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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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DO YOU EVEN WANT TO BE HEALED??????? Nov 20, 2008 11:15 pm
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BC, BC, BC... to what shall I compare thee??

"And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years. When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me. Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked"
- John 5 - 9

Indecision. The utter laziness of fate. We all have indecision. It's at the best of times, yet still a nagging persistent little cuss is it not? Many times I think we almost conjure delusions for ourselves in attempt to stave off the inevitable harshness that reality's truths manifest. We leave unanswered definatively those questions whose outcome is almost certain to cause us pain, if afforded due course. We seek to buck reality, and live instead in a world of make-believe, if only for awhile, and it's all equally as silly and unreal as paper-puppets, ceramic figurines, and magic wands. We project without self-aggrandizement in effort to sway our fears within. We can just billow over with our minds distorted words, to suit our feigned love of flattery and acceptance.
Fantasy is easy, truth and honesty, and the disappointment so closely associated with her, is surely not. But IT IS LIFE.
We dress in our "purple robes", just as the days of the Word. But our purple is strong self-delusion, and the semblance of Godly pride. We are merely ceramic walkabouts, us who think ourselves greater.
And ohhhhh... how we exalt a kind mirror! And yet shun the truth of the mirror of righteousness, every Word of the Book.
Each day we awake, we seem to forget a certain tenant of our faith. That we are not worthy, but are offered sufficient grace, according to His good pleasure and will. We preen about in the company of others, as if to project ourselves above the mediocrity of everyday life.
'Surely I am better!'
'Surely, I am more attractive, more intelligent, or lovable!'
'Surely I am more witty, more devout, or more fit!'
I am more, more, more, more, more.
I am better, better, better, better.
But, there comes a time in each of our lives when I think we have to either to embrace, or release. We have to let go, or bring to unity.
Bear or become bare, so to speak.
We need, at some point to reach up into the Heavens with our prayers and draw a stiff line in the clouds. And ask Our G-d to be attentive to our cries.
We need to lay out a fleece (figeratively!), and be honest with ourselves- before Our G-d .
Judges 6:37 Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; [and] if the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth [beside], then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

We need direction to choose our path boldly, so we can grow.
It's written, 'behold I put before you Life and death, you will choose life.'
So I lay out a fleece tonight, and commit it's meaning to G-d's will, so that I may not mention it again, and again and again...afraid of His answer. So as that my will might further cease to grate upon the face of His will.
We do not put G-d to the test in doing so, we merely ask Divine guidance, unto healing.

So what is it that you've been avoiding His answer to? And what will be your fleece? What is that still small voice calling you to come out of? Are you great enough to face His answer?
Heaven, let us not fear the answer anymore! Let us trust in our Lord G-d Almighty, and His control. Let us lay our fleece and await the answer so that we may be at peace again within the body of Christ, knowing that He is our destined end and way, and we cannot forestall His will for yet another day; but that we may rather go gracefully, obediently and headlong into it. Singing while we go.

Let us gather together and pray for one another as a People, and lift up for sanctification those things that bewilder, demean, haunt, and pierce our present- while delaying our future, to our own hurt and stagnation, each and all.
Let us all be done with our self-delusion, pride, and fear, and cease from our petulant bucking of G-d's will, and Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ's direction.
Tonight let us ask of ourselves just what Christ asked the invalid who lie upon his mat day and night, "do you wish to be healed?!?"
Many of us, it would seem simply do not.
But, let us be done with it, tonight.

Now pick up your mat and walk...

GBY Little Children, each and all,
sabrefire

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