Sounds of My Writings: Where is your Sackcloth

In a week of triumphant festivities where deliverance and eternal life is promised - it is hard to gather any victory shout without first reviewing and revisiting our broken cries.

Our pride, our hatred, our biases, and even our sins had put to death the Son of the living God. We pierced him, hurt him, beat him, and mocked the King of kings. He came dressed in humility, and not in human beauty to save a people whose hearts were callused and drunk with bitterness.

It took a loving God, to defeat evil. It took a human lamb to give His life to forgive all sins. It took God’s best to defeat man’s worst. It took a prince full of peace to combat the armies of war.

It took a forgiving God, to offer us mercy. Where is your sackcloth?

John 13:1-5

1 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

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Sounds of My Writings: No Room

There was a day when heaven came down to earth, and the Son of God came in the innocence of an infant boy child. His first introduction to the world he had created, and for which he so desired to intervene - and leap from his mother’s womb was the cold announcement “there is no room for you”.

When you, and I carry the Gospel message to a world whose doors are closed to the truth of our loving Savior we will find in many instances that the community we so desire to help and serve has the room of their hearts already preoccupied.

Don’t worry, and rejoice for we have been purposed as spiritual nomads to passionately occupy the rooms of heaven and not the palaces on earth. In this season God is loosening the knots of everything that binds us to this world.

Let go, let God and be free!

John 14:1-4

1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. 2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.”

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Sounds of My Writings: Under Fire

In the Christian life, the Lord promises to baptize every believer by water, and by fire. The baptism of water has to do with the public announcement of our renewed faith, and life in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. Like taking a shower every day, this public symbolism reveals how God’s truth (Word) continually washes us of our moral errors as we repent.

The baptism of fire, in the other hand, has to do with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This baptism promises that God himself will take residence in a person’s life, and transform the old sinful nature to one which reflects His image and likeness. This inner washing or working can not be performed with water, but rather with fire.

In Gods eyes, being filled with the Holy Spirit is more than an endowment of power, but an inner working of His consuming fire which burns away any moral impurities still found in our character. During this time, you and I may feel that we are in the furnace.

But, hold on - you and I will come out of this pure, spotless, and shining like Gold.

Matthew 3:11-12

11“I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with c the Holy Spirit and fire. 12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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