Limits

Can it be? That you and me, just were never meant to be. All that time, every dime spent to find a way that never should been attempted. What now, that relief is so hard felt. We’ve dealt with lost dreams and caverns too deep for lighting. But as time wanders and tries to convince us of its authority. We just sit and contemplate the wind.

All the frost and the fallow ground surrounds me. A heart of gold transformed in nuclear acceleration, speeding up and nearing stars to find its way through time. Calculus of two asteroids asunder, plunging deep into space then gravity allows. We still stand oddly in juxtaposition, having strewn our wake through the confines of solar left behind.

And those wonderful dreams, so powerful to children. The stuff of imagination and miracles this side of God that man are rife to acquiesce. What then lurks beyond palsy and weak reason, when we clearly see the Hand upon each thing He brought to light. And the Life that bore all daylight resting nightly, accepts the reality of Power beyond the will of man. Yet in the spotlight of man’s prideful journey, with examples set that show the mighty fallen, we still fail to accept the glory and the wisdom.

You pulled your hand away because it was given freely and without resistance the wound may not find life. To find love it must not be fought for or against but understood even in the shadow of imperfection. For all must fall and then choose to seek out glory. Not to serve pride but to serve that which is fully deserving of my fealty. And in that moment when our frailty becomes common, we let go of the scenery and script to live a life free of past infliction, where dreams and possibility reign as we seek the limit of God’s indwelling hope.

In action

Waiting is not believing. Certainly Jesus’ Return is worth the wait, but that is inconsistent with the Will of the Father and the direction we were given regarding preparation and duties agrarian. I could sell or give away everything, go find a nice shady spot and watch the skies as this world spins out of control, but who does that serve. To have faith is to understand that every person matters and God is long suffering against wickedness that we may go locate and educate those who have yet to come to Grace.

This demonstration is the greatest reflection of Love found in the options of man’s accomplishments. Jesus did the highest human achievement as God and laid down His Perfect and Powerful Life for our benefit. There is no greater expression of Love. Perhaps a short second is thanking Jesus for the sacrifice by doing the same for those He loves that they too may find the benefits of redemption we have already received. I don’t care if you believe on Jesus or not for this analysis as there are few who would disagree with His demonstration and sacrifice as the greatest representation of selflessness found in the history of mankind.

I don’t have a say in what you do for God. Certainly I am anointed with the responsibility to shepherd those whom I have been given but the decision even for those in my care is theirs. That being said these are the waning moments in the fourth quarter where our stories will all be written based upon the decisive actions we take in the following days. What is God asking you or directing you to do that you obviously are putting off for the sake of completing some other self oriented goals? Oh, you say that He hasn’t told you of His expectations for you, but I noticed you have conveniently neglected to inquire. Rather the bulk of those who have discussed this know exactly what God expects and have determined to put it off to the last possible moments hoping for another charge.

Now soon, we will have to step as far away from the world as God will allow while remaining in the mix of spreading the Gospel, watching the fortress, armoring up and make intercessory prayer for the World. But as we near Christ’s return our focus will determinatively turn toward the Health of the Body of Christ and Preparation for the Coming Kingdom. Sorry the Millennium is going to be the final day in God’s fulfillment of Mankind’s outcome. The thousand years of peace where we get to follow Christ and survive abundantly as all powers and principalities are placed under His Footstool by God the Father, in preparation for the endless reign to follow White Throne Judgment. This may be the only time any of us may have the choice to conduct sacrificial works for Christ. Since we are going to be ruling and reigning with Christ in the Millennium where are the Treasures we’ve gathered stored for our collection?

There is much to think about and much to do or not do as the decision befits you. My Father said, “No matter how much you talk about doing something only the things you really want to do will ever get done”. To my knowledge my Father never accepted Christ as savior and spent his life serving his own desires for this world, neglecting the next. I will not be caught on that side of the coin flip. For me and my Family we will serve the Lord our God. IN Jesus name, may I serve Him to the Glory of His name with all my heart, soul, mind and strength. ”

Being Seen

What began your Walk with God? What launched you on a quest to understand perhaps even to believe in Him? Was it pain, curiosity or simple doldrums in this life that is supposed to be adventurous and rewarding? Was there something lacking or were you just so full of life that the eventuality of such reward was an eventual pursuit and acceptance of God’s forgiveness and Word as absolute Truth?

Most folks express the pain they were suffering in life that brought them to the cross to meet Christ. It is not that they do not have moments of joy or fulifllment but continually express the lack of Purpose associated with self directed pursuits/goals as somehow less than adequate to reconcile life’s expectations and pain. Many are abused by the people and circumstances or are simply disgusted with and uncapable of escaping their sins/past. Whatever the impetus those who Seek God find Him. Though many will walk away from that meeting having resolved to remain in the world, eschewing the gifts of forgiveness, empowerment, discernment and growth to reside in the relative simplicity of temporary pursuits.

Did the relationship with God provide the insight, forgiveness, empowerment and direction that you expected or have come to reside upon? Whatever the origin of your quest, to where has it led? Are you transformed, having become a new creature according to God’s Promise or have you found it in adequate or incapable of producing those promised outcomes? What has God shown you in this reformed access? Have you gained the spiritual sight and understanding that is promised with discernment in Christ Jesus? Do you find that you have become stronger, less dependent upon self sufficiency’s? Are you the same person simply with more peace and a shot in the arm weekly inoculation of hearing God’s Word or spending time with other People who call themselves Christian’s?

Christianity is about those things we cannot do ourselves. We pursued God because of frustrations or a pursuit of the things which we could not resolve or achieve through self empowerment or actualization. Therefore to simply see mediocre outcomes in life or come to grips with less than miraculous relationship and transformation in Christ Jesus is a huge let down for most believers. Why then would Pastors, teachers or preachers seek to set up this type of lackluster commission with disciples, knowing the likelihood of back sliding by those who had fallen out of love with the mediocrity of Christianity practices in most Churches and Communities. People want authenticity and power. They want transformation and absent that transformation will at best check the boxes of weekly worship, study and prayer.

Why then would any man remain a cork skipping on the waves of the ocean, a surface dweller when the life of the ocean and the depth of Christian faith is most certainly expressed to those who dwell its depths? Can we get close to God and remain shallow ponds of faith? Doubtful, for when one fully meets and coexists with His Holy Spirit, Emmanuel, then we cannot help but be changed, convicted, grown, sanctified and pruned. This time in which we reside is especially prodigious in creating the yearning for more the expectancy of fulfillment of purpose and works in fulfillment and the peace of residing in God’s Holy Will. Is this cause for judgment or condemnation for them who have chosen to reside powerless in their Christian faith? That is a good topic for conversation reflected in God’s Own commentary regarding the feckless church of our age.

But the argument is not my objective, provocation and envy is. How can we expect to be ensample or example for the Jews or fellow Gentiles without any fruit with which to attract or excite them? God is willing to be long suffering with the wicked in order to lure them to faith by their review of the mercy and blessings he conveys upon the Faithful. What then would he say about those of us who continue to have no sweet fruits of blessing to demonstrate for those onlookers? This I know, He is coming soon, whatever your definition of soon entails, the season is clearly upon us. That being said, what fruits are you seeing in your walk? What life transformation is evidence of that born again salvation given by God? What authentic change and growth have you experienced in the pruning and sanctification of indwelling by the Holy Spirit? How close to Love is the relationship with your Brethren? Are you seeing God’s Glory in the Body of Christ?

Purpose.

Blessed by the forgiveness of things so grave and dour. My colleagues convinced of their brilliance they nod and shake in agreement having solved nothing, unaware that they’ve left the cupboard wide open. Tell them the things left for takers. Whisper in weakness of the strength they’ve left unaccepted. Offerings of candid bliss and misgiven appropriation. Scoundrels of sea and host left to scour cabins and window boxes for the bevy they laid broad abandon. But they never expected what we had so patiently expanded. In the leaving of nations we sought the portals of sand to escape the boredom of tomorrow.

Time passing is not the passages of time. Just as airways may not be fed so the leaving of galaxies never cross the Momentary bridge spanning vacuum’s unknowable. What then of days and nights romanced in wonder as dream and wishes meshed with the prayers of those stranded. Some seek folly others pure logic as the moon hides its eyes from the shadow. These are not the tremors of exception or the fodder of mathematician’s laying bare the foundations and boson’s. But the immature wisdom of those who found in gossip more profit than the sweet blessed moments of sharing.

These are the days to be spent in fury, knowing passion and quiescence have long lost their pleasure. Rigid moments of stark bare reason and reality’s upset, demanding a clarity of purpose and imagination. Yes, the imaginary basis of time mixed with distance and mass made light and flexible to fold in the thoughts of its pilot. .Squeezing molecules through the tube of Stellar and solar conjunction to function as pathways to places unreachable. For God has forbidden this sorcery, so we must make easy things beyond reason and chance. These things have always the realm of possibility beyond the ability of men forced to dream of nightly recap, shut down by the burdens of a world absent desire to understand the things made to us beyond sovereign.

We know the end from the beginning through our relationship of Him who made for us time. I am a snapshot, a sequence of notes forming a figure in dissonance. Shaped by the absence of folly, the disambiguation of truth beyond contest. Fabled yet fancied to the simplistic seat in the corner to review all that scurry through age. Observing without judgment those things that occur knowing some shall be shaped for the Godly and others for destruction purposed in creative works of thoughts beyond the whimsical understanding of robots and kings. What then is the upset or offense when eternity lays parked at reef? What chalice may contemplate payment beyond the combined iniquity of man? Payment so grievous it swallows all of humanity in illusion promising end to dream and mandate.

There are no monarchs when free men hold campaign and candor. For kings unnecessary to men who pay homage only to the unseen mastery and wisdom of God. Where and why have we come chatter of science or languages that have lost meaning when considering that beyond the Most High? What promise offered by creatable things when that which would make them has already explained the outcomes and prudence? How unnecessary the pain expressed or offered for opinions of those found in squalor, convincing themselves or worse yet catering to polling of peasants to pronounce themselves masters of nothing and no one. All hail the sky swept travails of men elevating themselves to stature without legacy. There is no need for greed when all are well fed and depend fully upon promise to feed their imagination and purpose.

Engage the path

No matter my perspective this life follows an organized transition that is outside my influence. Though not beyond my understanding or participation this Way neither meanders nor flows in chaos but is organized in such manner as to put trial after learning and test after empowerment. Apparently the hand beyond the veil is a masterful teacher, allowing and orchestrating a practical application of each education to manifest or concretize the learning in real world example to allow for testing, failure, recalculation and sensory understanding.

To use all to the good for those who love Him and walks according to His purpose we must be guided into the opportunity to make mistake that its subsequent adjustment from misapplication to achievement brings further glory to His name and faith increase to the applicant. It is true brilliance in its recognition of God’s hand upon each episode in life. To be allowed to view the mystery, wisdom or insight then take it immediately into trial is without doubt the best form of instruction.

Even in love though we are forced into painful understanding when our hearts or actions are absent love, it is wonderfully freeing to immediately see the error or precision of my path, especially knowing that the master will adjust accordingly to achieve and objective consistent with his desired outcomes for my actions. The Blessing is quintuple-fold perhaps even of greater exponential value that I am capable of recognizing. For God transforms US through voluntary agreement and demonstration of our willingness to study and absorb His Word, then take that Word into our own personal social experiment, resulting in deeper commitment to repeat that process in perpetuity.

What then is the pinnacle or the maximum application of this equation in reducing the infinite distance between each believer and the Lord? Is there even governance or summit to this pursuit? Can one get too close to God? Or is the realization eventuality always followed by God’s retrieval of the person considered? Do we go home if we get that close? It appears that this dimension is designed on possibility activated by willful pursuit and application. That if in fact one believer fully grasps God’s offering in Faith, walking in such manner as to diminish indefinitely the space between themselves and God that in fact they achieve the desired result of being with him permanently.

That being said, what if a Body of Believers were to embrace in agreement this willful desire to apply God’s teaching and Wisdom with intent to dissolve the distance between us would they stand a realistic chance of so doing? Is God’s Word in fact designed with this intention? Well it is clear he has forgiven us, Cleansed us and positioned us to be fully equipped, ready and faithful to withstand all that this life and challenges presented by Dominions and Principalities may offer. That being observed if you are to be transformed by the environment and characters in the system to which you’ve been injected and you hold the keys, legend and wisdom to overcome all those characters, then there must be as reason demands a way to utilize this understanding to reduce the distance between man and God such that it is no longer measurable and therefore irrelevant.