This was a picture I just had to take when traveling. I just cannot help see the artistry of the Lord in all things. With such sights provoking the heart to rise straight to Heaven, I cannot imagine what state we shall be in when we see His face!
Friday, 4 September 2009
All generations will call me blessed; the Lord has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
Jesus seeing His mother and the disciple standing there by; whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, "Woman, behold thy son!"Then saith to the disciple, "Behold your Mother"!And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home ( John 19.v 26-27).
There are many ways Our Heavenly Father speaks to the mind and heart that has been fashioned by His hand, but none more directly than through his Word. It continually draws us by the moving of the Holy Spirit which is God, gently whispering in the heart and mind of our understanding. Nature is Gods artistry for our feeding, pleasure and cultivation; Everything shouts His praises from the smallest blade of grass to the mighty rainbow that arches across the earth! My personal understanding of our very being comes in two parts taken from Genesis 4.v22 and Reveltions 22.v.13. It is no accident that this is the beginning of the Word and End. Our Lord there tells us, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last" (Rev 22.v.13). Genesis 4.v.22, ,"The Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever..." ( that tree of life is our very Lord Himself who hung upon the cross as a pure gift for every man that would put his hand forward to embrace Salvation). Revelations.22.v.13, "A am the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end, the first and the last... Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city" (The city being the new Jerusalem, Heaven). I have heard it said that God is not the author of confusion, and i have come to understand,not through anything of myself, but the gentleness of the Holy Spirit leading me, that the more we desire to draw near Him, the smaller we are to become. Yes entering that very stage of infants (1) again is a complete re-fashioning to allow our hearts to fly like eagles & become mighty Cedars, total liberation! By this, Holy Scripture becomes so transparent that we stand in astonishment that we could have so easily missed this mighty truth; But take heart little one, the good God was always going to draw us, and fashioned our heart to Him alone. This He did before time itself to be His true sons, Sons of God!