Desolation

Desolation

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

- Hebrews 9:14

 

I feel away

Crying and breaking forth

As if the others are at far south

I - at the distant north

In my desolation

I gladly rejoice.

It seems the others

Make a religious choice.

Are they directed by law?

Is it just what my mind thinks?

Or is God revealing?

Is it what the Holy Spirit leads?

Is it wrong to say

That easy is Jesus’ yoke

When in the Lamb’s blood

We always choose to soak?

But do we choose?

It’s definitely hard to yield

For we love ourselves

In religious thorn-filled field.

Yet – is it hard? –

When we hate ourselves

Follow Jesus’ sayings

In sacrificial praise.

Cast your burdens on the Lord

The way is truly narrow

But please! Do not fall

Into religion – shallow.

Righteous only in Jesus’ sacrifice

The gate’s strait

Let the Holy Spirit move

For our GOD IS GREAT!

What does it mean

Ourselves to deny?

Religious reasoning makes me

Again in desolation to cry!

Preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified

Will either harden heart or it’ll break

Bringing to ashes

All self-righteousness – fake

So is it easy to deny self?

His commandments – not grievous

Or is it hard to stop

The ‘do this & that’ cycle vicious?

Not grievous

For Jesus said: “It is finished.”

Are we purged in the Lamb’s blood?

Why is the Holy Fire diminished?

Is the object of our faith right?

Are we living sacrifices?

Nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified!

God’s grace suffices.

It’s easy when to the Holy Spirit

Our hearts we do not harden

But let them break and be filled

Grow Living Water garden

Do we realize that we’re placed

In Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection?

I’m crucified with Christ

Breaking forth and crying in desolation.

~ Viki, October 4, 2007, KS

~Isaiah 54:1/Galatians 4:27, Romans 6, 7, 8~

~Galatians 2:19-21, Matthew 11:28-30, John 12:25~

~Luke 9:23-24, Psalm 54:6, Matthew 7:14, Psalm 55:22~

~1 Peter 5:6-7, Matthew 13:7, 22, Romans 6:16, Romans 10:4~

~Romans 1:17, Romans 3:22-25, Philippians 3:9, 1 Corinthians 2:2~

~1 John 5:3, John 19:30, Matthew 3:11, Romans 12:1~
~2 Corinthians 12:9~

~1 Corinthians 2:5à1:18, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, Hebrews 3, 4, Ephesians 5:18-19~