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Forward:
A Voice of One Dying in the Bewilderedness
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” Isaiah 40:1-5
To whosoever finds this voice of one dying in the fray This Pilgrim’s Journey is a choice we make from day to day
When tests and trials prove our patience as persecutions rage We sometimes lose our faith in practice when we react in un-Christ like ways
Yet as we learn from day to day to count the painful cost It’s in this dying that we find what it means to take up our cross
And though bewildered by the battles which ever seem to rage We must develop our faith and patience this is the way all Saints are trained
So if you’re dying in the bewilderedness take heart you’re not alone For you’ve found the voice of just one of many who are also dying to self, but are not alone. © 2005 Raymond Bolton Pena
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Mark 8:34-38
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