Glory Abode

                                                        God loves you.     God loves the world.         Have you tasted God’s love?             Can you out-love God?                 What is first, God’s love or yours?                      Are you a witness to God’s love?                                                    ...

  Your plans are precise, Your thoughts so perfect. Your words are polished. In awe they leave us.   Each sunrise we see Shows forth thy patience. So gently unveiling Noon’s brilliant glory.   Like gentle showers Drop mercy and grace. Forgiveness and Love Heals and reconciles.   The lightning so fierce Bores fear down our spine. Yet bounties they bring Reviving the soil.   Thy judgement is fair All knees bow in awe. Acknowledge You’re just No error You make!   Your truths are so vast Yet precious as gold. Like gold in deep mines Dig deep and find more.   Your leading dear Lord Gentle as Shepherd; Yet fierce protector From all who are foes.     Yeanoku October 07, 2021.

History is on file Penned by the victor’s quill. Dig deeper, find you will The vanquished was richer, Welcoming, generous.   Coveting what they had. With craft and cruelty Ruthless and selfishly Friends, traders turn rulers. Their conquests glorified.   Resisters vilified, Robbed, plundered left with naught. Bankrupt and subhuman Their glory crushed, destroyed. Strangers, slaves in own home.   Manifest Destiny, Colonize, civilize, Sprinkle missionaries. Evil mixed with some good Is always what we give.   Babylon took Judah YHWH willed it to be. Yet discipline dished out Was more than God allowed: Jeremiah fifty says.   It is high time to see Tit for tat will not do. Admit, forgive, move on. Vacate vicious cycle. Progress to love and life.   Vanquished: don’t ape victor. Victor: past wrongs admit. Vicious vengeful cycle Truth surely can destroy. Mandela-Tutu did!   In marital unions Pedigree and status Cause conflicts and divorce. Successful ones are th...

  Oh! LORD, our Creator, Sustainer, and Friend.  In a garden so beautiful and serene  You sheltered us.  With Your warm Chased You clothed us.  Anything we desired, You gave us.  Truth was all we had heard till then.  Yet, to lies we chose to listen. And lies we chose to believe!  This shattered the trust-bond between us. You could trust us with the garden no more. Dominion and power that you gave us Lord,  we gave away for a cheap fruit.                   My children dear, your choice I always honor.  In mercy I  exiled you.  Wish by wooing to win your loyalty.  I never  disowned you.  I promise to redeem you.   LORD, my punishment is greater than I can bear.  Your face is hidden from view.  A fugitive I will be.  I fear for my life and safety. My own kin abuse me.            I, The LORD will place My mark on you....

Le Tour de Babel   A wise man says, In days of yore men were held hostage to nature’s whims.   Men depended on the rains and lightning bolts (God sent).  Irrigation and nitrogen fixing. Rotation of crops, plough under the harvested plants.  Seven-year cycle. The Sabbath year: rest, rejuvenation, return to full vigor.  That’s God's design. “Follow me. I will send rain in due season.”    Not so today, we proudly proclaim. Our chemists and scientists are mighty.  We create seeds immune to disease and severe climes!   Chemicals, compounded in exacting proportions, can bypass cycles or rest.   Can intent be defaulted?  Famines have been held back, not altogether banished. Feed the multitudes.  Selfishness remains; waste on one hand, hunger on the other.   Vive la liberte’!  Free from nature's ‘shackles’? Freedom from God?    Smacks of Shinar’s ziggurat. The tower is toppling!  The very li...

  Misrepresentation of God in Job:   1.      God is an enemy. 2.      God does not care. 3.      God’s actions have no rhyme or reason. 4.      God is not fair, or just? 5.      God created evil???? 6.      God is NOT as smart as man. Knowledge…Wisdom. 7.      God is distant, an absentee landlord.   Being touched by Satan and assuming it is God!   Do I continue to see God as an enemy?   Do I see his might (whirlwind, etc) as an intimidating force?  Yes!!! But is that Force for me or against me?   Knowledge & Wisdom; comes from close contact with God.  Could it be that previous generations were privy to this as well?   God cares.  Ask the animals, birds, the earth itself, and the sea creatures too!   Is it possible that I am an enemy, because I am camped with the enemy of God?  Have you ...

    Shalom was shattered! Only smithereens remained. Shalom, the pair missed. The cost though undiscerned.   Beauty, perfection And with love is creation. Yet one brief action Marred all of creation.   So thoughtfully done Wondrous and glor’ous it shone. Just thoughtless move one. The masterpiece is torn.   Value stupendous, Anyone so prosperous? Only Lord Jesus Can fit here apropos!   Heaven was emptied, Nothing the Father withheld. No treasure was spared. Son was given for good.   The price Jesus paid: With shame, injustice, and death. Peace, truth established For all infinitude.   Such value don’t spurn. Thus, cost-free giveth Heaven. Too good to be true? No, this is Heaven!   God! With thanks accept thee. Faithful we may be. Amen.   Yeanoku   July 28, 2021