Sleep on Windy Nights……?

Well, some times.  With possible gusts up to 57 or so…hardly. That is, when it reaches near 60 mph the windows start singing or rather squealing.  Just when I think it is all done and am nearly  asleep again…… there it goes!!!!  The solution.. well…move to the other side of the house… and listen to two girls cough the night away…well it was some quieter over there.

But with wind and storm,  the internet is sketchy too.  So… no blogging… or shopping or reading online…yet.   So will have to wait to post this when the timing is right. For a brief minute when it was connected this morning, the search page had this quote from Martin Luther King Jr. 

“But let judgement run down as waters,

And righteousness as a mighty stream.”

Amos 5:24

Do people know this quote is originally from the prophet Amos, speaking of the Latter Rain?   Well I doubt it. They are simply quoting Martin Luther King for the holiday. 

However I ran across this text a week or so ago while going through a collection of texts I’m putting together for a song.   Usually  judgement is thought of in the context of doom confirmed, or vengeance carried out.  But this verse ties judgement to  righteousness.  Starkly, the only “righteousness” there is anywhere is Christ’s righteousness, always has been always will be, for “we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses  are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and all our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”    But…

“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me:

my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.”

Job 29:14

“For he put on righteousness as a breastplate,

 and a helmet of salvation upon his head;

 and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,

 and was clad with zeal as a cloak.”

 Is. 59:17

“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,

that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:

by whose stripes ye were healed.”

1Pet. 2:24

“And that ye put on the new man,

which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” 

Eph. 4:24

Christ’s righteousness—“the measure of the fullness of the stature of Christ”—is the measuring line of the judgement.  If we are Christ’s, that is, we put on His righteousness always then we are ultimately his forever!  But if we fail to put on his righteousness, and ever and always persistently refuse to put it on, we ultimately fail of it… forever!

“Come buy gold refined by fire,

Garments whiter than snow,

Eyesalve for your eyes,

 that you may see,

That you may see your need”

(“The Return of the Latter Rain” p.472).