Revelation 8:3 The prayers of all the saints
are on the Golden Altar before The Throne.
Are my prayers there in the offering?
Revelation 8:10 When the third angel blew his trumpet,
a great star named Wormwood fell from heaven.
I wonder if this is why C.S. Lewis,
in his epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters,
named the junior demon Wormwood (Screwtape's nephew).
Wormwood's mission was to deter The Patient from Eternity with God.
Eternal damnation. Am I listening this day to the tempter of my soul?
Revelation 8:13 Woe, Woe, Woe
to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts that are about to blow!
Do I hear what God hears?
If it matters so much to read the Word of God, am I really listening back?
I saw that about Wormwood, too, and thought of Lewis. A star whose name is Wormwood. Details far too lofty to grasp, but vivid enough and specific enough to know a third goes down and woe to the others!
ReplyDeleteChristmas is in a week and I have so much to do. I hate that I'm not sitting in silence for half an hour with these verses in their solemn warning and decree. There's a prompt (and gladness) to move on, but I know He wrote these things for our hearts to take heed and surrender so He can align our hearts with Him.
Prepare ye the Way of the Lord. Will we be found ready or asleep? Will our hearts quicken to His Voice this day and live fully in Him? Is that Day upon us? Tomorrow? Today?
How I truly pray that I will not be deceived in these last days, either my last days or IF these truly are the last days right before He returns. I see people all around me who are deceived and being deceived, and they have no idea they are being led astray. How I do pray that we believers are not here during the Great Tribulation, For it truly appears to be so horrific that no man or woman will be able to stand. I pray that we will all stop and listen to His voice at this Christmas time and then every day in the new year. It truly is NOT all about us.....it is ALL about HIM!
ReplyDeleteSo, thankful Bev for the good report and for a surgery free Christmas time. My, what a celebration you can have. You have been faithful to Him through out this ordeal, from the beginning and you are a testimony to His glory and honor. You have sought none for yourself, nor have you begged for healing or questioned Him, but rested in Him, to supply His answers. He has! Praise His holy name.
So well said and heard, Mary Lou, from the bottom of your heart. Thank you for your kind words!
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