It ain’t about me telling you what is wrong with your life, why you are going to have problems getting into heaven or what you need to change to get right with God.  My job is to love you and if I can be filled by the Spirit at the just the right time find a way to specifically encourage you in the circumstances or challenges you are facing, right now.  It is not my desire to bludgeon you with a solid argument or memorized attack speech, such that you feel you have been effectively cornered by a good politician or attorney.  He loved me enough to make me realize how much I love you.

There are no gimmicks, no tricks, no ideologies outweighing my consciousness of your struggle.  If I come to you without love, I have already failed toward whatever quest I have convinced myself that the Lord commended me.  Because I cannot fail at the true purpose for my life, which is to love you enough to help, listen, pray, intervene and help you up when you stumble, then point you toward the light so that you can find peace.  This is not a chess match to me, you are not a pawn or an enemy knight against whom I must craftily perform.  You are my Brother, My Sister, My Mom, My Wife, My Friend, neighbor or stranger.  How I treat you matters to God and therefore it ought to be of utmost concern to me.  How can I feed a sheep if I am too busy bullying it into acting the way I wish it would act?  I am here to help not to hurt in the process.

It is me who needs to ask God for forgiveness and to turn His face back to me and pardon my disobedience, so that He might have mercy and heal our land.  That is not the job of the unbeliever or worldly man, for they have no relationship or distance from God’s Fellowship, they simply cannot know Him.  But He knows them and He expects us to go to them in love, gentleness and convincing authenticity out of example, out of true care out of Truth so that they might be set free.  That is not a challenge, a sport, a job or a thing to be mastered, but a purpose to be respected, feared, considered and honored by real action without egoistic desire for passion, points or regard.  These are humans hosting the original sin, wearing Abraham’s disobedience, Moses’ anger, Jonah’s flight and Balaam’s disregard for God’s Will.  They have been badgered, fooled, prodded, herded, captured, sold, bought, traded and twisted into believing the great perpetrated lie.  How then will their hearts be changed even one iota by my deliberate disregard for their plight?  They need love not more of the same and until we as Christians can first connect with God to learn about His Endless Regard, we will fail miserably at this simple representative ambassadorship.

Go to God first and if you must sit in the back until you find peace with other men, then please find rest in listening to His preached Word.  They are not our enemies and if you see them that way then please step away from the altar until God has healed your heart.  We are representing the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords who made the Sun, Moon, Wind and Rain.  He moves the mountains we just have the wonderful privileges of being there when they deposit themselves in the ocean and being used as the vehicle for His Perfect Will.  He wants us to Love Him and Love them.  It is really that simple and if you think it is more complicated then perhaps you should examine the voices to which you have been listening, cause it ain’t coming from God.  Be at peace my Brothers and Sisters, In Jesus’ Holy Name.