Father please change me, for I cannot bear the one thing I often cannot escape, being stuck within my own intransigent flesh.  I fumble through the tears of shame, cowardice or self-recrimination to remember, Praise Your Name that there is no further condemnation for me in Christ Jesus.  Father, they are so worried, forgetting hope and victory, merely relegated to simple survival no matter what craftiness it requires.  I pray that we remember before it is too late that our everlasting and endless reserve of hope, courage and victory is found only through relationship with You.  Thank you for reminding me to pray for my enemies.  I often simply wish they were gone, it is good to remember that men are for salvation, until they have demonstrated their choice to be counted merely sterile branches good for fire alone.

Will we stand in the face of adversity, especially that moment where our own deaths appear determined?  Do I have the faith, knowledge and surety that Your Plan for my life, whether I can see its twist and turns or not, is the best thing for everyone concerned?  I have seen you make wrought iron into butter and liquid harder than steel.  Do I run from the testing, the tempering measure or do I embrace the Potter’s Hand, willing, wanting, craving transformation, finishing, refinement in the kiln of humanity?  People wanting peace shall find it in short supply as days unfold.  They will cry out for a savior, a human savior, swearing allegiance to the indwelt of God’s enemies.  They will cheer their creation, while mocking the Most High, sealing a fate that was never meant for any of us.  Only the remnant shall escape judgment.

Although it may seem that the chosen have dissolved, dwindled or turned to dust, even now they remember their place at the feet of God’s throne.  We will see a day, one unlike any other that man has ever captured.  God’s Grace has flourished and soon we shall see His unfurling and righteous wrath.  For too long evil has prospered, counting itself filled with prideful knowledge, denying God’s promise that all sin shall be judged.  Many of the innocent shall be martyred as evil men seek to make themselves large by consuming the small, defenseless and weak.  Who will defend them.  Why, God of course.  Every drop of their blood will cry out to the Lord for vengeance, and vengeance every deed shall receive for eternity.  So many ask why God allows bad things to happen to good people and I say that we shan’t assume that since He defers or delays judgment that He will forget these transgressions.  Even judgment is His prerogative, it will happen in His timing, when all the days of the gentiles and Jews have been counted complete.

Pay heed my family of Christians.  The time for preparation is upon us for the signs of God’s coming are readily visible on the horizon.  It is day, so work, for night will soon come, where none may work.  I pray for our leaders,  God’s mockers and the enemies of all that is Holy, to come to righteousness before the free power of choice is taken from them.  God grant us peace, even as war, pestilence, poverty,  hunger and illness rage.  Let us see through the smoke, cloud and fog to the Light of Your Wondrous Love.  Praise Your Holy Name, King Jesus.