Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley

The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

• Exodus 32:30-34

The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

• Revelation 17:8

“If they asked me, I could write a book
About the way you walk, and whisper, and look
I could write a preface
On how we met
So the world would never forget

And the simple secret of the plot
Is just to tell them that I love you a lot
And the world discovers
As my book ends
How to make two lovers
Of friends”

• Lorenz Hart, I Could Write a Book

This song was featured in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey.  But it has been recorded by many people.

I listened to this song many times, by many different singers before I had two bookend types of thoughts.  Every believer in Jesus should be able to write a book about how they met Jesus and what life is like with Jesus.  But the other bookend is that there already is a Book, the Bible.

But in looking at the words of the song, the descriptive words: walk, whisper, and look, pertain to the physical for the most part.  God is a spirit and does not have a body like man.  And to be honest, Jesus was probably a brown person like all the others in Judea and Galilee in the first Century, with the possible exception of the Romans, but I have seen some rather browned Italians.

Yet, God speaks in whispers.  We have to be tuned in to be able to hear Him.

And the song seems kind of silly when it basically says, “I love you a lot.”  But, when we think of everything that God is, everything that God can do, and the abundant ever-flowing love of God, we sometimes get tongue tied.  What comes out is, “Lord, I love you … a lot!”

I am thinking Heaven will be like that at times.  When the Angel choir is singing praises, we will sing along, but then when we see Jesus face-to-face, we might not have words.  We will simply stare until Jesus asks if the cat got our tongue.  And then we might start babbling incoherently.

But then again, all those weaknesses that we have now will be gone and we might know just the words to say.

I could end by saying that I need to start writing that book, but in a way, this blogsite is about how I love Jesus … a lot.  I started slow, and built up over the past eight years, having already entered the ninth year.  Over the past five years, what has been published to the site averages over a million words each year, and I doubt if I have scratched the surface so far.

I cannot think of a more important thing to do than share the Gospel and relate what Jesus means to me.

Whether it is in the form of a book or simply meeting someone and talking about Jesus.

Here is Harry Connick Jr. singing I Could Write a Book.

Here is Ella Fitzgerald singing I Could Write a Book.  There is a preface that she sings.

Now, it is our turn.  Each of us needs to write a book.  It may not be written down, but we write a book each day that we take another breath.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.