But I Will Wear My Heart Upon My Sleeve for Daws to Peak at!

Childhood is where “competition” is a baseball game and “responsibility” is a paper route. Life brings many challenges for every member of the human family. Some challenges are the result of unwise choices that all of us make from time to time. Other challenges may have nothing to do with our choices at all the are the results of others’ actions. And sometimes our situation is not a result of choices but is simply a part of the experience of life. However, in every circumstance, hope and peace can be found in Jesus Christ—who understand our burdens—and in His gospel. It seems proposition, which will not admit much dispute, that all our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses. It may be said, that we are every moment conscious of internal power; while we feel, that, by the simple command of our will, we can move organs of our body, or direct the faculties of our mind. An act of volition produces motion in our limbs, or raises a new idea in our imagination. This influence of the will we know by consciousness. Hence we acquire the idea of power or energy; and are certain, that we ourselves and all other intelligent beings are possessed of power. #RandolphHarris 1 of 25

This idea, then, is an idea that we are intelligent beings and possessed of power, then, is an idea of reflection, since it arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and on the command which is exercises by will, both other the organs of the body and faculties of the souls. The motions of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. However, the mean, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry. For first; is there any principle in all nature more mysterious than the union of soul with body; by which is a supposed spiritual substance acquires such an influence over a material one, that most refined thought is able to actuate the grossest matter? Were we empowered, by a secret wish, to remove mountains or control the planets in their orbit; this extensive authority would not be more extraordinary, nor more beyond our comprehension. However, if by consciousness we perceive any power or energy in the will, we must know its connexion with effect; we must know the secret union of soul and body, and the nature of both these substances; by which the one is able to operate, in so man instance, upon others. #RandolphHarris 2 of 25

Although the details will differ, the tragedies, the unanticipated tests and trials, both physical and spiritual, come to each of us because this is mortality. None of us have been spared sickness and sadness, and an angel on Earth whom we all love guides us as we search for happiness. We long for peace. We hope for love. And he Lord showers us with an amazing abundance of blessings. However, intermingled with the joy and happiness, one thing is certain: there will be moments, hours, days, sometimes years when the soul will be wounded. The scripture teach that we will taste the bitter and the sweet and that there will be opposition in all things. Jesus said, “Your Father maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” Wounds of the soul are not unique to the rich or the poor, to one culture, one nation, or one generation. They come to all and are part of the learning we receive from this mortal experience. Those who are keeping the commandments of God, keeping their promises to God are confronted with trials and challenges that are unexpected and painful. However, consciousness never deceives. And we learn the influence of our will from experience alone. #RandolphHarris 3 of 25

And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable. Hidden behind a smile may be fear and guilt—the terrible burden of the abused. Whether it is you or someone you know, hope and peace and healing are available. An alarming number of abuses is reported each day, involving both young women and young men. Abuse is not limited to one type of person or social class. It has been reported in every race, religion, occupation, income level, and educational background. Although Universal law and the scriptures tell us differently, some people have been abused for so long that they cannot see a future outside of their current situation and are not sure they will be uplifted in Christ and live a happy and safe life. As our bodies have physical scars it is trying to heal, our spirit is also scarred by things. Heavenly Father knew we would hurt ourselves spiritually on Earth, so he sent his Son to help us heal our wounds. By taking in the sacrament and renewing our covenants, the Saviour can wipe away the inward bruises on our soul. Even if our soul is blemished from its original perfection, know that the formula for healing physical wounds is to keep God’s commandments. #RandolphHarris 4 of 25

We are conscious of a power or energy in our minds, when, by an act or command of will, we raise up a new idea, fix the mind to the contemplation of it, turn in on all sides, and at last dismiss it for some other idea, when we think we have surveyed it with sufficient accuracy. We only feel the event, namely, the existence of an idea, consequent to a command of the will: But the manner, in which this operation is performed; the power, by which it is produced; is entirely beyond our comprehension. Volition is surely an act of the mind, with which we are sufficiently acquainted. Reflect upon it. Consider it on all sides. Do you find anything in it like this creative power, by which it raises from nothing to a new idea, and with a kind od FIAT, imitates the omnipotence of it Maker, if I may be allowed so to speak, who called forth into existence all the various scenes of nature? So far from being conscious of this energy in the will, it requires as certain experience, as that of which we are possessed, to convince us, that such extraordinary effects do ever result from a simple act of volition. The generality of humankind never finds any difficulty in accounting for the more common and familiar operations of nature; such as the descent of heavy bodies, the growth of planets, the generation of animals, or the nourishment of bodies by food. #RandolphHarris 5 of 25

It is usual for humans, in such difficulties, to have resources to some invisible intelligent principle, at the immediate cause of that event, which surprises them, and which they think, cannot be accounted for the common powers of nature. They assert that God is the immediate cause of the union between soul and body; and that they are not the organs of sense, which, being agitated by external objects, produce sensations in the mind; but that it is just a particular volition of our omnipotent Maker, which excites such a sensation, in consequence of such a motion in that organ. In like manner, it is not any energy in the will, that produces local motion in our members: It is God himself, who is pleased to second our will, in itself impotent, and to command that motion, which we erroneously attribute to our own power and efficacy. Our mental vision or conception of ideas is nothing but a revelation made to us by our Maker. When we voluntarily turn our thoughts to any object, and raise up its image in the fancy; it is not the will which creates that idea: It is the universal Creator, who discovers it to the mind, and renders it present to us. Thus, everything is full of God. We have no idea of the Supreme Being but what we learn from reflection on our own faculties. #RandolphHarris 6 of 25

By a Council, it is tremendously important for it to show that at one time in the history of the Church a certain dogma was perceived, by a responsible assembly, as necessary to safeguarding the faith, as indispensable to proclaiming the kerygma (preaching that calls for an existential faith in the meaning of Jesus), yet it does not forever hallow a particular formulation or dogma. Another period and another situation may require its abandonment, or make a radical reinterpretation imperative if we wish to preserve and to present the Christian message in that period and that situation. It is theology itself spanning the chasm between humans and being-itself, showing to ultimately concerned humans that the Christ has appeared in existence as the object of our ultimate concern. Thus the creeds, with their picture of a divine being descending in the flesh and ascending to Heaven again after passing through, and triumphing over, death, are mythological epics. Their truth does not lie in the historical exactness of every detail of the picture, but in the ability of those symbols to express the Unconditional appearing under the conditions of existence. Their value to the Church lasts as long as, and no longer than, their symbolic meaning is perceived. #RandolphHarris 7 of 25

Dogmatic myths must be “broken,” that is, understood symbolically. If we take them literally, we undermine their religious dimensions. Creeds and dogmas then become intellectual taboos that must be defended without regard to scientific honesty. The Cross is the greatest symbol of which I know for the true authority of the Church and the Bible. They should not point to themselves but to the reality which breaks again and again through the established forms of their authority. The true God does not subject us by divine order to an established religious authority as the Earthly representative of one’s own Heavenly authority. Such authority would be heteronomous, corresponding to the oppressive power of a Heavenly tyrant. Human rebellion against every authority would be autonomous and self-doomed. The only legitimate authority, be that of the Church, of the Bible, or the dogmas, is theonomous, in live continuity with the eternal and fathomless ground of our being, a medium through which the Spiritual substance of our lives is preserved and protected and reborn. The answer to the question of dogmatic authority is that Jesus established an authority which cannot be established; it is that no answer can be given except the one that, beyond preliminary authorities, you must keep yourselves open to the power of him who is the ground and the negation of everything which is authority on Earth and in Heaven. #RandolphHarris 8 of 25

If dogmas are authoritative, there is no ultimate authority except one that is beyond dogmas. If dogmas are opinions about God, they are only preliminary to ultimate concern about God: You cannot have opinion about the Christ after you have faced him. You can only do the truth by following him, or do the lie by denying him. Jesus the Christ is not, and neither the Church nor the theologian should be a teacher of truth among—or even above—other teachers of truth. Once broken, creedal myths and dogmatic statements are not truths comparable to others. They are not doctrines to be taught and learnt, but symbols to be experienced. Father, Son, Spirit are symbols pointing to Being, Existence and Life in God. This is the sum total of Trinitarian thinking. All life is trinitarian, because it is the union of dynamic power with finite form. Since God is living, he must be thought of in trinitarian terms. In him there is Life, that is, there is Ground out of which Life springs, and there is Form in which Life expressed itself. Life is the union of Ground and Form, of Power and Limitation, of Infinity and Finiteness. The Ground is the Father; the Form is the Logos, or Son; the Life is the Spirit. The question raised by orthodox dogmatics concern the interrelations of the three divine principles. #RandolphHarris 9 of 25

Traditional theology as defined by the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople is embodied in the Creed. It presents the Father, the Word and the Spirit as jointly one God, and distinctly three realities. The Church Fathers used various symbols to describe the oneness and the threeness of God. Little by little, the Church adopted one substance (ousia) and three persons (hupostasis) as expressing the orthodox faith. It thus steered a course between Tritheism (the identification of Father, Son, Spirit with three aspects of God, without any real distinction). The creedal formulations of this is summarized in the word homoousios of the Council of Nicaea: the Word, though born of the Father, and therefore distinct from him, is nevertheless of one substance with him. The Logos is also born of the Father. The Father is the eternal Abyss that becomes also Ground are one; the Depth of Being is also the Form of Being. Yet this is not orthodox. For the relation of the two as envisaged and explained follows a Sabellian type. Father, Son and Spirit, or, Being, Existence and Life, or yet Abyss, Meaning and Unity, are aspects of being when being is conceived as living. They are, God as Infinite, God as Finite, God as uniting in himself finiteness and infinity. However, theses are not three realities in God. They are necessary distinctions if we accept the idea of living God. #RandolphHarris 10 of 25

“Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God,” reports 2 Corinthian 3.5. Note that Paul said, “Not that we are competent in ourselves.” If you feel incompetent in God’s service you are in good company. Paul felt that way also. If you feel incompetent in God’s service you are in good company. Paul felt that way also. If there is anyone in the history of church who could have been relied on one’s own God-given endowments, surely it would have been Paul. He was a brilliant theologian, a gifted evangelist, a tireless church planter, and a sound missionary strategist. He was also adept at cross-cultural ministry (“To the Jews I become like a Jew, to win the Jews…To those not having the law [the Gentiles] I became like one not having the law,” reports 1 Corinthians 9.20-21). Yet Paul, with all his abilities, said we are not competent in ourselves. We are not competent, but God makes us competent. That is what Paul was saying in 1 Corinthians 15.10: “His grace to e was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them [the other apostles].” God’s grace in its concrete expression of divine power was effective in Paul. #RandolphHarris 11 of 25

In fact it was so effective that Paul could say he worked harder than all the other apostles. That is quite a statement and, at first glance, seems to put Paul in a position of unconscionable boasting. I used to be troubled by this statement. It seemed to be excessive boasting and quite out of character with Paul’s obviously genuine humility. However, I have come to realize Paul was not boasting. Rather, he was exalting the grace of God. He was saying that God’s grace at work in him was so effective it caused him to work harder than all of them. The grace of God motivated him, enabled him, and then blessed the fruits of his labours. However, then, perhaps realizing he could be misunderstood, Paul added, “yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” Perhaps John Calvin helps us best understand Paul’s intent when he wrote: For having said that something was applicable to himself, he [Paul] corrects that and transfers it entirely to God; entirely, I insist, and not just a part of it; for he affirms that whatever he may have seemed to do was in fact totally the work of grace. This is indeed a remarkable verse, not only for bringing down human pride to the dust, but also for making clear to us the way that the grace of God works in us. #RandolphHarris 12 of 25

For, as though he were wrong in making himself the source of anything good, Paul corrects what he had said, and declares that the grace of God is the efficient cause of everything. We should not imagine that Paul is merely simulating humility here. He is speaking as he does from his heart, and because he knows that it is the truth. We should therefore learn that the only good we have is what the Lord has given us gratuitously; that the only good we do is what He does in us; that it is not that we do nothing ourselves, but that we act only when we have been acted upon, in other words under the direction and influence of the Holy Spirit. Lest we lose sight of the human element in Calvin’s emphasis on grace, I want to call your attention to one statemen near the end of the quotation: “that it is not that we do nothing ourselves, but that we act only when we have been acted upon.” Colossians 1.29, which we already look at briefly, brings out the scriptural view of our working by His grace: “To this end I labour, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me. The word struggling connotes great intensity, “to put forth every effort, involving toil.” So in 1 Corinthians 15.10, there is no hint of inactivity or turning it all over to the Lord. #RandolphHarris 13 of 25

Paul said he worked hard. However, he worked hard because God’s grace worked effectively within him. Nor is there the suggestion that God and Paul worked together in the sense of a partnership. God did not do the evangelizing or church planting. Paul did that. However, he did it because God’s grace—that is, God’s power through the Holy Spirit—was at work in him. It would, however, be a mistake to picture God’s grace and Paul’s efforts as two horses together drawing a wagon, for the two are not coordinate. Paul’s effort is, in the last analysis, due to God’s grace, and it is put forth only as long as the Holy Spirit rules, guides, and leads one.” To which I would want to add, “and enables one.” The Holy Spirit must not only prompt, guide, and enable us, He must also bless our efforts if they are to have any effect. Paul recognizes this truth when he said, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither one who plants nor one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow,” reports 1 Corinthians 3.6-7. Paul and Apollos could both work extremely hard. They could do so in humble, conscious dependence on God’s grace. And yet they could fail to see any results from their labours because they, of themselves, could not change hearts. #RandolphHarris 14 of 25

Only God can open people’s hearts to respond to the gospel. Only God can cause that person you are seeking to disciple to respond to your challenge and instruction. God’s grace must work in the heart of the other person as well as working through us to minister to that person. So we must depend on His Spirit to work in us and through us and we must also depend on Him to work in the hearts of those we are seeking to minister to. Within the scope of this and the previous lectures we have seen that in ourselves we are weak, unworthy, and inadequate. We really are! We are not denigrating ourselves when we recognize this truth. We are simply acknowledging reality and opening ourselves to the grace of God. As we do this we can expect to experience His grace working mightily in our lives for, to paraphrase James 4.6, “although God opposes the proud, He does give grace to the humble.” James 4.6 is both a warning to the proud and a promise to the humble. That is, to those who genuinely acknowledge they are weak, unworthy, and inadequate, God does promise to give grace. It is not the custom of a true master to accept personal students externally and formally from among those who apply for the first time, but only from those who have been in touch with one for some years at least and hence have had sufficient time to make sure that this is really the teacher they want. #RandolphHarris 15 of 25

Such a teacher would not desire and ought not to accept those pupils who do not belong to one’s orbit by inward affinity. One would be foolish to accept a candidate whose true call is with some other teacher, unwise to permit a passing enthusiasm to waste one’s own time and disappoint the enthusiast’s hopes. It is easy in transient moods of enthusiasm to make a mistake in this matter and to find that one is not, after all, the kind of human they originally believed one to be or the kind of teacher that best suits them. So for their sake no less than one’s, it is better to look elsewhere unless they have the patience to wait a few years before making such a firm and final decision. For every teacher will naturally posses one’s own notion of the qualifications for discipleship which one values most and seeks most. One always places more stress upon deep loyalty than upon any other virtue. One would not even mind so much that one’s student should occasionally miss lecture as that they would fail him in this regard. Fidelity is the finest of virtues in one’s eyes. Fidelity is displayed by faithfulness to a person, cause, or belief, demonstrated by continuing loyalty and support. Disciples who lack this will soon be dropped. #RandolphHarris 16 of 25

However, if one asks for loyalty one does not ask for slavishness. One will be perfectly satisfied to be taken for an ordinary mortal without being turned into a perfect, unerring god. One is the last human to wish to be set up for what one is not. Nor will one demand for anyone that blind servility which does duty with most aspirants in place for the genuine loyalty that ought to be offered. Externally and formally, however, there is nothing to stop anyone meanwhile from appointing oneself, if one so wishes, a student—mentally, secretly, and internally. For discipleship is self-created by the mental attitude of devotion which by reaction spontaneously brings one interior help. One will not then really need the external signs of acceptance. “And now it came to pass that after Alma had spoken these words unto them he sat down upon the ground, and Amulek arose and began to teach them, saying: My brethren, I think that it is impossible that ye should be ignorant of the things which have been spoken concerning the coming of Christ, who is taught by us to be the Son of God; yea, I know that these things were taught unto you bountifully before your dissension from among us. #RandolphHarris 17 of 25

“And as ye have desired of my beloved brother that he should make known unto you what ye should do, because of your afflictions; and he hath spoken somewhat unto you to prepare your minds; yea, and he hath exhorted you unto faith and to patience. Yea, even that ye would have so much faith as even to plant the word in your hearts, that ye may try the experiment of its goodness. And we have beheld that the great question which is in your minds is whether the word be in the Son of God, or whether there shall be no Christ. And ye also beheld that my brother has proved unto you, in many instances, that the word is in Christ unto salvation. My brother has called upon the words of Zenos, that redemption cometh through the Son of God, and also upon the words of Zenock; and also he has appealed unto Moses, to prove that these things are true. And now, behold, I will testify unto you of myself that these things are true. Behold, I say unto you, that I do know that Christ shall come among the children of humans, to take upon him the transgressions of his people, and that he shall atone for the sins of the World; for the Lord God hath spoken it. For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great plan of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all humankind must unavoidably perish. #RandolphHarris 18 of 25

“Yea, all are fallen and lost, and must perish except it be through atonement which it is expedient should be made. For it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of humans, neither of beast, neither of any manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an infinite and eternal sacrifice. Now there is not any human that can sacrifice one’s own blood which will atone for the sins of another. Now, if a human murdereth, behold will out law, which is just, take the life of one’s brother? I say unto you, Nay. However, the law requireth the life of one who hath murdered; therefore there can be nothing which is short of an infinite atonement which will suffice for the sins of the World. Therefore, it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice, and then shall there be, or it is expedient there should be, a stop to the shedding of blood; then shall the law of Moses be fulfilled; yea, it shall be all fulfilled, every jot and tittle, and none shall have passed away. And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice will be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal. And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe on his name. #RandolphHarris 19 of 25

“This being the intent of this last sacrifice, to being about the bowels of mercy, which overpowereth justice, and bringeth about means unto humans that they have faith unto repentance. And thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles the in the arms of safety, while one that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demand of justice; therefore only unto one that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption. Therefore may God grant unto you, my brethren, that ye may begin to exercise your faith unto repentance, that ye begin to call upon his holy name, that he would have mercy upon you; yea, cry unto him for mercy, for he is might to save. Yea, humble yourselves, and continue in prayer unto him. Cry unto him when ye are in your fields, yea, over all your flocks. Cry unto him in your houses, yea, over all your household, both morning, mid-day, and evening. Yea, cry unto him against the power of your enemies. Yea, cry unto him against the devil, who is an enemy to all righteousness. Cry unto him over the crops of your fields, that ye may prosper in them. Cry over the flocks of your fields, that they may increase. #RandolphHarris 20 of 25

“However, this is not all; ye must pour out your souls in your closets, and your secret places, and in your wilderness. Yea, and when you do not cry unto the Lord, let your hearts be full, drawn out in prayer unto him continually for your welfare (well-being), and also for the welfare of those who are around you. And now behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you, do no suppose that this is all; for after ye have done all these things, if ye turn away the needy, and the naked, and visit not the sick and afflicted, and impart of your substance, if ye have, to those who stand in need—I say unto you, if ye do not any of these things, behold, your prayer is vain, and availeth you nothing, and ye are as hypocrites who do deny the faith. Therefore, if ye do not remember to be charitable, ye are as dross, which the refiners do cast out, (it being of no worth) and is trodden under foot of humans. And now, my brethren, I would that, after ye have received so many witnesses, seeing that the holy scriptures testify of these things, ye come forth and bring fruit unto repentance. Yea, I would that ye would come forth and harden not your hearts any longer; for behold, now is the time and the day of your salvation; and therefore, if ye will repent and harden not your hearts, immediately shall the great plan of redemption be brought about unto you. #RandolphHarris 21 of 25

“For behold, this life is the time for humans to perform their labours. And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labour performed. Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in the eternal World. For behold, if ye have procrastinated the day of your repentance even until death, behold, ye have become subjected to the spirit of the devil, and he doth seal you his; therefore, the Spirit of the Lord hath withdrawn from you, and hath no place in you, and the devil hath all power over you; and this is the final state of the wicked. And this I know, because the Lord hath said he dwelleth not in unholy temples, but in the hearts of the righteous doth he dwell; yea, and he also said that the righteous shall sit down in his kingdom, to go no more out; but their garments should be made white through the blood of the Lamb. #RandolphHarris 22 of 25

“And now, my beloved brethren, I desire that ye should remember these things, and that ye should work out your salvation with fear before God, and that ye should no more deny the coming of Christ; that ye content no more against the Holy Ghost, but that ye receive it, and take upon you the name of Christ; that ye humble yourselves even to the dust, and worship God, in whatsoever place ye may be in, in spirit and in truth; and that ye live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which he doth bestow upon you. Yea, and I also exhort you, my brethren, that ye be watchful unto prayer continually, that ye may not be led away by the temptations of the devil, that he any not overpower you, that ye may not become his subjects at the last day; for behold, he rewardeth you no good thing. And now my beloved brethren, I would exhort you to have patience, and that ye bear with all manner of afflictions; that ye do not revile against those who cast you our because of your exceeding poverty, lest ye become sinners like unto them; however, that ye have patience, and bear with those afflictions, with a firm hope that ye shall one day rest from all your afflictions,” reports Alma 34.1-41. #RandolphHarris 23 of 25

Value-starvation and value-hunger come both from external deprivation and from our inner ambivalence and counter-values. Not only are we passively value-deprived into metapathology by the environment. We also fear the highest values, both within ourselves and outside ourselves. Not only are we attracted; we are also awed, stunned, chilled, frightened. That is to say, we tend to be ambivalent and conflicted. We defend ourselves against the B-values. Repression, denial, reaction-formation, and probably all the Freudian defense-mechanisms are available and are used against the highest within ourselves just as they are mobilized against the lowest within ourselves. Humility and a sense of unworthiness can lead to evasion of the highest values. So also can the fear of being overwhelmed by the tremendousness of these values. I call this the Jonah-syndrome. Like a lightning flash cleaving in the night come to us Lord, like the sub rising inexorably over the horizon come to us Lord, like a stone exploding amongst the flames comes to us Lord, like an arrow seeking its prey in the forest come to us Lord. Like a roebuck breaking free from a thicket come to us Lord, like an eagle stooping with claws outstretched come to us Lord, like a monsoon raining day after day come to us Lord, like a hammer striking sparks against the anvil come to us Lord. #RandolphHarris 24 of 25

Like a thunderstorm opening up in summer heat come to us Lord, like an earthquake shaking the mountains come to us Lord, like a gale blowing across open water come to us Lord, like a cloud of spear showering down on a battlefield come to us Lord. “O come, let us sing unto the Lord; let us joyfully acclaim the Rock of our salvation. Let us approach Him with thanksgiving, and acclaim Him with song of praise. For great is the Lord, a King greater than all the mighty. In His hands are the depths of the Earth; His also are the heights of the mountains. The sea is His for He made it; and His hands formed the dry land. Come, let us worship and bow down; let us bend the knee before the Lord, our Marker. He is our God, and we are the people He shepherds; yea, we are the flock He tends. “O hearken today His voice: Harden not your hearts as you did at Meribah and Massah, as in the days of trial in the wilderness; when your forefather tried My patience, yea, they tested Me, though they had seen my work. For forty years was I worth with that generation, a people who erred in their hearts, and did not know My ways. Wherefore I vowed in My indignation that they should not enter the land where My glory dwelleth,” reports Psalm 95. #RandolphHarris 25 of 25