Is it okay to not conform to the surroundings in which you find yourself placed?  Of course, that is the model demonstrated over and again throughout history where Bible Leaders shook off the expectations or norms of the society around them to be “set apart” for the lifestyle and works of Almighty God.  Please forgive me, I have been making the reverse mistake and perhaps sin of trying to fit into the world by changing my spots.  However, when God made you unique, I have previously used the example of a purple tiger upon the plains, you cannot help but stand out against the surroundings.  I was not made for this world but for the next.  I have never fit in here, because this world is not my home.  Yet I have been sent like anyone else to experience the Choice we all must make and the sanctification of this wonderful training ground.  The realization of my misgiving is that I have been attempting conformity for the purpose of receiving attention, mistaking it for love.  However, when I solidified my relationship with the Lord through His offer of Grace, my understanding of Love was transformed, leaving me breathless, then irreproachably repentant and finally in contentment of my separation from the constraints and morals of popularity.  You can only be what you were designed to be if you are contented and at home with that which God perfectly designed for His Good Purpose.

Now comes the greater rub.  Christians have been because of their own good intentions and worldly resolve to rebuff me into becoming something greater than that which the Lord has spoken.  I am simply a disciple of Christ, nothing more.  This leaves me in difficult regard, for at this point I must rebuke my fellow believers, something I am always remiss in doing.  Then to proceed upon the path that the Lord has directed in exalting His name and leaving the outcomes to Him.  I am simply to Love, Him and You and plant the seeds of His Gospel message that always returns the perfect and intended, (based on the intentions of God) return on investment.  I cannot make the mistake I have previously made in attempting to please the brethren and try and conform to a new set of requirements and expectations placed upon my life by the surrounding believers.  This would be the same mistake of which I have already repented and been forgiven.  Please honor God’s intention for my design and allow me to follow Him alone through Christ alone, though I am sorry that I cannot please or fulfill your expectations for me.

I don’t need to determine in front of which audience I stand.  The Lord makes that selection very clear in the Bible, I need no analytics or marketing analysis of my own, though I do have the standing to do such work my undergraduate being in business marketing.  The Lord says if they will not hear the message of the Gospel that I am to kick the sand from my sandals and move on to somewhere where they will hear the message.  I ask you have the people around me on PSB, my blog, twitter, email, movies and Bible studies heard anything from me but the Bible message of Love, Grace and salvation?  Has that exaltation of His Name brought people to me to hear and receive that offer He is making to all men?  Do we see evidence in our surroundings of the Holy Spirit’s presence found in myself displaying His characteristics and the circumstances and people within my sphere being duly effected by that Spirit, thus coming to Christ?

If you see as I do that the answer is YES, then I have traveled the road upon which the Lord placed my sandaled feet.  If No then I must apologize to you and ask your forgiveness for I shall not try and meet the personal expectations you apparently have of me.  I serve God and Him alone through the Good Shepherd, Christ through Him alone through the utilization, training, counsel, empowerment and blessing of the Holy Spirit alone.  These are the times for our wise existence.  Those who do not know God’s requirements for their lives are either; hearing and not obeying, having never heard for not asking or not hearing or not pursuing the things of God in misunderstanding of His direction.  If you do not know what you are supposed to be doing with the power placed upon you by adoption into the inheritance and Kingdom of the most High God, then ask.  If you don’t ask then you either do not wish to know, do not wish to obey or are filled with the fallen spirit of fear in not asking.  It is time for us to be clear.  It is time for us to choose whom we serve and then demonstrate that allegiance and act like it.  It is time to determine your crafting for in that crafting there is great purpose for the Coming Kingdom.  Do you know, do you want to know?  Are you set apart from the things of this world or just blending in, biding time as I was originally.

I stand on the field of open battle as a purple tiger with His Righteousness, Faith, Hope, Truth, Peace, Prayer and Word written upon my heart and readily visible to a hopeless enemy.  I don’t need to know the nature of my audience because in so doing I am saying I need to adjust God’s Perfect Word or do something within my own inadequate skills to achieve the Supernatural Miracle that I could only achieve through the Holy Spirit’s Power and Authority.  I will do what God has directed, until He tells me to stop or changes my job description.  Although, I do appreciate the edification and encouragement of the saints please do not take upon yourselves the sinful expectations that you will somehow give me the missing components to making my ministry Worldly Successful.  I need none of that and I believe you are at that point directly confronting God and saying egomaniacally that you perhaps know better than He does how to offer Grace and Salvation, which is through Christ alone.

My job is clear, my position is set apart from this world and my place is among the saints building, encouraging and Loving everyone as God intended. Please if you want something of me that is outside of this description then know I will resist with all my being to the point of kicking the sand from my sandals and moving on to the next town.  Be powerful in Spirit, Be peaceful in the relationship with God and be hopeful of the Life to come in the Return of Christ Jesus the King.  Amen.