Painting by Gustave Dore
“I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.”
Psalm 40: 2–3
The mercies of God are understood according to the diligence of reading his Word, with the blessing of the Lord that we have faith in what we read. So it is, the sons and daughters of God, whom collectively are the ‘bride of Christ;’ the ‘virtuous woman,’ (Proverbs 31:10); yea, the holy flock, who are the lambs of God, live with a new tenor in their being, a different life perspective because they are new creatures with the Holy Spirit of Jesus, who is the Bridegroom enjoined unto our souls; providing the necessary strength of faith for a new life that has hope in the doctrine of being an eternal being with the Lord, and has begun to grow in holy graciousness, according to our understanding of God, though the reading and doing of his Word.
“Surely every man walkers in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he health up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what I wait I for? my hope is in thee?”
Psalm 39: 6–7, A Psalm of David
Such a people, see the end of vanity, and of being implacable, and of scoffing at being peaceful; not because of their mental fortitude to understand their way out of the matrix of this world; that is, the fashion and values, ways and systems of life of this world, but the work being of God, have found mercy in the sight of God, and so, having access to the intelligence of God, arrive at the shores of wisdom and understanding found in the pattern of life of the Son of God, Jesus the Christ, whom we read is the Prince of Peace, though not as the world offers peace, but as the Justice of God, which sets all things right, unto those who walk in his ways, as righteous in Spirit according to his Word and the Spirit of his Word.
They, who are of Christ, having Christ in them, seeing that the world is vain; its ways distracting and offering pacification and lulling from how we should live, in the service of God, realize, because of the Holy Spirit in them that they are not to ‘normalize’ unto the vanity of this world, nor its ways of life, nor through he constructions of falsehoods that manifest oppression and desolation of heart and mind, are altogether meant to stand separate as lights in a sea of darkness; not in a vain show following our imaginations, but with lowliness with meekness unto God through Christ’s Word and in the manner of Spirit he exemplified in all his good works: yea, being gracious, yet clever, wholesome, yet with great endurance of mind and heart, ready and fitly trained and edified in the Word of God, whom calls us to endure hardness as good soldiers, according to his commandments, — that we love one another through it all, even as Christ loves us, having proven his willingness to descend unto earth from his own majesty for a season; being treated spitefully, and not once turning from his Father’s Word and holy manner, but in all things proving himself to be God with signs and miracles, confirming the strength of faith in the promises of God, even unto and beyond bodily crucifixion, showing himself openly for forty days on earth, that we are to have faith in the joy and love and peace, and uprightness with goodness and gentleness that belongs to those whom God has sanctified unto eternal life.
We, seeking a new country, understanding the the present system of world governments can never attain the equitable justice that God brings, being called to remain as steadfast lights of God in this world, must also exemplify patience, graciousness, love, and the sacrifice of joy through longsuffering, — that the work of God be resolutely accomplished through us and not hindered; that the fulness of the Israel of God be strengthened and assembled. Such a spiritual body, even a nation upon the nations, functioning and working seamlessly together according to the Word of God and Almighty Spirit of the Word of God. For if the work of the Holy Spirit be hindered in you, surely, the Word of God and His Holy Spirit will not return void unto the God, but will accomplish itself through another. Therefore, the Lord will incline unto those who intreat him faithfully as he has spoken to us that we should intreat him, and the Lord will incline unto those whom will best represent his graciousness, whom maintain themselves unspotted from the vanity of this present world, beholding the face and the presence of the Lord always before them. Yea, beholding the presence of the Lord, being in his sight, we bring all thoughts and actions in accordance to his acceptance, that we may be found acceptable unto all good works, having our minds cleansed and our foresights reflecting the vision of the Lord.
Painting by Piere-Auguste Renoir
“The law of God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.”
Psalm 37: 31, A Psalm of David
Therefore, that great mountain of the Lord that is upon the powers of this earth, and upon all its nations; being a holy nation of people, joined together as the remnant of the Lord on earth, being able to accomplish good works through the help of holy wisdom and holy understanding in all things of God’s Word; the din of this world falling away from our life, whereas the work, aforetime prepared for us, that is, before the world was created and established, such work of God accomplished through us, his holy vessels of mercy and righteousness, unto whom, all things are made clear: the Spirit of God, in the fulness of time, being fervent through our understanding unto our assembly, as the holy flock, in the functioning of the good works the Lord calls us to do, yea, not in one place, but as it makes sense, our assembly through the Christ Mind, upon all the earth: the heathen seeing the power of the love, and peace of God, even the strength of God through his peacemakers, who sing a song of praise through all we faithfully do. That formation of our holy understanding being the formation of Christ in us; edifying our purpose with all clarity; whereas we ‘put on’ Jesus as a garment of righteousness, that we be clothed in his confidence, leaving off the vain show of gain and advantage through the dead works of semblances, and of appearances, and forsaking the practice of idolatry of others, seeing its falsehood and end: a vain show of distraction, as if they have attained graciousness, whereas they are blind and dull following covetous whoremongers who are of the fashion of this world, which bringeth desolation of heart and soul, and of family.
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