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    Letters at Midnight
    Letters at Midnight
    Letters at Midnight
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    Letters at Midnight

    By Roland B. King

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    Do you ever lie awake at night and wonder, "why?" The clock strikes twelve and sleep has not graced your eyes. Suddenly your mind is filled with thoughts of some of life's biggest mysteries, and one begins to finally make sense to you. Let's embark on an adventure in the Scriptures as poet and philosopher Roland B. King shares a facet of the Bible's greatest mysteries as he opens the seals on these Letters at Midnight.

    Hey, These are Letters at Midnight. I'm tired.

    I don't appreciate you writing letters at midnight. It exposes too much light into my secret places.

    Letters at Midnight exposing light. You do, of course, see the irony here?

    Creeping up to the deepest, darkest time of night...light shines on the dark places of the human heart.

    AND JESUS AROSE A GREAT WHILE BEFORE DAY AND BEGAN TO PRAY.

    And he flipped the switch and the coffee began to perk.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordCrafts Press
    Release dateJul 24, 2013
    ISBN9781301529087
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      Letters at Midnight - Roland B. King

      1

      MOSES VS. SOLOMON

      Moses would not have been welcome in the Court of Solomon.

      Or better said:

      The Moses Dynamic, that fresh new move of God (which suddenly shows up in all its radicalness!), is never welcome in the Solomonic Moment.

      —Those times when God has given his people rest.

      And they are at peace with themselves and the Culture in which they live. Sound familiar?

      Those wonderful church bells ringing every Sunday morning. I love them, but...

      We who live in the Court of Solomon must not resist when a shabby prophet walks down our affluent corridors and says, I’m about to do a New Thing declares the Lord!

      A new thing?! Moses. Moses. – Solomon knows.

      There is nothing new under the Sun.

      Ecclesiastes 1:9

      And besides, change doesn’t last.

      For all the waters run into the sea yet the sea is never full.

      Ecclesiastes 1:7

      "But…

      "Yet…

      Somehow…

      Up walks Moses.

      Something from the absolute fringe of our mental society.

      That thing too big to dream of!

      That speck-of-hope never closer than the horizon.

      For remember, Scripture says:

      And Moses drove his cattle farther out than any other man.

      Why?

      Moses was looking for the edge.

      Looking for the horizon.

      Looking for the margin.

      And Solomon will be the first to admit, Kings don’t write the stuff in the margin. That’s extra reading. Material not really required. Added for deeper understanding. Kings and even Ex-Presidents write best-sellers.

      So enters God…

      Into our settled comfortable lives, saying, There’s more.

      Whether it’s more in worship.

      More in devotion.

      More in faith.

      There’s more.

      (The life of Elijah proves there's more.)

      But he was special.

      A man of like passions!

      Wait, that means he was just like us.

      We who live in the Court of Solomon would do well to remember what James wrote: "When you see a different thing, an unfamiliar thing, a new thing! coming into your assembly, and not longing for change, your heart would give it a lesser seat, a back seat. Oh give it the chiefest seat, put it on the front pew of your heart!...‘cause it just might be…the greatest move of God (in your life!) you’ve ever known."

      And these are: Letters At Midnight.

      2

      HELLO I’M BACK

      Tonight I’d like to talk of the misconception of strength. We know that nothing is put in the scriptures haphazardly. –For no reason at all. And yet the gospel writer Mark did just that.

      Well...what appeared to be just that.

      Okay I knew it wasn’t that.

      And it bothered me for years!

      You know the instance I’m talking about. Mark 14:48-53. The young man who followed Jesus to the Garden the night of his betrayal. Yes, that guy. Who was he?

      And Jesus answered and said unto the crowd, Are you come out as against a thief, with swords and staves to take me? I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you took me not, but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

      And they all forsook him and fled.

      And there followed him a certain young man having a linen cloth cast about his naked body and the young men laid hold on him and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked.

      And they led Jesus away to the high priest and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

      In the garden of Gethsemane this young man watched from a distance...was grabbed by the mob...lost his robe...his only piece of clothing?...and fled.

      The end.

      Never mentioned again.

      Who?

      This bothered me for years. Who was he? What was he doing there?

      Jesus’ disciples, the ones destined to become the Great Apostles, had already failed at any attempts to help.

      Fled. Terrified. One showing back up later just to deny Him.

      But here’s this young man. Not called a disciple. Wearing only a robe. Grabbed. Then fleeing naked. Never, ever to be spoken of again.

      I must admit. The vagueness of the event mused my curiosity to acute meditations.

      Who was he!

      Then one night. One blessed night. One wonderfully awful blessed night. —Yes, the Grinch was on my television screen with his feet frozen ice cold in the snow; and the silent stars were drifting by; O Little Town of Bethlehem was playing in the background also—suddenly it hit me.

      Remember that angel that came down in the Gospel of Luke to strengthen Jesus when he was so sorrowful he was to the point of death, sweating as it were great drops of blood? That angel? The one who showed up to STRENGTHEN THE LORD. How do you strengthen the LORD?

      And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

      And being in agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

      Luke 22:43,44

      Did you know it never mentions the angel departing? In fact he was with Jesus until the guards showed up and took Jesus away.

      And then! Watched from a distance. Someone of the angry mod grabbed at him, caught him by his robe and the angel fled naked.

      The angel in Mark 14, the one who showed up to strengthen the Lord, was not the typical 8-foot tall envisioned warrior-like being; but was in fact...an unassuming, harmless-looking young man.

      Jesus, never forgetting the Spirit he was of, chose a mild mannered messenger instead of the powerful god-like warriors that

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