Perchance may we take a wondering ramble down the unpaved streets of my not so intriguing thought process.  A – God could rid the universe of evil, dissolving sin and remaking the world, once again in perfect reflection of His image.  B – To do so would probably destroy all of us, since we have in us the seeds of evil intent that once germinated becomes full blown sin.  For those who don’t see themselves as evil please refer to Romans 3:23, where it is clearly established that there is not one of us righteous.  C – In destroying us the enemy would prevail by making God admit that his creation was fallible in that the enemy could institute the seeds of evil and man, being basically a failed creation would bring down the world themselves.  D – God Won this fight before it began, giving us the free will to make awful mistakes but also to make the choice of wanting Him over everything else utilizing that same gift of free will.  E – Heaven Bound.

However, that doesn’t explain why God needs us to share the Word of Truth.  Horrible realization of the awful truth is He doesn’t.  Needing and loving us are two entirely different things.  Remember He asked Job where he was when God created everything.  He set Job straight that God doesn’t need us it is the other way around, WE NEED HIM.  I would say desperately if it were the appropriate time, Oh wait it is the appropriate time, so DESPERATELY.  So, if He doesn’t need me what do I do with the idea that He has a purpose for my life?  Good Question.  I take a stab it though you will certainly have to go to God through the Holy Spirit to get anything other than my conjecture.  He Loves.  He Loves us so deeply that like any Good Father, He wants us to make good in life, but being that same Good Father, He knows that we will never do good without being given the choice to do wrong as well.  You see it is in the choice that we are made whole, our character achieved our battle’s won.  Without the choice there is no war.  Therefore, He knew everything the enemy would ever do, every thought, every act, every wicked act, yet He still created him.  Did you ever stop to wonder, why?

We are all necessary, the enemy’s prideful fall from heaven was necessary to allow the other angels to choose God, FREE WILL.  The enemy’s prideful act was instructive, that some men choose evil and many refrain, but all have been tainted by its poison intent.  A saviour was not just the gift, the saviour is a necessary gift, for there is no other way by which man might be cleansed of the seed of unrighteousness, except through a sacrifice.  In this case the sacrifice of someone, someone who chose to live a perfect life and give His life for the rest of us, that we might be cleansed, repair, redeemed and made whole.  That person was none other than God himself, stepping into the material plane, because of His Love for us.  We couldn’t save ourselves so He came and suffered the enemy’s chastisement, the best swing the enemy had in him, and God prevailed.  Jesus was that Saviour, that Sacrifice, That Man to save all humanity, through Free Will choice of God’s Will over his own.  Demonstrating to us that God didn’t need us but He sure did love us.

In Jesus’ Holy Name.

Freedom, joy, courage, character, Love, direction, peace, wisdom, understanding, surety, confidence, reason, fellowship, family, purpose, cleansing, character, strength, wealth, health, faith, support, relationship, depth, hope, quality, consistency, knowledge, insight, discernment, should I continue with the benefits of knowing Christ?

And I am willing to bet that you have a list as long or greater than my own of those positive effects of your relationship with the Lord through Jesus.  Considering the overwhelming positivity available to each of us how then could we even for a moment have a negative outlook concerning our place in this world or the next?  How is it possible that a Christian could be depressed for any reasonable length of time?  I mean we all get down because of the emotions surrounding negative events, but they should subside and they aren’t is there perhaps a larger difficulty?

When we are imbued with the aspects of the Holy Spirit and the benefits of surety associated with complete dependence on a Holy and Righteous God who promised he would never leave, then we become powerful as humans.  Yes, I said it we become powerful humans.  We are a peculiar people who laugh in the face of overwhelming challenges and have courage in the midst of chaos and empathy for those in difficulty, sickness or approaching death.  For we understand the implications of life and consequently death that faces each of us.  That knowledge again makes us an asset in worldly affairs.  Wait I thought we are not supposed to be in the world because we are not of the world?  Why do you think we are here, then?

If we are having a hard time with this live under the protection, provision and persistent promises of Almighty God, then how hard a time do you believe that unbelievers are having.  Sin is no fun, it ruins the man or woman behind its mask.  They know that, it is just that they don’t know anything different.  Well guess what, Glory be to God that He has designated us the mouthpiece of that wisdom to set them all free.  If you are sitting there enjoying the fruits of your relationship with God then honor Him and those gifts by discipling to every one you can.  If you are depressed then maybe you ought to review the list of positive gifts above, or perhaps make your own.  If you don’t know Christ then I wish you would listen to one of us so that you too can live that assured life in this world and the next.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.

Do you hear them proclaiming the Lord’s glory with every single chirp, warble and tweet.  Listen carefully to the song, all day long they tell us “God is wonderful”, “God is great” in their proclamation of thanks for the warmth, the water and the berries, nectar of the vine and flower.  How then do you perceive my song Lord?  Do I sing stanzas, cantatas and harmonies, lifting up your name for the ages to behold?  Do I give praise to all your characteristic blessings indelibly inked upon my heart?  Do I fumble through the litany of available words finding them inadequate to describe your Glory and my abashed representation or lack thereof?  If not worshiping God what then does my song include?

Sing to the Lord with all your might, power and passion.  Not carrying a tune but created a prayer, something similar to the crucial cry of the nightbird hawk.  How wonderful your pitch, perfect for the reason within the season, smelling of sweet cinammon and curried butter carried on the wind of the mornings calm.  Let me hear your heart, not just the words residing in the lobes of cranium, but the mysteries expressed only by the inner workings of hopeful spirit.  “I Love You Lord”.  And that love carries me, drives me, twisted and turned by the unseen breeze of Spirit’s call to fall deeply for you each day and dream of you at night.  You are the light, you are worthy of each and every fight, you are sight for the blind, salve for the worried mind, and faith for the friendless.  You are the call at dawn, the reason we are risen, forgiven, praising, is You.

For all that you are and that even which I cannot comprehend, I send my love in song, the voice of my heart, which your Spirit alone may convey, this day for You my King.  This day for you.

It was a really beautiful drive there, I went the rural route so it took me much longer.  It was a little dark by the time I got there, I had a lot of time before my event.  It was nice around, and relaxing to be like-minded people.  I often feel like I am at an attorney’s office, especially when I have a question to ask, especially when you don’t want them to hear it your privacy is gone.  I met many acquaintances that may become friends, it was nice because I don’t have anyone that wants to talk about Q.

Let me tell you about my friend.  A friend who loves you when the day is long and the song is perhaps a bit sad.  A person that reaches in to their meager circumstances and always finds the right gift.  A friend who prays for you even when you fail to listen.  A friend who loves even the silliness, the cheesiness and the bulldozer usage of words.  A friend who won’t stop loving you even when perhaps there is no reason for love.  Let me tell you about someone who hurts when you hurt, who angers at the things that bring fury to your heart, a friend who stands when you stand against against all odds.  Should I tell you about such a friend so that you might have hope that you might experience the same in your life and be as blessed as I have been to have my friend.  I think I should.

Lord let me be in the moment so that I might act appropriately for each of these saints you’ve given me.  Lord, let me escape my rash verbiage and understand the intricacies of modulation and the frequencies of gentleness and harmony.  Don’t let me always be the party crasher, because sometimes it is better to just give them the invitation you received in the mail.  Father, I want to be like you, not like me.  Give me that gift of removing me from me, so that I might honor these blessings you’ve bestowed upon my life and heart.  I am a grateful man. In Jesus’ Name.

Father, I ask you to break the chains that bind me to those to whom I have offered leverage in my life.  For I cannot serve you freely bound by those responsibilities which do respect and revere you as my only Master, for I cannot serve two.  You alone are my King, not my house, my job, my friends, my church, my dog or my easy weekends.  I love many of them but cannot both serve their voices, their charge for my life and stay upon the skinny path you have lain before me.  Free me from that which I have been incapable of escaping so that I might serve in totality of heart, mind, body, soul and spirit.

This world continues to provide baited hooks, the sweet smells, visions and tastes of plenty, beckoning me to bite and be pulled from the rivers pulse to reside in a bucket til slaughter.  The call of pleasant bounty reside always around the bend for my collection, calling me forward toward a mythical point beyond my field of vision.  The tender whispers of intimacy promising comfort, safety and peace.  These are the things that speak the voice of my wounded man, leading me away from your provision of health, wealth and power to a diminished capacity of worldly consumption.  From these things I would be free.

Father, I know that the simple life of which I dream is a thing of mystery and deceit.  It promises a life of complacency, ease and little requirement and even though I know these things to be snares, they still capture my waking and dreaming thought.  How is that something we know to be untrue may continue to have some manner of attraction as to sideline saints or lull disciples into apathy?  Father give me singular focus and vision that keeps your face, your Height, Depth and Breadth fixed in my vision.  For all there is, is You.  You Are.  In Jesus’ Name.

Today was a good day.  How can you make that statement with no authority over its determination?  You mean it was only a good day because I determined, expressing my own authority to proclaim it so?  Let there be light!

We resemble the Lord, the Holy Trinity in so many ways yet we have enemies in self and sarcasm that continue to tell us how frail, palsied, finite, ugly, dumb, you get the picture.  This constant pressure, reminder and negative reinforcement causes to at some point accept that fate as our own.  I am what God says that I am.  Remember that.  Oh, you don’t know what God says that you are?  I am sorry let us look into that a bit.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:35-39

Friends just come and go, it happens in the show, before I let them go, I hope that they still know, how much I love them all and appreciate the call, but now it’s time to go so let’s get on with the show.

You see this life is short, no time for grand retort, if you did it all for sport, the regret all comes pre mort, but none will disagree that the greatest things comes for free, so if you count yourself quite wise, your heart will be supersize.

Free love and choices made, your granddaughter’s hair to braid, the wealth will often fade, when put properly in the shade, we won’t be counting our gold but the treasures that we sold and the lives it helped to mold.

Run away from it if you must we all return to dust don’t get so worried and nonplussed about the mysteries we’ve discussed, just turn your head with a big grin and watch each episode begin.

Or stay if you can stand the glory and the pain, for the stain left upon each our hearts shall forever remain and the tremendous experiences that we gain will make the sadness smaller still than the memories that we fill.

Are we so busy look at the impossible that we forget to do what is right in front of us.  Perhaps God’s Will for my life is to feed the poor, heal the sick and house the orphan and widow right in front of me.  Sometimes I forget that some of us had to be meant for the small things and that is not some glorious grand, out of Egypt, miracle that we are going to be expected to produce.  Some times the miracle is just living your life for Christ in a way that brings honor to Him in your family and your community.

I am not saying that we shouldn’t hope and pray for God provision of miracles because we certainly should.  It is just that if we get to waiting around for some grand, Will for our lives and forget to do what He told all of us to do, we might be missing the first step on the path to the miracle’s provision.  That being said, who knows that which God has intended for each of us.  Is it likely that we will find God’s Will for our lives sitting here on our duffs at home or perhaps down the street taking care of elderly.  Is it possible that going on a mission trip is the way to complete the mission? Is it probable that we will find the mysteries that God has planned for us by sitting in the same ol’ same ol’? Unlikely.

My Father owns the cattle on a thousand hills.  I think that is great because it is Biblical but I am astounded that our Father owns all the solar systems in all the galaxies in the entire Universe and the infinite application of dimensions within that paradigm.  How is that I could ever be bored imagining that my part of that Plan is somehow insignificant?  Shouldn’t I first learn contentment with that which I have in order to get something more grand?  This is what I’ve got, it is a lot and since I have the toolbox of God’s infinite possessions, power and wisdom at my disposal, only the imagination can dictate the possible, right here, right now.  It really is in the thinking isn’t it?

Unthinkable? I think not.

It is with deliberate intent I try and be gentle in relaying the material within my heart.  However, no matter how intently I endeavor to adjust or modify my grammar and word selection, there is always someone who takes offense to what I’ve written.  Forgive me, if I have said anything untoward, froward, impermissible or potentially heavy handed. Though it is not the intent, I do understand that there is a saying about paving the road to Hades with good intentions.  Please understand that often times I am writing from a place of spirit and can barely force my fingers to keep pace with the word disbursal from my brain.  I truly wish to live in harmony with folks.  In so doing I must also keep balance with the things that are being conveyed by the Holy Spirit and find it difficult to apply a governor to that relationship.

This world hurts, Christians should not be considered as those piling on to the burden already placed on us by this world.  I do not seek nor do I want to harm anyone.  If I have done so please forgive and I will repent and move on attempting once again to be open to the goodness, kindness and gentleness of God’s Holy Spirit.

I am simply trying to listen to the one Master each of us should have, that special relationship with our Creator who designed us for specific purpose.  Mine is to tell people about Jesus and to spread a general sense of urgency to get about the work that he prepared for each of us to do before His return.  People don’t want to hear it, they want to capture the energy that behind it or they simply want to label me some kind of simpleton who is not worth the listen.  Oh, but there are the few that are prompted by His spirit and get about the work.  That is okay with me.  I am done with false agendas. If you want something from me tell me what it is so that I can be honest with you right up front as to how I can assist or that I cannot assist in its achievement.  If you want glory, you want me to tell your story, you need some help with a project, pain or plan, then give me the respect of letting me know.  I am no longer going to tolerate manipulation if you want something then you have to tell me.  The first part of this paragraph told you my purpose and I pray that your agenda is consistent with that for if it isn’t I will recommend who to look to for help, especially because it won’t be me.

I have failed at relationships time and again because I have tried to fulfill them at the cost of my purpose.  I don’t want to be your friend if it means that I don’t get to wear the hat I was ordained to wear.  I don’t want to be your husband if it isn’t for the purpose of living together for the honor and fulfillment of Christ’s Glory.  I don’t want to be your pastor, your teacher, your com padre or your team mate if we aren’t working together for His Glory.  If you have some other agenda than that, I am not the right choice for whatever team it is that you are designing, in your head.  Let us be entirely honest, the enemy, you know him I know him uses those buttons in our lives to paralyze, dissuade, deny and destroy our efforts for the King.  Mine is love, mine is a bit of the sense of fear of abandonment, mine is lust for the intimacy of a good woman.  So, the enemy uses these, my “weaknesses” or access points if you will to effectively divide my focus and thus stop me from achievement for the kingdom.  Well, I will have you know that I have surrendered these to the Lord and they will be removed, deactivated or pull out by the roots if need be in order to make me more effective for His purposes.  I must deny self, it is after all the only way to gaining Christ.

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

I get it that you need to make sure that everyone knows that there is great evil being perpetuated daily all around us.  I understand that you believe it is incumbent upon you to discuss all the tragedy and bring into the conversation every pain, train wreck, disaster, fire, murder, ritual and deluge.  It makes sense that people need to know what is going on around them especially as the children go missing for the lustful purposes of the wicked.  However, let us remain ever mindful of the Lord’s Direction.  The Light lives in each of us and we must speak His Word Bringing Him into the situation not sit there mesmerized by the wicked deeds of the dastardly.

Focus on Christ, walk on the water to join Him, forgetting the storm, forgetting your form held rigidly by the limitations of the world.  It is His sleeping form in the boat that should transfix our gaze.  It is His timeless purity that should capture every facet of my diamond hard focus.  It is within Him that I find deliverance, protection, holiness and truth, not in this corrupted world.  Don’t get so worried that the worry becomes your master.  Give praise to our Glorious God that we have that capacity to put aside the pain, suffering, sickness, pestilence and chaos of the war torn world and step away from our chat with God renewed in the Peace that surpasses this insanity.  Certainly be vigilant and diligent to point out wickedness that we may stay free from their snares and sinfulness, but don’t get so transfixed by their wickedness that you allow that impurity to capture your attention from Christ.

Go with God into a holy and righteous day, shining the Light of Christ upon the darkness to preserve, free and separate all that is good from the wickedness of the evil doers.  I pray for all good things for you and that these wicked deeds only capture your vision for long enough to reveal them in the light of day.  In Jesus’ Name.