". . . He called upon the LORD; and He answered him from heaven by fire. . ."

Thursday, July 21, 2011

My Soul Cries, My Soul Cries Out!

I've been listening to the Fling Wide CD by Misty Edwards. And the first song on there is Soul Cry. As I was listening I grew more and more confused! I wanted to know why she said certain things, and where in the Bible the lyrics were at, I just wanted to see how it all fit together. I was especially confused on this part:

"They may say, 'Come on, get over it. Drink, be merry, for tomorrow we die'"

I couldn't figure it out, out of my own understanding. The VERY next morning at 5 a.m. God woke me up and led me to 1 Corinthians 15:32

"If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for merely human reasons, what have I gained? If the dead are not raised,
'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die,'"

Again, I was puzzled, so I read the whole chapter, only to confuse myself more about resurrection and all of this stuff! Until I looked down at the references for the verse 32 - Isaiah 22:13 and Luke 12:19. On the way to finding Luke 12:19, I found another part of the song in Isaiah 32. I also found another verse to back this up in Ecclesiastes 7:4-5

lryics: "That's why I'd rather sit in the house of mourning than at the table with fools"

". . .yes, mourn for all houses of merriment and for this city of revelry."
Isaiah 32:13

"4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools in the house of pleasure. 5 It is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools." Ecclesiastes 7:4-5

Back to Luke 12:19-21,

19"And I'll say to myself, 'You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.' 20 But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
21'This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.'"

At first I didn't get it, and I really wanted to know, I spent the next couple of days, waking up at crazy hours of the morning to fellowship with God, and learn what my Father was saying to me. Eventually, I got the message:
This man, in Luke, has all these worldly possessions, all these things for his life now, and then nothing stored in heaven, nothing to look forward to. So he has to have his pleasures now, and God is like "you fool!!" what happens when you die tonight? What happens when all of your stuff is given to someone else because you are dead?? Then in 1 Corinthians Paul is talking about the promise of resurrection in spirit. He's like, why would I risk my life everyday if I knew it was just for human pleasures, just to make myself feel good? I do these things for God, I'm storing up treasures in heaven, so I can have them for eternity! Jesus has promised us that when we die, we will be resurrected in spirit, imperishable, in glory and power! Jesus is not a man that He should lie!

58"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that you labor in the Lord is not in vain."

How glorious!

Thank you Lord for your revelations! How my soul cries out for more! Thank you Jesus!

Stay tuned for the next question I have about these lyrics
"Spring up, O well; spring up, O well; spring up, O well, within me"

and

"All my tears You hold in a bottle; You will pour them out like rain"

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