Alone or together the objectives must remain His. A Church, the body of Christ, is solely signified by the indwelling of His Holy Spirit. Therefore, each individual, and the corpus of Christ must be aligned in remaining pure as He demands. Those characters in the Bible, even the one who is said to be of God’s own heart departed from their position of favor to chase those things that offend God. It is disturbing to my soul that we would not determine to keep each other in good accounting to that which edifies us as a body, His Body.

All who walk away from God or depart for a season, however short, pay great price in this world and the next. Having missed the events, works and blessing of His Design we are left, often in shambles collecting the pieces of each disaster we assisted in creation. It is not enough to regret the works of yesterday but to refrain from creating more yesterdays of sadness and remorse. The only way to reach the pinnacle of God’s design for us as a body and individually is to be vigilant, diligent, even relentless to focus upon Him as we traverse the path of His delight.

This is my conflict. The internal one with the voices of self, leading me into dangerous, perilous and precipitous moments seeking the subjects of self. How is this possible for a man or a Body of Believers to so foolishly, even decisively pursue those outcomes of our own radical, idolatrous and belligerent will having been so grandly promised the best things in this life and hereafter? What manner of foolishness compels us such? It is nothing but the pride of my own desire to Create from my own wicked perspective and the seed of my own peradventure and internal vein of wicked intent.

The greatest mishaps is taking others with me on the ride to sleepy hollow. Headless and undiscerning, zealously seeking the cup of sensory quenching my identity in Christ Jesus put aside, forgotten or disobediently ignored that I may say I did it my way. Am I saved by Grace or not? If these frequent demonstrations of the guile of living outside promise are the evidence we review then my fate is indetermined. What then have we become now that we have made decision to be set apart for our Holy Groom? What is the oil in my lamp that will lead in the dark of night to His arrival?

Shall I be blind as well as deaf or dumb to the debits and credits of my ledger? Should I say and do whatever pleases this soul neglecting the weight of spirit’s gravity upon this life? What dangers am I willing to venture to test the strength of God’s faithfulness? I say Lord keep me in line especially when I mean to step soundly off in to the dark. Lord I beg you to do for me that which I seem incapable of achieving. I may say that I am yours but unless the acts consistently measure then what are my words but falsehood. Lord don’t let me lose even one or worse yet encourage them through example, word or lack thereof to step off on their own latitudes.

Keep us Holy Father for that is what we truly desire to be ready for you as you’ve directed and intended.