God please forgive me and help me to do the right thing! Now that I am in the middle of this mischief, my heart keeps pounding, and I am breaking out all over. Father and Friend, what can I say, now that I have got the troubles except, perhaps, “Save me from this hour”—that is what You prayed to Your Father in the garden, or so the Beloved Disciple reported in his Gospel, and that is what I prayer to You now. “But that is just why I have come to this hour”—that is what You also prayed in the same place and the same verse, and so, I suppose, in the present fix I am in, should I. I hope You will feel glorified when You have humbled me and then raised me up again. “If it please You, O Lord,” as the Psalmist cried, “rescue me” (40.13). Poor beggar that I am, what can I do without You? Where can I go with You? Grant me patience, O Lord, at this very fine turn of events. “Help me, my Lord,” as the Psalmist cooed (109.26), no matter how catastrophic my fall has been! “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you my know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him. If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give life. I refer too those whose sin does not lead to death. We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps one safe, and the evil one cannot harm one. We know that we are children of God, and that the whole World is under the control of the evil one. We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him who is true—even in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Dear children, keep yourselves from idols,” reports 1 John 5.13-21. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Still in the middle of this muddle, what shall I say, O Lord? Some words from Matthew come to mind (26.42). “Your will be done”—that sounds appropriate. That is what You said in the Great Prayer to Your Father; and that is what I should say too. I have richly deserved to be flayed and flattened. So I have to endure it, wait patiently. However, the storm will pass. Things will get better. Thankfully, Yours is the right hand that rocks the Cradle of the Universe. If You want, please lift this temptation from me. At least soften its impact before it crushes the life out of me. “Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the World. Any such person is the deceiver and antichrist. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take one into your house or welcome one. Anyone who welcomes that individual shares in one’s wicked work,” reports 2 John 1.7-11. Mercifully, many times before You have saved me, if I may take some words from the Wisdom of Solomon (11.17), although I cannot help noting You waited until the last possible moment, no doubt for dramatic effect. I have tried to save myself before, my Life-saving and Life-savouring Friend, but it is more than could so. However, You, You could save me, You could make it easier for me. And, if I might paraphrase the Psalmist (77.10), with less energy than it takes the Almighty to bat an eyelash. “Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love,” reports 2 John 1.3. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

God is strength in the face of weakness. We should come to God when things are not going well—that is what He said in Matthew (11.28). Why? God has all this Celestial Consolation at His beck and call. So why are we so slow to turn to prayer? And why is God always our last resort? We can plead our own cases whenever we have a mind to. However, often in the past, God has noticed we like to spend what He considers an indecent interval searching for relief in a variety of other venues and avenues. There is some titillation in each, no doubt, but not a lot of tintinnabulation. That is to say, ere a clink, there a clink, but no one clear tone. “Though art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted,” reports Psalm 89.17. Many people who are the best at what they do endure unfair compensation for years. And, beyond that they endure all sorts of injustice and ridicule from their coworkers. The reason some of them go almost a decade without a pay increase or a bonus of any kind may be because their supervisor does not like the individual. It seems rational to grow bitter, quit and find work elsewhere; or become anti-social and take on the attitude of a victim and mad at everyone. However, several Christians have learned that it is best to continued to do high quality work because they are working to please God, not anyone else. One day, someone will notice you hard work and the favour of God will make them call you so they can elevate your status in the career World. And perhaps, one day, you will own your own company. That is what happens when we follow the ways of Christ and build our faith.  God will make you back and make turn the injustice into blessings. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

God is the rescuer, the St. Bernard in the Alps, for all who hope in Him. Without God there is no help for what ails an individua, no pointed advice, no lasting remedy. However, already, after the avalanche, with colour returning to your cheeks one can recover with help of God’s ministrations. God is always close by, as He says in the Psalms. What can He do? God can not only restore our basic necessities, but also add a few niceties of His own. Understand, we serve a God who wants to do more than one can ask of think. Regardless of how people are treating you, keep doing the right thing; do not get offended or upset; do not try to pay them back, returning evil for evil. Instead, keep extending forgiveness; keep responding in love. If one does that, then when it comes time for one to be promoted, God will make sure it happens. Gd will make sure one gets everything one deserves, and more! Remember, one touch from God can change one’s circumstances. Open your heart and trust God’s plan for your live, and start anticipating His grace and favour. God wants to be something of a Lovejoy and be nice to be with. Stand firm and hold fast to your faith. I know, Father, that grace and blessings come from you that can turn around any situation in my life. I believe that You have divine favour ready to pour out in my life, and I will expect good things to come my way today because of You. The records represent Christ as passing after death (as no human has passed before) neither into a purely, that is, negatively, “spiritual” mode of existence not into a “natural” life such as we know, but into a life which has its own, new Nature. It represents Him as withdrawing six weeks later, into some different mode of existence. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

The Resurrection says—Jesus says—that He goes “to prepare a place for us.” This presumably means that Christ is about to create that whole new Nature which will provide the environment or conditions for His glorified humanity and, in Him, for ours. The picture is not what we expected—though whether it is less or more probable and philosophical on that account is another question. It is not the picture of an escape from any and every kind of Nature into some unconditioned and utterly transcendent life. It is the picture of a new human nature, and a new Nature in general, being brought into existence. We must, indeed, believe the risen body to be extremely different from the mortal body: but the existence, in that new state, of anything that could in any sense be described as “body” at all, involves some sort of spatial relations and in the long run a whole new Universe. That is the picture—not of unmaking but of remaking. The old field of space, time, matter, and the sense is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not. And yet they very way in which this New Nature begins to shine in as a certain affinity with the habits of the Old Nature. In Nature as we know her, things tend to be anticipated. Nature is fond of “false dawns,” of precursors: thus, as I said before, some flowers come before true spring: sub-men (the evolutionists would have it) before the true men. So, here also, we get Law before Gospel, animal sacrifices foreshadowing the great sacrifice of God to God, the Baptist before the Messiah, and those “miracles of the New Creation” which come before the Resurrection. Christ’s walking on water, and His raising of Lazarus fall in this class. Both give us hints of what the new Nature will be like. #RandolphHarrs 5 of 8

In the Walking on the Water, we see the relations of spirit and Nature so altered that Nature can be made to do whatever spirit pleases. This new obedience of Nature is, of course, not to be separated even in thought from spirit’s own obedience to the Father of Spirits. Apart from that proviso such obedience by Nature, if it were possible, would result in chaos: the evil dream of Magic arises from finite spirit’s longing to get that power without paying that price. The evil reality of lawless applied science (which is Magic’s son and heir) is actually reducing large tracts of Nature to disorder and sterility at this very moment. I do not know how radically Nature herself would need to be altered to make her thus obedient to spirits, wen spirits have become wholly obedient to their source. One thing at least we must observe. If we are in fact spirits, not Nature’s offspring, then there must be some point (probably the brain) at which created spirit even now can produce effects on matter not by manipulation or technics but simply by the wish to do so. If that is what you mean by Magic then Magic is a reality manifested every time you move your hand or think a thought. And Nature, as we have seen, is not destroyed but rather perfected by her servitude. The raising of Lazarus differs from the Resurrection of Christ Himself because Lazarus, so far as we know, was not raised to a new and more glorious mode of existence but merely restored to the sort of life he had had before. The fitness of the miracle lies in the fact that He who will raise all humans at the general resurrection here does it small and close, and in an inferior—a merely anticipatory—fashion. For the mere restoration of Lazarus is as inferior in splendour to the glorious resurrection of the New Humanity as stone jars are to the green and growing vine or five little barley loaves to all the waving bronze and gold of a fat valley ripe for harvest. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

The resuscitation of Lazarus so far as we can see, is simple reversal: a series of changes working in the direction opposite to that we have always experienced. At death, matter which has been organic, begins to flow away into the inorganic, to be finally scattered and used (some of it) by other organisms. The resurrection of Lazarus involves the reverse process. The general resurrection involves the process universalized—a rush of matter towards organization at the call of spirits which require it. It is presumably a foolish fancy (not justified by the words of Scripture) that each spirit should recover those particular units of matter which one ruled before. For one thing, they would not be enough to go round: we all live in second-hand suits and there are doubtless atoms in my chin which have served many another human, many a dog, many an eel, many a dinosaur. Nor does the unity of our bodies, even in this present life, consist in retaining the same particles. My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually. I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall. However, the miracle of Lazarus, though only anticipatory in one sense, belongs emphatically to the New Creation, for nothing is more definitely excluded by Old Nature than any return to a status quo. The patterns of Death and Rebirth never restores the previous individual organism. And similarly, on the inorganic level, we are told that Nature never restores order where disorder has once occurred. Shuffling is the thing Nature never undoes. Hence we live in a Universe where organisms are always getting more disordered. These laws between them—irreversible death and irreversible entropy—cover almost the whole of what St. Paul calls the “vanity” of Nature: her futility, her ruinousness. And the film is never reversed. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8

The moment from ore order to less almost serves to determine the direction in which Time is flowing. You could almost define the future as the period in which what is now living will be dead and in which what orders still remains will be diminished. They who have the ocean as their eldest flow out of the sea, purifying themselves, never resting. God with the thunderbolt, opened a way for them; let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here and now. The water of the sky or those that flow, those that are dug out or those that arise by themselves, those pure and clear waters that seek the ocean as their goal—let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here and now. Those in whose midst God moves, looking down upon the truth and falsehood of people, those pure and clear waters that drip honey—let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here and now. Those among whom God drinks in ecstasy the exhilarating nourishment, those into whom Jesus of-all-men entered—let the waters, who are goddesses, help me here and now. O Eternal, we beseech Thee, please save us now. Please restore us to a position of honour and praise. Please bring us back unto our lot and inheritance, and exalt us higher and higher. Please establish us as Thy chosen vineyard and make us a tree planted by streams of water. Please redeem us from all plague and disease, and crown us with perfect love. Please gladden us in our house of prayer, and lead us by still waters. Please fill us with wisdom and discernment; please clothe us with strength and greatness; adorn us with the diadem of perfection. Lead us forward on the way of righteousness and please guide us upon the straight path of equity. Please grant us Thy mercy and compassion. May it be said of us again, Who is this that goeth up?” Please save us with Thy mighty hand. Please adorn us with the radiance of a victorious host. Please cause us to cleave close to Thee. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8

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