Description:
An instrumental expressing the three modes of prayer. I find it easy to remember using the following acronym to remember them = C.P.R.C is for Confession and best described by the verse in 1 John 1 verse 9 : “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” ~ I think of a flower opening to the rising sun.
P is for Protection and best described by the following passage in Ephesians 6 verse 10 to 20 ~ Whereas modern prayer techniques appear to be harmless, whenever they fail to include this mode you are headed into piranha territory. So instead of P for Piranha, put on the FULL ARMOUR OF GOD that you may be Protected.
R is for Reflection and it best understood by the following passages, the first in Philippians 4:8 ~ ‘Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.’ (English Standard Bible) and I especially love this one from the book of Hebrews 12:22 and 23, ‘But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.’
Some additional thoughts:
When one is blessed/blighted by gifts that enable one to express oneself in several ways, it is often very frustrating when one pushes too hard with one, and ends up neglecting another, when sometimes a huge body of research can be adequately expressed in it’s completeness; in a poem, a song, prose or an essay. It certainly has been this way with for me, when it came to how ‘The Unknown Landscape’ occurred.
After five to six years of steady discussion-argument-debate on various forums on the internet, along with attending to scores of books, on many various related and unrelated subjects, it was my hope to complete a third and final section to ‘A Play On Words’ and ‘It Is Written’, and here it is in an instrumental ‘The Unknown Landscape’ – Though it has no words, I hope that you will get a sense of where I am heading. It’s actually a combination of so many things, that to lay them out before you would amount to writing a very long book. As one great philosopher said, ‘Though a picture may paint a thousand words, it often takes thousands of words to explain a picture’ (loosely quoted from Dr. Gordon H. Clark’s lectures) So I guess I’d better get on with it then.
I will regard your comments, as that ongoing explanation.
Love,
Eric.