Last week I got two interesting and encouraging emails.
One friend wrote:
“Paul, your blogs have been a real life line to me, especially with everything that has been happening this year! Thank you for faithfully sharing what God puts on your heart as well as providing us with many very helpful links to understand better what is really going on beneath the surface.”
The words of Is. 59:14 ring so true in these days, “Our courts oppose the righteous, and JUSTICE is nowhere to be found. TRUTH stumbles in the streets, and HONESTY has been outlawed.”
More than ever I echo my mother’s prayer at the start of each day from Ps.25:4,5. “Show me your way O God teach me your paths. Guide me in your TRUTH and teach me, for you are God my savior and in you do I hope all this day long.”
Here are two examples of how ‘TRUTH’ has ‘stumbled on the streets’ of the UK and the USA.
I believe however that this is about to change dramatically as a tsunami of information sweeps the world through the internet, displacing the HateStream Media. As it says again in Isaiah,
“And I will make JUSTICE the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will SWEEP AWAY the REFUGE OF LIES, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.” (Is. 28:17)
The other person who emailed me had discovered my Youtube channel and in particular the song, “We Will Fear The Lord”
Brent commented,
“Mr Paul, Greatly blessed by this! Do you have chords for this song? I searched ‘the Lord takes delight in those who fear Him’ and this came up. Thankful.“
What caught my attention was his name – Brent Heavener.
As Ben sings, it is getting “Harder To Hear” the TRUTH these days there’s so much ‘culture’ and ‘opinion’ and ‘money’ and ‘religion’ and ‘criticism’ and ‘journalism’ in the way.
But as we survey the world through the vehicle of the internet with as I’ve said before, “a courageously open minded passion to know and live the truth“, we need to trust that we will receive a Heavener perspective, as in the words of another Belfast songwriter, ‘God shines his light’ into our hearts, and as we tune into that ‘still small voice’ of the Holy Spirit.
In this pursuit we will more often than not find ourselves at odds with “The Establishment’ but in company with Jesus! Below, “Van the Man’ (backed up now by 23 scientific studies!) appeals that “Cyprus Avenue” be not only the name of a song, or the street where my mother lived, but a functioning restaurant!
It seems the distinction between good and evil, light and darkness, truth and lies is becoming clearer by the day
….between those who determine, “We will fear the Lord and walk in all his ways” ….who have caught a glimpse of the Heavener, and seem to know one day they will stand before a sovereign God and give an “Honest to God” account of their lives to the judge of all the earth.
….and those who, “live a life without regard for the one from whom we came.” Someone has defined EGO as “Edging God Out”
Only God can read men’s hearts, but over the months I have given links to those who I sense are walking in integrity, humility and searching for facts that add up over time. You must make your own discernment. Each ‘awakened’ person contributes a unique piece to the multifaceted ‘truth‘
If you are SEARCHING for truth in ‘facts’, my preferred source now is theepochtimes.com If you are SEARCHING for truth in something more ‘fantastic’ you might want to check out,
TIME ALONE WILL TELL
……the relevance of the songs, and the stories that come to my mind in these days, stories such as The Silver Chair, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Wizard of Oz, The Pied Paper of Hamlin, 1984, Animal Farm, A Brave New World, The Matrix.
……and of course The Greatest Story Ever Told through the pages of the Bible.
I would recommend Stephen Jones current blog series at godskingdom.org which is an in depth study of the book of Isaiah, which I have been referencing.
Isaiah is known as the “Prophet of Salvation” and the “universalist” for he describes how God’s salvation in the end extends to the very ends of the earth.
All is well, and all will be well, for God has already won.
Honest to God!
“The Lord delights in those who trust in His unfailing love.
Whose heart is fixed, whose mind is set on the things that are above.
Whose life is hid with Christ in God, the one from whom we came.
Who watches o’er each step we take, ’til the circle’s closed again.“