Searching the quizzical origins of argument, I was forced to inquire of myself, I said, “Self, what causes you to believe that everything that proceeds from your mouth, is indeed true or correct”? Then self was perplexed for he was stumped without answer, indicative of a man who had not yet pondered the questions he ought to ask of, well, self. How do I know with certainly upon those things about which I pontificate regularly that they are asserted fact instead of the idle ramblings of a man who would be king? In this endeavor I was driven to the origins of how “truth” might actually be defined.

If I know that my truth or the words that I am speaking are truth then I naturally assume that you will perceive them such as the august gifts of wisdom I have come to bestow upon a world that is in desperate need of my insight. Say, what? If truth is based upon perception then how does one group corner that which may be assumed is truth? If that is our guiding structure than whatever the ruling class, the dominant set of thinkers determines is truth is then in fact the accepted truth. But then what if I don’t accept it, being a sentient being and finding what they’ve said, preposterous, I am free at that point to simply deny their truth submitting that since truth is simply respondent to the perception then I therefore perceive it to “not be true”.  Therefore, truth must have a larger construct, rule, law or guidance that is not subjective that is indeed objective and may be reviewed by all, regardless of perception to in fact be the reliable facts upon which we may secure our thinking vessels.

Okay, so there has to be some manner of objective, reliable compentry to the Truth in order for it to be truth.  What then is that agreement or those elements upon which reason relies that defy and objection in determining some fact is in fact the truth? How can we for instance stand in front of a judge and proclaim, “I promise to speak the truth, the whole truth, so help me “God”. Oh, wait you have now injected a disputable measure of spirituality in to this argument. That is frankly unfair.  For how might I have an argument based upon truth, in fact regarding the subject of truth itself without now having to also have an argument that the truth is unavailable in its entirety without such discussion about a Sovereign God who is the Keeper or the Reviewer of all that is Truth?

Is it impossible for us to just come to rational agreement that 2 and 2 are in deed 4 in order for it to be truth? Well, that injects several other difficulties into the mix you were hoping to simplify. Yes, in deed we may come to some agreement that 2 and 2 are 4 and that being the sole determination of its truth as a statement until such time as some departs from that agreement as that continues to rely upon man’s perception or power of definition as the determination of “Truth”. Additionally, we are now left with the hopelessness that at some date in the future someone may come a long and demonstrate a circumstance where 2 and 2 do not in deed add up to 4 at which points the entire basis for our reliance upon the truth was subjective from the outset. What then must we assert from the inevitable injection of Sovereignty in to the mix by judicial partners and authorities?

Many would believe that they are in deed subjecting humanity to some arbitrary or faith based duty to respond to a Truth that is determined by a God in which none believe. However, what men have determined over time is that since truth may not be simply subjective, within the purview of man’s determination that it must be “a” “lien” “able” from the whims of man to subjectively transform its state of origin. Basically for Truth to be truth it may not simply be agreed upon by a majority party it must have been supernaturally defined as outside the subjective findings of man. Oh, wait, you mean sciences continued notion that they will experiment and experiment until the in deed have a proof upon which they will make millions of dollars and acclaims to fame by submitting some heretofore misunderstood concept of a natural truth?  If I follow the process of cheese being made back to the source that was the goat or cow from whence it came have I now discovered or won the capacity to define that Truth?

The universe exists, if I deconstruct it and find the components that were used to construct that universe is it my realization of this that makes it truth, or simply is my realization giving credence and support to the objectivity of the universe that does not need my definition in order to be proclaimed Truth? You see God exists outside of my definition. He does not need my belief in Him, my perspective of his believability or my definition to objectively be Truth. Therefore, God is a better basis for determining truth than is that of a round headed, pontificating, self proclaimed Holy Man of God. It is God who is the only Truth and from His definition, His origin, His instruction, direction and design that we capture an agreement that surpasses the gullibility and subjectivity of men’s narrow conceptual analysis and fickleness.

Without God then therefore we may not have any Truth and in fact the Truth that is God is the only reliable and responsible Truth to which all men may subscribe. That coincidentally is what is said in Roman’s 1 and once we have denied that fact God turns us over to our own decadent thinking. This is where I believe we create that point in man’s errant thinking, the Point I refer to as, “The House of Cards” or the “World of self-creation” which again is something warned of in the ten commandments. Men, once turned over to their own decadence are forced to construct a universe based upon their own subjective analysis and must then surround themselves with members of like-thinking that their definitions are safe from challenge and subsequent loss of reality when that definition is in fact challenged by rational or different thinking.

I believe that is why when a culture group driven by their own desire to become a certain way that is inconsistent with God’s direction that they must then convert all members of their communities, businesses, faith groups and support mechanism to repeat that mantra or it begins to fray the lightly woven tapestry of their subjective “house of cards” definition of the universe around them. That is why they are never satisfied in pursuing their own self-interest once approval is gained or tolerance ventured, they are driven to have the entire world acknowledge the reality of their thinking otherwise their universal definitions are forever tenuous and may  be challenged at some distant point. This fear will cause them to destroy ever group with whom they disagree, in a quest for self-preservation of the Truth that cannot be Truth without their decadent supportive thinking and active defense. It is a sad circumstance wrought with feelings of shame, inadequacy and insecurity, often replaced by hypocrisy and condemnation of those faith based groups who submit and hold dear to the only origin of actual and factual truth being God Himself.

Truth is not what I make it but it defines me as I am a created being living within the Universe defined by God. I do not possess nor may I acquire or hijack the capacity to defined truth in my own subjective measure for it will forever be based on my inadequate thinking and therefore subject forever to interpretation, agreement and subject to the internal errors within my original thinking. God is the only source of Truth. It is the Truth that Jesus Christ is God having submitted himself to the humbling reality that He alone could come to Earth and fulfill that law that He presented in order to save us from an achievement beyond our capacity for performance. He laid down His life that we might be free by our reliance upon the Truth that Jesus Christ is Lord and upon that Truth that does not for one moment require my belief in order to be true, that will set all humanity free from the horrors of sin and death. The Truth is Truth regardless of what the enemy says that it is. We know it we feel it we smell, understand and crave it for it upon that Truth the only available immovable mooring within the universe that we may securely lash the eternal ships of our Spirit existence.

The Lord God be praise in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Has free speech gone the way of the horse plow, useful but seldom displayed as an effective method of readying the fields, too cumbersome and slow to make ready each row? Has sarcasm become the application ready field of expression that skirts the rules and entertains the fancies with potent question, yet dances deftly around the difficult topics for which one might be proclaimed “hate speaker”? Have we entered the day where truth must be embodied within carrier jargon and protected by lettuce wrap or cabbage to keep it warm and safe for eventual consumption? When did we lose the appetite to hear it like it is and the courage to enter on to the threshing floor of reasonable argument in the determination of an ideas qualities of efficacy and social acceptability?

Recently I determined to put out a book on the rules surrounding “safe speech”, those words will never get your thrown into jail, that may not pass political muster but are so vanilla that they hold no specific or underlying threat of imprisonment. The impact upon our free speech rights has become so drastic with the advent of super human artificial intelligence editors and analysts that now you don’t even get the chance to eat your words or retract them before the brown shirts are standing at your door demanding justice. Now it is more effective to change your dialect to one that reflects the “watering down” of America, specific words used with social charm to saw what you would like to say without really saying it.

No longer protected by the first amendment unless you are also accompanied by a well paid staff of “civil activists” not unlike those currently employed by those who have stolen God’s promise to Noah.  If you are well funded by European or worldly enterprise seeking to divide and destroy American culture and you have the legal teams and assembled bodies ready to picket any expression of decent caliber in truth, you shall prevail. Whilst the man on the street telling it like it is may find himself with three hots and a cot for expressing ideals that are too domestic for the foreign appetites of social engineers. Now you must be one of the paid members of the cadre employed by the counsel for this and the commission for that or the Group that meets in secret to talk about the legality of public expression in order to be protected by the first amendment. If you ain’t for the good old boys you ain’t gonna find the reality of your circumstances very appealing when they come and shut you down for telling your truth.

These are dangerous times for those who hold true to tradition and truly believe in the inalienable gifts from God within a nation that fought for these protections. It is no longer assured that if you have salient reason for a particular perspective that its expression will not get you fired, lose a love interest or worse. These are the days of the cautious objector, the closet courageous, the avatar or character actor intent on claiming it was merely comedic expression or a “satire piece” in order to maintain a state sans incarceration.  What does that sensibly portend for Christians? Go ahead, say it you know that it is truth and by any measure in today’s America the one group are readily allowed to hate without fear of reprisal are the Christians.

Men and women willing to remain in their faith and be faithful to the proclamation of God’s Holy Word meant for man will soon find themselves wearing much more than the traditional labels of intolerant, cynic or hypocrite. The days of persecution for even telling people God’s view are just around the bend awaiting those who are not prepared for the onslaught that faces expression by those faithful to Almighty God. Soon we will be in the midst of an all out battle against the Holy Word of God forcing most without backbone or escape to water down the word and find within it loopholes for tolerance to sin that the Lord proclaimed abomination. We are seeing even now the larger churches struggling for the inclusive language to avoid saying what God proclaimed sin in exchange for a broader explanation or vanilla understanding of a Holy And Righteous God who says that one small sin earns the judgment of “death”. We will be forced to take a position in our faith that is “luke warm” or even cold in order to escape the “heat” of public ostracism and acquittal.

If you have not readied your heart for your reaction to this movement then you best rapidly turn your heart toward preparation. For although I will put out the book on safe speech the moment that you venture into the public forum expressing the true, logical and everlasting Words of Almighty God without some manner of governor or sarcastic covering you shall be assailed or punished. This is the time for which we have been prepared in the Bible. This is the time of our testing. This is the time to either live free and tell the truth about your faith and withstand the consequence or cower and deny Christ. Which of us shall rise to the opportunity and withstand the pressures. If the Apostles of Jesus are any indication, then if you have not significantly prepared in prayer and heart adjustment then you will fail in the short term. Being successful in the long term is certainly the objective but don’t you wish that you could escape that eternal regret which must certainly accompany that luke warm denial of Christ given in the moment to save your mortal skin?

I do not know what shall befall America. I do not know why we shall fall pray to the coming One World Government that is peaking over the horizon upon us. What I do know is that we will. I would like to believe that the reason we do is because Christians, indwelt by God’s restraining Spirit must be removed in order for the son of perdition to arise and that single removal allows America to be overwhelmed by the remaining populace who crave globalization, but I do not truly know what occurs, just that it does occur. God’s Word is clear. We shall not prevail in the long term in keeping America from the grasp of this global empire. For whatever reason we do become part and parcel of its global dominion and unification. Therefore, since that is God’s Plan I believe that what we do leading up to that time is perhaps the most important set of steps or period of time in the life of each believer. Just as, the test of taking or not taking the mark will be for each person who holds to the faith after the rapture we are all being given the perfect opportunity to utilize our voices in the faithful proclamation of our belief in God. This ideally must be done in the face of overwhelming odds where doing so will certainly and may certainly cost us everything.

Since my free speech is the dividing line between my safety and my faith, then I must remain clear in my expression and understanding that I am going speak the Word of God always, in gentility, honesty and truth without shame until the day when God calls me home.  For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for these are the Words of salvation for all mankind and if no one tells them then how will they hear? I and others have been sent to share that Word in its entirety, not with sarcasm or special care to protect ourselves or pamper the constitutions of sinners but to warn them from the wrath to come.  I fear God more than I fear man. God told us the persecution is coming. It would be utter foolishness for me to believe that I will escape those trials. I would rather prepare for them then hope they never happen. I pray for you the same, IN Jesus’ Mighty Name.

Is there an acceptably appropriate moment to begin the accounting of one’s life? Shall we venture to the beginning to capture the entire flavor of a man’s story of accolade and failure? How briefly is the importance of child hood events ought be discussed or treasured? Do we linger merely for the sake of taking pleasure or interest in the pain of youth or simply move on to moments of maturity, calculating and defining adult hood as the only true concentration for the measure of man?

Is there associative pain with being born, living as youth or is it primarily defined from the cultural or economic circumstances of each person’s upbringing? Do we remember the early years of most men or perhaps do we rapidly skip to adolescence or early manhood to reflect upon the totality of lessons grasped as a young person? Is it the story of tragedy in which we find interest, flavor or rhythm, finding all else but the emotional upset of comedy, poverty or intrigue necessary for interest garnishment? You see each of us remember those episodes of youth bountifully, whether painful or pleasant for it may be contended that every moment of this life truly matters to us and certainly to God.

We ran, we cried, fell and wandered immensely regarding the first moment we recognized the finite and final price of mortality. Whether a bird shot from tree perch, a dog, a gerbil or even more drastic aunt Gertrude we grew that moment with regard to understanding the temporary nature of our reality probably more than any event since. Some were blessed with resilient family who made it through the primary years unscathed, free from incident or disease only to come crashing down to the cold granite of this world’s truth when we saw our best friend die or our man’s best friend. But what of life, when did we practice or recollect our understanding of the life’s robust measure, its abundance, hope and treasures to be carried through and beyond its apportionment? We found those moments of hope in the spiritual conversations either with those understanding and conscious leaders seeking our fulfillment or much like myself in the quiet moments with a God who cared enough to show up and explain the inexplicable.

Do we remember the pains more than the joy? Perhaps, but in so doing are we not indicating the nature of our own perspective heart? If I recall the first kiss, the first love, the joy of the kindness and reward shown by a caring Parent, do I then lose the potent story of victimization that accompanies most youthful exuberance? Am I poisoned by the tale or do I poison the potential by how the tale is remembered or its affect upon psyche and reason? Do I have more authority than I let on, to simply concentrate the focus of my story in its telling to paint a picture of slavery or worse, when in fact when told by objective author it was one of glory, learning, purpose, difficulty and growth? What then is now my excuse for a life spent without the exclamation of joy and abundant life, replaced with the hardships of a journey most arduous but splendorous in measure depth, and outlook?

My story begins with the moon. Reaching it, standing upon it, looking up to it, wondering the temperature the touch the seismology and the mountainous events. The light caught my eye, the light of a sun that warmed my shoulders, the light of that same sunlight as it danced through her sandy hair. The smiles, the anger and the unfortunate tragedy of siblings who thought themselves perhaps dislocated, having been placed in the perfect training ground that their pain would produce a measure of epistemological perfection in traveling the perhaps painful unwilling moments of participation with tyrants. Subjected to pressures of overwhelming authorities, barely mature themselves, angry, dejected, overbearing, guilty and ambitious to make such a statement in this life that the entire pond would scant forget the splash.

The moon offered no solution only respite, dream and imagination. In that imagination I found the salvation offered by escape and the salvation offered by a Holy God. For in the moments when this world offers more than we can process we are forced to investigate that which is beyond our circumstance. If not for the moon I would not have met God. If not for God I would never have loved living on Earth in an understanding that the moon is a dusty, dry, cold and lonely escape for most lovers to pine and porch pontificators to venture in oration.

What then of the humdrum moments of mere existence? Do they simply not count as they have no flavor, capture no measure of attention or emotion in their mention, so they simply cease to offer importance to our historical existence? Are my failures perhaps of greater import or interest of my successes, since we must faithfully admit that we learned more when on our backs, faces or fallen to our knees then we ever learned in joyful expression of our recent victory? What then shall we tell of a man for an abject and effective retelling of a story replete with pain and pleasure? I don’t know, but I do know this that it all mattered. You mattered within that retelling, nothing was unimportant, even my sin.

For in the vision of my cruelty. frailty, wickedness and unworthiness, I fully realized how precious to God I had always been. Even before my remembering of the story began. See we all have a beginning that He remembers of which we have no account, that time of our crafting and design. That time that is only God’s to remember and recount as He wishes, as each of us were known to our Loving Father before we became a thing headed for the procreation, we were a thing of precreation. I wonder how His view of our lives differs from our own. Simply seen in hope and expectation and guaranteed victory before it even began. Can we perhaps see ourselves in God’s Eyes. Maybe this will offer a greater perspective than the limited thinking of my own?

Trying to do what the mind will not allow without freedom. The freedom to imagine that day, that wonderful day when the joys of anticipation fully answered, we are free to escape that which reason limits. Understanding, a complex bundle of science and thought never matures to bouquet without the splendor of daydreamed horizon. These paths these one way, singular vehicle roadways are the construction of those who would capture the imagination and seal it tightly that we may never challenge their ruling. The joy of this life in the midst of pain is something that requires that projection, understanding and contentment of things only seen in the certainty of a hopeful mind.

Even now this world constantly seeks control. Shaping, twisting, parrying, indulging and then bullying each of us in to a conditioned mindset. The nearest victim that of our dreams, imagination and expectation are soon put away as folly, useless and impractical components of a world ruled by reasoned thinking. All discovery is found within the realms and boundless universe of the imagination. Practicality is useful in paying the bills and planting crops or walking the dog but it fails to feed the spirit which is made for universality.  That is not to condone those seeking false release in to the ethereal understanding available through relationship with God’s Word and Prayer, for we must remain vigilant in our focus to defend against the powers, principalities and realms that will gladly offer us a taste of personal power to ensnare us. Why else would God have allowed them among us, fully knowing this mechanism would present ample opportunity for our capture. That men would fall for the ploy of personal magics and conjuring, thinking themselves having cornered the seat of imagination?

These are the days that must be faced with faith or capitulation. We must either hold true to the ideas of hope, a hope found within the confines of our thinking and belief, tested by that which may be seen, felt or touched. Or give into the hopelessness of what lay before us in this circumstantial reality, lacking the visioned promises of Almighty God. They would sell you on sorcery yet have you limit your thinking to the understanding of experimentation that at its outset excludes the possibility of God’s intervention in the world. It is a quandary, a maze from which there is no exit, for it requires a man to imagine within the confines of reasoned thinking, a painful and hopeless experience. My imagination is pure, it allows me to imagine the Lord’s face looking down upon me in favor and delight. It gives me a mental picture of New Jerusalem as it comes down from the sky and the solid full-color vision of Christ’s Return. These are not the things of sorcery but my minds capacity to imagine the realization of the Promises Given within the Word of God.

I do not need your empiricism to tell me about the Lord, I have the mind of Christ, given me by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Do not tell me that history of man’s cruelty to one another in legalism and conquest dictates the limits of our morality and love. How small our borders, how limited our thinking if we are held in check by the sorcery of man. God is infinite, we were made in His likeness, then what does that portend for our constructive boundlessness? They will challenge the ideas of relationship with Almighty God by any assault or ideal that limits the freedom which comes to each person who discovers the universality of that relationship. It is control they seek and the best way to control any specie is to corral them, herd them, place them within the controllable barriers of paddocks whether mental, physical or spiritual. We must embrace our imaginations but never let them act as enemy foot hold or opportunity. There is safety but it is only available under the Mighty Wings of God. Seek Him and you shall find those things beyond your mortal envelope. In Jesus’ Name.

Is our rebellion so significant, so complete that we are even now planning the long term overthrow of God’s domain? Do we secretly harbor resentment of His Ominscient authority to the extent that we ponder, reflect and make safe harbor of those thoughts of being free to pursue the depths of heaven without the worship of its King? What manner of man is rebellious against the Father who loves him? How can a man believe to be given, protected and provided life and all things, blessed then turn his teeth toward the very hand which provided that succor? What are we as humans that we cannot simply accept the rules that God has given for they are not egregious but a requirement that we acknowledge the one right path and that we set ourselves permanently upon it in a journey to the righteous return to our Creator?

Often, in review I am thoroughly unimpressed with my own manufactured wisdom, for its structure lacks surety and the objective of its mission is typically self-focused and reliant upon want. Where do I seek to go that is beyond that place where only God may take me? What joy is there in self rule when that sovereignty would cause me to lose the greatest gift of all the love and salvation provided by a God who so desperately wants to spend an eternity with me? Do I in turn crave to spend eternity with God, or is this just an accommodation I’ve provided to earn eternal existence without going to the depths of judgment? What is it that I truly want from the Lord? Do I wish that He would give me all things and then maybe a hand of magic that I might be my own ruler in my own alternate version of the reality He crafted? How foolish are my wanderings from the Lord?

I see the predicament of the fallen. I see, smell, taste and feel the lure of sin and find it bitter. For once enjoyed and accepted it inserts a wedge between each man and his Creator. For we are no longer able to pursue that sickening sweet aroma of our wanton lusts and remain within good relationship and standing with a Holy and Righteous God who hates the creation and sin within man’s bosom.  It is just reality. It is not something difficult to understand, yet it is something very difficult to accept once we have made determination that we wish to have our lusts fulfilled regularly. This is the choice of separation from God and the provisions everlasting. For some it takes a long time to incrementally edge away from the Lord’s sovereign protection. For others their hunger is so ravenous that they immediately turn their backs on truth and the possibility of God’s pleasure. Yet for all of us it remains the greatest choice of this lifetime for it not only dictates the pathway of this lifetime but the destination and position in the next. That seems so drastic to many, that they cannot dare to believe in a God who would believe Himself the only power capable and rightful to make the rules for this life and determine eternity is a reserved position for the faithful. In there rebellion they dismiss the reality and accept the imaginary to simply press the limits of avoidance to escape the proclamation of Almighty God. Not very smart and certainly less than effective.

I pray that you find a quiet place of peace and resolve with the Lord God that you too are free from the rebellion of wanton sin. The only path to this destination is through the continued participation and relationship with His Holy Spirit in sanctification. Being with God and ending the war by being cleansed of unrighteousness is the greatest place a human may ever reside. His yoke is light, His blessings tremendous and the love He offers you will find no where else in this life and none of it in the next through separation. End the War with God today, believe upon Christ Jesus and be cleansed of sin and have the desire for it removed over time. Sponsoring, feeding or embracing your rebellious heart will mean your eternal death and separation from all that you once loved and the Almighty God who awaits us all in eternity.  In Jesus’ Name.

At the crux of our battle sits something unknown, inexplicable, something devious from which all shy away. The fear is palpable; you can see it within them if they fail there will be no forgiveness. Gone are the moments when lavish dreams are answered for decades resulting in nothing but excess, destruction and exhausted souls. Yet some have been made wealthy to the depths of our imagination, where halls are filled with gold, silver and gems and fat dragons atop them in luxury and watchfulness. There were no limits but now somehow things have become practical as people arouse and remember the value of conservative ideals, storing for the future and utilizing taxes collected in prudent expectation of a better life. Now the enemy roars and threatens and beckons those susceptible to fear to cower back into their cells with promise that they will be torn asunder for pondering, wondering or the straying departure of this tired of unending lust.

They have seen the innocence and heard the cries of those in defense of the vulnerable and they have remembered that they were once one among many, yearning for safety, happiness and a better life. The lure of easy money passed, not so effective the whip as the sugar cube at capturing the wanton desires of those who would be filled, then filled and filled again. They have cause to fear, but now have remembered the call of true fear lost to them when they departed from the known truth of the God that they once respected. Omniscience beckons reminds, recalls and challenges all to find a place free from the plying eyes and ears of a Lord who is indeed everywhere.  And worse, he sees the heart, not just that which is done in privacy but those intentions, the reasoning, the sour and bitter motivations of an unclean existence. Wealth will not purchase escape for there exists no respite from arms that made eternity. The time nears and it is not that some have begun to fear the darkness less merely understanding that the light is to be respected infinitely. The dawn comes and passes and some begin to yearn for a taste of the light that bore them, recalling the joy and warmth and depth of His never ending Love, hoping beyond measure for the rekindling of fires gone dormant long ago. How could they have forgotten so long, how could memories be so effectively wiped clean that even now it is difficult to remember our origins. What a palsied hopeless place to reside in the darkness wondering why you miss the light, losing satisfaction of the sensory input that sustained so sweetly for so long.

What of the stories that we all know to be true, what if this is the moment when those captured tales emerge to reveal the truth of God’s Long and Patient Plan for mankind. Do we begin to ponder our ending, considering the separation from all that we’ve known and loved to great a distance for the earned entry? What now this measure of wealth, health and stature compared to the good name spent as copper in quest of gold. So old the stories of redemption that we now know to be truth for we see those against whom we are aligned and they certainly are God’s Kin. It is evident in their walk, in their footing, smell, speech and enduring character. They have forgotten the fear of this devil we’ve named king replaced by the reverent understanding of a lasting, eternal God who lays beyond the hand of creation’s ploy. What a dismal place this storage house for treasure, once gathered that must be protected, hoarded and recounted for the remainder of the mist of this life and forfeit at the end. What then of something lasting, something precious something eternal, it shant be found in this line of inquiry.

We listen to the same old convincing leveraged clichés; it has been rewritten, the Bible is nonsense, God is a higher power, it is the invention of cunning men, none of that happened it is fiction and Jesus was most certainly not God. But it has never rung true, never grasped hold of the imagination of stolid men who in the seeing, reading and researching of this sacred tome find nothing but truth, education, wisdom, knowledge and historical fact. Again the master warded us pour ourselves upon it in disbelief, refracting its promises, dissolving its surety and distrusting its maker. So much time has been spent in watering down its importance that even now we have begun to wonder why so much time has been spent to dismiss something that is so blatantly false?  Who attacks the enemy of no regard? Who paints with radar the tank that is without threat? This will not and cannot stand logical investigation for in its review we find the enemies documents powerful, fresh, everlasting and whole. Certainly we hate them just as we have been trained to hate their penman and their prophets, saints and sanctification. But now the cracks that once were ignored are now gaping rivulets through which run the waters that once sustained our views as truth, trickling into the bowels of the Earth leaving us thirsty for some Word, perhaps even hungering for the Word of God. Yes that is it we just want to have one drop of its everlasting waters to touch our cheek or drip in coolness across our sandy tongue. This is the beginning of our fear for now we see the portended result of fiery lakes and dusty mouths, Forever Dry.

Maybe we can escape this escapade of madness, Perhaps the King of everything will once again welcome us and offer some manner of work through which I might earn forgiveness. Too cruel to expect that He would consider me eligible for the kindness and care of His offered Mercy and Grace. Is it a dream this madness I am experiencing that I would even now crave to be a slave to righteousness in exchange for the promises of all Earth’s wealth and plenty? I see them in their happy groups, with their joyful smiles and the pious loving words, counting all the empty blessings of poverty and truth. How can they be even for a moment considered of envy, they aspire to nothing, own nothing and struggle in song as if the work, toil, troubles and pain are a reward for service. What manner of super fool has God created, lulling them into an impoverished, nightmare that no one with a right thinking would call life, yet they taught it as abundance in power, peace and humility? How does humility pay the bills, reward the victorious or pleasure the proud angry rituals of those seeking esteem? But it still seems so well perfect, comfortable and dare I say deliciously simple and boring but in a pleasing manner. Maybe I can sneak a peek at this moronic troop from afar and gage what measure of insanity grips them and holds them so tightly to folly that they actually go the grave appreciative, in joyful adoration of this Righteous King they would serve with nothing. Yet, still there is something quite odd because it all seems to make some manner of sense, this foolishness of God’s Faithful. I cannot put my finger upon it but there is something that requires further inspection and I might add some quiet reflection away from those of my banner guard on constant quest for conquest. We’ve made slaves of many. I will  venture among them when the times are quiet and figure out their madness once and for all.

My friend, it is not a myth but truth you seek, the Truth that God put within each of us, that we might know Him and have no cause for excuse at judgment.  Don’t call me friend or I will pull out that lousy tongue that continues to make me wish vehemently I had never heard you utter a word. It’s okay, I said the Lord of Glory knows you and has loved you from the time before you were even an idea. Don’t say that you wretch how could he love something so putrid, poisonous and provocative? There is no way that God even knows me never mind has some concept of love for I deserve no love, only pain and hate, the same pain and hate with which I have fashioned and driven those before me.  God could not love one like me.  I don’t know your sins, but I am certain that they are the same sins of every man, pride, envy, hate, distrust. The Lord says that there is not one man good, that all are deserving of the payment for sin which is death. That is why He made a way so that “all” who repent, believe and accept the gift of salvation might find life abundantly here and eternal life in the life to come. How can this be that an all-Powerful God wouldn’t punish those like me who have done nothing but rebel and cause pain and suffering for humanity? There is no way that He would leave even a crack large enough for my slithering escape of my own predicament, Deeds and nature? Why would God give me this choice of which you speak? Because my friend He loves you so much that He came into this world, experienced our temptation and pan and lived a perfect life then took all sin with him to the grave and arose by the power of Spirit to everlasting life that we might be redeemed to Him in Heaven for the price of believing and faith. That sounds too amazing to be true, you must be lying, but then again I have never seen you lie in all the miserable years I have had to put up with your ridiculous grinning. How does one achieve this redemption to God? Simply admit your unrighteousness, repent of your sin, turn away from your wickedness and accept the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit that He might cleanse you of all unrighteousness, forgive your sins of past and future and seal you for eternal life with Him. It can’t be that simple, that sounds like some kind of a fairy tale, but I cannot get over the love you have in your eyes nor the way I see you live with those around you. I will try this thing called repentance and accept His Sovereign offer of Mercy. Lord I am a sinner. I need your salvation. Please come into my life and cleanse me of sin and save me from my prison. I want so much to know you and to be free of the debt that I can never pay. Forgive me and lead me to the way you would have me live. Fill me with your spirit of Truth that I might gain discernment and wisdom to understand the right path from this life to the next. I love you and thank you for offering me redemption and grace. Jesus I love you.

At that moment I felt the pain reside and the peace come into my heart I also heard the raging screams of the dark one having lost me for good to God.  I walk now in the light forever. The darkness has no lure and no claims upon my immortal soul. I will learn, to walk in faith and stand against the enemies of the Light that I too might rescue those that may still be saved from the darkness of eternal separation from Almighty God. My service to darkness shall be forgotten but it shall make me ever mindful of the painful cost of deception that trapped within its promises of wealth and leisure. There are grandeur things in life than the promises of this mortal and temporary body. I look forward to the day when I shall receive the incorruptible body having been paid for by propitiation of the Perfect Sacrifice, Christ Jesus the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, to the Glory of God Almighty.

Are you driven? And if so what objective, resource, tandem relationship or ideal spurs you forward? Are you relentless in your pursuits, do they pester you during hours dedicated to rest? Where are you headed my friend? What it the destination to which you’ve so aggressive directed your vessel? What have you left behind, deemed less important or too costly regarding time and energy that it had to be abandoned for the cause? What are the gains of such venture? Where will you be in five years having duly pursued this veracious appetite for success? Does this path seem so right to you that there is nothing or no one who could dissuade you from achieving that objective? What process sponsored this “at all costs” journey?

What is the nature of my “single minded” focus?  Why am I so determined to pursue this avenue even at the sacrifice of all other ideas or roads less traveled? Where did the idea come from was it generated in a moment of inspiration, am I copying someone else’s achievement of making up for their failure to achieve or do I have a hard time identifying the catalyst of my pursuit?

The Bible is very clear that there is a way that appears right to a man but its step leading directly to Hades. Now I am paraphrasing, but we get the general intent of the scripture. If it is myself and untrustworthy source at best from whom I have received “life leading” direction then by nature it is suspect. Do we have the self control of the Holy Spirit’s Character and guidance to understand that those voices that are not from God, even those voices of self must be investigated, analyzed and suspect at best in review. I don’t know what is right. I did not determine what the right path is in life by my own means or understanding, I was given that quiet whisper by the Good Shepherd and made the choice to obey that voice alone. “My sheep know my voice and another they will not follow”, does that sound familiar. This scripture describes a life where all other competing influences and voices are told to take a secondary or tertiary position to the clear direction of the Shepherd. Unfortunately for those of us who are really self-assured and motivated that includes our “own” voice as well.

I must face the fact that God gives me direction in HIS TIMING. When direction emerges internally, compulsively or with an appetite of “it must be done at all cost”, the mature Christian takes this to the Lord for confirmation. That process of confirmation typically resolves in an understanding that this direction did not come from the Lord but usually from our own mortal appetite for success, achievement, conquest, glory or wealth. If you find yourself driven, please slow down, pull over and let the Lord take the wheel because you my friend have gotten off that skinny path, taking another road of diversion from true purpose. I pray for peace in your life this very moment, In Jesus Mighty Name.

Are you ready for the great things that are headed our way or are you spending your days being concerned with the circumstances and revealed struggles before you? Have you learned to dance with joy at the pain you are graced to experience, as it tests, grows and prepares you for the Great Day of the Lord’s Coming and the time when you too will be filled with the powerful witness of the Holy Spirit of God? Do you rejoice in worship or cry in misery at the road that they Lord has lain before you in your fulfillment of his purpose and sanctification of this lifetime? Are you readying yourself or simply sitting around waiting, hoping and praying that the life you’ve been born to will somehow be transformed? Are you capturing all the joy that is abundantly flowing into your life by the Power of God or are you sitting and wallowing in misery that this life is not how you’ve expected or anticipated it should be?

What then is living for God, but simply walking the road that He lays out before each of us?  Are we meant for some type of reward, treasure, health, wealth great popularity or are we designed to bring Glory to Almighty God in our graceful method and volunteerism to the Life that He prepared for each of us? What is your destination? What is your objective for this life? Are you serving your own plan or have you come to know Christ and His Word in such a way that you know the majesty of the trials and tribulations set before you? Perhaps you have been given the greatest reward available in that you have been given trials, difficulties, pains, wounds and tribulation so great because the Lord will demonstrate His Glory uniquely through your overcoming those tremendous obstacles?  Can you imagine yourself blessed by troubles? The world would never have you think positively of your personal plight, they would call you foolish to rise above your pain and peril.  But won’t they be amazed at the power you have to overcome those obstacles and observe joy and abundant life in Christ?

What then are we being prepared for if not but for the revelation of God’s Glory in our adaptation to the trials of the life time? If we are to be witnesses, shepherds or examples of how to live in a way that places the onus upon the promises not upon the circumstances do we not then have to flow, change and adapt to those circumstances with a measure of victorious perspective upon our hearts and lips? How would the enemy prevail against Christians and Jews in the circumstance, of course by stealing our joy, which is how the Lord claimed he prowls about the Earth seeking to consume our joy. We were meant for great things, but those great things are not the things of our own wealth, glory, fame or imagination, they are the great things that come along with being the powerful witnesses for the Coming Kingdom of God in our testimony and witness for Christ the King. We will have power when the power will point to the revelation to the this world of the Glorious Creator of All Things.

I pray that our perspective our purpose and our power to prevail against all the obstacles set before us are firmly rooted in our faith upon the Promises of God. We are meant as the witnesses to set the road straight of the Glorious Appearing of Christ, that is a responsibility greater than any we could have been personally charged.  What a glorious day that day that Christ died with me upon that Cross and I was set free to become that which He designed for me from the beginning of time.  What a glorious day we face in the Glory of Almighty God revealed through each of us to a world that so desperately needs His Love. In Jesus name I love you.

You are right, I know so very little, it is understandable that you look upon me in wonder imagining how I can even navigate life’s obstacles with such limited assets. I get it that the ideas that cross your mind are of such importance that we ought instantly stop, listen and take careful notice of each powerful detail. I honor your commitment to your way for it does seem so right to you. And I apologize for not being passionately captured by the eye opening content that frankly is so high above my perceptive capacity that I have even failed to register its impact, its indelible significance.

I do not wish to see your worthy cause diminished, so please let me encourage you to call the helm to full steam ahead and may your ship find ports beyond this simple village with the inadequate receptors for such high minded inquiry. Oh, you don’t want to go, you would rather stay here and force me to understand your complex line of thinking that we have heretofore established is far beyond my inherent ability to comprehend. Oh, so you are going to teach me what I need to learn in order to grasp these golden grapes of satisfying wisdom.

Do I perhaps have any authority within this authoritarian structure, maybe to say something as, “I do not wish to become educated to that line of thinking”? Oh, that is not allowed in order to maintain a relationship with you I must first acknowledge my immeasurable ignorance and then volunteer to be force fed ideas and concepts that I frankly do not value or cannot ascertain that value you claim they have in reserve? Oh, there comes the finger in my face and the insults that are especially effective with those who are susceptible to bullying or having their character diminished until they acquiesce.

At this point I am going to utter something that is entirely intended with all love, care, gentility and measured thought, NO. What you haven’t anyone dare to disagree with your knighthood and dismiss themselves from the list of those who you deem in desperate need of intellectual modification? Well there is a new day and new experiences within each new day and it appears this is your new day.

I don’t know much. It is actually freeing to be simple. Though I do understand the complex reasoning and power behind the Love of God, something over which scholars have regularly argued for millennia. What does that mean that a simple man can understand the depth of God’s Love and yet be incapable of worldly understanding or pursuit of philosophical platinum reserved for those whose names painted history? I don’t know because I choose not to. Focusing on love frees me from the complex worry and concerns of this world that has determined that being complicated is somehow a badge of honor to be worn by chosen few.

Look I get it, please walk away perhaps feeling sorry for me because it makes no sense to you that I would rather just be sitting here with a couple of God fearing folks from the country, sharing a smile, a song or some fresh tea for the rest of my worldly existence than to spend even one moment in the complex, reasoned debate about man’s superiority over other men that I know will accompany those moments spent in your company.  I love you but you only love yourself and that my friend is a dangerous place to be, especially in this day and time.  May the Lord God’s Holy Spirit touch your heart and give you people more valuable than your thoughts. In Jesus Name.

It is an odd thing to rejoice in the middle of a nightmare. Perhaps even stranger to find peace in the middle of war. This world has secrets, not the mysterious, magical sorcery that they would have you ponder, designed to enable yourselves as fairy creatures that allow for super speed, knowledge and power. These are internal secrets of how to live this life in a way that is contrary to the fear based version they commonly portray.

We, created beings were endowed by our creator with certain rights, understandings and resemblance to Him. That similarity requires, even demands a realization that the Creator neither fears creation nor should those who have been created by His hand. You see fear is an invention of those influences who would see us enslaved in this world and helpless in the next. The Lord did not give us fear, what then is the secret to overcoming that same influence?

Love, perfect love casts out fear, driving its influence before it, dispelling it back into the realms of darkness where it normally resides.  You see, the Love for my family demands my lack of fear in defense of their frailties and innocence. The Love of my country requires that I stand in the fury of even apparently overwhelming odds and enemies defying their capacity to take that which does not belong nor shall ever belong to them. Love denies fear its power and authority of the righteous man who knows that although they may at most take this mortal life that they cannot touch me in eternity nor can they defend against the All Mighty God who loves me and defends me from their evil intention. You see even if I were to lose in a position in which I should have been driven cowardly by fear, they shall not escape the inescapable moment of their judgment before the Holy and Righteous God who created us all.

I get that the enemy sells fear to provoke, frighten, evoke paralysis and to instill an odd sense of despair and false authority surrounding the creatures of the dark. They do not rule, they are powerful but in the end the true ruler of everything says that we prevail and not in a minor fashion but in a way that makes it very clear that we were the rightful victors from outset. This is not a thing of fear this battle for the future of mankind. This is not a thing that gives fear some manner of victory in that we will stand our ground for as long as it takes to collect the last decision for Christ and properly and formally usher in the Kingdom of God.

Fear cannot be tolerated nor entertained for in its acceptance we are admitting our lack faith in a Sovereign, Almighty God. You see since He says that we shouldn’t be afraid it is then a thing of faith to dispel fear with love. The only fear we ought have is a rightful and righteous respect and fear for that Same God who made us. That is the rightful apprehension and respect that is the true sense of reverence in the eradication of fear. For I do not fear the Lord’s Judgment because I love Him with all my heart and know that He rewards the humble and has offered and I have accepted His gift of eternal life in Hope and Grace.

If you are frightened sit for a moment. This life is relatively short and then it is appointed to all men once to die and then the judgment.  What is it that you fear? Is it loss of money, stature, friendships, your life? Look to the fear first as illusion and walk through it with the understanding that it is an irrational spirit, and not a thing of God. This world is going away, do you fear that it will somehow go away faster than you expected? The evil influences serving themselves as the expense of men are going to face perfect judgment by a Worthy and Righteous King.  Do you fear them before that day of judgment, knowing that at some point they will be stripped of all power eternally? What is it that you fear. I know it is death isn’t it?

I get it the unknown can be a complex and distraught place of illusion and imaginary occurrence. But God has told us what happens to us the moment we pass from the plain into the next. We leave this life one moment and the next second we are standing before a Holy And Righteous God who wants to see us and welcome us to the throngs of heaven, our true family. What then is the fear intrinsic to this vision, to this perfect end? Perhaps, I would be fearful of not dying and remaining here for the collapse of humanity and the dissolution of historic and commercial religiosity and political structure. What you want those things to go as well. Well, I am refreshed because if your wishes are going to come true then the reason that existed for fear at the outset is now by nature, well irrelevant.

Live powerful, Live abundantly, Live full of Love and cast out fear in your wake as you walk this life with and for God. In Jesus Name.