“Cry aloud ,lift up your voice like a trumpet!”

“Le Crier” as the name for this blog came into being while I was sitting in bible study one Friday night and my mind had wandered away from the video we were watching. I had been trying to come up with a new name for my blog and was having no luck, when I remembered a few months ago at the same bible study I had an experience I have never forgotten.

We were supposed to have thirty seconds of silence, as part of an exercise we were doing, during this time I asked Elyon to show me something, and allowed my bible to fall open where he would direct it. When the pages had settled my eyes came to rest on Isiah 58:1A, which says:

Cry aloud, lift up your voice like a trumpet!

Well that was the last thing I expected Elyon to tell me in the midst of a thirty second silence, and I really did not know what to do so I kept silent. It became apparent I was supposed to yell.

Since then it has become evident that Isiah 58:1A is a verse for me. I could just be walking around going about my everyday business when I hear someone else quoting it or see it in just the most random places. So it was as I was sitting there in bible study that I realized Le Crier was supposed to be the new name of my blog.

I have included The Scream, a painting by Edvard Munch in the design of this blog because Munch painted it after he had an experience with Elyon that he would remember the rest of his life.

Edvard Munch was out walking one day enjoying nature, when he was suddenly over come by the beauty of Elyon’s creation. He said

Everything around me was screaming God’s beauty so loudly I could not help but cover my ears.

Most people assume the the person in the picture is screaming and thus it’s name comes from there but that is not the case. Munch said he opened his mouth to scream and could not because of the screaming that already surrounded him.

How great is God!

Psalms 8:1

^“O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.”