salvation emptied upon us

emptiness, vanity, and their vainness

 

"EMPTINESS IS EVEN AS A DEAD WEIGHT AND A YOKE OF VANITY," DECLARED THE ALMIGHTY. WHEREFORE, THERE IN FORMLESSNESS AND THE BOND OF SPIRITLESSNESS, TIMELESSNESS, SPACELESSNESS, AND IN PURPOSELESSNESS, SO DID THE LORD PRESUPPOSEDLY DISPOSITION EMPTINESS AND VANITY. FOREVER CHAINING THEM IN "NOTHINGNESS" AND "USELESSNESS" AND "MEANINGLESSNESS:" SUCH IS THE FORMLESSNESS AND THE BOND OF JUDGMENT UPON THE "LIE" AND THE "LIAR," BEING FUTILITY AND FRUITLESSNESS. FOR THESE BEFOREHAND, THAT IS, THE VAIN DEPOSITS OF EMPTINESS AND VANITY COLD NEVER HAVE BEEN MANIFESTED. HENCE, UNTIL THAT TIME WHEN GOD DESIRED TO FORM AND CREATE THINGS SEPARATELY APART OF GOD, THEY WERE NOT POSSIBLE TO EXIST HAVING NO BASIS FOR NECCESITY AND THEREFORE NEITHER HAVING ANY YOKE TO BE WEIGHED OF WEIGHT, AND NO ACCOUNTABLE VALUE OF LIABILITY COULD BE ACCOUNTED OF THEM, NOT EVEN A MEASURE OF WASTE AND RUIN, NOR ANY SILENCE OR STILLNESS AS OF DEATH AND THE GRAVE.

ONLY THE WORD AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD REIGN ETERNALLY AND INSEPARABLELY WITH GOD NEVER EVER BEING APART FROM GOD�"THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT CONTIGUOUS OF GOD RECEIVE THEIR BEING AND THEIR LEGITMACY FROM THE WILL AND THE ACT OF GOD. THUS TO EMPTINESS AND VANITY, TO RECEIVE THEIR ABSOLUTE RIGHT FIT IN TRUTH, THEIR MEASURE AND MEETNESS BY TRUTH, SO HAS GOD GIVEN THESE A QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF WASTE AND RUIN, THAT IS, GOD HAS GIVEN THESE -- IN TRUTH AND IN DEEDS -- ETERNAL INVALIDATION OF PURPOSE FOR THE THINGS GOD DESIRES -- GOOD AND RIGHT THINKING AND ACTION. IT IS ACCORDING TO THE FULLNESS OF HIS WORD AND THE POWER OF HIS SPIRIT, WHICH BANISHED EMPTINESS AND VANITY, THAT THE GRACE OF TRUTH REIGNS BRINGING AND GIVING LIFE AND LIGHT, MEANING AND PURPOSE, EVEN BOUNTIFUL FRUITS OF HOPE, FAITH, LOVE AND RIGHTEOUNESS .

TRUTH IS THAT POWERFUL WISDOM IN THE MIND, THE HEART, AND THE HAND OF GOD WHICH HE INVINCIBLY WIELDS AND WIELDED TO SET RULE ABOVE AND OVER ALL THINGS; WHETHER THEY ARE THE CREATED THINGS IN AND OF LIFE, OR THE FORMED THINGS IN AND OF LIGHT, THE FORMS OF BRIGHTNESS OR THE FORMS OF DARKNESS, EVEN EVERY SHADOW OF LIFE OR SHADE OF LIGHT. EMPTINESS AND VANITY'S TRUTH IS THAT THEY ARE USELESS FOR OBTAINING TRUTH. THUS TOWARD THE ACCOUNT OF TRUTH EMPTINESS AND VANITY IS DEVOID OF MANNER, OF PROBABLE CAUSE, AND NULLIFIED OF GOOD AND RIGHT MOTIVE IN LIFE OR LIGHT, OR FOR ANY WAY OTHERWISE. THEREIN EMPTINESS IS NOT EVEN THE SHADOW OF A GOOD AND RIGHT THING OF LIFE AND LIGHT CAST; IN THE VANITY OF EMPTINESS NOT EVEN A MINGLING DISORDER OF LIFE NOR ANY DIVERSE AND SUBTLE DIFFUSIONS OF LIGHT WORTHY OF MENTION. EMPTINESS AND VANITY ARE PROVIDENTIALLY MEANT TO BE PERCEIVED AND DEFINED AS THOUGH THEY ARE NOT, AS THOUGH THEY ARE NULLIFIED OF PURPOSE, BESIDES THE PURPOSE OF THE NULLIFICATION AND BANISHMENT OF VAIN AND CONCEITFUL THINGS. EMPTINESS IS THE SIGN OF PROOF: OF THAT THING WHICH IS NOT BEING FOUND NEEDFUL, ONLY REPROBATE OF GOD'S WILL. IT REPROVES THAT DEATH WHICH IS OF IT AND THAT IS POWER BY THE INIQUITY OF IT. EMPTINESS AND VANITY IS EVIDENCE OF THAT WILL WHICH IS AND HAS THE VALUE OF NOTHING: THAT WILLFUL THING WHICH IS MINUS THE VALUE OF HOPE AND FAITH AND LOVE.

EMPTINESS AND VANITY ARE NOT SPIRITABLE NOR CAN BE SPIRITED. THEY ARE OF THE SHAPES AND OF THE SOUNDNESS OF VOIDS, NOT WORTHY OF NOTE OF THEIR BEGINNING OR MEANING; FOR THEIR TRUE FUNCTION IS ONLY TO FOREVER WAIT, AND BE EVER IN NEED OF SOME MISDEED TO RULE OVER THEM AND PROMOTE THEIR MOTIVE �" THE VAIN MOTIVE OF DEATH BY FOOLISHNESS AND FOLLY. EVER UNTENABLE IN THEMSELF, PURPOSELESS IN THEMSELF, CHAOTIC IN THEMSELF, AND SO THEY ARE SET APART AND ALONE TO THEMSELVES BY GOD'S WILL.

EMPTINESS AND VANITY ARE VAIN REPOSITORIES; VAULTS NOT HAVING ANY DEPOSITS WITHIN, AND SO NO AVAILABILITY OF WITHDRAWAL CAN COME FORTH FROM EITHER, NEITHER THINGS FOR LIFE, FOR LIGHT, OR FOR GOOD: THEY HOLD WITHIN THEM NOT EVEN A SIGH OR AN INKLING OF PROMISE, AND THEIR RESERVE IS ONLY HOPE IN VAIN THINGS.

ALAS, THE EMPTINESS AND VANITY IN A MAN IS OF FAR WORSE CIRCUMSTANCE AND CONSEQUENCE. LET NOT A MAN MEET A STARVING LION AND ESCAPE, ONLY TO RUN INTO A INJURED AND RAVENOUS BEAR. LET NOT A MAN BE FOUND IN THE EMPTINESS OF VANITY, VAIN, ROBBED AND FORFEIT OF HOPE IN LIFE. FOR THIS MAN IS WORSE OFF THAN THE FORMER, SINCE THIS MAN'S LIFE SUFFERS OF IN HIS SPIRITUAL NATURE THE PANGS AND PUNISHMENT OF WASTE AND RUIN. SO IS HIS SOUL SUFFERING THE DEEP LACERATIONS OF VAIN CHAOS. IT IS A SPIRITUAL SCOURGING OF HIS GHOST; IN HIS PRESENT BODY OF DEADENED FLESH, HE HAS YET COME TO FEEL THE REALIZATION OF THE STRIPES UPON HIS SOUL, NOR IS HE EVEN ABLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SOUL'S EXCRUIATING AGONY WHICH HAS BEGUN, AND ITS OBLIGATION TO THAT WHICH WILL COME FULLY UPON IT AT ITS DEPARTURE FROM ITS PHYSICAL HOST BODY. THE EMPTINESS AND VANITY OF THE WORLD THAT A MAN SO CHERISHES IS A LIE AND A CURSE. THUS TO THE WORLDLY MINDED MAN, THOUGH HE KNOWS IT NOT, THEY ARE BUT: (1) A SHINY MOLTEN IMAGE OF IDOLATRY ADORNING, (2) A GLIMMERING CHAIN OF FALSE PRIDE THAT HE HANGS AROUND HIS NECK, AND (3) IT IS MADE EVEN THE MORE BURDENSOME BY THE VAINNESS OF PRIDE, ALL OF WHICH WILL DRAG HIM DOWN INTO DEPTHS OF A SEA OF DEATH AND NOTHINGNESS. IN HELL'S VERY BOTTOMLESS PIT WILL HE FIND HIMSELF DROWNING.

HIS EMPTINESS AND VANITY, HIS VAIN LIFE, IS A LIFE LIVED IN HELL ON EARTH, AND IT IS AND WILL BE THE CAUSE FOR WHICH HIS SOUL IS CAST-DOWN FROM HEAVEN. IN THAT MAN THE TRUTH OF LIGHT AND DARK, GOOD AND EVIL, AVAIL THEMSELVES TO SHRED HIM BIT BY BIT TO PIECES. AND HE CANNOT BE ANYTHING OF WHAT HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE, OR THAT HE MIGHT WANT TO BE BECAUSE HE IS TORN ASUNDER. FOR THAT MAN IS DOUBLE-MINDED, HAVING NOT THE ABSOLUTE POSSESSION OF TRUTH NEITHER OF GOD OR FOR GOD, NOR DOES HIS OWN HEART AND SOUL, PURPOSE AND USEFULNESS, BELONGS TRUTHFULLY TO HIM.

IT IS BETTER OFF THAT A MAN BE IN THE LEAST TRUE TO HIMSELF -- REAL, AND, IT IS BETTER TO BE A MAN OF ONE WHOLENESS, WHETHER OF LIGHT OR DARK, GOOD OR EVIL. AT LEAST SUCH A MAN WOULD FIND HIMSELF MUCH LESS OF A BURDEN UPON HIMSELF, HIS LIFE AND HIS CONSCIENCE: THE SURE AND UNAVOIDABLE CONSCIOUS AND, THOUGH DENIED, AWARENESS OF THE PROVOKINGS BY THE SPIRIT OF THE ALMIGHTY.

SURELY GOOD IS BETTER THAN EVIL AND LIGHT FAR BETTER THAN DARK, BUT THE MAN TORN ASUNDER BY THEM IS FOUND DIVIDE AGAINST HIMSELF. HENCE HE IS IN DECAY AND CONDEMN ALREADY. IF HE HAD NEVER BEEN, HE WOULD BE OF MORE VALUE THAN HE IS IN THIS LATTER STATE. SO THEN THAT MAN BEING UNKNOWN AT ALL, KNOWING NEITHER OF LIGHT OR DARK NOR OF GOOD OR EVIL, WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND MORE BLESSED BEING SOLEMNLY ASLEEP IN THE REST OF GOD'S GRACE AND PEACE THAT SHOULD AWAIT HIM. THAT MAN IS BEING FOUND INNOCENCE IN THE WILL AND JUDGMENT OF GOD, YET AWAITING THE BLESSINGS OF THE NEWNESS OF LIFE AND LIGHT, HIS CALLING FROM THE ALMIGHTY. THUS WE OF THE LIVING CAN AND WE MUST REALIZE, SEE AND KNOW FOR OURSELVES THE TRUTH SET BEFORE OUR EYES AND SPOKEN IN OUR HEARING�"THAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST FOR THE MAN RAVAGED BY LAWLESSNES IF HE HAD GONE FROM THE WOMB TO THE GRAVE. THUS HAVING LEFT NO STAIN UPON REALITY, NEITHER ANY STAIN UPON THE LIFE GIVEN HIM BY THE ALMIGHTY. NOR WOULD THERE BE UPON HIM, ACCORDING TO EMPTINESS AND VANITY, ANY UNSPIRITUAL STAIN OF DISCOLORATION FOUND UPON THE SOUL OF THAT MAN. IT IS A MAN'S VAIN CARNAL FROTHINGS, HIS UNSPIRITUAL AND VILE VOMITINGS, ALONG WITH HIS ROTTENOUS ODOR FROM THESE CHAOTIC SPILLAGES WITHOUT HIM THAT DEFILE THE MAN. THESE ARE THE MARKS OF UNCLEANNESS WHICH BLOTCH THE RAIMENT OF MEN'S SOUL; AND ACCORDING TO ETRNAL TRUTH, THESE ARE THE UNHOLY STAINS BY WHICH THEY WILL BE FOREVER KNOWN.

OH, THAT I HAVE EVER BEEN, AND THAT I SHOULD HAVE SEEN INTO THE WINDOW OF MY OWN SOUL, WHICH HAS AND IS TOSSED AND TORN, FOAMING UP WRETCHEDNESS LIKE THE WAVES OF THE SEA. HENCE THE SAND ON THE SHORE, THE MOUNTAINS CRUMBLING CLIFFS, AND THE BLUE LIGHT OF DAY AND THE BLACK DARKNESS OF NIGHT, THE MIRROR OF LIFE AND LIGHT WILL SPEAK OF MY FAILINGS, MY FALLING DOWN. THE TRUTH WHICH DWELLS IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE MY HEAD AND WHICH RESIDES IN THE EARTH BENEATH MY FEET HAS SPOKEN OF MY DEFILEMENT AND SHALL ANNOUNCE MY DUE JUDGMENT -- MY CASTING DOWN, AND THAT BEFORE THE HOLY ANGELS, ALL THE HOST OF SAINTS IN HEAVEN, AND BEFORE THE ETERNITY OF THE ALMIGHTY. THEREFORE AND WHEREFORE SHALL I HIDE OR HOW CAN I BE HIDDEN FROM THE JUDGMENT OF THE ALMIGHTY?

SAVE ME O' LORD! AM I NOT THE WORK OF YOUR HAND? ARE WE NOT THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM BY FAITH IN YOU? THOUGH I AM NOT WORTHY TO SPEAK OF YOUR NAME. SHALL NOT THE POOR IN SPIRIT AND BROKEN-HEARED ONES OF EARTH, THE REPENTANT SOUL, PROFIT OF THY LONG-SUFFERING PATIENCE UNTO MERCY, AS WE CALL PITIABLY UPON YOU? WILL YOU REJECT US FOREVER IN YOUR GREAT WRATH. BUT FOR A LITTLE WHILE WERE YOU THUS ANGRY WITH US AND CAST US OUT INTO THE HANDS OF OUR ENEMIES. YETIN YOUR UNFAILING COMPASSION YOU WERE OUR LIGHT, OUR GOOD, AND THE SAVIOR OF MY SOUL BY YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUNESS. HOSANNA! O'LORD. GRACE FOR OUR GRACE, AMEN. SELAH.

GOD, FULLNESS, THE ALMIGHTY ONE, BY WHOM EVEN EMPTINESS AND OUR EMPTINESS RECEIVES AND IS GIVEN ITS DUE FULLNESS; ITS RIGHT MEANING AND PURPOSE. YES! IT WAS YOU MY GOD WHO EXTRACTED FROM THE THE VOID OF EMPTINESS OUR LIFE AND ALSO YOU SUBTRACTED VANITY FROM OUR HEARTS AND MINDS THAT WE SHOULD BE PLEASING IN YOUR SIGHT AND IN YOUR GOODNESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE WEIGH OF EMPTINES AND THE VAINNESS OF OUR VANITY YOU COULD NOT AND WOULD NOT BARE. YOU LOVED LIFE AND YOU CREATED OUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN IMAGE�"THAT WE SHOULD KNOW YOU AND LOVE YOU, EVEN LOVE OUR LIFE IN YOU. YOU ARE OUR PERFECTION AND RIGHTEOUNESS: SO THAT WE ARE DEPARTED FROM SPIRITUAL DEFORMITY, CORRECTED OF OUR MENTAL ILLNESSES, PURGED OF OUR IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS AND PERCEPTIONS, AND HEALED OF OUR EMOTIONAL IMPURITIES AND TURMULTS WHICH ARISES OUT OF THIS MORTAL BODY, AND THUSFORTH OUT OF THIS CARNALITY, THE LUST AND PASSION AWAKENED BY THE LIFE OF FLESH IN THESE CLAY BODIES OF OUR BEING.

SHALL I ALLOW EMPTINESS AND VANITY AGAIN TO BE MY RULE WHERE YOU HAVE REMOVED IT FROM MY LIFE AND SOUL? WILL I DELIBERATELY GATHER TOGETHER AGAIN, AS IF FOR PROFIT, THE LOSSESS AND THE LIABILITIES, THE CONTRACTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS, OF NOTHINGNESS AND WORTHLESNESS WHICH ONCE POSSESSED AND CONDEMNED MY HEART AND MIND OF FLESH, WHICH BESEIGED MY LIFE AND SOUL OF SPIRIT? WILL I BUILD AGAIN CITY WALLS AND RAMPARTS WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN OVER TO DESTRUCTION AND RUIN? OR, WITH MY LIFE AND SOUL AS PRICE, WILL I REFORTIFY EVIL FOUNDATIONS, STRENGTHEN WICKED GATES, BEAUTIFY STRUCTURES OF INIQUITY, ADORN FALSE TEMPLES OF WORSHIP, AND PLOW THE LAND THAT THE ALMIGHTY HAS CURSED FOREVER?

NO! BUT I HAVE REPENTED OF MY INIQUITY, AND I HAVE WILLINGLY MOVED AWAY FROM THAT WHICH IS ABOMINABLE AND DESOLATE, A WASTELAND. FOR IT WAS USELESSNESS TO ME, ONLY A PLACE FOR WILD BEAST TO TREAD AWAITING THEIR PREY, AND IT WAS AS OF A HOUSE WHOSE FOUNDATION IS SET UPON THE SAND, AS OF A HUT IN THE MIDST OF A MELON FIELD WHOSE WALLS CONCEAL AN ADDER. GOD, MY GOD, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, HE IS MY GOOD AND SOLID FOUNDATION, MY STRONG AND OPEN GATE, MY HIGH WALL THAT SURROUNDS ME, AND HE IS THE WATCHMAN OF MY HIGH TOWER SEEING OVER MY SECURITY AND SAFETY. GOD YOU ARE MY HOLY SANCTUARY AND MY SANCTIFIED AND CONSECRATED EXCEEDINGLY GREAT REWARD. LET ME BE OF YOUR INHERITANCE THAT I MAY DWELL WITH YOU FOREVER IN THE LAND OF PROMISE, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, FOREVER. AMEN.