Thank You God that I may Stand, confident and assured in Your Faithfulness and Promises. I would be incapable of doing so without you and must thank you once again for all of the snare from which I have been delivered. You are the Guiding Light of man through this Life you breathed into him. Lord I am mourning, broken, hungry, tired and alone. My need for you is often greater than I can muster, yet I still frequently walk in my own foolish self-dependence thinking upon my own sufficiency. When will my mockery end? When will I be set apart from those of this world as I know that I have been set free to become like you? When will my ignorance fail to raise thought and word in my mind and mouth? When Lord will I begin to resemble You?

This World departed from you and now teeters upon a spinning top, wobbling precariously as the forces keeping it aloft begin to fray. I will not join with men in their broad abandon of Your Holy Word and Commands. I will not join them in their quest for self aggrandizement and actualization that they may please the internal god of self and the fallen. This argument bores me and I am finding it hard to keep up with the day’s dilemma. What happened to man that we are no longer inclined to Your Wisdom and Understanding, instead thinking ourselves, our minds, hearts and bellies the center of the universe? This waiting, this observance of witchcraft and folly, this march toward and to the tune of men who would not know God is false. I would have none of it but that You Loved me enough to drag me out of it and want that I would offer others the same. It is a pleasure and a joy. Their inclusion or departure from Grace is between they and You. Forgive me as it makes me sad to see their choices.

Lord let Your Victory be my embrace for You have won, making me by inclusion victorious. These enemies though loud are defeated and though enabled for a time to make a travesty of the perfection you’ve created I see the purpose in their predetermination before Christ. Someone must disobey for there to be reward in obedience and example in the evil hearts of man and angel. Someone must choose unwisely for us to see the cost of a life lived for wickedness or insignificance. Someone must be separated from you by choice to define forever to all that living without God is Hell Defined. The evil cannot be good as they have chosen to ignore its sweet call to live with you forever. The sour fruits of men gone their own way may only rot for so long before they wither and decay, returning to the dust from whence you grabbed them.

This War takes more courage than slinging bullets, bombs and grenades. It is truly a quizzical thing that man should have a rougher time believing upon the Sovereign Hand of Almighty to lead them through each fire, flood or raging storm then the idea of making it on mankind delivering their salvation. Man does not wish to save unless called by the small Quiet Whisper of God’s Holy Spirit. We simply go from groaning belly, to bed and wash, rinse, repeat repeatedly. Only stopping in our lustful pursuits to cry to God for those things unanswered, never once stopping to acknowledge our blessings and repent for our self regard. This is the time of God’s Measure. Do each of us wish to stand before Christ never having given it our all for His Good pleasure? What are we to say in response to His Request of what we did with that which was given? I don’t wish to say much and rather long to hear those Seven Bright Words as I look for my spot on the ground at His Feet.