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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG "DAYS OF ELIJAH"
Below is an excerpt from the article.
Click HERE to read the entire article.
Article by Robin Mark, composer of the song
I have had quite a few people asking me for an explanation of the
roots and meaning of the words and themes contained in “Days of Elijah”
since I wrote the song way back in 1994.
The song is generally and principally a song of ‘hope’. The themes it
explores are to do with the fact that, although raised a Methodist, I
attended a lot of Brethren or Gospel Hall meetings as a small boy and
somehow the theology of Old Testament stories and characters being,
either as themselves or by their actions, ‘types’ or ‘examples’ of
Christ and the Church got stuck in my head. That is, even though they
were historical factual people, living in the old covenant days, their
actions and characters can be used to teach and represent the character
of God under the new covenant and they continually and repeatedly point
to Christ. People call this “Typology” or “Typical” analysis of the
scriptures.
Firstly the song came from watching a television “Review of the Year”
at the end of 1994. This was the year of the Rwandan civil war tragedy
which claimed 1 million people’s lives, and also when the first
ceasefires in N.I. were declared. On this TV review were a lot of daft
stories, happy stories, serious stories, and then absolutely devastating
stories like the Rwandan situation. As I watched the review unfold I
found myself despairing about the state of the world and, in prayer,
began asking God if He was really in control and what sort of days were
we living in.
I felt in my spirit that He replied to my prayer by saying that
indeed He was very much in control and that the days we were living in
were special times when He would require Christians to be filled with
integrity and to stand up for Him just like Elijah did, particularly
with the prophets of Baal. “These are ‘Elijah’ days”. Elijah’s story is
in the book of Kings and you can read how he felt isolated and alone in
the culture in which he lived. But God told him to stand up and speak
for Him.
We also needed to be a holy and just people and hence the reference
to the “days of your servant Moses”, meaning that righteousness and
right living was important in all our attitudes and works. Now, we are
under grace and not under law, but the righteousness that comes by faith
can be no less than the moral law that Moses brought direct from God.
It has not been superseded. In fact Jesus told us that our
“righteousness must exceed that of the Pharisees”, who were the most
ardent followers of Gods laws as presented by Moses. Jesus was after
righteous, servant hearts, of course, that desired to live holy lives
for Him.
“Days of great trial, of famine, darkness and sword” is a reflection
of the apparent times in which we live when still thousands of people
die every day from starvation, malnutrition and war. In the midst of it
all we are called to make a declaration of what and who we believe in.
Click on the link above to continue reading. You will find it very interesting.
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
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Monday, December 12, 2022
DOWN MEMORY LANE - THE HISTORY OF APRONS
Thanks, Kirsten, for forwarding the wonderful story below:
I
don't think our kids know what an apron is. The principle use of Grandma's
apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few. It was
also because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons used less
material. But along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans
from the oven.
It
was wonderful for drying children's tears, and on occasion was even used for
cleaning out dirty ears.
From
the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and
sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
When
company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids..
And
when the weather was cold, Grandma wrapped it around her arms.
Those
big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
Chips
and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
From
the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been
shelled, it carried out the hulls.
In
the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
When
unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that
old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
When
dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the
men folk knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
It
will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that
'old-time apron' that served so many purposes.
Send
this to those who would know (and love) the story about Grandma's aprons.
REMEMBER:
Grandma
used to set her hot baked apple pies on the windowsill to cool. Her
granddaughters set theirs on the windowsill to thaw.
They
would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.
I
don't think I ever caught anything from an apron - but love...
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM WORLD WAR II
During the 3 1/2 years of World War II that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the US produced 22 aircraft's, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 93,000 tanks 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3 million machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, when the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb, and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It is worth noting that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning website.
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