For ten years now the Lord has blessed and empowered me to work through thoughts, learning and decisions in the process of recorded word. Many times these conversations were self-deliberation before taking my view to the Lord for confirmation. Oft I used poetry and prose to slightly encode these sessions to allow myself some message of resiliency as to topic and emotions. In the ensuing years, most recent testimonies have taken on the seasoned flavor of eye witness evaluation of a man born again to everlasting traversing the training ground while being sanctified in preparation for eternal life with God. I have never been alone though sometimes it is never to experience that dreadful emotion that we fully comprehend the value of humans, family, friends, Brothers and colleagues as the true treasures of this short life.

Having been timely notified of the by gone era it has delivered within me the Spirit to understand the body of work as a whole. The Lord is calling me to be transformed by what I’ve seen, experienced, felt and overcome through His Spirit. And this world has become a delightful place where the trials are now opporunities without which I will not grow to the level to which the Lord has been guiding. I am blessed by the pregnant capacity of this world and the fact that it is designed to grow things and destroy things with equal veracity. And as I have watched this dance walked out I see that Life has the upper hand and resists death with a sense of self preservation that almost defeats the inevitable. However, though God’s Word is clear all men must die once the Lord Jesus has defeated death and sin upon the Cross tossing a giant monkey wrench into the possibilities for all men. We now have a third choice which did not yet exist two thousand years ago, though promised that allows all men to reach beyond the origin definitions of mortal life and death penned in the Garden of Eden.

We are standing at one of the inflection points in history and future where all possibility presents itself available. We may stand still and simply exist ending this life with as limited or as full a knowledge set, experience set and preparation for the hereafter as we have deemed unnecessary by our choosing the simply path of mortal life. Having not a made a conscious decision for Christ we understand that all we can gather, try and make our own in this life is the sum total of this temporary existence and all that we may hope to carry with us to the hereafter. However living this life as the end all and be all of our mortal passing leaves us shamefully left at our passing with no path forward but through God’s Judgment to the Lake of Fire with all the wicked vile and fallen dominion. It is no longer hard to comprehend that this life as the broad road may only lead to one place and since man’s self-righteousness is worth the price of filthy rags before God, especially at judgment then those who think they are good go to the same final end as the wicked as none are deemed different in the eyes of God. All were equally loved therefore all must be equally judged and given the same reward for their passing, separation from Him and the lake of fire forever.

This broke my heart for years and years of my study. I too struggled with the basic questions incumbent to faith, such as how can a good God allow bad things happen to good people or allow good people in their own view to find the same end as the wicked? These are the questions of young men and children who have not yet found a reverent fear of a Sovereign God and in so understanding that we ought fear nothing but Him that He alone is God and He alone makes the Rules for His Creation. Additionally, God being perfect and not being able to be near sin without delivering it to death forever in His presence He cannot now enter in to the World and rid the world of evil without ridding the world of every other person that has yet to make a decision for Him through Grace. This world is the training ground for humans to graduate through choice, surrender and obedience or choice, defiance and disobedience to choose the location and occupation of our eternity. He provided the third option to join Him for eternity as joint heir with Jesus, as family member, field worker, disciple, friend, son, prince, priest and servant by accepting the cleansing Grace of Jesus Christ the King. Now in my maturity I understand this world, my time in it spent for achievement of His Good Will for my Life and the opportunities designed to transform and prepare me to be equipped for the duties of after life.

This world is calling us as a nation of people look away from our wise fear of our Sovereign Lord and respect the powers of this finites world. It makes little sense but there remains great power here and it offers the sirens of a temporary quest for the ephemeral gift of power, passion and safety or rush of conquest that are offerings of this temporary realm. However there remains a greater clarion call of truth upon each heart that bids us reach beyond the limitations of mortal existence and find permanence in God. This is not simple it is not for the frail of heart those most approach it in that manner and it is no joke. Yet we as teachers teach all the disciplines, wiles, techniques and engineering of this world to offer a man the path to deal with the reality yet fail to give him the most important text dealing with the fabric of reality. In this time I have had the opportunity to travel this great united states many thousands of miles on foot, bicycle, motorcycle, truck and RV. There has been no greater method by which to prove or invalidate the thinking and the value of what has given me as well as learn to love the unique panoply of men and women sent in my path. It is this crucible, this road, this path upon which I have adhered, praise God for Spirits direction and correction that has solidified the Hope and the Reason for the Joy that Now resides immovable within my heart and soul. I embrace the quest to change especially now that each change no matter how joyous or painful in its instantaneous passing has brought me to the realization of plateaus that were heretofore unreachable by understanding or character. God truly is not just guide but Teacher, Father and King who will get you there if you choose to ask Him to get you there. Get to where you cannot get without Him. Choose God and Win.