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  • A Temporary Throne – 25

    A Temporary Throne – 25

    CHAPTER 25

    The LORD had given me great latitude from the THRONE of Heaven to make a choice other than HIS ALL-KNOWING blessings (and HIS ALL-KNOWING curses).

    But how was I to understand HIS UNDERSTANDING of marriage, for which THE LORD had brought me to the very THRONE of Heaven? … (I thought, before proceeding in thought or word…)

    Genesis 2: 18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone…

    My other thoughts, fully revealed to THE LIVING GOD; but freely shared and received, as in conversation of two friends…

    “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…”
    … and they shall become one flesh.

     

    I KNOW, ROGER, THIS IS YOUR HEART,

    comforted my FRIEND.

    I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE FATHER OF ALL FLESH AND THE MOTHER OF ALL DESIRE.

    I HAVE SHOWN YOU THE EXAMPLE OF NOAH AND THE SINS OF ALL KINDS AND THE NAKEDNESS OF MAN BEFORE ME, EVIL FROM THEIR HEARTS FROM THEIR VERY YOUTH.

    YOU HAVE SEEN THE SIN OF CANAAN UPON MY SERVANT NOAH.

    SHALL I REVEAL ALL THE SIN OF SODOM TO YOU?

    “LORD, no, Lord, if YOU please.

    I know that YOU hate and punish the sin, while you would call the sinner, if they would hear, to repentance rather than destruction.

    Lord I know that these who I love as well, choose love of their flesh over YOU.”

    Malachi 3: 6 “For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob.
    7 Yet from the days of your fathers you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them.

    Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts.

     

    To be continued …

    Personal note: Today is the Seventh wedding anniversary of the marriage vows of my Blessing and me, our covenant made in the Name of God taken on 7/7/2007.
    Please pray for us and for all marriages between a Christian man and a Christian woman, blessed in our vows and love for each other and for our Lord, Christ Jesus.

    A Temporary Throne is an original work of Roger Harned,

    © Copyright 2013, All Rights Reserved by the author.

  • Friends and Brothers: Adversity

    Friends and Brothers: Adversity

    1 Thessalonians 5:11  Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

    I was praying for a sister in the Lord this morning. I had already prayed for my wife and our own children. I had already prayed for others – brothers and sisters in the Lord — dear friends… and as I prayed for these, each became dearer to my heart.

    I had prayed through the sufferings of my own adversities and also the more severe impending adversity of family members. I asked God to get them through it all.  I remembered the encouragement my faithful mother had often given to me, my brothers and my sister as I thought of a mom so discouraged and concerned for the salvation of her own children.

    Yes, God is also concerned for these; yet God will give it all the time required, while we struggle with the adversity of our daily life and adversity in the lives of our loved ones.

    What peace God gives us though prayer. Peace in our own struggles and peace for our faithfulness in praying for loved ones.

    Proverbs 17:17

    A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

    Have you ever considered the comfort of Jesus, after having invested considerable, limited earthly time with twelve Apostles, calls them His friends? (John 15)

    What a Friend we have in Jesus

    all our sins and griefs to bear!

    What a privilege to carry
    everything to God in prayer!

    O what peace we often forfeit,
    O what needless pain we bear,
    all because we do not carry
    everything to God in prayer. 

    [all verses]

    Do you have a friend and brother who does not suffer adversity?  Do you have a friend and sister who does not grieve over her children and afflictions of her family?

    Pray for these.

    1 Thessalonians 5:16

    Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing,

    18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you…

    25 Brothers, pray for us.

    26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

    You are my brothers, my sisters, and friends — my family — family of our friend, Brother and Lord, Jesus.

    Isaiah 30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

  • Were you once a ‘friend’ of Jesus?

    Were you once a ‘friend’ of Jesus?

    What would Jesus say about you?

    Do you witness HIS NAME?

    A long time ago the lyrics of a couple of wonderful songs by Paul Simon seemed nonsensical to me, yet the soothing sounds settled my thoughts into a place of silence – a tranquility of inaction in a chaotic world.

    Suppose Jesus Christ, Lord and King, wanted someone to witness for HIM online.  Would it be you?

    And if so, do you suppose that Jesus Christ would want you to remain SILENT? (Shouldn’t you at least have a comment about Jesus?)

    Take in just a little of the Paul Simon lyric from so many years past:

    Hello darkness, my old friend
    I’ve come to talk with you again …

    There is NO darkness in Christ Jesus. HE calls us to the Light.

    Yet hear the warning of Simon’s lyric:

    People talking without speaking
    People hearing without listening
    People writing songs that voices never share
    And no one dared
    Disturb the sound of silence

    “Fools”, said I, “You do not know
    Silence like a cancer grows

    *The Sound of Silence – Paul Simon 1964

    SILENCE about sin…

    Silence about the Savior of your soul…

    A cancer… a cancer of silence about Christ Jesus, in these last days.

    So where is your voice?  What is your Christian Social Witness?

    Are you yet silent?

    Where are your comments?  Can we have a conversation… can we talk of Jesus if you remain silent?

    And if you dare share any scripture in our community of Christians, why not also share your Christian Social Witness with others.

    I know it seems out of place to think of Jesus, a King awaiting His Day of triumphal return to give any thought of you; but JESUS LOVES YOU.

    Our Lord, who suffered for you on the cross so that you might live is waiting for you to say something — anything – a thank you, or I know Him — JESUS wants your witness to Him.

    Dear sister in the Lord, must Jesus plea once more for you:

    Remember me to one who lives there
    She once was a true love of mine.

    {Scarborough Fair Lyrics – by Paul Simon}

    Dear brother or sister in the Lord,

    Just because Jesus loves your friends and your family does not mean that you should keep silent about Him.

    Praise His Holy Name!

    As much as great lyricists like Paul Simon may speak to us, no music in Christ’s ears is more joyous than your song of witness that HE IS and He loves you.  Jesus is our friend. SHARE HIM with the world – the ones who dwell in our old friend, darkness.

    Our silence for Jesus breaks His heart.  What is your witness? Jesus is a friend of sinners.