By Ambrose J. Chakre | EMN
“If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy”. Psalm 137:5,6
Have you ever been where there are weeping and mourning? There will be none who had never been and Israel’s fall not only caused Jerusalem’s ruin but it also invited evil attacks against them. The strangeness of this is that as it was written before it happened, the fulfilment of it was exactly as it was written. The mystery of the scripture is such that in seeing a revelation, new revelations arises and in seeing visions greater mysteries are made known. This is what it is as the fall was predicted so was the restoration. The history of Gods own nation had its ups and downs, highs and lows and we see clearly of what became of them in their sins and what became of us in our sins.
The prophets who wrote of Jerusalem’s fall saw with their own eyes of its fulfillment and as the scriptures are God’s own breathe, every line, verse speaks to us of what we are and must be. Though God chose us as His own often in sin we tend to go astray, in sin we displease God. The truth of us and Jerusalem is, as in its fall she was never forsaken, never are we. This is what it is, God honours the covenant, we often don’t and though God calls us his beloved, we often fail to know the depths of God’s love. The elect must know that as we are God’s own the desire to rise in faith and love must be on. Thus the prayers of the saints must be as the scriptures are and our spirits must be consumed by God’s love. And if we ever forget this we will only be hurting God, wounding our integrity as we remember God and the scriptures. The hearts of the elect must be in the scriptures as they fix their eyes on the truth. The love of God is a mystery.
