The Ministry of Mighty Arms?

I do remember a letter that was given to me on the day of my baby's funeral. It was from Pastor Martin. Though, there is little that is clear about that day, his letter is clear and his letter assisted me through life to appreciate the ministry of the mighty arms of men around me.
He was absent, because of some providence, but his dear wife, Marilyn held me in her arms and apologized for his absence. In the letter, he bid me to see him as hugging me there at the cemetary.
So many strong men were around to represent the mighty arms of God, that also seemed absent in my distress. I could, as it were, reason from the lesser to the greater in that sorrow. If I could imagine that Pastor Martin were there, when it was Marilyn, I could imagine that God were here, though He too felt so gone. I was comforted by that.
I do bid Godly men to use their might to represent God well on earth, and especially in grief.

Proverbs 8---Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

verse 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

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I always think of Wisdom, in Chapter 8 of proverbs as the apprentice of the Lord. A sitting student, learning and taking notes of the workings, by which God does all His holy will.

I have changed my mind and think of her,now as a dutiful wife, learning her Lord and rearing His children and giving them the instructions of their father. The woman of bondage, I think,{as Hagar was} often despised by the children, but dutiful in her labors. She has no idea where her offspring will go or what they will do, but her children are taught of the Lord. Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom, don't despise her!

The Purchase Price of Redemption is the Purchase of the Love of the Brethren!

When we are not in Christ, we cannot love brethren with a pure love.

Blest be the tie that binds...Our hearts in Christian love,
The fellowship of kindred hearts is like to that above.

The taste of heaven on earth is the purchase of brotherly love, by the blood of Jesus.

We have nurtured our hearts in the world so long that we don't appreciate the deliverance of God from the imaginations of our own hearts that are always evil, and continually.
How wickedly we would use and abuse oneanother, were it not for the instruction of God and the institution of Christian love in the Church. We can love oneanother in the family and we can love the brethren with a more pure love. We can reprove oneanother and correct one another, in love, because of the Blood of a perfect Savior.

He instructs us to be living in the love of Christ with one another. Sisters and Brothers who are from different backgrounds, but have one Father in Heaven, who teaches us how to love oneanother, in family and in the church and in the community. God give us grace to live and love, in the tie that binds us, The Blood of Jesus.

Seek the Lord.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

Proverbs 18:1 and 2

Desire and love are the digging place for the human dogged determination. Solomon points this out so succinctly. Like a dog, after a bone, when we love a subject, we search it out and find the smallest detail of it. In contrast, Solomon, through the Holy Spirit directs us, that a fool is only interested in revealing himself to others, it is as though his nose for truth is pressed against his own heart.



























This is what I am doing and this is what I am thinking and this is what I want etc. The rod of correction was fashioned by God to take our noses out of our own bosoms and place them in the dirt of truth to uncover the gems and precious things that He has hidden there. Would to God, that we would search Him out, with dogged determination.

Isaiah 49:8

Isaiah 49:8



Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

We have all come from the desolate heritages, into Christ, who have flown to Christ for salvation and redemption.



The desire to mother the desolate heritages, is the blessing of the Lord. The desire to give maternal influence and to see it shine to the glory of God is a God wrought impulse. God nurtures a culture so that the growth of women can include something other than what is for self ornamentation. The ornamentation of the souls in heaven is what children they have nurtured for the glory of God. This is clear in scripture as something that is God nurtured and not earthly. God shows that salvation is the want of self to be in communion with God and that the nurture of other souls to learn to love Him, also.
In the book Man of LaMancha, Cervantes shows a culture where Christian maturity had not grown to the point where a woman could love God and become converted and show His grace in her life, without being taken advantage of by others. This is a judgement on a culture. When a culture cannot nurture women to love and want to love others to draw them to Jesus, without being taken advantage of, it is a grave judgement and God shows what He did to Sodom and Gomorrah, who had wicked intentions for every visitor to their city. That is the spirit of Rahab that God is hammering out of our history, as we instruct Christ to each generation. We should be growing in the fear of God. What are we nurturing in our young? In our home? In our city? In our country? In our world? Can someone love people and show the love of God, without being taken a prisoner of wickedness and taken advantage of by the mob. Christianity is a higher power for cultural change than was Judaism in the Old Testament. God, through Christ has bought salvation and grace personally and then, cultural change results, as we grow up into Christ in all things. Someone must yearn for souls as a barren woman yearns for children. This is the spiritual battle that God is fighting. Where is Hannah, He seems to cry in Isaiah. Where is the family who will fight the good fight to nurture souls into the kingdom, through love?

To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalm 136:5

I sit in wonderment, that there are some, in Scripture, noted for asking God, "What are You doing?" What a brave question that is, and yet, everytime, one of God's friends asks God for an answer, God answers with far more information, than the person could handle.
I am going through Revelations, which, I believe was an answer to the apostle John's questions to God and here we are gleaning from, Jesus redemption of our souls, to know God in an intimate way, in the Scripture.
My children ask me, Mommy, what are you doing? I say, today I am resting, because I am sick. That means only 3 loads of laundry and naps more often and tylenol to help me cope.
God gives us the entire Scripture to explain the things that we can know about what He is doing. God give us grace to want to know You, first, in the pardon of our sins and then, in the study of Your Word and thirdly, in the providences that You send. Amen.

But for Your Grace! Halleluia!