Do you feel the tug of the Kingdom’s approach?  Have you been lulled, confused or captured by the deceptive voice of this world calling you to despair?  Don’t you see it around you?  Isn’t it almost palpable, this call to become self-serving, distrustful, spiteful and full of fear?  What about your love?  Does your love resemble that of Christ?  Are you quickly willing to forgive, believe, encourage and forgo retribution?  This world does not see its peril, it does not know its corruption or the poison that drains its life, having been moored to the sinking vessel of global sin.

God’s judgment is near, for this nation especially, as with all whom call themselves by His name, it shall be swift, final and imminent, excepting those who cry out to Jesus for salvation.  Where does your heart abide?  Do you live in Christ, and He in you?  Do you know life abundantly? Man cannot save this world for we share the nature of its illness, our unwillingness to believe, our unwillingness to relinquish the hold our own perception holds upon destiny.  I will not be slave to my own deception, my own decadence, the wet powdered thrill of my own understanding, leading to misery and defeat.

What God has said is the only measurable, assured and guaranteed Truth.  Listen for that small quiet voice of our Shepherd, guiding, encouraging, praying for each of us as we walk, even through the valley of the shadow of death itself.  Does your cup runneth over?  Are you led down paths of righteousness for His Namesake?  Are you walking in Goodness and Mercy all the days of your life?  If you don’t know joy, then ask the Lord to free you from the enemy’s bondage.  Be free indeed.  Go in the peace of God for beyond Him there is no peace.