“People get ready

There’s a train a-coming

You don’t need no baggage

You just get on board

All you need is faith

To hear the diesels humming

Don’t need no ticket

You just thank the Lord”

People Get Ready by Glenn Beck and Rod Steward

It is just a song, just a symbol of a deeper truth, Jesus came to save sinners.

There are those who do not believe they are sinners and they will not get ready, nor be ready when the Mercy Train pulls in. That is because in order to hear the train coming, one has to have ears to hear. Yes it is symbolic but a greater truth is hidden within.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

We await the command. In the meantime, we have work to do.

Matthew 22:9 Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Until we hear that last command, do as we are bid, the will of the Father.

Hebrews 9:9 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

Please read Hebrews 9 for a more complete understanding of symbolic.

Hebrews 9:8 explains why it is so important as to why symbolism doesn’t speak to us.

I asked my wife “What is the difference between symbolism and representation?”

She said, “One is visual and the other auditory.”

Non verbal communication leaves the message up to the individual’s imagination.

What this means to one person is private and only in talking about it can meaning be shared. It is a fish and without context it means little. It was first used in the Christian community to indicate the direction to a meeting being held. It literally meant “This Way”.

The use of the symbol is meaningless if it cannot lead the lost to Christ. That takes a representative to speak up and present the gospel. In some places wearing the ichthys only brings about hatred because it is symbolic of judgment to them.

This present age uses emojis to communicate feelings and leaves it up to the viewer to think what he/she likes.

At this point I have been warned that continuation into symbols could become political.

This isn’t about politics, it is about why symbols can become idols that cannot speak and cannot  redeem others from the transgressions committed.

Do not allow the sign of the Cross to become just another emoji.