Look! Do you perceive? It's upon
us! Distant storm clouds, once hugging the horizon, roll o'r
us!
From the pluming, billowing mass anger spews from its mouth.
Treachery now rides the wind!
Its crescendo building to a gale. Out of the brightness of His
presence The Almighty advances!
Hailstones and bolts of lightening rend the sky. His voice
thunders and resounds from heaven.
The earth trembles and quakes; its very foundation is shaken.
The raging seas roar with foam.
The seas have lifted up their voice, lifted up their pounding
waves. Their tsunamis consume us.
Mightier then the thunder of great waters, mightier then
breakers of the sea is His Voice on high!
With smoke and fire, in His anger He parts the heavens and
comes down, darkness His canopy.
The world convulses with the earth. Trembling quakes the
heart's of men. Fear begins to cower.
Tremors in men's hearts echo storms in the heavens, those
beneath our feet, and crashing seas.
From the epicenter of evil violence erupts. Shock waves pulse
outward. War and famine lurk.
All of creation that can be shaken is being shaken until all
that cannot be shaken will remain.
The air is static with unseen powers, and fiery darts fly
swiftly seeking to distract all that's good,
Men become twisted and bent. Pestilence hovers, and joy is
diminished as in the cup of plagues.
Safety in the familiar is crumbling. Betrayal now becomes
common while integrity seems to flee.
The face of things vanishes. Structures dissolve as heart
bonds' waver. Truth is seldom spoken.
We are frail creatures, and flesh is weak. We all like sheep
have gone astray. We long for Him!
Yet we hug to our breast our humanness, our secret pleasures,
our earthly hopes and dreams.
Dare we cling so tightly to that of self we cherish and
treasure? How hard to let go, to surrender.
He judges the thoughts and attitudes of our hearts. Everything
must be laid bare before Him.
The testing of the heart must shatter our soul. His Word, a
doubled edged sword must pierce us.
For from the mouth of the Word of God Who became flesh comes a
sharp, doubled edged sword
To penetrates even to divide our soul and spirit, joints and
marrow. Nothing created is hidden.
His Word resounds as rushing water! Having done all to stand,
stand therefore! Take His armor.
Take His truth, His righteousness, His peace, His
faithfulness, His salvation, victory, His Word.
He mounts the cherubim and flies soaring on the wind. He
thunders from heaven laying all bare.
The earth trembles before Him. Only He can make the crooked
straight and lift us from the mire.
Mingled with bitterness is His sweet Presence together crushed
between His Unleavened Bread.
For underneath the turmoil of the storm about is a quiet
voice. Be still, listen! Know He is God!
He alone is our only peace. He alone is now our only anchor
and security. He is all that is left.
Its blood that makes atonement, His Blood is Atonement. Apply
it to the doorposts of your heart!
His Blood on our hearts is God's Salvation! When death stalks
the world, He will Passover us!
Exodus 12:7, 12, 13; Levitcus 17:11; l Kings 19:11-13; Psalms
18:7-15, 46:10, 69:14, 93:3,4; Ecclesiastes 7:13, Isaiah
40:3-5, 53:6; Luke 3:5; Romans 3:25; Ephesians 6:10-18;
Hebrews 2:17,4:12, 13, 12:1, 27, 28; Revelation 1:16
copyright 2011 Leelia Carolyn Cornell
The Nations Assemble
The watchmen cry out. The day of the Lord is
at hand! Faithful, they be not silent! Though no man turns.
The proud freely strut.. To reason cruel, onward they surge
in blind deception. The nation is rend in twain.
Holy Holy is the Lord God of Hosts, the whole earth is
filled with His glory. The mighty heroic God!
Riding the cherubim He flies in awesome power, darkness His
cover, to rescue Israel from her slimy pit.
As His covenant with the moon and stars and sun remains,
never will He abandon the apple of His eye.
As mountains surrounds Jerusalem, them He surrounds. He Who
keeps Israel neither slumbers or sleeps..
So is written in His Word, His Word Who created the
universe. This all creation knows. Nature trembles.
The wicked have forsaken God's Word. Yet my comfort in
suffering is this. His promises preserve my life.
Amidst man's faithlessness, solid remains His faithfulness.
He judges the wicked while rescuing His own.
Ours is the way to peace, but God won't be mocked! Their
grand schemes will crumble, become as naught..
All kings take their stand, Vain fires they kindle. To this
light they run! Judas's heal has found our door.
Why do nations conspire? At Him alone they rage, this mad
stampede. God Himself gathers the nations!
God is jealous over Zion! A cup of trembling all nations
assembled shall drink. All surrounding shall reel..
To them Jerusalem will be an immovable rock!. All who burden
themselves with it will be cut to pieces.
Are all men liars? To flesh we cling? Faith in faith is
worthless. In what dare we hope? Love waxes cold!
Nail scared hands have won the victory. On the tree He hung
alone. Alone He treads the winepress
Grapes of wrath He tramples staining His garments with
blood. On blood of the nations the earth gorges
Jerusalem is God's portion! Be silent all flesh before the
Him! For He is arosed from His Holy Habitation.
Salvation comes from Him alone. His shed Blood the way.
Weary in faith, feeble hearts He strengthens.
His Sacrificial Atonement the only hope! Cold hearts
receive His perfect love that casts out fear. Fear Not!
The nations trembled at His wrath. You who tremble at His
Word. look up! See the One you have pierced!
Genesis 1:3; Leviticus 17:11; Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalms
2:1,2, 12:8, 18:10,11, 40:2, 116:11, 119:50,51, 121:4,
125:2, Isaiah 6:3, 9:6, 37:29, 50:11, 53:10,11, 56:1,
62:2,6, 63:1-6, 66:5; Jeremiah 33:25,26; Ezeckiel 33:1-6;
Habakkuk 3:6; Zechariah 1:14, 8:2, 2:12, 1312:2,3,10, 14:2,
Romans 3:5; Galatians 6:7; Ephesians 1:7; ll Timothy 2:13;
ll Peter 2:9; l John 4:18
Copyright 2011 Leelia Carolyn Cornell
Eternity Wrapped in the
Arrival of Spring
It was bleak, forlorn, the winter past, but spring may dawn
fair with hope at last!
A promise of rebirth it be, coming to break winter's icy
grip harsh, the bitter blast.
Turbulent yet is spring. Battles between seasons upheavals
usher in on the wing
First the balm then pelts of hail and sleet with thunder
clapping and violent winds,
Lightning bolts boldly pierce the darkness snaking across
the sky to zap the earth
With fire from on high! Through much instability we must
pass in time all the same.
Before arrives a gentle calm of breezes warm with gain. T'is
ours to learn of the heart.
In the course of time it shall be no more. Vanish all that
is of present snow and sun,
Bitter trials of forlorn seasons struggle on with a joy
untold to earthly trembling dim
Through pangs of harshness pelted with pain and vanity to
peace we journey forward
And darkness shall reign to those undone, but swallowed up
it is by life yet unfurled.
In the quest eternal we must pass through death. Choose His
death and rise like He!
The shining of His dawn blots earth's sorrows, banishing
forever all of trembling frame.
On bended knee behold His glory! He splits the sky to bring
rebirth forever ours to last!
Copyright 2011 Leelia Carolyn
Cornell
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