Bro. John:
I was looking at some of the pictures on our Facebooks this morning. I just happened to land on Bro. Gary’s little video of him playing on guitar the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and tears began to flow. It wasn’t the song alone, for there were no words. But it was the feeling – – how wonderfully clean and innocent it felt and how blessed we are to be surrounded by things and hearts that are clean.
I thought about the day we will live forever with the Father and the Son, never again to have to guard our hearts against anything unclean or unholy. What is it worth to have a life in the truth where you don’t have to be afraid of what your children may be subjected to, a life where you can live and trust in the simplicity and pureness of the things of God; a life where you can trust the hearts around you? That is why we must protect this precious life in God by loving His righteous judgments, His order, and His government that keeps us from the poaching spirits that lie in wait to get in. I read this in Ezekiel 22 this morning:
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.”
How blessed we are to have the order and government of God that places an anointed man over us as His means of protection and defense, the anointed man who declares the boundaries and limits of God that keep us from being destroyed. God is good! Our own ways will destroy us if we do not love where God has put us and the order that He has declared. I noticed in Ezekiel, He didn’t search for a doctrine, He searched for a man.
I thank Him for this clean feeling that I am feeling this morning. It is precious and to be cherished.
Sandy