Day: October 27, 2018

“It is Finished and Now It Begins” Our author Matthew lays before us two reports, forcing his audience to declare their choice. We will hear and believe with the evidence or we will deny and lose all. And it all began with God dispelling darkness and welcoming the Light of the World accompanied by an earthquake to signify it is finished and it is the earth leaping for joy at the moving of a tombstone as if a pebble; Jesus has triumphed over sin and death. The risen Lord did not need the tombstone moved to allow him to leave as …

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Into His heavenly palette He dips an unseen brush And as the earth lays sleeping in the misty morning hush He gently stirs in dulcet tones the purple of the sky A hint of lavender and bronze to tease the wakening eye And as the deeper tones recede with loving passion stirred He strokes the soft horizon-line in colors of His word And hope takes on the burnished hue of orange and ruddy glow Reflected in the morning dew like ruby-tinted snow The drooping heart and heavy eyes are lifted from despair As the Painter of the skies smiles upon …

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