Heavy is my heart this night. I cannot put the words right. Sighing...Groaning... Joy comes in the morning, but now... A burden lies in my chest. A weight of ache and unrest. Shallow...breathing... None but my Father see me. "Lord, You know my anxious thoughts! O, put this right at all costs!" Speechless...gasping... It feels like nothing's happening.
Ten years ago I looked like Rambo, or Briggs from Lethal Weapon (no that's not a wig!). I was the masked hypocrite guilty of pornea, filled with curses, bitterness, and prayer, seeking my glory as the chief end of all things, a creature at the center of concentric rings, none with room for the King of
You do not deserve mercy or grace... yet the Lord has proposed both!
In Galatians Paul constantly puts circumcision with law: the side of the present evil age Jesus saves us from; the side bound by flesh, slavery, and imprisonment.
The sight. The brightness of His coming. Shepherd, King.
How fast can the humming bird flap it's wings? And what is the rate and rhythm at which the sparrow sings?
Is there still hope for ethnic Israel? How can it be when all is not well? ''By His knowledge'': the good news (Is 53:11) that ''God reigns'' in Isaiah 52, (Is 52:7) ironically fulfilled in Isaiah 53- ''before honor comes humility.'' (Prov 15:33; 18:14) Through anguish He would see His seed (Is 53:10) promised (in Him)
What do you or I know of humility? We know of this simply because the infinite God condescended to our level. He came to the earth to shake heaven and hell.
No jury needed to convince or sway, because the Judge knows without a reasonable doubt that the one defendant is guilty.
Jesus is Lord and Last Adam according to Paul. Jesus fulfilled the pattern according to Paul.
