In truth and resemblance to His image what am I to create?  Distress, adding potential to the stresses of the saints or arguing doctrine with the unconvinced?  Challenge to the harmonious community of believers through dissent and words ill chosen?  Isolation, calling myself and those whom I hold dear to seclusion from the false words and tickling doctrine of today’s godly marketeers?

What then shall we cling to in this moment of declaration?  Shall it be independence akin to the logical resolve of the founders?  What environment do I feel is most hospitable to profit in dispensation of God’s Holy Gospel?  Is it one of childish love, where everyone and every behavior is accepted or acceptable?  Or is an adult understanding of the power living internally, leading me to challenge wickedness, hunger, disease and poverty?

Since the Gospel is foolishness to them who perish, may I politically regard their blindness as sufficient excuse for inclusion?  What then of men who have ignored, disobeyed, denied or mocked the truth of God, given so that none shall have excuse?  Shall I continue to banter, offer my breast for rapier wit, making myself a fool through refusing conflict?  What then has God called you to do?  Stand in the face of overwhelming enemies, odds and consequence, seeking capture of the High Ground or simply recede refusing to vie for the lives in balance?  What then is my position as a prince and priest in the order of Melchizedek?  Is there anything worth fighting for or have we been transformed by the world to believing that nothing is worth ultimate sacrifice?

A leader who stands bye as those around him perish is committing the sin of complacency.  We have been given talents, position, authority and Spirit’s Power to embark and complete the work to which each of us is assigned by the Master.  If ignorance is no excuse for them who will not accept God’s Truth, then it shall provide less solace and justification for them who should trust and obey.  We are slaves to righteousness and so commanded may not simply decide to ignore the weight of God’s expectations.  It is not the doing which earns us heaven but having been freely given heaven we have been filled with the desire to do as we have been told out of reverence for God.  The choice has been made.  What shall I create.  The same thing that the Lord did as He wandered Israel, inquiring hearts, desperately seeking freedom from bondage through the one available path for all men.  Seeking that which has been lost and delivering them the Gospel so that they might be redeemed to God through the Blood of Jesus Christ.

If I must fight then let it be to save those precarious few peering into the abyss or in defense of the innocent or maybe even so that my enemy may see through sacrifice that there really is one true God.  If I must argue, let me argue for the righteousness of God among the saints keeping them Holy and Pure for the day of our completed betrothal.  If I must be complacent then let me stand silent when I have the right of unforgiveness, forgiving them who have wounded me worst.  Let me create an environment of trust through truth and dependence in my character over time.  Let me be like Christ in my devotion to His Will and to loving them especially when they are fallen.

It is the Creator I serve, so let there be light.  Let me be salt water of healing to them who are wounded or overcome by putrefaction and sin.  Let me preserve the tiniest hope in them who have been overcome by despair.  Let me lead them even in my last step or breath to the foot of the Cross of Christ, so that they might find rest.  Let me be like Christ.  Praise you Lord God for the opportunity to create that which You would have me produce.  In Jesus Holy Name.