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Sunday January the 5th, 2025

Laid Down Lovers

Do you hear it?

Its early, and the world sleeps still. 

But incline your ear, listen, and wait,

There are sounds with a meaning they fulfill. 

The sound of a vibrating alarm,

 and the rustling on of clothes. 

The sound of a creaking door,

and of footsteps towards a throne.

The sound of turning pages 

and of revelations scribbled down.

The sound of kneeling, 

and a forehead imprinted to the ground.

The sound of song, and the hum of melody.

  The sound of groaning, 

and of prayers lifted before His Majesty.

Then, the sound of silence.

Thump thump.

Thump thump.

The sound of a laid-down lover,

 whose yearning only grows.

Thump thump.

Thump thump.

The sound of a laid-down lover,

whose heart ever knows,

That I am my Beloved's,

and my Beloved is mine.

And this sweet symphony of intimacy,

 though quiet, 

shall sustain me for a lifetime.

Saturday October the 5th, 2024

A Psalm of David

You word, O God, is life

Your Torah is beautiful,

Your law is life.

Open my eyes to see it,

Let my mind be soaked in it.

May I walk in your ways, O Lord,

May I stand upon your holy truth.

Finger of the Almighty God,

As you did before, so do it again,

Write your law

And inscribe your word,

But write not on tablets of stone,

Write not on granite or sapphire.

For can a rock obey you?

Can a stone give you praise?

So My heart I offer to you,

As a blank page, awaiting your ink.

Give me a heart of flesh,

And let your word bring my heart alive.

Let your word be near to me,

Let it not be a stranger to my heart.

My body I present to you,

My life I give to you.

Your will, O God, be my way,

Your will, O God, be my will this day.

Monday August the 26th, 2024

Ezra was already skilled in the Word of God, as he had set his heart to study the Law. Not only that, but he set his heart to do the law, to adhere to it in his own life (and not just be a hearer of it), and to teach it to others. So that by his way of living, he may be an example and a teacher, and equip others to also live in obedience to God.

Ezra was living as James counsels us to do so in James 1:
(1:22) But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 

(1:25) But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. 

And just as the scripture says, Ezra was blessed in his labour. He had the decree of the king and his storehouses to back up his task of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. 

Ezra's response is beautiful:

(7:27-28) Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. 

I plan to make these verses the foundation of my time during Bible school. 

My heart posture is to grow in understanding of the Bible, and to continue to apply it to my life, and I believe it will better equip me to teach others to do the same.

Let us beautify his temple together!