"RESOLUTION"

 "Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense." (S.O.S. 4:7)

  There are some days you just feel like a nut, and then there are the days that you don't! Be that what it may, the breast thing behind us, we move upward and onward to the mountain and hill. I could not help but think of something that God spoke to Peter, as Peter did what he so naturally did when he felt that God might have been mistaken, he said, "Not so, Lord!" We find this particular instance in Acts 10:14, as the Lord showed Peter a sheet descending from heaven, filled with all sorts of different meats, creeping things, and birds; and then the Lord said, "Rise, Peter; kill, and eat." 

  This was not the first time, but it might have been the last. To be clear, there are some things that might seem wrong or not right in our eyes, that are totally and completely good and wonderful in the eyes of God. That said, the main point of what I am saying has to do with God's answer to Peter and how that answer is so resolute: "What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common." (Acts 10:15) If it makes it any better to understand, the NLT says, "Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean." But, what of this, or something so grotesque as that? 

  Before we can begin to understand why God does or allows something, we might want to understand how temporary this life is, and how different things will become when life is on the other side of  this. Oddly enough, Peter's last chance you use those famous words, "Not So," were when they were going to crucify him as they did his Lord. This is sometimes a really crazy upside-down world; but still we must always, keep looking up...

"O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24)