Kiki Dee sang "Ain't got no trouble in my life, no foolish dream to make me cry. I'm never frightened or worried... I got the music in me..." Like a thunderbolt this hit me! I felt the electrical charge. My heart raced. My fingers tingled all the way down to my toes. And it is the music that will hold the church together.
From 1 Chronicles 17 came 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.
13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
14 But I will settle him in mine house and in my kingdom for ever: and his throne shall be established for evermore.
Reading the Old Testament is a real struggle. God's children were...are... a real challenge. Repeatedly I asked God "what gives?". Even lofty David, the beloved King of Israel. Adulterer. Murderer. And then finally repentant of his sins
Thankfully as it says in 1 Samuel 16:7 "The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
I saw the thorns as Christ saw them as he hung on the cross. I heard His last breath as He said “Father, Into Thy Hands Commend My Spirit.” He died for the church. And I saw heaven rejoice! The angels sang. Hear the fanfare of the trumpets !
There was one heavenly explosion of joy upon joy that the Son of God enacted the ultimate gift of love for Gods children. He is The Offering as in John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
JESUS! In the plan and from the beginning. Just like most parents, even God knows the strengths and weaknesses of His children. And He loves us. Anyways. We are His World! We are His Church. We are His window. And the song played in my heart by Louis Armstrong and I see in my hearts memory Louis on the television holding his trumpet and my gram sitting there in her rocking chair singing along over and over "...and I think to myself...I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And yes I think to myself What a wonderful world..." Ohhhhh... yeahhhhh.
There are only five things that make the angels in Heaven rejoice. When God said, “Let there be light.” (Job 38:7). The night of the Lord’s birth. (Luke 2:13-14). Whenever a sinner gives His heart to the Lord. (Luke 15:7,10). When the Church arrives in Heaven. (Rev. 5:11-12). And when the Lord defeats His enemies on Earth and returns to reign. (Rev. 19:6-7)
Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Thank you Jesus from the top to the bottom of my soul.
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