Guidance - Liquid Fire for Your Deathly Hallows

FYI - I've never seen or read any Harry Potter stuff so if the title throws you off that's my ignorance.

"All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people" - When I read this line I immediately thought of the song by David Crowder "Here is Our King." I know this song is about a massive martyr (probably wrong word here -martyr- sorry* - see footnote) of humanity by creation (approximately 200,000 soon after the tsunami.) I searched google for the story about the song and the fist words in the article written by Mr. Crowder were a quote by St. Francis - "What you are looking for is what is looking."

At the end of the article he writes, "In other words, our king comes to us from the same place springtime does. Whatever the source of spring and newness. He comes from the same place that put this thing in our chests that makes it necessary for us to search for him and the fact that we are compelled to search for him gives a hint as to the goodness of him who we search for."

In summary - Spring is springing in Lodi. Foster is springing with an expectant creation. Crowder is springing up with hope and newness.

Christ is springing up right here, right now in sorrow, frustration, futility, decay, death, judgment. He literally springs forth from an open grave. Seriously, a tomb?!?

A LIVING HOPE.
SPARKLING WINE.
A BANQUET.
AN ENDLESS DANCE OF JOY.
AN ENDLESS SONG OF GRACE.


Romans 8:20 - 21 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

So cheers to fiery wine of Christ that enters the deathly hollows of sin, condemnation, death, and decay and burns them away with fiery, white hot mercy.

All creation is groaning, HELP! WE NEED A SAVIOR! Perhaps every morning Christ by the work of the Spirit and the miracle of Pentecost says, READY OR NOT! HERE I COME!

WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS WHAT IS LOOKING!

Footnote - Yeah, maybe the word martyr isn't the best word. Not for me to say one way or the other. Martyr does mean witness. Death is a powerful testimony/witness that we cannot save ourselves. I think God uses massive tragedies to wake us up to that witness. To wake us up to . . . . . HOPE (Romans 8:20-21.) When we exhale this world and inhale the next perhaps we are with highest authenticity forced to relinquish control and declare -- "into your hands I commit my spirit." So again, maybe not the right word. To quote a cultural "GUIDE" for modernity, "no one know what it means. But its provocative." - Ron Burgundy.