An American Original
BROTHER LEE HALL
HAPPINESS - BEING
IN GOD'S HOUSE.
50 Years ago, my maternal
grand father went home to be with the Lord.
Maybe it would not be
believed today, but not once did I ever go to the church with him in a
car. Walked up there though, rode horseback and he usually took us after
he hitched up his wagon and team. When I have gone back to that old country
road, it seems to me - if I listen close enough - that I can at times hear
the clippity-clop of his horses' hooves and the clinking of harness trace
chains.
More important than all
of that though, He taught God's Word in a certain eloquence. In two languages.
It was very easy for him to sit me at his breakfast table and have morning
devotional with he and my grandmother. On Sundays, he would be at the grand
table of Sabbath like we are today, only he would be standing by our non-kiowa
indian pastor so that he could interpret God's Word. Elder kiowa indians
- very much senior to him - did not know any English at all. Those elders
sat at rapt attention, and from the Holy Bible - the very same word that
you and I read all the time and from where the pastor has drawn his pastoral
message, learned about God.
This Sabbath - A new and
beautifully blessed day given to us by the father - brings me to this pew
and place that we all come to, to worship together. My absence from here
for awhile, recalls these passages to from the book of psalms.
84:2: "My soul longeth, Yea, even
fainteth for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh crieth out for
the living God."
122:1: "I was glad when the said
unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord."
His Word - more meaningful
every day because we as a people have come through and are going through
some very extraordinary times - has remained the same. Eons ago, Yesterday,
Today, Tomorrow, Forever; Timeless into Eternity.
Since stepping from the
running Baptismal waters of so very long ago, I have sinned, fallen short
and failed Him many times. Too many times, but never, never has
he ever turned me away, cause His ear not to hear or his eyes to see. To
come to His House has always been open to me, just as it has always been
to everyone. Before this Sabbath fully came into view - starlight having
gone through the morning mists and beyond - I looked to now: To this time
to be in God's house. It is of great happiness to me, Thank You LORD.
If only we all felt the way brother Lee does in that last
paragraph - ET
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