Monthly Archives: November 2014

Do I truly understand?

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And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.  Ephesians 3:19 KJV

This epistle should boggle the mind and leave the reader near-permanently awestruck regarding God’s infinite Majesty and Glory.  That I might be filled with the fullness of God, brings me to my knees in exuberance, joy, humility and contemplation.  How could God think of me in such a manner as to provide access to a love that surpasses human knowledge and understanding?  How can I know something that surpasses knowledge?  This concept requires the full, focused, meditation and reflection of my entire Earthy existence.

Paul makes implication that the Love of Christ is beyond this dimension.  He begins with the word, “breadth”, followed by the customary measures in a three dimensional plane, length, height and depth.  This fourth measure points clearly to Paul’s understanding that there are dimensions beyond our current material and scientific boundaries.  I believe that the tesseract is a visual representation, artist concept, that depicts this idea that Christ’s Love is beyond our capacity to understand within our current universal frame of reference.  I believe that I once heard this idea mentioned by Dr. Tackett, in the Truth Project, but as I am a bit slow on the uptake never truly understood what he was discussing.

What does it mean to die for an entire species, or an entire created planet of beings who remain particularly ungrateful, unrepentant and rebellious?  Would I die for you, knowing that you are an excellent human being, that in itself is questionable.  How then can I begin to comprehend someone who would willingly give up his life for people, known to be evil, people who, He fully knew would never turn their lives around?  To those who worship other gods I give you the Lord Jesus Christ, the one true God who loved us enough to die to return us the capacity to once again form relationship with our Creator.

Isn’t life the most precious thing that we have to give?  I know that the enemy has lured us into any measure which will reduce that unavoidable valuation.  I have seen this week Americans glorifying in the death of one of our greatest, most notorious adversaries.  I must remind that Christ died for him and commands us to love our enemies.  How is that possible?  You consider my statement absurd.  Then you begin to understand that the Love of Christ surpasses my ability to explain His directions to the Body.

How can we love that which is unlovable, evil or horrific?  The answer is “we cannot”, but Christ still bids us to do so.  If I cannot do something, nor understand something, how then am I to proceed?  The answer is that we are now filled with the knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit’s indwelling.  We can now do that which was previous beyond our capacity and understanding.  “All things are possible to him who believes”.  I know that is paraphrased but isn’t that the essence of Christ’s teaching?  This is the path to life, through faith in God and power through Spirit, accepting the gift of Jesus Christ the King.  May you be filled with all  the fullness of God through understanding, that which is beyond our own reasoning and comprehension.  Be filled with Spirit, understand and rejoice in God through belief in Jesus Christ, ruler of God’s creation.

Contempt of man is proof

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http://youtu.be/4V-JQ7UUVg8 What church looks like without the Holy Spirit.

Waiting to believe, I wrapped myself in nothingness thinking to make myself comfortable.  Then I saw the shadow of that cross, lying dark and dead upon the ground, moving with no sound, it threatened to make me miserable.  Walking against the waves, my legs are cold and waterlogged, my fear complete as I’m frightened by the thoughts of the waves not parting, trapped forever in my slavery or certainly slain in attempted surrender.  What is a man to do who refuses to believe that redemption has come?  Then I remembered His peace, and thought, “what if I cannot remember my freedom today while besot by the world’s consistent barrage of dilemma after travesty after attack?”:  Who is to remind me that I am safely hidden through Christ in God?  Where are my exuberant Brothers filled with encouragement and wisdom, where are my Sisters to remind of His peace?

We have forgotten that this is a battle and that for the victorious, vigilance is a demand not a choice.  We have forgotten what empowers the movement of the Church, we have neglected monitoring our grieving of the Holy Spirit, we have turned the churches into meeting places for self-help mantra specialists, having caved to the demands of a sensory fulfillment population.  Let us remember that we were adequately warned in many of the epistles, but since we have neglected our disciple studies we are ill equipped with preparation.  The Church has been remanded to an inadequate position of man’s words forgetting that the Kingdom is OF POWER, not of word.  The power is the secret.  Find the power find the authenticity, find Jesus, find relationship, endurance and fulfillment.  WE cannot heal, save, break captives free and cause radical change without the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD.  Pastor Francis Chan has done enormous work in writing on the Forgotten God, where he clearly establishes the circumstances and causality of the Churches’ current impotency.  Something must be done and it will not be resolved by the ideas of men, but by surrender to the Holy Spirit and a return to the things we did at first as a church.  The way forward is only found in humility, study, prayer, love and obedience to the directions of our leader, Jesus Christ, not by some man’s clever intentions to develop a newer, better church.

How about going out in your own neighborhood, knocking on doors and finding those people who need Jesus?  When I express this idea, I immediately become persona non Grata within my own worship circle.  Pastors have actually gone out of their way to slander my name, sending elders to rebuke me and argue the principles of their anointing.  How about going and finding someone that is hungry and feeding him or her?  Have we been reduced to looking at them from our car windows and joining in the worldly proclamation of “get a job” or subscribing to the unholy religions that claim they are suffering from  the sins of their past lives, so they deserve their lot in this life?  Gathering together in a different style or manner will not overcome the corruption and disobedience of our own hearts.  We will simply be a group of people comfortable and content by meeting with other, holy than thou believers in a smaller group, yet still utterly powerless.

I submit that unless we get out on the street, where it is dangerous for Christians and mimic the walk of Jesus, the Apostles and other Holy Spirit filled believers then we are unlikely to meet the Holy Spirit for this is where He resides.  Certainly He lives in each of us, sealing us for eternity, sanctifying us for a time when we will look directly into the face of God, but it is the power of the BODY to which I am referring.  The Church is OF POWER not of word.  Power is never demonstrated by sitting still, it requires motion.  We can sit in our comfortable houses, breaking bread with other like-minded believers and this still will never spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the waiting lost.  Discipleship is demonstrated love and belief in Jesus Christ the King of Kings.

Father, let us open the doors of the church and bid the Holy Spirit come in to sup with us.  Let us once again be filled by Spirit, empowered, determined to endure in our ministries for a lost world that is so loved by God.  Let us flee from the foolish patterns of plastic worship.  Give us the power of YOUR WORD to spread the Gospel and the knowledge of the Truth.  Let us heal the lame, set the captives free, support the widowed, sick, orphaned and lost with the abundance brought through a belief in Your increase, Authority and Grace.  Let us dispel the things of this world within the Body, keeping our vessels pure for the filling of Your Almighty Spirit.  Let us forget about our boredom, replacing it with a willingness to serve.  Forgive me my trespasses as I learn to forgive those who trespass against me.  Let me not justify my own slander, contempt, anger or judgment but show them how to free of these trappings through relationship in Christ.

Sinking sand

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The temptation has always been there to utilize God’s gifts or prostitute God’s grace for personal gain.  Balaam was a gentile, but knew God.  He was given prophesy of the coming Messiah and instead of serving God chose to enrich himself by hurting the Jews and disobeying God’s warning.  How many that called themselves believers have dabbled in the occult, visions, predictions and magics, placing themselves in direct disobedience to God’s command.

Isn’t the root of all these attempts aligned with self enrichment, self glory, stature or worldly acceptance?  Are we not doing the same thing that has been attributed to the enemy, misusing the energies of God’s created universe to honor our own glorification?  Remember the things that made Jesus mad, misusing the things and house of God was one that brought out his visible ire.  If we are using God’s name to enrich ourselves through the sales of merchandise or services then we have fallen pray to the same sirens that claimed Balaams heart.

We are all susceptible to temptation surrounding personal aggrandizement.  Self worship is still adulterous in the eyes of God.  God’s Word is sufficient to the need of educating humanity.  My musings are nothing but conversation and lesser contemplations of the Majesty and Glory from the Word of Almighty God.  There is not one single idea I can generate, orate, translate or dictate that is original to my own possession.  All the wisdom I have, which I assure everyone is minimal, came from God.  If I were to prophecy and is was inconsistent with God’s Word, I would plead with You to forgive me, run from me and forget anything I have ever spoken.  Selling things using God’s position of favor is anathema.  They will say that God has told them this or that, and that God has placed them in that position so that they can do enormous work for the Kingdom.  Why then do their names occupy the position of authorship for their “self help” Christianity books.  If a “Christian” book doesn’t create in you an enormous hunger to go to the Bible and find the truth, meet God and build relationship, then it serves the desires of flesh and the enemy.

Remember there is great power in this world, incumbent and available to those of the heavenly realm, powers and principalities.  Tapping into these powers is forbidden by God, all authority, power, miracle, healing and blessing comes from God.  The enemy would enjoy nothing more then to mock God as some of us try to manipulate circumstances by serving the wants and will of satan.  Stay away from magics, sorcerers, oracles, mantras, mother earth energies, yogas, chi’s, shakras, divination, burnished idols of internal djinn spirits and anything promising a short cut to God’s blessings of grace, health and abundance.  Wait upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised.  He is Your Only redemption, Your provision and Your wealth.  If it doesn’t come from Him then You should rid yourself of it as fast as you can.  Sinking sand may deliver footing for a short time but will eventually deliver you to darkness.

No shows for battle

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Atheists or agnostics will by nature leave God as a possibility for man’s history out of any documentary, training or teaching program.  Scientists, will review any experiment, purposely excluding God as a catalyst/answer, in order to produce their singly blind results.  History cannot be told in its entirety without reflection and incorporation of what the Bible says about the periods, times, motivations and influences God had upon humanity.  Yet we as Christians have determined, in our complacency, to turn over the schools and universities to atheists, agnostics and believers in scientific evolutionism, totally expecting them to include God as a possibility in the list of options for our origins.  Who will fight for the truth, or even smaller the inclusion of God as an option for man’s origin, if not Christians?  The answer is no one.  If God sent us as His ambassadors to humanity and we decline to do our job, what results shall follow?

Do we truly expect our children and young adults to learn critical thinking without telling them all the possibilities?  This is akin to telling young minds that red is by far the most beautiful color, while never showing them green, or yellow or blue.  Atheists, just as our current administration do not trust other humans to make up their own minds.  They, as with all tyrants throughout history, believe that they know the best way for people to live.  This type of arrogance requires that any alternate explanations, plans or ideas be eradicated.  They must at all costs eliminate God from the list of possibilities, for His truth threatens to rip, topple or dissolve their illusion of perfection through ideology.  If you don’t believe me, look to history.

This is a deceptive sham perpetrated by the enemies of God, subjecting millions of people to exposure to a damnation that was never meant for any of us.  God is absolutely correct and true in Romans 1, where he tells us that everyone knows the truth of God and that when they reject that truth they are turned over to the decadence of their own thinking.  Furthermore, they must then convert everyone around them to their skewed view, even one, remaining contrariety threatens to topple the entire, precariously enabled apple cart and must be stopped, diminished, ostracized and eventually destroyed at all cost.  Isn’t this the only explanation for the passion intrinsic to their Need to remove God from the list of options we are teaching children?

Why else would they care if children were taught about God as an option unless it is in simple expression an absolute antidote to reconstructive history, big bang theories and evolutionary chance as the genesis of mankind.  In their overwhelming desire to control or suppress thought they have shown their fear of God.  They seek to escape God’s judgment, therefore they must deny that God even exists, thinking themselves free of His sovereign authority.  Yet humanists, atheist, agnostics and scientist will openly parade around in acceptance of satan’s existence as fact.  How can satan exist without God first having created him?  This is why they cannot allow our children the opportunity at a rational discussion about God, for in this discussion the only logical conclusion becomes, God is the only rational explanation.

Lord God, Father, Your Word clearly states that hell was designed for satan and his disobedient angels.  Father, I pray that those who will see the tragedy of their thinking will turn to You in faith and trust, being saved from that destiny intended for others.  Father protect our children, armor up Christians prepared to stand in the face of adversity and share the Truth of Your Gospel, so that many might be saved.  Let young minds openly investigate, discuss and voluntarily come to rational conclusion about a relationship with You.  Let people see that it is not Christianity that desperately wishes to control the conversation but those who MUST disprove your existence to free themselves of accountability for sin and disbelief.  We humbly await Your return Lord Jesus and hope to be found as faithful servants, having obeyed your direction and done the Kingdom Works You have prepared for each of us.  Lord rebuke the deceiver if it is Your Will to do so.

Quiet Voice

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Does God show up in your life?  Do you generally see Him only in actions, answered prayer or do you feel His guidance in the those quiet, truthful, loving or rebuking moments?  How has your faith grown, looking for a measure, empirical response, perhaps miracles or have you gone seeking God’s Will in His word.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of the Lord.  Does that line from the Bible resonate within you?  If the Bible says that your faith will be increased by being washed in His word, why then would you be looking for evidence of God’s Will through manna, birds, finances or floods?  Isn’t obedience about following the direction of an authority to whom you have willfully surrendered?

I love when God shows up in song, circumstances and situational salvation, but I crave those moments when I hear and positively respond to His quiet leading within my heart.  Think on that for a moment.  When the Jews had been oppressed for four hundred years and were set free into the desert to find the promise land they shook their fists at God demanding miracles.  Why were they in the desert, because of the miracles of God.  We must not, like the unbelievers be reliant upon signs and wonders for proof that God is there.

Faith in God is what it requires to please God and grow.  We must therefore counsel our own hearts to listen to sermons, read the Word, go to Bible studies and spend time with the Lord in prayer, for this is the road to faith and relationship with God.  Above all I must agree to be honest with myself regarding my own misgivings, expectations and demands upon God before I can righteously align my heart with His quiet urgings.  If I am simply looking for Him to show up when I rub the lamp, repeat mantras like incantation or roll the dice in life looking for Him to step in our defense, then we have designed a graven image that is certainly not God.  So though you are tired, bored, ill equipped or not “feeling” it, God wants us to gather together to share fellowship, worship and hear the Word, so, just doing it applies.  If you want to hear the voice of God then take the time to get to know His voice, so it is recognizable above the din of the world.  And we all agree this world and its many screaming voices vie actively for our attention as Christians.  We must learn to self-control our focus and apply it to listening, looking, searching and praying for God’s verbal and active participation in our lives.  He is inviting us, will we accept and show up for the event?  I pray that we have hungry hearts for God’s Word and a lasting relationship found only through the door of Jesus Christ.  Amen

God’s judgment

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/11/07/Pope-Francis-Warns-Against-Becoming-Pagan-Christians  Must the world continually be tossed about like a cork on the waves?

Good for him to say these things.  Do each of us now feel it is our responsibility to determine his level of authenticity?  Will we take the devil’s bait and pronounce ourselves mouthpieces for God proclaiming the Pope’s motivations must be unholy?  This is not my job.  If what he said has been properly portrayed then he has spoken word that is reflective of the Bible.  I must assume that since the Pope calls himself a believer that he too is subject to the direction of the Holy Spirit.  I pray to the Lord that the Pope’s actions all be used for good and God’s good pleasure.  Perhaps he is calling sinners to repentance.  I don’t know about you guys but I sin just about every day and must myself be reminded to remain humble, repentant and obedient.

My job is so simple yet I must remain vigilante in humility so that I never arrogantly stray from its calling.  I am to love God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength, as I love no other and love you the way that I would want to be loved.  That includes the Pope.  Yes it is well known that the Catholic church was blended with Pagan practices and peoples in the time of Constantine, but that does not sufficiently lead to a conclusion that everyone within its embrace is unsaved.  There are over one billion people in the Catholic faith globally, am I foolish enough to believe that because there is false doctrine within their church that there is no one within their body who could possibly be truthfully, honestly and authentically following Christ Jesus?  The enmity of the denominations is a tool that the enemy has effectively used to keep Christians from fellowship and the Power of the Holy Spirit.  I must be faithful to remember my job within the Kingdom, that is love.

We are all subject to the misleading call of false doctrine, unless we remain in the Spirit of God, hidden and protected from deception.  Perhaps the Pope has looked around him and having read the Book of Jude, and the opening books of Revelation, he is compelled to tell it like he sees it.  I don’t know, but that is not up to me, it is up to Almighty God.  For if I go judging the motivations of other men then I must begin with my own.  If I cannot find fault in a man’s words then must I look for ailments within his heart?  Or should I simply love him, pray for him and allow God to do the work of judging his motivations?  I rely on the following scripture to keep me in check; “Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.  Be kind and compassionate with one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ- God forgave you”  Ephesians 4:31 

If God chose to use the Pope to usher in false doctrine, apostasy and malignancy, then this too is the Will and the Work of Almighty God.  I will pray for him continuously but leave the judgment of his motivations and salvation to God.  May the Lord’s Will be done on Earth even as it is in Heaven.  Forgive us Father for our luke-warm faith, return us to an honest, true relationship with You, forever and ever.  If the Pope’s words are true then let those who are in fact “worldly Christians” among us be so chastised by their truth, that they must repent and be saved or forever leave the Church body.  May the birds of the enemy find no foothold or comfort in any body of true Christian believers.  Amen.  Thank you Lord Jesus for the opportunity to remain free.

Cry out to God

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How many times did David fall to his knees in desperation, fully acknowledging and proclaiming to Almighty God that without Divine intervention he would certainly have perished?  With absolute clarity David knew there was nothing that could be done apart from God.  This factor was repeatedly emphasized in David’s worship music, poetry and prayers to God seen throughout the early Old Testament.  It is instructive to consider that the only lasting troubles with which David contended were always preceded by his lack of inquiry of God’s Will.  When David acted on his “own” understanding, he always ran into trouble from which he arose crying out to God for assistance.  Considering these factors it is safe to assume that asking and following God’s direction is always the best course of action, especially for those of us eager to avoid temptation, sin and disaster.

My admiration for David lay in his steadfast faith in the promises of God.  Sure there are those who will always point out his human failings, and this is rightful, as God would have us learn from our Brother’s grave mistakes in departure from God’s Will.  However, we should fairly look upon David’s knowledge, belief and dependance on Almighty God for every good thing that came to him, his family and the Nation of Israel.  David also understood his own shame, knowing that God would forgive him in his humility and repentance, that the sins of a Father may last for generations.  I so much look forward to speaking with David and loving him for the stance that he took in defense of the faith.  I may not avoid my own fall from Grace, but with reflection and remembrance of David’s misgivings, I have a greater opportunity to avoid sin and shame.  Thanks be to God for the knowledge He has provided through review of the lives of prophets, kings, saints and unbelievers.

Those of us in disaster must follow David’s example and cry out to God for mercy, intervention and succor.  There is no salvation but God through Jesus Christ.  Often I weep seeing Christians who have yet to give up on their steadfast independence and self reliance.  I feel that God must be waiting on so many of us to surrender.  It is a travesty to see Christians who will not cry out to the Father to heal them from illness, save them from circumstances, provide strength through wisdom or feed their hungry bodies and spirit.  The Lord is waiting for us to give up and seek His guidance, love, mercy, provision and grace.  We must remember that we serve a patient God to whom a thousand years is but a day.  We do not have that same luxury.  My advice is learn from David’s devout dependance on God and his catastrophes when he neglected to seek God’s Will, both pointing toward the same wisdom in consulting, crying out to and obeying God’s direction.  I see your pain, suffering and frustration, I too once denied my resistance to God’s Will.  Please cry out to God for relief, He is faithful to complete the work that He started in each of us, work that can never be done without His intervention.

Father, this is Your life I am living.  Have Your way, guide me, teach me and deliver me to freedom through wisdom, grace and hope in Your Loving Kindness.  Forgive me for the times I set out on my own path, especially those where I avoided Your counsel.  Let me never stray from this blessed relationship.  Don’t allow me to make mistakes that will have lasting impact upon my children and their children’s children.  Let me be remembered as a man after Your Heart.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Self Measure

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Why is it imperative that each of us find an identity to fulfill our individual or corporate objectives?  What is the foundation upon which that identity is formed?  Does it take crisis to shake us from an individual or group identity that may have been ill developed or conceived?  These are my questions for You, My Lord, Almighty God, Father of Heaven and Earth.  Lord, I fear it is essential that we either find our identities in Your Word, Your Perspective, Your Will or we will eventually be ushered toward an individual/group identity that is contrary to Your Principles.  Father, why does it, so much matter what I believe about myself?

Since my self perception is this important to my adequacy and effectiveness, could perhaps, my chosen identity be a reflection of my heart and soul.  If my self identity is misaligned with Your Will must I suffer a particular level of chaos to be shaken from this affiliation, indoctrination or influence?  Is my identity, and the discovery of that identity essential to my created purpose?  If I align myself with an identity that is alternate or contrary to Your perspective, do I simply become a tool for Your unfolding plan for humanity?  Is it as simple and as complicated as submitting to Your identity over my own, is this the key to efficacy in good measure?  Father, is what I believe about myself a clue toward the importance of knowing You?  Show me the importance of image Lord.

If I think that I will never measure up to God’s Grace then I most assuredly am mistaken in my Christian understanding.  It is established that none of deserve redemption, for the Bible elaborates that the wages of sin is death and that the works of even a righteous man are as filthy rags to the Lord.  So, if I continue to look at myself and “judge” that I am unworthy, then I continue to view the world through my worldly/fleshly prism.  You have been forgiven, that means “you”.  There is no further condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  Often it is wonderful to repeat God’s Word, but do we take it a step further and begin to walk in the belief turning what we’ve heard into faith?  It is a wonderful thing to approach the Lord, in the quiet moments within our prayer closet, humbly and contritely acknowledging to God that we continuously fail, but that should free us from carrying that judgment back into our daily walk.

Taking that condemnation or superimposing over your life is assisting the enemy in his efforts to make you feel inadequate.  Can we all come to an agreement, that we will accept God’s opinion of us over our own?  I think that will allow each of us to remain consistent within our range of self-image, never to hard never to lenient, humbly deferring to God’s Holy Word regarding our own righteousness or guilt.  We must inevitably arrive a point where we look at this world, including our own reflection, through God’s framework.  We have been forgiven, we have been made whole, we have been redeemed to God, the war between us is over, when He looks upon each of us He sees His perfect son.  That is all the perspective that I need. I must find myself hidden in God through Christ, my image protected by God’s eyes set upon me for eternity.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/developing-a-positive-self-image-431948.html The late Pastor Adrian Rogers on healthy self image.

We all search for meaning

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Life, what is to be done with it?  There is a spectrum of possibilities on this issue, ranging from life’s insignificance to the opposite where each human was specifically crafted for larger purpose.  On one end chance, over billions of years via shear opportunity, a chemical reaction created a specific chain of events resulting in human life.  I shall not argue these differences for sake of staying clear of argument about the existence of God, for I believe that review of the significance of life accepts His existence as precedent for further discussion.

On the other end, life has a specific purpose to train us for our eternal participation in God’s created universe.  If it is chance to which you subscribe then each interaction of this life is simply orchestrated by luck, coincidence and chemical interaction, leaving its meaning solely up to how each individual reacts to those chance environments and occurrence.

Here is where the “survival of the fittest” mentality is born, for in this ideology the strong will eat the weak and those of low constitution shall never prevail when subjected to ravages of time and chance.  This has never panned out as weak humans remain even after the tens or hundreds of millions of chance and evolutionary impact.  Certainly there have been evil men, Hitler one of the most atrocious, who believed that evolution needed a bit of assistance to eradicate the weak.  This just demonstrates the desperation involved in this life ideology, for if life were simply about the strong surviving, then we would never have thought Hitler evil in the first place, for he would have just been fulfilling the evolutionist’s mandate.  If I truly believed that evolution is the guiding power and authority governing man’s finite existence, then it would need no assistance from me.  Rather I would be struggling against its ominous impacts, chance near death experiences and inevitability.

Praise be to God that this is not the True meaning of life.  Thanks to Almighty God that this mediocre experience, called life may be transformed into abundant blessing through organized relationship with our creator in realization of His designed purpose for mankind.  Jesus Christ put it succinctly in John 10:9-10 when He said, “I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Living this life as if it is all that man can ever have breeds the contempt inherent to evolutionary ideology.  Praise God that this is not the end and that He may instructively utilize my weakness for His Glory and the good of mankind.  We are all precious, each of us.  Some of the noblest gestures and campaigns in mankind’s history were when the strong stepped in to defend, help or help to strengthen the weakest of our brethren.  Evolutionism preaches a desperation inherent to the “thief” Christ mentioned in the previous passage.  For satan would have us invest all of our eternal opportunity in the finite moments of this existence, incorrectly believing that your lot in this life is all that we may achieve.  He would have us give in to the desperation of our circumstances instead of concentrating on God’s promises of abundant life “in this lifetime”.  Yes Christ promised that His coming made it so that we “may have life and have it abundantly”.  That abundance only comes with a belief in something beyond “ourselves”.  It only comes with faith in God’s capacity to transform our circumstances or transform us within our circumstances so that abundant living is possible.  Those confining themselves to the finite, fickle and marginally powerless religion of evolutionism have determined that they will leave their access to abundance entirely up to chance.  They have had the possibility of abundance stolen by the thief, we also know as the roaming lion, who has effectively deceived them into giving up their birthright into the citizenship of heaven.

Look, I do not know what stimuli prompted those who subscribe to the religion of evolutionism to seek that limited path.  I just know that I cannot adhere to such desperation when the choice of abundant life beckons me follow.  Why narrow your vision focusing on the limitations of this lifetime when a full scan of the universe demonstrates the Glory of possibility and purpose?  I know that God made me for a specific purpose to His Glory.  I believe that the living of this life is its own purpose, that I can never be separated from that purpose and that eternity awaits my completion of this segment of infinity.  This is not all that I have and that makes me a powerful man even in the face of my obvious worldly weakness.  I am acquainted with eternity, His name is Jesus Christ the King of God’s creation.  My kinship to Him transcends any impacts that this life has in store, for I shall be with God, forever and forever, servant to a Righteous King who deserves my everything and promises me abundant, Life.

A light touch on the elbow

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I wouldn’t do that if I were you.  Often the most unappreciated, hated and frankly entirely loving statement ever made by a friend, family member, pastor or colleague.  When someone cares about you enough to put themselves in the painful position of being the person who ushers you away from the edge, usually receiving anger, angst, recrimination and down right contempt, they are taking a chance that you may never forgive.  But that is what people who love us must do in order to save us from our own unwise actions, until such time that we have greater discernment.  This is especially difficult for more mature Christians dealing with new believers.  Often, though people have been saved by saying a prayer and putting their trust in Jesus Christ, they remain likely to rely on previous experience, understanding and “frankly” bad habits to make important decisions.  It is terrible to step into someone’s life and gently beckon them away from the precipice, but it is much worse to stand there and watch them in the pit of despair having not taken a moment to help them avoid disaster.

Responsibility is responsibility.  Please don’t go to the other extreme of the pendulum and assume that I am recommending to inject ourselves into every aspect or situation in the life of someone about to make poor decisions, for often the Lord will counsel you to step away and turn them over to His hands.  However, if we stand there and because we want to be liked or dislike conflict to the point where we watch our brothers and sisters fail miserably, when a kind word at the right timing could have helped them avoid chaos, then we have also failed.

This becomes especially difficult when dealing with anointed persons within the Church Body.  Many times Pastors, elders and senior members of the Church forget to watch their own steps and place themselves in danger of falling great distance.  For instance, are Churches being true to the direction of the Lord?  Are they caring for orphans, widows, the sick, impoverished and perishing within their own neighborhoods.  Have they adopted rituals that have nothing to do with keeping our lamps fueled and brightly shining the love of Christ in our cities?  Are they making sure that the sheep within the Church Body are safe, properly trained, fed and prepared for each of their own calling in ministry?  Are Pastors and elders encouraging Church members to “go out” into the world to find the lost and the lame so that they may be healed through the Power of the Holy Spirit and the Gospel of Jesus Christ?  Are they allowing the Holy Spirit to guide sermons, worship and Church program decisions or have they compromised with the world to make sure they are financially sound business managers?  Is the menu guiding the preparation of Spiritual Food or is the Hunger for Spiritual Food guiding what is being served?

We owe it to each other to be gentle, honest, genuine and accountable in each of our Church bodies.  We owe it to each other to break down the barriers to service placed in our Churches by enemy desires to separate parts of the body via false misconceptions and unworthy doctrinal differences.  We owe it to each other to speak truth and love into the lives of our loved ones, often chancing their contempt when we see that people are walking in a manner inconsistent with the Glory that God has bestowed upon them through salvation.  We owe it to God to point out poisons, false teaching, immorality, questionable practices and slippery slopes to aid each other in avoiding temptation, backsliding and lackadaisical thinking associated with complacency and comfort.  We have a duty to each other to watch out for each sister and brother in Christ.  I would rather have you dislike me or hold me in contempt for pointing out a potential misstep then to watch you fall when I could have pointed out the hole before you’ve seen it.

Lord God please give us discernment to know precisely when to act and when to step back.  Give us near perfect understanding of our shared responsibility to each other.  Let us never violate the sanctity of relationship by showing actions inconsistent with the love we have for one another.  In the Name of Lord Jesus I pray.