O Jah! Let God Arise

Arise.....
Arise Oh Lord.....O Jah, let God arise.
If ever we needed to see Jesus, today is the day.
If ever we needed to feel the presence of God....today is the day.
So I will wait for you.
I will wait.

Jesus knows all about our plight and current state.
He has heard our groaning and crying out to Him.
He is not slack or late in answering our cries....
He understands what it is like to be shunned by others.
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected by men.
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him.
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Even in all of this, He never turned His back on us.
Us....the ones who used His name in a way that did not honor Him.
Us....the ones who laughed and sneered when we saw or heard someone preaching on a street corner, warning us of the dangers that lay ahead in this life.....and into the next one.
Us....who thought ourselves to be above such religious drivel.
Us....who gave no thought to anything other than what would feed our own appetites.
We are the ones Jesus never turned His back on.
In fact, He gave His back to His accusers to be beaten and reduced to human rubble.
I am the reason Jesus went to the cross....
He wasn't weighed down by the weight of wood....
He wasn't bent over because of the burden of the cross....
It was my sin.....
And your sin......
That is what bent Him over in agony. Paying a price for a debt that was mine and mine alone.
It was the sin of the world, placed on Him that brought the most pain.
It was the awful realization that God the Father had turned His face away and darkness covered the earth so as not to see what was taking place.
He gave His life.
He chose to surrender it to the Father and cry out..."It Is Finished!" Loosely translated...."Paid in full." The sin debt was satisfied.

So now, here, today...
I ask you, Lord, to arise.....
Arise in our homes....
Arise in our hearts....
Arise in us and let us follow you this day.
I do not know what lies ahead.
I'm not sure what is out there waiting on me.
It could be that this is my last day here on planet earth.
If that be the case, then let it be said that "he died following".

God on you....
thanks for stopping by the Greene Street Letters.
mb