silvastrings

A messenger from above whispers softly, "Follow the Christ"
A tormentor from below screams loudly, though his voice is not
heard, just seen in our every day ramblings, and rushing, and going
to and fro to build and collect and invest, yet never to rest.
"Follow the Christ" - those words are so intriguing, yet confusing
sometimes i must admit.
Yet nothing is more sacred, nothing more true, for all other paths
lead to death. Every choice, every step, albeit small, says something
of our destination. </p>
So in the end, let our final cry not be, how did i get here to
this lonesome grave, but 'Hallelujah to King, the one who me has
Saved'

Wandering through the desert. Endless sand, An abundant golden highway of vast expanse. A mountain range, a dry terrain of a different kind, reaching up to the heavens. A holy walk for Moses, sacred ground beneath him, as he leaves Israel behind, on that blessed day when he met with God. Same scene, some time later, Israel had exchanged the Glory of God for the worship of an idol. Commandments smashed, thousands killed, but Moses seeks God's face again. This time deeper, unrelenting for anything less than the Glory of God. A lone trek up the mountain of God. An appointment with a King, exclusive contact. An audience of one, both ways. The Glory of God was revealed to a man in a most excellent way.


Golgotha, the place of the Skull, a most gruesome replacement for the mountain of God. Blood flows, mingled with anguish and inner torment, down the head of the man who was God. Different man from Moses, yet same outcome. The glory of God being revealed to man. This time it's different. This time a man would be revealing the glory of God. This time God would reveal His glory through God, since Jesus is God.  Yet for Jesus to see and reveal this Glory, it would take Him to the depths of his being. Levels un-reached before, and never again to be repeated. This time, the glory of God would be seen differently. This time Jesus was the glory of God.

Alone, cold, I'm broken,
But Jesus I know when your name is spoken,
The darkness flees,
To hide from Thee.
I know I'm a sinner,
In need of your grace and forgiveness
Each morning I rise,
I come to your throne.

In deep humiliation,
I reach out my hands for your salvation,
I give you my life.
Like you gave yours for mine.

And Jesus I've seen your hand
Work in my life
And I know that you will answer
When I seek your face
Now I seek your face

The rain falls around me,
I'm longing to see your glory surrounding,
Your Holy throne.
My heart is your home.

I close my eyes and whisper,
A prayer in your name
I know you're listening,
Your hands on my soul,
Oh Lord make me Whole.

And Jesus I've seen your hand
Work in my life
And I know that you will answer
When I seek your face
Now I seek your face….

The words sympathy and empathy have always been mistaken for each other, indeed i always thought they meant the same thing, but now i've come to know that to empathize is different from being able to sympathize. People can sympathize with pretty much anything that happens, you can sympathize with someone who is feeling depressed, has lost a loved one, is out of a job etc. To sympathize is to imagine what the other person is going through. But there is a few of us that can empathize. As i've come to understand the word, its the ultimate way of relating to anothers pain or suffering, but you can only get to this state if you yourself has been depressed, has lost a loved one, has been out of a job. It's the sharing of a sorrow and relating to the other person, because you have been through a similar experience. Yet still no one can enter into the pain you feel, or the suffering someone is going through, to connect totally. Pain and sorrow is individual, it depends on your genetic make, your very fibre, your experiences as a person, that has shaped you to be the person you are, the way you handle situations, its very personal, and the statement, i know how you feel, doesn't stand. No one can know how you feel, because you are you, and they are themselves, they're own person, handling the same situation in their own individual way. Yet there is one who can enter into this pain or suffering with you. Jesus Christ. Since He has been through everything you have been through doesn't make Him able to step inside the pain with you and understand how you feel, but the fact that He made you, and lives inside of you, and feels everything you feel, knows you intricately and personally (Psalm 139:13), this enables Him to be the ultimate empathizer, with everyone, you and me and everyone you'll ever meet or have met in your life. This is where i find my comfort, in the arms of the ultimate empathizer. I pray you'll do the same too.

It's like this: think with me about something: picture a God –who creates everything; universe; planets; atmosphere, water , people, animals, trees, air, everything. Picture this God sustaining everything; down to the subatomic level sustaining everything. If He would leave that thing alone, whether it's a plant or animal, planet or human, that thing would cease to exist, because it needs God to sustain it. Now picture people who are given the choice whether to accept this God's love and friendship or not. Some do, most don't. God still sustains both, but ultimately He created them all for friendship with Himself and with others. If people choose not to form a relationship with this God, how long will He sustain them. When this God is all knowing and all powerful, then He knows the best thing for the creatures He made right? He did make them after all! So ultimately these creatures have to make a choice; to know God or not to know God, that is the question. If they choose to not have anything to do with God, then they're actually choosing non-existence (if this God is sustaining everything, then if He stops sustaining something according to that something's wish of 'I want nothing to do with you' – then that thing will cease to exist) – there is no hell, where this God sustains these people who don't want to know Him, just so that they may suffer in torment! That's what a devil would do, not a loving God! So there is no burning or sulphur or endless suffering. Choosing not to know God will result in non-existence. Like before it existed, it wasn't there. No breathing, no waking up. Non-existence. Not living again, no second life; Non-existence. Non-existence. Non-existence. Do you understand this now? It's your choice. Life or death is before you. Choose life. Choose God.