Hollywood in conflict, more pressure continues to be placed upon fence sitting. Are you ready for judgment day?
Can I let go of the wrongs that have been done me and those things I see that offend God? What is forgiveness that the Lord would offer it to the entirety of humanity? Is there a prize so compelling in human behavior that we cherish more than this type of love, called forgiveness? Do I look to the Lord to free, resolve, remove and relinquish those offenses in my own heart or must I continue to look over my neighbors fence for necessary changes? Aren’t those things/standards to which I hold my fellow humans accountable not exactly the same things with which I continue to struggle or have been given freedom via the changes of Holy Spirit? How can I hold grudge for errors of soul to which I myself may still or once found myself enslaved? Father forgive them for they know what they do, but forgive me even more for I have judged them for their misgivings, lack of faith or sensibility.
This world is astray. It is not one step off the path it is now several generations departed from fealty, service and relationship with God. We are not the apostate church we are an apostate humanity determined to winnow, root out or deny God’s authority over every part of our lives in His infinite and compelling sovereignty. The voices in the desert are silenced calling men to make straight their paths as the Kingdom of God has come.
Even our greatest pastors now have millions of dollars tied up in the trappings of blessed ministries, such that they truly are no longer free to speak the absolute truth of God having to be cautious of man’s legalities and feared losses. I see these flaws in my own ministry as the blessings like rain pour down upon my life and I see growth where once was fallow ground. This is not easy, but we must be “perpetually” ready to lose all for the Word of God. If we do not prepare our hearts in this fashion then we are denying and disobeying the charge placed upon us by God, for it may very well cost us everything reach the last soul for Christ. If you aren’t in it to win it, risking, surrendering and enduring everything for the furtherance of Grace then you may as well stay home. Stacking up, piling, hoarding and counting the blessings of God without while one soul goes unreached, unhealed, unserved, unfed or minimized is disobedience to that blessing.
Churches that have huge tracts of land while people are starving for food, shelter and water, should be ashamed for missing the purpose of blessing and grace. If there is but one orphaned child in your town, city or state without care and adoption into the fold of the Body of Christ while your church brandishes great coffers, investment accounts and real estate holdings, then you should sell that profit and provide for these forgotten children or be in direct disobedience to God’s Direction. If you pray for God’s will to be done on Earth and He has given you the assets to start, foster or complete the realization of His Will and you are not using those assets to promote that Righteous Will then you are double minded, hypocritical and a liar before Christ. Give as it has been given unto you. I say these things to myself and ask God’s forgiveness and restoration of my heart to use those things I have been given for His Purpose. All else is folly and service to self and the darkest fallen.
Guide us, free us, reveal Your Self to us oh Sovereign Lord of All. In the Name of Jesus Christ the King of Everything. Amen
awrkhakhaya 