If The Light

"If the light that is in you be darkness how great is that darkness?" Luke 11:35

Did you ever really sit down and consider this statement:  If the light that is in you, the greatest source of revelation and hope and expectation is just not working as it used to: if the moment by moment relationship has become a dry religious 3- times- a -week system then this article is for you:

A new born babe is nurtured moment by moment by the closeness and warmth and affirmation of the mother as well as by milk every 2 hours or as often as it needs it: There was a time when you and I were nurtured on the pure sincere milk of the Word and we co-ed and gurgled and felt so safe and so wanted. Then gradually over months or years something happened to rob us of that closeness and simplicity. What was it? In the words of Hillary Clinton: "What Happened?"

You may now think I'm no longer a babe, I'm an adult: I don't need that childhood closeness and warmth: I have studied Theology and Church structures  "the purpose driven" evangelism: That's fine but there was no need of all that when you were almost at one with Christ: people noticed and longed for what you had: They stopped you in the streets and in Cafés, they hungered and thirsted for the relationship that was filling your every moment and meeting all the desires of your heart:How many are stopping you now? So what happened?

What exactly was that light that was in you?
Where was it lost along the way? Do I really really want it back?
Is this article for you for if its not then better stop reading for the moment.

Is there a system that has taken over your life: A system that has usurped that precious closeness of early days: A system that has now invaded all your thinking about Christ: A system that has made itself indispensable?  What is that system? Who is behind it? Are you now just faithful to that system and no longer faithful to Christ? Did that system die for you --personally? how could you be so blind:

Paul said: "Oh foolish Galatians who has bewitched you?"  Strong language:

Some I'm sure listened to his admonitions and found the old ways again: Others paid no heed and lost even the little spark of joy and freshness remaining:

Make it your motto in 2018

"Jesus Only"

Listen Bob.. I Don't Like Sundays

"But tell me why:
Please tell me why
That's the cry of one and all
"Don't be forever the raging rebel ---
Rejecting for notoriety sake what God has put in place
For sinful man,  and after the fall?"

"Oh not at all my friends" I say
"The Sabbath was indeed God's glorious way
of gifting man with a stopping day --
A picnic-oasis surrounded by the sands of
work and laws and blood and pain

"So Saturday was made for man
A shadow portending God's powerful plan
A promise of even better things ahead
when man could cease from his own head
.... enter in and rest and be forever blest
... and at one with the son
in daily communion"

"So tell me why: Please tell me why
Can you still not see, Vincent?  (Its so plain to me)
God's promised  plan has now been revealed: 
We call it ..( Ta raa, Ta raa )...Sunday!

Magnificent ..I'm sure you'll agree!
By simply changing one day
God has signalled that the old is gone
Praise God the new is here to stay
So join with us tomorrow?
Let's worship!  It's  Sun-day"

{I love these folk and know we're joined as one
They know He actually died was buried and rose again
for each and every mother's son.
And in the light of Calvary all else is trivial.

The woman at the well did not understand
how not in this mount or over there
but Jesus took her gently by the hand explaining that ..
"coming is the day when true worship will be in spirit and in truth"}


and so I need your prayers today
that the gentleleness of Christ would guide my way
as I seek to explain, over and over again .. 
" there now remains a 168 hour weekly rest
for all the homeless sons of men!"


And even three quarters of a million Sundays after Constantine
I still refuse the lie,  that 14% of my week belongs to God
and 86%  to going on my own and not so merry religious way
"Dancing {In The Dark}" at every God forsaken Lughnasa! 

Christmas 2017

We need deliverance (salvation) from both  the works of the flesh and the works of the soul

in order to see the finished work of the Cross of Christ

 The works of religion are often the greatestbarriers which prevent us from conforming to the humility of Jesus Christ.

"Religious" people never trust in the finished work of Christ and therefore
cannot enter the "rest" from dead works that they might enter into the
"labor of the Lord." The word "religion" comes from two Latin words
"re"=return and "ligare"=to bind (see ligate, ligation, ligature). Religion
causes us to produce works which bind us to self-righteousness rather and
blind us to our hypocrisy. RELATIONSHIP with Christ continually reminds us
of the fact that apart from Him, we can do NOTHING. 

Many of us on the road to full salvation, our full inheritance in Christ
Jesus, get sidetracked and often spend considerable time in Babylon. (Some
never come out in this lifetime.) After being born from above by grace
through faith, a gift from God, we begin to try to finish the job with
religious stuff, Babylonian stuff, that is, dead works.

Instead of becomingmature sons of God (Rom. 8:19-21) through the Spirit of Truth, we follow"traditions of men which make the Word of God of no effect." (John 15:6-9)
While thinking we are doing the works of God, we actually produce the works
of the traditions of men which breed death. Thinking we are alive, we
actually become twice dead, carnally-minded (Rom. 8:6) and twice the sons of
hell (Gehenna, the Jerusalem city dump) as we were when we were in the
world. (Matt, 23:15)


The glory from the works of the law ended nearly 2,000 years ago--yet
millions of Christians still lust after it. Honor from men is mere vain
glory--it tarnishes almost immediately. But the Glory which comes from the
finished work of the cross which allows us to cease from our vain attempts
to glorify ourselves through fearing men and seeking their approval--this
glory, the glory of the Savior of the world--this glory whose weight flesh
cannot carry--this Glory--the Glory of the Son of God is eternal.

"Oh foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the
truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as
crucified? This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having
begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? (Gal
3:1-3) Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,
and do NOT be entangled again in a yoke of bondage....You have become
estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by the law; you have
fallen from grace." (Gal. 5:1, 4)

Wouldn't it just break your heart that 2000 years on we still kill and murder and maim .......

If you have tears to shed shed them now ..............

We need certainly an answer to the twin problems of Government and Religion but man never could provide an answer and never will:

Oh for the coming again of one who will be both Prophet & King: A2000 year wait is almost over: come Lord Jesus ! Come!