It now costs something to call yourself by His Name.  You didn’t suspect that day would come.  But we are seeing the coming darkness, showing its face, knowing time is short.  Hearts turn away from God seeking refuge from the scary faces of night, forgetting who owns the Light.  Don’t be afraid, though fear will show its angry teeth.  It is a fraud perpetrated so that you may never know Peace, the Peace of God through Christ the Prince of ALL Peace.

Do you feel the pressure mounting, peers turning away from Christianity, hoping to find solace from Mother Earth, or Sister Song, or articles of tin, bronze and copper?  These things gave us only heartache for thousands of years, sacrificing our young and taking our own youth on the altar of gratification.  We were intended for greater things, hell was made only for disobedient Angels, pent on disobeying God and forgetting their glorious beginnings.  Why then must we follow them to a fate not meant for our kind.  The answer is simple, it is the same pride, the same disobedience the same failure to humble what we know must be silenced.

The times are approaching where the sheep will be blamed for all manner of man’s trials.  Not having arms to strike at the master they will choose to attack His lambs, hoping that their cruelty will somehow shame Him.  But His anger grows, tempered by the omnipotent patience, waiting for the precise timing to call all His children home.  You think there is no justice because you see how satan rules this world, but if you truly knew God you would also take resolve from the knowledge of His Righteousness, Judgment and Word.  A Word that never lies and has foretold a day when God will have His Wrath upon all unrighteousness forever.

Are you ready, as Jesus bid us be?  Have you prepared your hearts for what surely and swiftly must imminently come to pass, even if it comes in our day?  Do you know God’s Truth.  Have you told Him that you believe?  Do you know humility, the kind that comes from knowing service and gratefulness to a Righteous and Mighty God?  None of us can know what we will do when threatened with all manner of punishment or loss, but we must certainly meditate and dream upon the thought and the joy that we shall certainly receive just to whisper His name in confirmation.  None of us know our limitations, our expiration date, nor what we will do when trials come, unless we know Jesus.  For a man who knows Jesus, has seen the Living God and certainly has become acquainted with Peace, Reason and Wisdom.  That is the joy of this world, that in the fray, in the midst of exploding nightmare, we might take faith in the knowledge of God’s Victory over All that has or will come upon us.

Have you seen the dark?  You do not belong to it or in it, for you my friend are a being of the Light.  Take hope from the day, live in it, breathe for it shall always overcome.  Darkness fears, not the light, for light always scatters the creatures of the dark.  Let go of your own dark places, give them over to the Awesome Hand of the Master Potter to be removed just as dross from refined metal.  They fear His Righteousness, why do you think they hate you so?  For in you they see Him, His Perfection, His Hope, His Strength, His Glory, Majesty and Truth and they fear what they cannot overcome.  So when they threaten, strike, Challenge or hurt you, know who it is that they see and remember that they saw Him in you.  That should bring you peace.  In Jesus Name, please prepare for the night, be vigilant, be awake, be ready for the Lord is coming soon.

Dreams of worry, things yet to be done, far off places and battles yet to be won.  In a flurry I wake and run to write down the glorious scenes before the waiting sun.  It seems so magical this language of sleep, where God may speak while my ego lays deep.  A far off world, two moons no space, then whisked away to an unknown place.

Symbols grand and characters dark, in the milky black I snap a spark.  Then all at once the crowd awakes, to dance, to fight, an earthquake shakes.  Each opportune night the chat begins a puzzle for me to understand my sins.  Not my skill but His command a bridled vision of what’s been planned.  My intuition, a useful tool, something from God and not from school.  But what shall be and what has been are in His Hand just as the fate of all men.

So, share I shall but with frightful respect for the gift I am given each time we connect.  No power I want but appreciate, I pray to God not wish upon fate. For my future decided but not by chance, nor game of skill but by romance.  The Love of a Father for a son He adores, no points to win no keeping scores.  My dreams are not nonsense when I know how God speaks, through summery storms and wintery peaks.  I look to the heavens for insight and peace, knowing until I meet God the dreams shall not cease.