Who is like Him, the Lion and the Lamb?
Who is this king you keep babbling about? Why do Christians worship this man that died 2000 years ago?
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” –John 1:1-5
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.” Deuteronomy 32:1,3
I love to watch in the mornings as His sunrise bathes the land with its warmth. The trees and the lawns are plated in gold.
And I look up into the stars at night, the beauty that captivates all men for all generations, and I wonder at His magnificence! And I question, like David: Who are we? Who is man that He would consider us (Psalm 8: 3-5)? We were made last after the heavens and creation were prepared. For His glory He made man.
He is the sweetest poet writing the sweetest sonnet. He romances His people. He woos them with His longsuffering, goodness, and forbearance. He fights for us. With fury, He picks up sword and shield to ransom His beloved from the enemy. Since creation He, our King Most High, has been our champion. Our victor.
But Oh how His beloved is disobedient! How wicked and ungrateful are His people. We reject His voice. We reject His existence! How blind and foolish are we His people. And how horrid will be our punishment. In the hands of the enemy we cast ourselves in disregard to our Creator.
Oh let us awake Zion! Let us set forth from iniquity Tongue, Tribe, and Nation! Do you not see our sin? Do you not see how we rebel from our king whom saved us from the maw of Sheol? Shake off the dust and arise, my soul! Give glory and honour and praise to the Most High King, the Lord God.
My King! Grant me discipline and steadfastness to endure the enemie’s attacks. Grant me faith so that I may obey your commands, my just redeemer!
How quickly I leave the Lord! How I have put my shield down and was lured, seduced, enticed into the clutches of sin. So hypnotized by the harlot; His soldiers forsake Him. Like men we think not of whatever things are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. We think of ourselves. We think not of His death and Resurrection. We think not of what it took for Him to redeem our souls, and so we leave the race and run off the path to the harlot who whispers sweet promises of vanity in our ears. She has laid her bed with Egyptian linens, myrrh, and cinnamon.
And the battle is weary! Would it be less if we, His people, weren’t prone to wonder from the refuge of His wings?
His joy is not a supplement. It is not to compliment our lives with utility. It sustains us! His grace feeds and nourishes the weak-hearted. By His grace we obtain the joy to our souls He provides through knowledge of Him. Breath is a gift. Joy is a gift. Repentance is a gift. We are rightly instructed for He, our God, teaches us.
This is the Lord God. This is our Creator. This is Jesus Christ. All praises to His name alone forever and ever.
Nothing but His grace.
Let us say you have a girlfriend (I am a guy so I say girlfriend. Just transpose the gender if you’re a girl. It shouldn’t be hard, society transposes gender everyday…). Her name is Beautiful. Now lets say that Mocking and Foolish, two popular guys, star-athletes and well respected by the world, come up to Beautiful and slap her. They spit in her face they call her fat and ugly, they cut her flesh and they torment her. We could go further and say that Mr. Worldly comes and joins Mocking and Foolish in the activities. Now Beautiful is raped and her friends are murdered because they know you. That’s central, it’s because they know you and love you. What is your first reaction? I bet it is extreme wrath.
Does this seem too surreal? Too extreme and unrealistic? Then why does it happen every single day since the beginning of time!?
God has a bride, more than a girlfriend, but a companion inseparable. That bride is the Christian church, the body of believers that live out the faith they profess. No not the buildings. No not one denomination over another though there are some with a higher population of believers over others. And every day believers are mocked, killed, and debased because they love the Most High King. Christians arent killed everyday , you fanatic! Where do we throw them into arenas with gladiators and starving lions like back in the day? Where are they persecuted for knowing your king?
Go to…well, anywhere…and open your eyes! Go to Tibet and China and see how the underground church is hunted and sought after for denying the claims of atheistic communism or demonic Buddhism. Go to the middle east where our very ancestral brothers blow themselves up in the name of Islam and wage jihad on the infidels. What is an infidel? Christians and Jews especially, hated ever since Isaac was chosen over Ishmael (Genesis 17:17-21).
You don’t even have to go that far. Listen to the news. See how there is constant debate over the authenticity of Christianity. Watch the Discovery Channel or the National Geographic Channel as they capitalize on the doubts and criticisms of Christ with the “gospels” of heretical gnostics. Look at the cars that drive by. Some will have an outline of a fish with the name Jesus in English or Greek inside. This fish is a historical symbol to the church, it’s an identifier. Now look again and see the fish with feet and the name “Darwin” in the outline. It is bitterness and nastiness, it is the world defying their king!
And this attack will only get worse. More and more people will turn away from the Lord God in disgust because His message does not allow for them to live the lifestyle of iniquity that they wish. “Rev.” Jeffery John, homosexual bishop of the Anglican Church, refuses to believe in the very center, the apex, of Christianity. He refuses to believe that God would send His only son to die on the cross to redeem mankind of their sins. Why does he refuse? Well, he doesn’t think humanity needs to be redeemed from hell, there probably is no hell, and no nasty ole Satan that tempts us and tricks us into sin and therefore no need for a belief in some psychopathic infanticidal “idea”. Rev. John has been given up to his sins, he has traded the truth for a foolish and futile lie. There is no hell and no judgment. God, if there is a God, is love and mercy only.
Then why is Christianity THE debate of all debates? Why do we still grow fearful at the thought of the Resurrection? Why don’t we debate Buddhism or Zorastians and grow fiery angry and have little fish contradicting their beliefs on our cars? Because the founders of those false religions are dead and were dust long ago! But Christ is risen, proving His divinity and His faithfulness. Why did He die!? Because we are wretched felons, murderers and adulterers in our hearts! We, all of the world, have broken the just law of the Creator God, and the penalty is death. Death. SHEOL, HELL, HADES, DEATH! But for His sake, because He loved us so, He sent His only son, the Word of God whom was God, to die for us and to take the penalty for us on the cross!
AWAKE WORLD! Wake up from your iniquities! Wake up from your lifestyle of debauchery, drunkenness and loathed sin! Awake and turn to the LORD GOD whom was and is and is to come. Beat your chests in grief for turning away from Him that loves you most. Repent for the rule of God is coming! PLEASE I BESEECH YOU to not tarry upon your confession of His lordship over your life!
If you tarry you will perish. You will be guilty of not giving God the glory He deserves. Why does He deserve anything? Because He is God. “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” –Revelation 4:11
Become His beloved. Seek the Lord God with all your heart. Nothing we can do can wash away the guilt and shame, the mark of sinner from our souls. Nothing but His grace.
