Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with joy. The Lord Most High is wonderful. He is the great King over all the earth! Psalm 47:1-2
Think globally. Act locally.
Don’t you think God knows what it’s really like out there in the real world? Do you really think His good news is weak? He has bared His holy arm in the sight of all.
That all the ends of the earth may know the salvation of our God.
He is able to save. He is filled with mercy and compassion and He says, “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
He is the King. The triumphant King of the old stories that fill our heart with longing and unspoken joy. None of this black and white print petty cliff hanging deals of tax benefits for certain motorsport racing track facilities that will cost more than $100 million over the next seven years. He is King, not a politician.
I reckon I am indeed urged to clap and shout with joy. For He is full of wonders. Over all the earth. And then bare my arm in His strength and head out for the day-full of wonder, alert to His reign breaking through.
A very cheering thing is to read through the CHIRPA posts. http://www.chrpaz.org/chrpa-
Or to read through the article on the third-year law students at University of Chicago, and their bare-armed acts of strong mercy.http://www.uchicago.edu/
However, as I sit here in the stillness with predawn leaking in through the greenhouse banana leaves, I know that even more powerful than a torque wrench or even a jackhammer is the power of forgiveness. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. As we forgive those who sin against us. Following in the footsteps of our King, who in His final moment of bared arm triumph forgave, for they knew not what they did. May I live in this triumph.
For my heart is still. He is God. He will be praised in all the nations; He will be praised throughout the earth.
BTW an great blog by The Voice translation: https://mail.google.com/mail/
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