‘SHOCKING PASSAGES’ YOU’LL EVER READ! IT WILL (IF YOU HAVE ANY LEANING AT ALL IN YOU TOWARD HOLY GOD & HIS ETERNAL PLAN!); EXAMINE VERSES 1-22, “WOE BE UNTO THE PASTORS THAT DESTROY & SCATTER THE SHEEP OF MY PASTURE! SAYS THE LORD.(BACK TO THE ‘WORLD’ THE LORD LED THEM OUT OF, BUT ‘COMPROMISING PASTORS & PEOPLE SHRED THE FAITH OF MANY AS THEY, YES, CHOOSE TO LIVE ‘ADORING’ THE OLD SIN NATURE!).
THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL AGAINST THE PASTORS THAT FEED MY PEOPLE; YOU HAVE SCATTERED MY FLOCK, & DRIVEN THEM AWAY, & HAVE NOT VISITED THEM: BEHOLD, I WILL VISIT UPON YOU THE EVIL OF YOUR DOINGS, SAYS THE LORD. AND I WILL GATHER THE REMNANT OF MY FLOCK OUT OF ALL COUNTRIES WHERE I HAVE DRIVEN THEM, & WILL BRING THEM AGAIN TO THEIR FOLDS; & THEY SHALL BE FRUITFUL & INCREASE. & I WILL SET UP SHEPHERDS OVER THEM WHICH SHALL FEED THEM: & THEY SHALL FEAR NO MORE, NOR BE DISMAYED, NEITHER SHALL THEY BE LACKING, SAYS THE LORD.
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAYS THE LORD, THAT I WILL RAISE UNTO DAVID A RIGHTEOUS ‘BRANCH’, & A ‘KING’ SHALL REIGN & PROSPER, & SHALL EXECUTE JUDGMENT & JUSTICE IN THE EARTH. IN HIS DAYS JUDAH SHALL BE SAVED, & ISRAEL SHALL DWELL IN SAFETY; & THIS IS HIS NAME WHEREBY HE SHALL BE CALLED, “THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAYS THE LORD, THAT THEY SHALL NO MORE SAY, THE LORD LIVES, WHICH BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT;
BUT, THE LORD LIVES, WHICH BROUGHT UP & WHICH LED THE SEED OF HOUSE OF ISRAEL OUT OF THE NORTH COUNTRY, & FROM ALL COUNTRIES WHERE I HAD DRIVEN THEM; & THEY SHALL DWELL IN THEIR OWN LAND. MY HEART WITHIN ME IS BROKEN BECAUSE OF THE PROPHETS; ALL MY BONES SHAKE; I AM LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN, & LIKE A MAN WHOM WINE HAS OVERCOME, BECAUSE OF THE LORD, & BECAUSE OF THE WORDS OF HIS HOLINESS. FOR THE LAND IS FULL OF ADULTERERS; FOR BECAUSE OF SWEARING THE LAND MOURNS; THE PLEASANT PLACES OF THE WILDERNESS ARE DRIED UP, & THEIR COURSE IS EVIL, & THEIR FORCE IS NOT RIGHT.
FOR BOTH PROPHET & PRIEST ARE PROFANE ( OR POLLUTED); YES, IN MY HOUSE HAVE I FOUND THEIR WICKEDNESS, SAYS THE LORD. WHEREFORE THEIR WAY SHALL BE UNTO THEM AS SLIPPERY WAYS IN THE DARKNRESS: THEY SHALL BE DRIVEN ON, & FALL THEREIN; FOR I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THEM, EVEN THE YEAR OF THEIR VISITATION, SAYS THE LORD. & I HAVE SEEN FOLLY IN THE PROPHETS OF SAMARIA; THEY PROPHESIED IN BAAL, & CAUSED MY PEOPLE ISRAEL TO ERR.I HAVE ALSO SEEN IN THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM A HORRIBLE THING: THEY COMMIT ADULTERY, & WALK IN LIES: THEY ALSO STRENGTH THE HANDS OF EVILDOERS, THAT NONE DOES RETURN FROM HIS WICKEDNESS (OR “LOCKED INTO IT! SOLD-OUT TO SELF-INDULGENCE! ‘TOP STUDENTS’ OF SATAN’S DECEIVED CLASSES OF CORRUPTION!”):THEY ARE ALL OF THEM UNTO ME AS SODOM, & THE INHABITANTS THEREOF AS GOMORRAH.
THEREFORE THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS CONCERNING THE PROPHETS; BEHOLD, I WILL FEED THEM WITH WORMWOOD, & MAKE THEM DRINK THE WATER OF GALL; FOR FROM THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM IS PROFANENESS GONE FORTH INTO ALL THE LAND.THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, HEARKEN NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY UNTO YOU; THEY MAKE YOU VAIN (IN YOUR ‘IMAGINATIONS’);THEY SPEAK A VISION OF THEIR OWN HEART, & NOT OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD. THEY STAY STILL UNTO THEM THAT DESPISE ME, THE LORD HAS SAID, YOU SHALL HAVE PEACE; & THEY SAY UNTO EVERY ONE THAT WALKS AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF HIS OWN HEART, NO EVIL SHALL BEFALL UPON YOU. FOR WHO HAS STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD, & HAS PERECEIVED & HEARD HIS WORD? WHO HAS MARKED HIS WORD, & HEARD IT?
BEHOLD, A WHIRLWIND OF THE LORD IS GONE FORTH IN FURY, EVEN A GRIEVOUS WHIRLWIND: IT SHALL FALL GRIEVOUSLY UPON THE HEAD OF THE WICKED. THE ANGER OF THE LORD SHALL NOT RETURN, UNTIL HE HAS EXECUTED, & UNTIL HE HAS PERFORMED THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART; IN THE LATTER DAYS (OF JERUSALEM’S HISTORIC PAST!) YOU SHALL CONSIDER IT PERFECTLY. I HAVE NOT SENT THESE PROPHETS, YET THEY RAN; I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM, YET THEY PROPHESIED. BUT!!,IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL, & HAD CAUSED MY PEOPLE TO HEAR MY WORDS, THEN THEY SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM FROM THEIR EVIL WAY, & FROM THE EVIL OF THEIR DOINGS.”
YOU’LL FIND IT VERY, VERY INTERESTING THAT I’VE LISTED THESE VERSES FROM MY “THOMPSON CHAIN-REFERENCE BIBLE” LAST PUBLISHED IN 1964! OH, & THEN I READ VERSE 28 THAT SAYS, “THE PROPHET THATHAS A DREAM LET HIM TELL A DREAM; & HE THAT HAS MY WORD LET HIM SPEAK MY WORD FAITHFULLY!” AND ALONGSIDE VERSE 28 I WROTE THE DATE: 3-10-83! AND 36 YEARS LATER, THAT HOLY WORD IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS IN JEREMIAH’S DAY AS IN MY DAY IN JUNE,2019!! OH, &, YES, VERSE 29 SAYS: “IS NOT MY WORD LIKE FIRE? SAYS THE LORD; & LIKE A HAMMER THAT BREAKS THE ROCK IN PIECES?”
IMPORTANT? VALUABLE? VIABLE?NECESSARY?ESSENTIAL? “GOD’S WORD LIKE FIRE?” “GOD’S WORD LIKE A HAMMER THAT BREAKS THE ROCK IN PIECES?” IN ROMANS 2:3-9 WE READ, “AND DO YOU THINK THIS, O MAN, THAT JUDGES THEM WHICH DO SUCH THINGS, & YET YOU DO THE SAME, THAT YOU SHALL ESCAPE THE JUDGMENT OF GOD? OR DO YOU DESPISE THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS & FORBEARANCE & LONGSUFFERING; NOT KNOWING “THAT THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADS YOU TO REPENTANCE”? BUT AFTER YOUR HARDNESS & IMPENITENT HEART TREASURES UP UNTO YOURSELF WRATH AGAINST THE DAY OF WRATH & REVELATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT OF GOD; WHO WILL RENDER TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS; TO THEM WHO BY PATIENT CONTINUANCE IN WELL DOING SEEK FOR GLORY & HONOR & IMMORTALITY,ETERNAL LIFE:
BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE CONTENTIOUS, & DO NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, BUT OBEY UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, INDIGNATION, & WRATH, TRIBULATION& ANGUISH, UPON EVERY SOUL OF MAN THAT DOES EVIL, OF THE JEW FIRST, & ALSO OF THE GENTILE…”!! CONTENTIOUS TOWARD GOD, OR OBEDIENT, SUBMISSIVE, TRUSTING, SAYING “YES” MOMENT BY MOMENT & DAY BY DAY, TO “THE AUTHOR & FINISHER OF TRUE FAITH”, OR DISOBEDIENT, REBELLIOUS, ‘FIXED’ IN THE “DO AS I PLEASE MODE EVEN AS I PROFESS, I’M A FOLLOWER OF THE LAMB OF GOD”??
“THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE MINDS OF FALLEN MEN”? THE ‘WARPED WILLS’ OF ‘RELIGIOUS FOLK’ LIVING UNDER THE DECEPTION OF THE AUTHOR OF DARKNESS, YES, SATAN HIMSELF? FEEBLE MINDEDNESS,A FAULTY LIFE OF FAITH FOUNDATION, THE ‘SHIFTING SANDS’ RATHER THAN THE “SOLID ROCK OF CHRIST FOUNDATION”? FLESHLY, YES, EVEN ‘RELIGIOUSLY-MINDED’ MEN, HAVE BUILT THEIR ‘LIVES OF FAITH’ (?) UPON A FAULTY FOUNDATION! IT WAS RICHARD CECIL WHOSE WORDS WERE PRINTED IN “THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS QUOTATIONS,” (P.303), WHO SAID: “AN EXQUISITE WATCH WENT IRREGULARLY, THOUGH NO DEFECT COULD BE DISCOVERED IN IT. AT LAST IT WAS FOUND THAT THE BALANCE WHEEL HAD BEEN NEAR A MAGNET; & HERE WAS ALL THE MISCHIEF. IF THE SOUNDEST MIND BE MAGNETIZED BY ANY PREDILECTION, IT MUST ACT IRREGULARLY.” IRREGULAR ‘BEATING, SPIRITUAL HEARTS’ IS NOT THE EVIDENCE OF THE INDWELLING CHRIST BUT THE “BEST-EFFORT-MENTALITY” OF A RELIGIOUS BEING NEEDING THE MIRACULOUS “NEW-BIRTH” IN CHRIST JESUS THAT GOD CALLS THE NEW SON OR DAUGHTER OF FAITH TO LEAN UPON, NOT “GIVE OF YOUR BEST TO THE MASTER”, BUT RECEIVE FROM THE MASTER “THE BEST” OF HIS INDWELLING PRESENCE!!
THE INTEGRITY OF THE MIND IS NOT PERSONAL, INTELLECTUALL, HIGHLY-EDUCATED MINDEDNESS, BUT “DEAD INDEED TO THE MIND’S BEST THAT THE RESURRECTION, PRESENT, MIND-FILLED-NESS OF CHRIST HIMSELF MIGHT BE YOUR DAILY GUIDE! HEAVENLY FELICITY IS THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE INDWELLING MIND OF CHRIST HIMSELF – TRUE DISCIPLES LEAN NOT TO THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING, BUT ALLOW THE CHRIST WITHIN TO OPEN & CLOSE WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE CLOSED & WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE OPENED TO HIS REVEALED WORD, HIS WAY, & HIS WILL!
IN THE OLD “BROADMAN HYMNAL” (PUBLISHED BY BROADMAN PRESS, NASHVILLE, TENN., IN 1940), IS A HYMN BY WILLIAM O.CUSHING & IRA D.SANKEY, ENTITLED “HIDING IN THEE.” (P129). IT SAYS: “O SAFE TO THE ROCK THAT IS HIGHER THAN I, MY SOUL IN ITS CONFLICTS & SORROWS WOULD FLY; SO SINFUL, SO WEARY, THINE, THINE WOULD I BE; YOU BLEST ‘ROCK OF AGES,’ I’M HIDING IN THEE.
IN THE CALM OF THE NOON-TIDE, IN SORROW’S LONE HOUR, IN TIMES WHEN TEMPTATION CASTS O’ER ME ITS POWER; IN THE TEMPESTS OF LIFE, ON ITS WIDE, HEAVING SEA, YOU BLEST “ROCK OF AGES”, I’M HIDING IN THEE.
HOW OFT IN THE CONFLICT, WHEN PRESSED BY THE FOE, I HAVE FLED TO MY REFUGE & BREATHED OUT MY WOE; HOW OFTEN, WHEN TRIALS LIKE SEAS BILLOWS ROLL, HAVE I HIDDEN IN THEE, O ROCK OF MY SOUL.
HIDING IN THEE, HIDING IN THEE, THOU BLEST “ROCK OF AGES”, I’M HIDING IN THEE.”
IS THAT “HIDDEN IN CHRIST ALONE” OR “HIDDEN IN THE ‘BEST’ ONE DETERMINES FOR HIMSELF/HERSELF”? IS THAT A ‘BLESSED EFFORT MENTALITY’ OR THE “BLESSED PRESENCE OF THE INDWELLING CHRIST BEING HIMSELF THROUGH AN AVAILAVLE VESSEL FULLY SURRENDERED TO HIS LORDSHIP & HEAVENLY REIGN”? HOLINESS IS NOT ONE’S BEST EFFORT FROM THE PRESENCE & REIGN OF THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDING YOU INTO ALL OF GOD’S HOLY TRUTH! HOLINESS IS NOT ‘SELF-DETERMINED’, ‘SELF-PRESCRIBED’, ‘SELF-EXALTED’ SPIRITUAL HABITS, BUT THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST WITHIN YOU, YOUR HOPE OF GLORY!
IT WAS MARTIN LUTHER, IN HIS OWN WRITING ENTITLED “TABLE TALK”, WHO ONCE SAID: “THERE ARE TWO SORTS OF HOLINESS, SUBSTANTIAL & ACCIDENTAL.ST.FRANCIS WAS ONCE SUBSTANTIALLY HOLY BY HIS FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, BUT AFTERWARDS HE BECAME INFATUATED WITH THE ACCIDENTAL HOLINESS OF THE HOOD, AN ACCESSORY WHOLLY FOREIGN TO HOLINESS.” SUBSTANTIAL OR ACCIDENTAL? SUBSTANTIAL IS THE BLESSED WORK & MINISTRY OF THE ABIDING HOLY SPIRIT GLORIFYING CHRIST, WHILE ‘ACCIDENTAL’ IS THE ‘BEST EFFORT’ OF FLESHLY, SPIRITUAL INDULGENCE, NOT THE “FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT”!! THE ‘MODERN-MISGUIDED-MALEDICTED-MALIGNANT’ TEACHING, VOID OF THE GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN ALL BIBLICAL TRUTH, LEAVES OPEN THE DOOR OF ONE’S OWN ‘RELIGIOUS’ MIND WITHOUT THE SPIRIT OF HOLY TRUTH, YES, SUPERINTENDING EVERY THOUGHT & TRUTH UNVEILED IN GOD’S HOLY WORD –IT’S NOT ONE’S ‘BEST OPINION’ BUT THE REVELATION OF GOD-BREATHED, HOLY TRUTH THAT ONE MUST DEAL WITH, ACCEPTING, ABIDING IN, OR IS IT ‘SELECTING’ WHAT ONE IS WILLING TO AGREE WITH, BUT NOT ALL IF A ‘FLESH-MIND’ DOESN’T AGREE? HOW DISRUPTIVE IS THAT OF THE HOLY TRUTH OF “THE INDWELLING CHRIST”?
NO! ONE “IN CHRIST” TRULY TURNS FROM ZEALOUS PROTECTION OF ONE’S ‘SELF-DESIRES’ TO THE “SOVEREIGN PROTECTION OF GOD’S GRACE & MERCY & LOVE”! ZEALOUS ‘SELF-PROTECTION’ FOR YOU, OR TRUST IN, RESTING IN, ASSURED OF, THE DIVINE PROMISES OF GOD HIMSELF BEING HIMSELF IN YOU & THROUGH YOU IN,YES, THE “SOVEREIGN PRICELESSNESS OF HIS AMAZING GRACE”? BUT “YOU”HAVE A BETTER CHOICE THAN “CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST”, AS YOU OFFER GOD, IF YOU EVEN DO THAT, “YOUR BEST”? NO!! THAT WAS ,YES, HISTORICALLY CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST!, BUT TO SPIRITUALLY DEAD MEN MERCIFUL GOD OFFERS, THE RESURRECTION LIFE IN CHRIST TO THE TRULY REPENTANT, TRUSTING HEART IN THE SAVIOR’S “FINISHED WORK”!!
IN THE OLD “BROADMAN HYMNAL” IS A HYMN WRITTEN BY MRS.M.P.FERGUSON ENTITLED “BLESSED QUIETNESS”. IT SAYS: “JOYS ARE FLOWING LIKE A RIVER, SINCE THE COMFORTER HAS COME; HE ABIDES WITH US FOREVER, MAKES THE TRUSTING HEART HIS HOME.
LIKE THE RAIN THAT FALLS FROM HEAVEN, LIKE THE SUNLIGHT FROM THE SKY, SO THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN, FALLS UPON US FROM ON HIGH.
WHAT A WONDERFUL SALVATION WHERE WE ALWAYS SEE HIS FACE! WHAT A PEACEFUL HABITATION! WHAT A QUIET RESTING PLACE!
BLESSED QUIETNESS, HOLY QUIETNESS, BLEST ASSURANCE IN MY SOUL! ON THE STORMY SEA JESUS SPEAKS TO ME, & THE BILLOWS CEASE TO ROLL.”
THERE IS “THE PEACE THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING” AS WE LEARN FROM (PHILIPPIANS 4:7)!
“PEACE THAT PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING”? THE PROPHET ISAIAH WROTE IN ISAIAH 26:3, “YOU, GOD, WILL KEEP HIM IN PERFECT PEACE WHOSE MIND IS STAYED UPON YOU.” I’LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY IN A SOUTHERN CITY OF INDIA WHEN I WAS DAILY PREACHING ON THE STREETS WITH HUNDREDS OF THE CITIZENS OF THIS PARTICULAR CITY STOOD LISTENING TO ME PREACHING ON THE STREET THROUGH MY INTERPRETATOR, PASTOR ANAND, WHO PAUSED TO SAY, “PASTOR, IT’S NOT JUST THE TWO YESTERDAY WHO WARNED YOU ABOUT PREACHING ON THEIR STREET, BUT AT LEAST A DOZEN MORE MEN ARMED WITH CLUBS. I KEPT PREACHING, THEN I PRAYED – WHEN I OPENED MY EYES, THE TWO “GANG-LEADERS” WERE ON THEIR KNEEES BEFORE ME, & WE LED THEM TO FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, ENDING UP WITHIN A WEEK OF THE WHOLE “GANG” COMING TO FAITH THROUGH ANAND’S MINISTRY IN HIS LOCAL CHURCH!! AMEN?
IT WAS BAYARD TAYLOR, RECORDED IN “THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS QUOTATIONS”, (PUBLISHED BY FLEMING H.REVELL COMP., WESTWOOD,NJ (1965) P.327), SAYING: “LIKE ONE WHO LEAVES THE TRAMPLED STREET FOR SOME CATHEDRAL, COOL & DIM, WHERE HE CAN HEAR IN MUSIC BEAT THE HEART OF PRAYER THAT BEATS FOR HIM; RESTORED & COMFORTED, I GO TO GRAPPLE WITH MY TASKS AGAIN; THROUGH SILENT WORSHIP TAUGHT TO KNOW THE BLESSED PEACE THAT FOLLOW PAIN.”
HAS YOUR “TREE OF FAITH” IN CHRIST ALONE EVER BEEN SEVERELY SHAKENED BY AN UNBELIEVING WORLD AROUND YOU, OR EVEN A SATANICALLY-INFLUENCED OPINION ABOUT YOUR ‘PROFESSED DEVOTION’, OR EVEN ‘SELF-DOUBT’ ABOUT THE “TRUE FAITH IN CHRIST ONLY”? I CLOSE WITH WORDS FROM CHRISTINA GEORGIANA ROSSETTI FROM HER WRITING,”FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE”, SAYING: “ALTHOUGH TODAY HE (GOD) PRUNES MY TWIGS WITH PAIN, YET DOES HIS BLOOD NOURISH & WARM MY ROOT; TOMORROW I SHALL PUT FORTH BUDS AGAIN & CLOTHE MYSELF WITH FRUIT.”
GALATIANS 5:16-25 “SEALS THE EVIDENCE” OF THE, YES, TRUE FOLLOWER & DISCIPLE & REPRESENTATIVE ‘AMBASSADOR OF THE LJC”, SAYING: