After my hospitalization I am slowly getting back in the saddle and hope to start writing again. I have so much ahead of me with a move from a house I have rented and lived in for seventeen years. Joian, like an awaited angel, will arrive tomorrow to help me with that. To challenge the move, I am now on oxygen 24/7 which is a huge adjustment psychologically as well as physically. I am learning to give Him praise even in this situation and am so thankful my infirmity at this stage carries little pain. Of course Lord willing, I am looking for healing and restoration of my lungs and heart. We know He is able.
For a few years I have been free of any fear of death, knowing that if the Lord should ever take me, I have lived a blessed life, planned and purposed perfectly in love by a sovereign and benevolent God. The greatest wonder I know of, is that my God stooped as a servant saviour and became man and even today He condescends and has His being in me. He shares my blessings and sufferings each and every day and has since I was conceived. Oh, such glorious and mysterious love has our creator appointed each of us!
With that said, I have felt led for some time to start a periodic but ongoing series that I hope Joian and Ellie will join me in. We all come across wonderful "nuggets of precious gold" in our readings and I hope we can share some of that which edifies and moves us. As I have said before, "we are not trying to reinvent the wheel here at SONSHINE. Truth finds it's origin in only One. That said, I sincerely and humbly believe we have our hand on the pulse of God and discern what is truth, fit for the body of Christ in this, the day of the Lord.
This is the day the LORD has made. Let's rejoice and be glad today! Ps.118:24
With all the gloom and doom messages out there I was so blessed with Brother Prinzing's devotion this morning. The last paragraph and Ray's glorious poem places it all in a right perspective.
Be blessed and thank you for your prayers,
Jack
A ROAR OUT OF ZION
“The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of His people, and the strength of the children of Israel.” (Joel 3:16)
Not only will the Light, and the Salvation come forth out of Zion, but we find that the Lord shall ROAR, speak, utter His voice, from Zion. There is a little verse tucked away in Jeremiah 22:29 that reads, “O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.” God seemingly has long been silent towards this earth. But “God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son…” (Heb.1:1-2). The Son came as a living expression of the Word of God. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. He brought life and incorruption to light through the Gospel. The message of the kingdom was uttered, and men rejoiced. And through the years, to His remnant He continued to speak. But for all general mankind, it has been very silent. The heavens received Him, and we wait for the times of the restoration of all things. But soon the Lord shall “ROAR OUT OF ZION,” and He who spake by the Son, shall in these last days speak through His sons.
“The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter His voice from His holy habitation. He shall mightily roar upon His habitation: He shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.” (Jer. 25:30).
But this Voice of the lord, going before the army of the Lord, is not just for devastation – it is to deal with all unrighteousness, vengeance against all sin, that salvation might flow like a river. There is a MESSAGE TO BE SPOKEN which shall bring hope and life to all His creation.
Out of Zion He shall roar,
Utter words ne’er heard before,
Settle now the wanting score,
Grace abounding more and more,
Heals the wounds and bruises sore,
Till the whole He doth restore.
Ray Prinzing
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