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The Midnight Ocean
  
Reflections, Poetry, and Prose from the depths of the Midnight Ocean.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. Psalm 130
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant. After those days, saith the LORD,
I will put my law in their inwards parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people. Jeremiah 31:31-33
Wherefore the law is holy, and the Commandment Holy, and just, and good. Rom7:12
Sifatai tiftach- u'fi yagid- tehilatecha!
- If I open my lips- let my mouth- declare Your praise!
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FALLEN? A REFLECTION NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART... Jul 28, 2008 12:23 am
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We live in a dangerous world. No matter how insulated we feel, or how accustomed to Western life we've become, physical death could come for any of us- at virtually any moment- unbeknownst.

Upon waking this morning the local news brought with it the rather grave story of a nearby fatal car accident. Hardly unique. Well you know- at least- not for... "strangers."
In my mind- as is also not entirely unique- I decided to briefly entertain the idea of what the physical sensation of a fatal collision just might be like. The terror. The unexpected and instantaneous infliction of horror.

And then my mind - like lightning perused many of the various deaths which befall mankind...you know, that time that G-d- has but yet to answer.

I recalled memories of "Grizzly Adams" my old silver-headed, and bearded, Physiology Professor of ole- Dr. Adam's, and his analogy proffered... about pain.
"If a 2,000 lb fiat or a 10,000lb steam roller comes to a stop on your hand, you are crying the exact same tune." Er, something to that effect, at least.
It's been suggested - the most painful injury one can endure, ie the maximum pain impulse the body is capable of translating as "pain," is that of a broken femur. There maybe things AS painful, but nothing MORE painful...is the idea.


I'll spare you the gruesome inner dialog, and various test crashes...and scenarios that'd unfortunatley run through my head...but my final conclusion was, thank the Lord Almighty I know Him!
For those of you who have read my Half in- Half out, philosophy, might understand when you hear...I believe the pain of OUR "end" might be much subdued and stymied, to say the least.
I know of someone here on the blogs, who recently gave great testimony to the half in...lifestyle, us believers endure.
As one could even live under a bridge.
There's an inherent surreality that comes with not putting any faith in the this world. Having then a body continually on earth, and a heart and mind- in the heavenlies.
"Thou shalt Love thy G-d with thy whole heart, mind and soul."
A heart is wholly given to its Beloved.
It's also written In Joshua 1:8 "...meditate therein day and night...".
A soul parts with the flesh, as a "silver cord" upon death., is goes a most ancient and honored Hebrew saying.
Where's the body spoken of here?
Yet for those who shed off the flesh man- and become something new- those then are born again in spirit.
No longer are we, "one man" against a strange and often cruel world. Or more precisely- a cruely indifferent- frightful and painful world of happenstance and accidental pain.
We are risen anew into a more glorious Body. That- comprising the glorious and eternal Body of Christ Jesus. Integrated into something far greater. You become an integral part of something without happenstance. Without worry of accident or cruel indifference.When taken from foundation, it becomes a convoluted association of Life and Death:
From nothingness to Life. From Life to death. From death to life. Then oncee again... behold, He set before you Life and death, you will choose Life.
Then once more from life to death- to now Life Everlasting.

Wisdom? Who has ears to hear?
Days coming and going. The question becomes..."what is this life then."
That question is seemingly 180 degrees from, "what is the feeling of death?"
Life and death in weighed in a peculiar balance.
'Beginning' on one side...the 'end' on the other.
But what is a man's true beginning? Is it birth? Or is it death? Which death? First or second?Who is a scholar amongst us all?
What and where is the second death? Is it written?

What will be my end?
What will be yours?
We do have an end...or do We?
Are you half in life; or half out... perhaps that's the question.
Then again- perhaps that's the answer.

Who hast ears? Will you hear? Will you care?
Gird up thy loins, for soon... shall He not demand of you an answer?

Later on, at a family picnic today, was my grandmother who not all that long ago suffered a broken femur, due to seizure of the mind.
I also then learned of my cousin who is a couple years younger than myself, who recently was rushed by ambulance with apparent heart complications.
Insult to all but irony, then came a relative "Rick" who lost his son- who was my age, due to a tragic car accident when his son and I were both but 16.
I felt it mournfully ironic as I sat, my back entirely facing my (35 to 40) kin- atop a picnic table, facing an enormous fallen oak tree on the parks ground- toppled evidently by one of the awesome storms that has frequented the area (and globe) lately.
Set apart.
Then at one point my relative Rick- who's son died those some 11 years ago, went singley, and inspected the mighty fallen tree up close.
Likely contemplating the tremendous force which fell the mighty tree. A tree of likely 70-100 yrs or more, in its prime magnificence...laying there bleakly- strewn and broken by what appeared- lightning and strong wind. The irony was palpable, but to whom, apart from me? As I was willfully set- apart.
Yes and even the very mightiest fall.
It's written, a living dog is greater than a dead lion.
I cannot preserve or truly change anyone. Salvation, Life and Wisdom, be but from Him. In my hour of darkness Lord...Let it be. When mine own end comes- let not some vaguely familiar relative contemplate my death- and it's meaning, some 11 years later. Just let it be. For then Life- I know and pray, will just have begun for me.
When 'aire the silver chord shall part...then shall my heart be full. For there is none Mightier than the Body of Christ. It's written,"Death where is thy sting???"Amen???

Be you all blessed with Love in Christ Jesus... The Holy One of Israel!
sabrefire

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