2,000 years ago the Sun of Righteousness arrived.
And as the Sun ascends into the heavens this very day,
may His Beauty and Love pour out for this is our High Calling.
Last Words. And 400 years will pass. Listen well.God is preparing you to be His own possession. You are spared like a son who serves his dad. Malachi 3:17.
God is calling you to love and to release His Beauty in a broken world
not to demand that life goes your way.
"I have loved you," says the LORD.
But you say, "How have you loved us?" Malachi 1:2
Does this look like love, this little life of mine?
And our words are arrogant against the Light of the World. Malachi 4:13
But for you, fear My Name, the Sun of Righteousness.
I will rise with healing in my wings; and you will go forth and
skip about like calves from the stall. Malachi 4:2.
God is calling you to love and release beauty not
to build a life here on earth, not even to manage it well.
The Sun is rising over all our cares and concerns this very day.
"Turn toward yourself, live for satisfaction & fullness now,
and you will lose yourself.
Turn toward God, sacrifice your pleasure for His,
and you will find God & yourself, purpose now and joy forever." 66LL
PRAYER FROM PSALMS
You, O God, are Strong & Mighty, mighty in battle.
Lift up our heads, O God, lift them up, Ancient Doors,
that the King of Glory may come in.
The Sun is rising over all our cares and concerns this very day.
"Turn toward yourself, live for satisfaction & fullness now,
and you will lose yourself.
Turn toward God, sacrifice your pleasure for His,
and you will find God & yourself, purpose now and joy forever." 66LL
PRAYER FROM PSALMS
You, O God, are Strong & Mighty, mighty in battle.
Lift up our heads, O God, lift them up, Ancient Doors,
that the King of Glory may come in.
That the King of Glory may come in!
Psalm 24:7
Psalm 24:7
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall." Mal 4:2
ReplyDeleteJohn Piper summarizes Malachi - The Israelites had returned from the Babylonian exile. Jerusalem had been rebuilt, and the temple restored. But the people had not learned their lesson from the exile. They had grown skeptical of God's love (Mal 1:2), careless in worship (Mal 1:7), indifferent to the truth (Mal 2:6, 7), disobedient to the covenant (Mal 2:10), faithless in their marriages (Mal 2:15; 3:5), and stingy in their offerings (Mal 3:8). To this carnal and rebellious people God sent his messenger (Malachi means "my messenger"), and the first message he put on his lips was, "I have loved you, says the Lord!"...
"The great temptation for Israel in the Old Testament and for the church of Christ today is to forget that we are pilgrims not natives in this world."
His Message is the same today: "I love you. Return to Me and I will return to you."