Remember those first fresh glances from someone you love?
The Gospel has eyes, says John of the Cross.
When someone looks at you, searches you out.
You know their love, so strong, so real.
So, too, the Gospel's Eyes cut through to engage.
Gospel Eyes offer a life of beauty, a power to change.
They see right through you and invite you to much more.
The Gospel Eyes of Love are on you this morn.
I have made you a Watchman.
Will you step up into My Plan?
Daniel followed ninety years.
He beheld the Mystery.
The Watchman followed through his tears,
Holding tightly to that same Mystery of Gospel Eyes.
The secret did not lie in a good upbringing.
Our notoriety society tells you otherwise.
You must hold the Mystery of the Faith
With a clear conscience. I Tim 3:9
The Gospel Eyes are fixed on you.
The Mystery of Godliness
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He was manifested in the flesh,
vindicated by the Spirit,
seen by angels,
proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world,
taken up in glory.
I just finished reading Revelation last night with a friend. Since January, we plodded through it with some amazing, well, revelations, as we tried to wrap our minds around Who exactly this holy God we serve is. Better than a sci-fi blockbuster, the plot unfolds with power and fear and giant monsters and our Savior on a white horse, and so much more.
To scratch the surface of the Mystery of Godliness is our deep privilege, to open His Word as He reveals Himself to us and reads our lives back to us. After we finished last evening, we thanked Him for His steadfast character, His holiness, His mercy, His faithfulness, His Alpha and Omega-ness (His constancy when nothing else in this world is). We sat in quiet for a few minutes drinking it all in--the warnings, the secrets, the magnitude, the invitation to Come. I am still shaking my head which is swimming in the grace of it all--Who He is and His beautiful and steadfast plan that unfolds before us.
Whoever you think God is, He is more.
Sorry about yesterday getting ahead with Ezekiel, te Watchman. I use my email to get the readings sent to me each day and they were a day ahead somehow.
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