"Voice Upon The Kingdom Layer"

What voice is best up on that layer to live?
Why, one that’s yours, for you have naught to prove;
If you are active, active be in Christ;
If passive, settle back, be very nice.

For me, I’m inter-active like he said –
That’s Andrew Murray, long ago, he’s dead;
But in his book he pointed out to me
How Christ gave nod to interactive be.

I’ve known that now for twenty years or so;
Down in the world where obstacles we know,
It’s really good in shifting onto Christ,
From interacting when folks aren’t so nice.

But here, up on this layer, it different is –
For without jerks around, it clearly is
Just like the Scripture says – “Have life in Me –
With interactive voice results we’ll see”.

Type one is where He asks what He might do
In which we’d be involved, take action too;
My focus in the past was, “Help me dance
Around the obstacles – give love a chance.”

But now, with blocks all gone, the question is
Quite different – takes a focus in my biz –
“What am I active-willing to pursue
In Christ, in which He can some action do?”

Type two is where we get a parcel-post
Unasked from Christ – sometimes what we need most.
“Just ask for it, accept delivery, man,
Then take it home, and use it if you can.

Sometimes it needs assembly, training time;
Sometimes we need to grow to cross that line
From competence to excellence in use,
To be a worthy workman – no excuse.

But in the past a block to growth would come –
I’d be turfed out, no parcel, on my bum;
Then I would start again, learn some new craft,
So seldom got quite good for given task.

So I’ve a host of skills once started up,
And tools I’ve made to help when things were tough;
Productions that would help some state of need,
Truncated by some person’s blocking deed.

Do I just build upon such rocky starts?
Put them together as component parts?
Set all aside and do some project new?
Return to start, do what I said I’d do?

Perhaps it’s none of those, more, “Ask again
For what’s received from Christ, forget the pain;
Be at disposal His, like at the first;
Stay open, ’till His power through you can burst.

Lord, dissipation is my bugaboo –
I’ve longed to finish what You’d have me do;
Yet it’s not clear, and when it is, it goes
Like morning mists of springtime after snows.

You gave me “Bible-Scripture now to end;
Just give your life to that; your shoulder bend
To pushing that one, for it sings for you;
It flavors all you think, and say, and do.

“So do that, Stu, let other stuff alone;
It settles out, until it finds its home,
Like ‘Mishom’s Axe’ – unique – you’re TCK,
Now freed on Kingdom-layer – go out and play.

“ ‘I do not care how job is done’, I said;
You chose response to make – ‘Before I’m dead,
I want to find the piece we missed en route
In making better church – that horn I’ll toot’.

“And then, en route, you found a gift suppressed;
Response you chose? ‘Bring it to full like rest
Of people gifted thus – yet more than they;
I want to know far more – ’fore dying day’.”

My energies I’ve poured to get it right;
I struggled as I worked both day and night,
To solve complexities of how it works,
While dodging blockages put there by jerks.

“Those were not jerks, those were My people, Stu;
Like Cyrus – folks will do what I would choose,
Despite themselves, just like you in your past –
There’s lots who’ve done My chosen this-and-thats.

“I don’t think you can sort which were from Me;
It matters not – for all have come to be
Of use in getting you up to the start
Of seven double-years – to do your part.

“For you are far from done the task I gave;
Sure, Bible is the focus, people save;
You have the code, now use it in My work
In giver-land of business-finance jerks.

“Call them to get up on the acetate
And feel the freedom; no, it’s not too late;
For when they find they’re freed from blockages,
There is a great release – no stoppages.

“You need a team? Go set some free to be
With you, as they responded through you to Me.
Then train them up, release them in the world –
Above it – plastic layer over whirl.

Thanks Lord for this.

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