I asked him for impetus he showed me the door, and as its creaking frame dimmed the light I knew that daylight would not last forever.  What is more valuable than the love of a Father to his son?  It is the strength of each day when we know that we are loved, cherished, appreciated by our Fathers.  There is also no more resident fear than letting my Father down through embarrassment, poor performance or simple disobedience.  The tears are too large to make it through the narrow ducts of my repentant eyes.

They told me, the many voices of my Bible Family.  The prophets, my uncles of old, filled with God’s Word, trusted, never understood, yet feared for the prophetic weight in their voices and prediction.  Kings, mistakes made, yet their faith and fealty to Almighty God indelibly impressed upon our hearts and conscience for the length, breadth, width and depths of eternity.  Brothers fallen, trying to give the last ounce of their faith and courage to show their Father their feet planted firmly upon the Rock of Ages.  Children in their innocent faith, telling truths and secrets that none of us will know til Jesus.  Women, loving in a way that we cannot understand a world that has always treated them unkindly, in a quest to measure up, never feeling good enough.

The time has come.  There are no grand excuses to be offered in obeisance.  No measure of I forgot, couldn’t get to it, didn’t have time or was held up by such and such will fill the gap.  We were not born to live upon excuse yet this world pleads us do so.  No talent, no money, no time we cry to all who will listen hoping that mercy will come from a crowd bereft of it, leaving the one hanging who has always shown us such kindness.  This is the time for performance, not words, unless the Words that you have been given to speak are those same mentioned by the prophets of old.  Forgive me for being so direct, but I have no more time for beating around any bushes, for this is my duty.  Seek ye first the Kingdom of God all his righteousness and these things will be added unto you.  It is to him you must go now seeking direction and I pray that you will listen completely and obey in Holy offering of your faithful body as worship.