Inspired by Steve Meeks Calvary Community Church October 6, 2013 Contagious Expectancy What kind of shape are you in? Do you exercise much authority? Do the words that you speak, bear any weight at all? Or do you keep looking back, all the way to the fall? Are your best days behind you? Do you dare look ahead? Are you in the middle of your own personal Waterloo? I suspect it is just about time to look to Christ instead. The shape of a renewed mind is this. We are image bearers of The King of Love. We are cross-carriers; in that we die daily, We are kingdom bringers; extending the reign of Christ. We live in The Light and Life of God, passionately. To serve the purposes of God in this generation, We must be on mission with the Creator. Our assignment is to extend The Kingdom of Light, Into the chaos, darkness, and personal blight. Christ is not our personal savior, Our personal toy, Our last minute ploy, But He does come personally, Willing to unlock those inner doors, That has locked us out of His Love. Out of His Joy. The Restoration Heaven and earth, Matter and dark-energy, God and man, Oh yes it matters. The synthesis and harmony of all creation, In Christ, New, A new me, a new you, All creation groans for the revealing The quake of the transition, The Sons and Daughters of God coming forth, The crowning glory of all creation. The kingdom of God, the New Creation, Has been inaugurated, next the consummation, The integration of The Spirit that leads to the age to come, The happening, the living trust, The overcoming of all decay and rust, The overwhelming of all that overwhelms, The overcoming of all the under, The underachieving, the undervalued, The under study, and the underdeveloped, And any darkness that is underway. That all the under would be under our feat, The ultimate defeat, now heaven’s seat. Under; sin, hell and the grave, Under; self, pride and lust, Under; the boast, the toast, the roast, Under; deaf, dumb and blind, Under; the uncovering of every lie. We deposit in this present age, The Life and Light of God, We hasten the day of Christ Himself, By bringing eternity here, Because it is His Voice, we hear, And we shall be like Him, On that day he appears. The Obtain This inheritance which is imperishable Is undefiled and will not fade away, The reservation, heaven for all eternity, Furthers the cross, exposes the resurrection, And is the end of all insurrection. The “I Am”, becomes “I Am” in us, Salvation becoming whole, Be, being saved, yet waiting for the complete, Sin dealt with, the waiting replete with grace, The Anticipation The fulfillment of the charge of God The demonstration that our Lord is in charge, Our acting is not pretending, But the acts of righteous living. The New happens now, Because of the renewing, The transformation of our minds, Every thought held captive, To the obedience of grace To the good and pleasing, To the perfect will of God. So we will work out our salvation, Work with fear and trembling, For it is God in us, To will, to do And that of His good pleasure. Thus We bear the image of Christ, Carry the cross, live the Word, Bring the Kingdom, Into open display, To the utter dismay To all that darkness has held ta bay. The Word becomes flesh And dwells among us, We live the life of dying daily To our rights, to our heights, To any false comfort And any false light. The Domain The Look of Love The Rule, The Reign The sense of the sacred, Seeing through the eyes of eternity, To live the story here and now, Equipped and built Into the unity of the faith, Into the true knowledge of The Son of God, Maturing to the full measure Of the stature of Jesus, The look of Jesus The look of Love Our callings; unconfined, Our Life; in Christ defined, Our heart and mind refined, The planting of the Lord achieved, The implantation of Grace, Where deception is deceived His Life, His Light, received, The Crucial Our crucibles have come to fruition, The wine of our Life being served, Where the grapes of wrath, And the winter of our discontentment, Have forged a new continent, No longer adrift on plate tectonics, But forged and lifted Sin fully sifted, Love gifted Because the cross and the resurrection Collapsed and destroyed the rift. No more separation The Tree of Life, The Heavenly Jerusalem, The Bride of Christ, Eden herself, World without end, Eternity mended, The Alpha and The Omega, Amen. Wes Tarpley
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 01:51:39 +0000
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