"No life in coldness, in darkness. Here in void, only death."
Known as part of the Black Speech, these words might sum up what's the final state of a never ending life of self deprivation of God's grace. In the cold halls where there's trembling and gnashing of teeth, no life exists. There's an abyss like gap between a life filled with salvation and a life whose salvation relies on it's own meritorious conscience.
Known as part of the Black Speech, these words might sum up what's the final state of a never ending life of self deprivation of God's grace. In the cold halls where there's trembling and gnashing of teeth, no life exists. There's an abyss like gap between a life filled with salvation and a life whose salvation relies on it's own meritorious conscience.
Sauron's words are to be understood not as an invitation to engage in a death cult like lifestyle, but rather the opposite. Hell is shaped in despair and pain, paved by mourning and screams. To enter Sauron's pavilion of darkness, is precisely to abandon all hope when the heart ceases to beat.
There's no life in coldness, but there's darkness, never-ending death in a space so wide in anguish but so tight in rest. No matter what, the fact is that darkness brings coldness. Either natural (like when the Sun goes down, we all experiment the cooling of the temperature) or spiritual (to enthrall in darkness and remain there, only produces battered and hardened hearts), there is no escape from this proven fact.
Ask the Pharaoh, Judas Iscariot, Balaam, Dathan, Abiram or Cain. Their endings face the chaos of rejecting God's grace and sovereignty. Their lifes are remembered as a "do not go that way" in our maps.
Such as his mouth, Sauron speaks words of deceit, chaos, imprisonment, falsehood and despair. But such as Sauron, the devil speaks half-truths in ways to make the whole truth sound like what he stated.
There's no life in coldness, but there's eternal life in the warmth of Jesus Christ.
There's no life in darkness, but there's eternal life in the eternal light of God.
In void there's only death, in the Spirit there's abundant and never ending life.
