Today’s Thought “Diamonds and Rust” G. Ward

Isaiah 40:6

 A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

 

Rare ly do any (consistently) slumber with contemplations of the Lord’s return (1 Thess.4:13-18), to then awaken to an unknown reality of this could be my last moments in earth. The transitory position in all of humanity must maintain a “here today, gone tomorrow” theorizing that questions their own eternality (cf. Matt.7:21-23).

Diamonds and Rust is a song composed by the legendary Joan Baez (1974) concerning a dead-end love relationship re-visited. It more reveals that while we’d love to think of ourselves as strong, only Holy God is with that tag. Humanity’s original composition as dust reveals our frailty and compels our total dependence (*Matt.11:28). The rest in that dependence offers both recovery and true strength (ONLY found in HIM) and terms of the flesh are extinguished. The practice (i.e. pursuit) therein delights in the peace, and failure to embrace this proposed phenomenon is comparable to nakedness at the busiest hour on New York’s Times Square…