The Gospel Train

Find this song on Youtube if you havn't heard it: The Gospel Train (marian anderson's version is my current favorite)

The Gospel train’s a’comin’. I hear it just at hand. I hear the car wheel rumblin’And rollin’ thro’ the land.

Get on board little children! Get on board little children! Get on board little children! There's room for many or more!

I hear the train a’comin.'She's comin' round the curve.She's loosened all her steam and brakes And strainin' ev'ry nerve!

Get on board little children! Get on board little children! Get on board little children! There's room for many or more!

The fare is cheap and all can go, The rich and poor are there. No second class aboard this train, No difference in the fare.
Get on board little children! Get on board little children! Get on board little children! There's room for many or more!


What lyrics! I just read that this was used as a sort of "code song" to American slaves to tip them that a group was ready to head out to freedom. This does not hide the glory of Gospel in this song.
Imagine kids (i do) running to a train. They are all different, Some rich, some poor, some do cartwheels, some run fast, some look behind them in fear, some are unsure if this is legit but a courage and faith drives them on. They jump onto the train and hang out of the windows to yell and encourage others to come on. Some hang on the side like fools.

Hear the last verse: "The fare is cheap and all can go," Christ Jesus, The Holy one has payed for the ticket with His life and that, though not cheap for Him, He extends His "Yoke" to us in love joyfully and to us it is "easy" and "light". He has bought the tickets and bids men, as He did in Jerusalem, to come on.

"The rich and poor are there, no second class aboard this train, no difference in the fare!"
Might I say with joy as I have been for about a day, "We are all nothing and He is Perfect!" His perfection, His Glory(God help me remember that), His Holiness, His Self is the goodness and rightness. We are all equal and are found righteous IN HIM. God help me not look down on others ESPECIALLy in the Household of faith. In reality were all dirty little kids and we can love each other in Him.

I like the last line of the chorus: "There's room for many or more!"
There is room! Like children, lets compel men. God help us, may we run like those kids in my head.

"Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heartand you will find rest for your souls.For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
Matthew 11:28 - 30 - (READ THIS VERSE!)

God wants a heart

God wants a heart. Just a heart that knows it is loved because of Him. A heart that has not "left its first love" Rev 2:4. The first love is always Christ Jesus. He saved us. He stood in my place and stands in my place and IS Love. The first fruits of realizing Him are always a one of a kind thankfulness, joy and peace. These things cant be described, only experienced. Well, maybe it is like whe you first have a crush who has mutual feelings. Your thoughts are always on that one. You are raptured at the sound of their voice and their face.

This is being born again. This is relationship.

You + Jesus. This is what God wants. Everything else is a response ot this. Im thinking, Just drink it in.

God help us and thank Him for the oppurtunity.

It's just Grace

I have a friend that was talking about another friend and describing this friend she said that he often says:

"Its Grace, Its Just Grace."

In other words, Why are WE, as wretched as we are, saved?, How can all this be true? How can it be so simple to receive? How? Why is there God and us?

"Its just Grace, its just Grace."

Sometimes theres just no words. Sometimes I think too much. But Jesus said, " Unless you be like a little child you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Not a direct paraphrase.) To believe is to trust God and sometimes we just have to trust God even when we can't fathom.
I have a rough mutt-like dog that lives in my grandfather's back yard and it is not great at taking commands. It needs to be trained to listen to my WORDS. In that way, we need to be trained to listen to GOD'S words. To His WORD. I feel like I had alot more thoughts that flowed in my brain easier but it boils down to this: His Word is truth. The scripture is God's words, expressions. laws. thoughts. commands. What He has to say. Why do we get it? Grace.

its just Grace. Please let me be humble to accept that Gift.

I'm in this strange process of waiting. Sometimes I'm not sure what I'm waiting for. Here's one I was happy to get:

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path. "
Proverbs 3:5

I wish i had taken a picture of when it was just now raining. (Its stormin In CA by the way. That means Compton too.) I had to run across the street and I felt like a little kid and I knew He was making it rain. Man, to feel like that always.

Still here. Still made to know God, just like you.

"Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart

and you will find rest for your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."