Jesus; "O" how I love Thee!

Jesus; “O” how I love Thee!

Words so simple that very few will speak them?  A message so meaningful and who will express their essence of life?  A truth that ends all questions of being, waiting to be heard in the halls of heaven.

Have we, as a people with intellect, reached beyond the stories of old and no longer require what our grandparents taught us?  Are we who now decide to speak in terms of higher technology, tired of a fire and brimstone mentality waiting for the realm of the end that can’t occur since we can decide for ourselves what is next in the cosmos?

A temptation that has grasped the thinking of prophets, philosophers, and the very saints God sent to the world to bury the truth of the one and only God of eternity.  Given enough time and the success of an evil world that has contaminated the followers of Christ we will not be able to stop this enemy of God without his total intervention.  Like the adage of how a rolling stone will gather the grass as it rolls down the hills of wealth, power, and sexual encounters, will leave no sign of purity and grace when it reaches the bottom of its descent.    

Standing on the mountain of hope, the Transfiguration, we see ahead another mountain, that of Infamy, on which stood the Cross of crucifixion.   Yet, it is us, the believers of the Incarnation which opened the path to forgiveness, that will be the recipients of a grace that cannot be erased from history.  Moses and Elijah stood with the Risen Christ in all his glory;  you and I will stand with the Crucified Jesus and be freed from sin and eternal death as his Blood pours over our sinful body and opens the way to heaven. 

“Jesus” “O” how I want thee to be my savior, be my lover, be my God for all eternity.  Words that have all meaning of salvation and which counters the disbelief of the many who will not be included.  These are the ones who depend upon their wealth over grace, wallow in the grasp of power in lieu of a holy entity, and sexual pleasures before a sign of purity which is found with the saints of God. 

“O” to know you, to love you, to be one with you in all eternity, now wait for the grace you will hand us as our quest is to know you beyond the enemies of doubt and perdition.     

Ralph B. Hathaway