The halfbaked Bard

Rev 5.  What a scene!  What a climax!  What a culmination!  V3. But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it.  The scroll of the rights of the earth, the scroll about the future. No one could open it, therefore there was tension looming around. The background score reaches the epic peak here. Melancholic surround.  V 4. I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll and look inside it.  Then the announcement comes about the Lion of Judah, the Root of David. He alone is able to open the scroll and its seven seals because it says that he has triumphed.  But instead of a lion, we see a lamb that looks as if it has been slain. The Lamb is worthy to open. He came and took the scroll from the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. The king gave it to him only because he alone is worthy.  Why?  V 9. Because you are slain and with your blood you purchas...

Day and night they never stop saying, Holy, holy, holy Is the Lord God Almighty Who was and is and is to come. Rev:4:8 The only song that the four living creatures sing for eternity, day and night, is about the holiness of God. The uncompromised purity of the holy triune God, the complete and infinite holiness of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  A holy God loving a sinful man resulted in the cross. Without bloodshed, there is no remission of sin, and it had to be the spotless, blemishless blood of the Son himself, which would substitute for ours. Eternity wouldn't have been enough for the payment of our sins because he is infinitely holy. That is therefore why God himself, an infinitely holy God's own blood, had to be shed for the rectification of my sin. The very thing he abhorred, he received. Why? Because he loved me. That is why I echo with the elders and sing,  You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created al...

Are you lukewarm? Are you found wanting for both spiritual things and worldly things? If you are pursuing both, you have diluted what actually is your utmost need.  Rev 3:17. You say I am rich, I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing, but you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.  Because of your lukewarmness, you are deluded, thinking that you are somebody, but actually you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. You are illusioned thinking you have figured all things out, thus being complacent about your passion which you had initially.  Superficiality is the root of lukewarmness. To remove your lukewarmness, oughtn't you take an intentional effort to have a meaningful and in-depth relation with your betrothed husband?  Repent on those compromising sins which will drag you down. Wear the white robe of righteousness that he offers to cover your shameful nakedness.  He is knocking. If only you would open...

The holy and true Jesus says this: You have little strength.  Grammatically, it means no strength. If "a little"  is used, it signifies minimal. If "little"  is used, it means no strength. Absolutely nothing left in you.  Yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. That is enough, dear one. Keep holding on there.  I will make - mentioned twice in this passage.  God will act on your favor because you have little strength.  Rev 3:10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.   Hallelujah. Yes, he is still the Sovereign Ruler of the earth. He decides things.  Rev 3:10 Him who overcomes, I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from...

You are about to die. Wake up. Remember therefore what you have received and heard. Obey it and repent. Rev 3:3.  That fire in you is still burning. It has not been quenched yet. Flame it. Let it burn. Do not leave it out in the cold so that it will die.  He who overcomes will like them be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels. Rev 3:5.  Assured of salvation, no fear of being blotted out or erased. My name will always be there in that book if I consistently persevere, if I consistently flame the fire, if I keep myself from being soiled, walking with him and dressed in white. Image credit: gemini 

I know your deed Your love Your faith  Your service Your perseverance You are now doing more than you did at first. Six good things. One thing against you. You tolerate Jezebel who misleads my servants into sexual immortality and eating food sacrificed to idols. The Son of God talks about those secret sins and how you do not take drastic steps against it. You tolerate. You secretly enjoy. You accomodate. Do you think God will not bother? Do you think that a holy God will not see? Repent. Take drastic measures. Cut your hand or gouge your eye out, if you have to. You can have deeds, you can have love, faith, service, perseverance and even continue to do what you were doing first. But still tolerate sin. God will hold that against you. Your goodness can never outweigh your sin. It is about your attitude to sin. If you are okay with it, then something is wrong. Repent. He searches the hearts. To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over nati...