What does it mean to be chosen by God for good works?  What strength avails my heart in the knowledge that there is an absolute truth, and me being redeemed to God that I may call myself in line with it?  How am I changed knowing that God knew me before the beginning of this world and that He had specific intentions for my unique gifts in the salvation of humanity?  Have I fully comprehended the value in presence of the Holy Spirit within my life, heart, mind and soul?  What sets me apart from all that is false in this world or the heavenly realms?  Do I utilize my kinship to Christ in establishing resounding and lasting victory?

I may not have much, but what I do have has been given me by God for the purpose of creating change, change that leads to many people who were lost being re acquainted with God.  I may be frail, underprivileged, forgotten, alone and uneducated but I do know God and that relationship trumps all negativity.  The moment I feared God in reverence I began to understand wisdom which led me to make choices leading to endurance, patience and the eventual, necessary courage in order to fulfill the purpose of my life through God’s will.  Why now would I even entertain for a millisecond the idea that I am powerless, when all evidence establishes the opposite?  My predicament is simply one of self governance in belief.  I must as we all must come to a self understanding that the truth will always win over our other established methods of data/input acquisition.  My emotions are important as value indicators or warning beacons indicating necessary decisions, but they do not govern the choices I make to avoid the identified circumstance, God’s voice does.  The law provides a mirror from which to guide my path, keeping me to the most extent within the boundaries of safe travail, but the law does not save me or provide me access to eternity, that is done through belief and dependance upon the work of Jesus Christ upon the cross of Calvary.  Facts and man’s history do not govern my necessary actions, indicating the absolute best choice or direction, God’s Word alone gives me a firm foundation that will never lead me astray in decision, action or time of rest and peace.

Yes reality is important, but only in that it gives me to opportunity to demonstrate my firm understanding of who I am in Christ, what must done for Christ and what may be done through reliance upon the same.  This entire scenario is a test of our choice, that is why the enemy is fixated, fascinated and utterly determined to warp even the moral use of that word, “choice”.  For choice represents all human opportunity through freely given love of God.  We have the choice to make mistakes or victory because God gave us this platform, into which we may inject our free will decisions and measure subsequent result of our actions.  We also have the choice to go to God prior to making any decision and ask for guidance, understanding and peace such that our decisions remain inline with His intention.  Doesn’t it comfort you to know that you could exercise the true power of making decisions within the will of God, firmly establishing a practice of assuring the righteousness and correctness of our choices, before we’ve made them?  True power is found only in obedience to God, for all other choices are made from a platform of human inadequacy, guiding by our predilections and particular sinful comport.  I ask God’s guidance to keep my heart targeted specifically to submission to His Good Will, therein my power lies.  In Jesus’ Name I pray this day.

I have seen you do wonderful things, giving to children without expectation, planting seeds to feed the poor and giving up your place so that the weary may rest.  I have heard the songs of your heart, your voices and instruments reverberating within my memories as your voices raised in worship, praise and peaceful prayer.  I have listened to your ideas, ideas given you by God, hoping upon hope for a better future where men might be free of evil, and the innocent, elderly and impoverished might find lasting love and care.  I have heard your dreams for a better mankind, free from the egregious usurpation’s of greed, avarice and plunder.  I have felt the strangling arm of my sin around my own neck, choking me until I found the wind to cry out in God’s Holy Name for relief.  I have seen, heard and believe that you are all made in His image and for that I love you more than you could know.

So dance, dream, play, build, grow and care for those in need, as this is all in service to the King.  Love them as they would not be loved but for your kindness and exception.  Forgive where it seems impossible to do so, for that is the power of Christ’s Spirit within each of us, to overcome the limitations of this world in doing what is beyond our own righteousness.  For we are kin to the King of Everything, the Maker, the Creator, The Lover of all, the Righteous Redeemer, the Right Hand of the Father, The Word, The Lamb, The Lion, The Christ of God, our Savior and their only Hope, Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords.

I will watch and be amazed at the work of His Hands done in you.  You are an artwork of God, capable of so much more than they will ever allow you to know.  But God is our Father and their is no end to the bounty of His Riches and Kingdom.  Do not fear, for in fear there is disbelief and in hope faith resides eternal.  You are the son or daughter of the King and there is no where that the enemy may take you, even in capture that is beyond His Mighty Hand.  You are safe, you are free, you are loved and you are filled with the power of the Spirit of God through Christ.  Fulfilled and prepared for the works and courage that must be displayed in the coming months and years til His arrival sets all things right.  So walk with courage in humility, knowing that God watches every step that you take, So take them in surety of favor, the favor of God Almighty.  Jesus My God and My King.

Excitement anticipates the storm.  Not the type lacking trepidation, the cautious understanding of what calamity may come.  Yet respecting, acknowledging and preparing for the awesome display of raw, unbridled, power, uncontrolled by authority of man.  The Lord cometh.  There are those who would seek to deny this fact, call it outdated language, beg proof or simply compartmentalize the associative feelings in exchange for solidarity with stimulation.  No matter the method no one may look away from the blinding light of God’s Coming Day of reckoning with humanity.  It will be awesome, unavoidable and finite expressed by the Lord of Hosts, who was there before the beginning and who alone determines the end.

I saw it in their eyes, heard it in their voices and accepted their anger as proof of overwhelming fear and disgust.  They no longer have reconciliation of freedom to play out the tortured definition of their realized passions.  That is the price of reckoning for it calls payment due, tallies accounts and sets right what has been imbalanced.  This world owes a debt, a debt that surpasses all worldly understanding of depth, longevity and breadth.  Every man knows the truth that is God and though they profess the doctrine of demons, deceiving, demanding further defilement, all know that purity, wholesomeness and innocence are the Glory of humanity.  Some wish in the evil hearts to corrupt it, poison it, crush it and ruin it but none may dismiss its prize and relevance to man’s fulfillment.  That day of purification approaches and none shall escape the scythe of judgement’s sweeping harvest.  When humanity is separated wheat and chaff for the feasts of eternity.

What then shall we do if we feel that our place is upon the fenceposts and moorings watching as other march?  I do not often caution or recommend panic, but that is your best recourse at this juncture in history.  For if you feel compelled to remain on the sidelines as God demands “choice” then you shall be counted among the fallen.  There have been and will always only be two sides, those with and for God and those against Him.  Choice is the grand gift of glory He has shown humanity, just as Adam made a choice and damned us so did Christ choose obedience to set us free.  Now it is incumbent upon each man, rich, poor, free or slave to make that decision to repent and believe, being set free and redeemed to God for eternity or to simply deny and choose separation, imprisonment and death.  That day is near, that storm visible on the horizon, all men see it but some will act and others will ignore.  Which are you?  I pray you cry out to God for succor, finding Jesus Christ through salvation, repentance and prayer.  May He have continued mercy upon us all and delay that day until every man has made a rational decision.  In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray.

We are standing at the end of the age of mediocrity.  Aghast they say, “certainly man has made the grandest scientific advances in the last hundred years”, followed by, ” you cannot even begin to call this time anything less than spectacular.”  I do not do this in jest or to provoke some argument, envy or attention.  It is simply that what comes next for the race of man is beyond our comprehension as mortals.  Only them who have accepted God’s Spirit have an inkling as to the enormity of what lie around the bend for our planet and its people.  We are about to see the coming of the Lord and in advance of that great and Glorious Day, we shall see an untold number come to Christ in repentance and belief.  Praise God that we have been chosen to be alive during this the most electrifying time of all the ages of men.   We shall see devastation, and hunger, pestilence and regrettably war, but this all precedes the return of the Light, The Word, The Creator, The Lord.  The songs of praise that will rise above the wreckage will restore even the crushed and broken spirit of those facing tribulation.  Ah, I have tasted the Lord and His Word is Sweet, His mercies never ending, His Light Pure and Holy.

What do you say to millions being redeemed to God, saved from sin, cleansed to spend eternity in His presence?  What do you think about His evangelists being protected from each and every evil seeking their harm so that they might spread the Gospel of Love to those in desperate need of salvation?  What will you say when you see the harvest of souls bound for never ending life with God?  There is no sadness that may deflate the joy associated with God’s plan for humanity.  There is no sting left in death’s bite that may dampen the spirits of the redeemed.  We are nearing trumpets call a time when pure evangelism will ring from sea to sea, over top every mountain across each prairie and river.  The story of Jesus Christ will be told so that all might come to the knowledge of the Truth and be set free.  One glimpse of God’s Coming Kingdom will remove even the most remarkable memory of man’s attempts at empire.  We will be left in awe when we see that day.  I pray mercy upon those who shall bear the brunt of its overwhelming finality and I rejoice in the knowledge that so many will once again turn their faces to God in forgiveness and salvation.  Praise God in the Name of the Lord of Lords Jesus Christ the King.

Must I be allowed to contract cancer in order for me to listen to the Lord’s Word for my life?  Do I have to destroy my family, my marriage, my finances and friendships before I will consider that my disobedience to my Christian faith is a destructive catalyst?  Must I holler at or ignore Almighty God for not giving me the contents of my own understanding, when His Word repeatedly educates me to the repercussions.  For I have not found faith until I have believed in and obeyed the Sovereign God of this universe.  If faith is hope and dependence upon things not yet seen, then I must equate God’s prophecy about my sin with those things yet to be seen.  Therefore my subsequent disregard for that “right” walk is evidence of my disregard for God’s Holy Truth.  Must I ask for continued discipline or may I at some point appreciate maturity and walk as a man in faith, no longer a boy?

What will it take for you to listen to the Truth that God has been delivering to you?  Must you lose your job, your husband, your children or your health to finally recognize His authority?  For we must understand that our God is a jealous God and He will not leave us alone in our disobedience, for this is the purpose of God’s enemies to be utilized as a tool to chase God’s children back into His arms.  He is a loving Father and He is also Holy, Righteous and True, meaning that He will never go back on His Word and His Word says that “He will chastise those whom He loves”.  Is that you?  Are you running from, ignoring or worse yet blatantly disobeying God’s Will for your life?

What must we lose or even worse yet, how long, dark and deep must our pursuance of sin become before we cry out to God for mercy and redemption?  Is your way working?  If it is by all means continue, but only until you realize how far it has separated you from God’s True purpose and protection.  Then run for the shelter of His wings.  I wish that I never even once considered disobedience, rebellion or ignorance, but alas that has been the fodder for my education.  For the Lord will never lead me into sin, but He will let me wander into it when I knew better all along.  For it by choice that we are saved, it is by choice that we determine a path of righteousness and obedience and it is by choice that we write God’s Word upon our hearts.  These are the greatest of our freedoms, choosing God above all else, including the most unrighteous of man’s opponents, “Self”.

Father, let me choose You above all else, never stopping to consider wandering into the wiles of deception and self aggrandizement.  Have mercy on me for being so difficult to train, may You walk with me every day so that I never cause harm and never venture outside your direction and will.  Give me grace to walk like Jesus.  In His name I beseech you.  Set them free Father, unleash them from the grasp of the control of Your enemies.

Not me but Him, not why but what, not if but when.  What permeates my concern?  Do I worry about the things I’ve yet to do for my legacy?  Does the direction and faith of my children continue to present itself as the greatest demand of my time and energy?  Do the lost frequently enter my consideration, that is, enough to get me off the couch to test their proclivity to hearing what should be heard by all?

I am being stretched, sometimes I feel as if perhaps beyond my elasticity, but somehow He always make things resize, reposition or reshape to fit the growth.  I am humbled by His capacity to bring about change in my life, whether voluntary or otherwise.  It would be shortsighted to consider that others are not experiencing this same reconfiguration, molding, tempering and transformation.  This world is being prepped, if not for the return of the Lord, for what then?  Do we see a mass movement, a collective ushering in forgiveness, understanding and broad based concern for the human condition.  Of course not, we see those who would have us believe this mantra offering up their most egotistical, self-centered and graft focused leaders as answer to our current predicament.  What we do not see are models of sacrificial ideology that would be consistent with a global move toward evolutionary concern.

The only way forward was paved by the One Sacrificial Lamb for all mankind.  The only leader who can justify His own Word, the Messiah of God, The Christ, who took away the sins of the World.  I say this in good rational understanding and conscience, for the collective resolution of man’s shared dilemma shall not be provided by those seeking the furtherance and edification of any singular, personal or fragmentary philosophy.  Even my own personal reflections and ideas have little relevance in the evaluation and resolution of a Globally collective circumstance.  Only God can see what must be done, since man has never been able to see his way outside of his own created problems.  He alone has provided the way forward through belief in and trust upon the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, redemption and sanctification, preparing us for eternity.  Only God thinks of the entirety of humanity in His resolution of our collective challenges.  He has shown us the path, we have but to choose whether to follow.