I'm old enough now to see deaths' visitation increasingly invasive intrusion into my own little world. For so long I had been isolated from this scourge of torment, of loss, of separation; no longer armed with the illusion of the invulnerable armor accompanied many times with youth. The veil-the illusion- has been stripped away, and death whispers the age old lie of victory, seizing the reins of life and hope, to drive one's own-self down the path of fear and regret. One spends more time looking back. Assessing things either not done or paths regretfully taken, hurtful wrongs that caused pain to others, or the painful assessment of just letting time slip away. Things not said, things not done, purposeless existence now knocking incessantly at the door; and you cry what have I done? I'm here, I'm alive, but death haunts and I'm feeling more dead than alive. Death drains the life from the living, stealing from you God's most precious gift.
It's not time [the gift] if that 's what you're thinking. Time has an ending also. Time is like a bank account and time spent decreases the accounts balance. I have come to acknowledge that. It is somewhat bothersome wondering how much time we have in that account and death would like that to be our overriding focus. Death loves to rob and steal and hastens the day of our demise. Death provides a culture of it's own. Death whispers a lie, a solution to life to some. Death whispers to some that life is bettered if life is forfeited for the good of others. Death reigns supreme on the altar of life for some. Death is demeaning and death claims time has no reason.
Time has a reason; yes, and time has a season for each of us. I woke up with a word again; Dominicus. I'm thinking that sounds cool. I had to remember that word before I woke up. As a musician, I'm thinking what a cool name for a song or project. Still' I'm thinking, while I'm sleeping, it needs something else. So I attach 'In' to it; Indominicus, and later Invo-Dominicus. I get up and grab my 1828 Webster's dictionary and find that dominicus means lord, and that "in" means in; giving Indominicus to mean being in the Lord. Adding Invo means to call or invoke. Invo-dominicus becomes to call and or to invoke the Lord. I love it when this happens. The Lord has an answer to death.
Time flies, and time someday has an end. Death comes and someday death has an end; but God does not live in time and God is everlasting. God is the great I Am that I Am. God is man's greatest gift; not anything he does or can give you, but God Himself. That being said; Invo-Dominicus is to be in or invoke the God of the universe and let Him have His way and to hell with death. Death for me will still bring with it sorrow as it did for Jesus, but it doesn't rule the day. Don't side step or waste your time. Accept the Lord now and start living today!
5.And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 6. and sware by Him that liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things that therein are, that there should be time no longer. Revelation 10:5-6
