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Not everyone has the experience, perspective, or capacity to understand your vision. Stop shrinking the ocean to fit somebody else’s pond. Keep going.

Not everyone has the experience, perspective, or capacity to understand your vision. Stop shrinking the ocean to fit somebody else’s pond. Keep going.

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Psalm 19:1 A song of David… a declaration of God‘s glory, His handiwork. The heavens, a tent for the sun, and the stars…I t’s as if they speak. David is there, expressing what he sees and knows of what God has revealed through His creation. He begins with a vast immeasurable description of the heavens, which have no end… then to God and Who He is as Creator, to us. He is someone to reverently fear, One Whose laws and precepts are true and righteous. David is heard singing “Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!…” desiring in his heart to be innocent and clear of transgression. We can go there, too…to the place where He reveals His glory, even to us. Paul writes to the church in Rome “Forever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made, His handiworks. So man or without excuse altogether without any defense or justification.” We can know and recognize He’s God, just by looking at what He’s created. So many things get in our way, so many things distract us. The night sky in the city looks different when all the lights are off, distractions are gone, then the heavens become more visible. It’s as if, in our minds, we’re transported into the throne room, we see what He sees… without anything else getting in the way. Our hearts are in a position of praise and awe before Him. It’s here that our mind’s eyes crave to see what He sees in His creation…in us. We hear Him say “I made this for you… because I love you”. David speaks of the power and might and the order of things created by God. Being amazed at the detail is an understatement and there are no words to how we ‘feel’ when we experience God on the throne. Again, Lord, there are no words that begin to describe our gratitude, it’s another one of those times we ask You to listen to our hearts.

Your question, How does Christ’s blood "cleanse from our sins? 1 Peter 1:18 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Now if you stop short of reading this verse you would not have seen the rest. “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Peter is telling us that Jesus was foreordained before the foundation of the world. Jesus was determined to be God’s sacrifice for sin. To redeem us from our sin. This included his crucifixion. As the Apostle wrote without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. God revealed this fact to Israel through signs. They would annually sacrifice the blood of animals to cover their sins. This demonstrated that the blood of animals would cover their sins, pointing to Jesus. These examples served as a reminder to Israel that a sacrifice was necessary to cleanse their sins. Hebrews 9:22 “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Now we know that God made Jesus his sacrifice before the foundation of the world that through his shedding of blood would cleanse us from all our sins.

Your question, How does Christ’s blood "cleanse from our sins? 1 Peter 1:18 “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Now if you stop short of reading this verse you would not have seen the rest. “Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Peter is telling us that Jesus was foreordained before the foundation of the world. Jesus was determined to be God’s sacrifice for sin. To redeem us from our sin. This included his crucifixion. As the Apostle wrote without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. God revealed this fact to Israel through signs. They would annually sacrifice the blood of animals to cover their sins. This demonstrated that the blood of animals would cover their sins, pointing to Jesus. These examples served as a reminder to Israel that a sacrifice was necessary to cleanse their sins. Hebrews 9:22 “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. Now we know that God made Jesus his sacrifice before the foundation of the world that through his shedding of blood would cleanse us from all our sins.

The imaginative Luciano Berio was born 101 years ago on this day, October 24, 1925 in Italy. He was a composer noted for his experimental work particularly his pioneering work in electronic music. Unlike many avant-garde composers who sought to break away from history, Berio embraced it, using older music as a foundation to be expanded upon. ‘The music that interests me is that which carries traces of the past, but has a vision of the future, too.´ It is for this reason that Berio was not simply an experimentalist: he was deeply engaged with the entire history of music, from early traditions to contemporary composition. He refused to accept that modern composition had to abandon the past. He could incorporate electronic sounds, fragments of Mahler, folk melodies, literature, and unconventional vocal techniques into a single artistic vision. “A good musician has to think with his belly and to feel with his brain.” This striking remark reflects Berio's resistance to separating intellectual understanding from physical and emotional experience.