Do you tell yourself you will do whatever it takes having never tasted the fear and dissatisfaction of failed intent?  Do you embark in word battles with grand capacity for impression but balk at wielding the Spirit of God’s separating steel?  Is the enemy outside your gates searching for inroads, waiting for you to suffer the fiery darts, or is he already clinging to the walls of your sanctuary having been graciously provided the foot holds of your unrequited sin?  Are you reserving your surrender for when conquered by the enemy’s intrigue or have you duly surrendered to the Righteous King?  The battle rages.  You may concern yourself elsewhere, ignore the foray or join the fray, but let us not remain persons in an act depicting a moment in reality.  Let us be alive in the hands of Almighty God, standing for what is Right and True.

My nonsense makes sense when used as camouflage, excuse or courage repellent.  In a dream I saw myself stepping forward when God beckoned, my booted steps, counting time to the march of my beating heart.  Readied, I plodded on into darkness, carrying the Light of God within that pounding heart.  My thoughts were of home, of His Face, of mansions waiting and time spent with those who understood love.  But then I woke and found that my dream did not match the real me, a clouded man, mistaken, hypocritical and brave in the back rooms of my own audience.  What then of that man that the Lord crafted, the transformed man, the new creature I’d become?  Was he lost or yet unfound?

This is the time for awakened purpose.  If to fight then to the field of battle, questioned answered, hearts resolved and circumstances or outcomes left to the day.  If to support then to the trucks and tables for service of them who brave that battlefield where victory waits.  If to thought and prayer then time for the bent knee, pouring out our spirit filled cries with language of the inner man, lifted faithfully to the waiting ears of God.  There is no more time for stories told, or retold memories of yesteryear.  For history matters not.  This is the day for which time has waited.  This is the parchment upon which history will reside.  This is the time, are you the man God created for this time?  Be that and more in the Hand of God.  Today.  In Jesus’ Name.