I have seen you do wonderful things, giving to children without expectation, planting seeds to feed the poor and giving up your place so that the weary may rest.  I have heard the songs of your heart, your voices and instruments reverberating within my memories as your voices raised in worship, praise and peaceful prayer.  I have listened to your ideas, ideas given you by God, hoping upon hope for a better future where men might be free of evil, and the innocent, elderly and impoverished might find lasting love and care.  I have heard your dreams for a better mankind, free from the egregious usurpation’s of greed, avarice and plunder.  I have felt the strangling arm of my sin around my own neck, choking me until I found the wind to cry out in God’s Holy Name for relief.  I have seen, heard and believe that you are all made in His image and for that I love you more than you could know.

So dance, dream, play, build, grow and care for those in need, as this is all in service to the King.  Love them as they would not be loved but for your kindness and exception.  Forgive where it seems impossible to do so, for that is the power of Christ’s Spirit within each of us, to overcome the limitations of this world in doing what is beyond our own righteousness.  For we are kin to the King of Everything, the Maker, the Creator, The Lover of all, the Righteous Redeemer, the Right Hand of the Father, The Word, The Lamb, The Lion, The Christ of God, our Savior and their only Hope, Jesus Christ the Lord of Lords.

I will watch and be amazed at the work of His Hands done in you.  You are an artwork of God, capable of so much more than they will ever allow you to know.  But God is our Father and their is no end to the bounty of His Riches and Kingdom.  Do not fear, for in fear there is disbelief and in hope faith resides eternal.  You are the son or daughter of the King and there is no where that the enemy may take you, even in capture that is beyond His Mighty Hand.  You are safe, you are free, you are loved and you are filled with the power of the Spirit of God through Christ.  Fulfilled and prepared for the works and courage that must be displayed in the coming months and years til His arrival sets all things right.  So walk with courage in humility, knowing that God watches every step that you take, So take them in surety of favor, the favor of God Almighty.  Jesus My God and My King.

Excitement anticipates the storm.  Not the type lacking trepidation, the cautious understanding of what calamity may come.  Yet respecting, acknowledging and preparing for the awesome display of raw, unbridled, power, uncontrolled by authority of man.  The Lord cometh.  There are those who would seek to deny this fact, call it outdated language, beg proof or simply compartmentalize the associative feelings in exchange for solidarity with stimulation.  No matter the method no one may look away from the blinding light of God’s Coming Day of reckoning with humanity.  It will be awesome, unavoidable and finite expressed by the Lord of Hosts, who was there before the beginning and who alone determines the end.

I saw it in their eyes, heard it in their voices and accepted their anger as proof of overwhelming fear and disgust.  They no longer have reconciliation of freedom to play out the tortured definition of their realized passions.  That is the price of reckoning for it calls payment due, tallies accounts and sets right what has been imbalanced.  This world owes a debt, a debt that surpasses all worldly understanding of depth, longevity and breadth.  Every man knows the truth that is God and though they profess the doctrine of demons, deceiving, demanding further defilement, all know that purity, wholesomeness and innocence are the Glory of humanity.  Some wish in the evil hearts to corrupt it, poison it, crush it and ruin it but none may dismiss its prize and relevance to man’s fulfillment.  That day of purification approaches and none shall escape the scythe of judgement’s sweeping harvest.  When humanity is separated wheat and chaff for the feasts of eternity.

What then shall we do if we feel that our place is upon the fenceposts and moorings watching as other march?  I do not often caution or recommend panic, but that is your best recourse at this juncture in history.  For if you feel compelled to remain on the sidelines as God demands “choice” then you shall be counted among the fallen.  There have been and will always only be two sides, those with and for God and those against Him.  Choice is the grand gift of glory He has shown humanity, just as Adam made a choice and damned us so did Christ choose obedience to set us free.  Now it is incumbent upon each man, rich, poor, free or slave to make that decision to repent and believe, being set free and redeemed to God for eternity or to simply deny and choose separation, imprisonment and death.  That day is near, that storm visible on the horizon, all men see it but some will act and others will ignore.  Which are you?  I pray you cry out to God for succor, finding Jesus Christ through salvation, repentance and prayer.  May He have continued mercy upon us all and delay that day until every man has made a rational decision.  In Jesus’ Holy Name I pray.

We are standing at the end of the age of mediocrity.  Aghast they say, “certainly man has made the grandest scientific advances in the last hundred years”, followed by, ” you cannot even begin to call this time anything less than spectacular.”  I do not do this in jest or to provoke some argument, envy or attention.  It is simply that what comes next for the race of man is beyond our comprehension as mortals.  Only them who have accepted God’s Spirit have an inkling as to the enormity of what lie around the bend for our planet and its people.  We are about to see the coming of the Lord and in advance of that great and Glorious Day, we shall see an untold number come to Christ in repentance and belief.  Praise God that we have been chosen to be alive during this the most electrifying time of all the ages of men.   We shall see devastation, and hunger, pestilence and regrettably war, but this all precedes the return of the Light, The Word, The Creator, The Lord.  The songs of praise that will rise above the wreckage will restore even the crushed and broken spirit of those facing tribulation.  Ah, I have tasted the Lord and His Word is Sweet, His mercies never ending, His Light Pure and Holy.

What do you say to millions being redeemed to God, saved from sin, cleansed to spend eternity in His presence?  What do you think about His evangelists being protected from each and every evil seeking their harm so that they might spread the Gospel of Love to those in desperate need of salvation?  What will you say when you see the harvest of souls bound for never ending life with God?  There is no sadness that may deflate the joy associated with God’s plan for humanity.  There is no sting left in death’s bite that may dampen the spirits of the redeemed.  We are nearing trumpets call a time when pure evangelism will ring from sea to sea, over top every mountain across each prairie and river.  The story of Jesus Christ will be told so that all might come to the knowledge of the Truth and be set free.  One glimpse of God’s Coming Kingdom will remove even the most remarkable memory of man’s attempts at empire.  We will be left in awe when we see that day.  I pray mercy upon those who shall bear the brunt of its overwhelming finality and I rejoice in the knowledge that so many will once again turn their faces to God in forgiveness and salvation.  Praise God in the Name of the Lord of Lords Jesus Christ the King.

Must I be allowed to contract cancer in order for me to listen to the Lord’s Word for my life?  Do I have to destroy my family, my marriage, my finances and friendships before I will consider that my disobedience to my Christian faith is a destructive catalyst?  Must I holler at or ignore Almighty God for not giving me the contents of my own understanding, when His Word repeatedly educates me to the repercussions.  For I have not found faith until I have believed in and obeyed the Sovereign God of this universe.  If faith is hope and dependence upon things not yet seen, then I must equate God’s prophecy about my sin with those things yet to be seen.  Therefore my subsequent disregard for that “right” walk is evidence of my disregard for God’s Holy Truth.  Must I ask for continued discipline or may I at some point appreciate maturity and walk as a man in faith, no longer a boy?

What will it take for you to listen to the Truth that God has been delivering to you?  Must you lose your job, your husband, your children or your health to finally recognize His authority?  For we must understand that our God is a jealous God and He will not leave us alone in our disobedience, for this is the purpose of God’s enemies to be utilized as a tool to chase God’s children back into His arms.  He is a loving Father and He is also Holy, Righteous and True, meaning that He will never go back on His Word and His Word says that “He will chastise those whom He loves”.  Is that you?  Are you running from, ignoring or worse yet blatantly disobeying God’s Will for your life?

What must we lose or even worse yet, how long, dark and deep must our pursuance of sin become before we cry out to God for mercy and redemption?  Is your way working?  If it is by all means continue, but only until you realize how far it has separated you from God’s True purpose and protection.  Then run for the shelter of His wings.  I wish that I never even once considered disobedience, rebellion or ignorance, but alas that has been the fodder for my education.  For the Lord will never lead me into sin, but He will let me wander into it when I knew better all along.  For it by choice that we are saved, it is by choice that we determine a path of righteousness and obedience and it is by choice that we write God’s Word upon our hearts.  These are the greatest of our freedoms, choosing God above all else, including the most unrighteous of man’s opponents, “Self”.

Father, let me choose You above all else, never stopping to consider wandering into the wiles of deception and self aggrandizement.  Have mercy on me for being so difficult to train, may You walk with me every day so that I never cause harm and never venture outside your direction and will.  Give me grace to walk like Jesus.  In His name I beseech you.  Set them free Father, unleash them from the grasp of the control of Your enemies.

Not me but Him, not why but what, not if but when.  What permeates my concern?  Do I worry about the things I’ve yet to do for my legacy?  Does the direction and faith of my children continue to present itself as the greatest demand of my time and energy?  Do the lost frequently enter my consideration, that is, enough to get me off the couch to test their proclivity to hearing what should be heard by all?

I am being stretched, sometimes I feel as if perhaps beyond my elasticity, but somehow He always make things resize, reposition or reshape to fit the growth.  I am humbled by His capacity to bring about change in my life, whether voluntary or otherwise.  It would be shortsighted to consider that others are not experiencing this same reconfiguration, molding, tempering and transformation.  This world is being prepped, if not for the return of the Lord, for what then?  Do we see a mass movement, a collective ushering in forgiveness, understanding and broad based concern for the human condition.  Of course not, we see those who would have us believe this mantra offering up their most egotistical, self-centered and graft focused leaders as answer to our current predicament.  What we do not see are models of sacrificial ideology that would be consistent with a global move toward evolutionary concern.

The only way forward was paved by the One Sacrificial Lamb for all mankind.  The only leader who can justify His own Word, the Messiah of God, The Christ, who took away the sins of the World.  I say this in good rational understanding and conscience, for the collective resolution of man’s shared dilemma shall not be provided by those seeking the furtherance and edification of any singular, personal or fragmentary philosophy.  Even my own personal reflections and ideas have little relevance in the evaluation and resolution of a Globally collective circumstance.  Only God can see what must be done, since man has never been able to see his way outside of his own created problems.  He alone has provided the way forward through belief in and trust upon the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, redemption and sanctification, preparing us for eternity.  Only God thinks of the entirety of humanity in His resolution of our collective challenges.  He has shown us the path, we have but to choose whether to follow.

Authenticity requires accountability.  Accountability depends upon a baseline.  The baseline defines objective parameters such as; rules, behavior ranges and all those things which must invariably lay beyond the pale.  Therefore, setting, agreeing upon, determining or committing to those parameters that construct your baseline limits or frees your capacity to become and remain authentic.  Since liberalism expects, pleas on behalf of and worships the individual’s right to transform those parameters at whim, authenticity for those subscribing to a relativistic view requires a moving goal post.  Therefore with no absolute baseline upon which we must depend there cannot be accountability and consequently no authenticity.  That is why those who seek authenticity will inevitably change the channel once they have seen this variability of that which must by nature remain constant, in order to become or be considered trustworthy.

God is the only absolute baseline upon which accountability and authenticity may exist, build and remain inviolate.  His Word remains untouchable, pure, immutable by human desire, so that it may remain that Holy Baseline from which our own character may be developed.  In our quest to control our own surroundings and serve our vanity we only damage societal capacity when we feel it is within our purview to translate God’s Will in conformity to our own warped desire.  We have in effect limited our capacity to deliver authenticity.  Can evil be entirely authentic, absolutely not.  Why?  Because evil will always say or do whatever is necessary to achieve its own objective, a baseline which by its nature malleable based on desired outcome.  God’s Word may not always make us happy or free us to do that which remains our earthy desire, but it does not move according to circumstance.  That is what makes it the only foundation upon which real content may be developed.  For all else is mobile, illusive and owned by the effects of change and time.

We know what God says about our actions and the results of certain national actions or inactivity.  We do not like what must come to pass, for it assumes that many will suffer, secure judgment, become displaced or be separated from those whom they love, perhaps even for eternity.  The fact that I do not like an inevitable outcome does not free me from the reality of those impacts.  We have chosen to serve our own desires and thus removed our performance from the firmity associated with life built upon the immutable ground of God’s Word.  We have forgotten those principles that defined our personal and national desire for accountability, justice and reason.  We have forgone authenticity, replacing it with an individually designed program of “doing it”, whatever “it” is desired by the individual.  By this my opinion no longer matters about your behavior, for the baseline is defined by your desires.  Therefore, what you wish to do under our new construct should only matter to you, depend upon your own approval and subsequently all consequences should only be shouldered by you.  But that is not how it works in this world over which God alone is Sovereign.  We are all held to the same standard, God’s standard.  We are all sinners and need salvation from our own wickedness and rebellion.  If authenticity matters to you then you must choose a life committed to the immovable foundation of God’s Truth, otherwise lasting authenticity is unachievable.

Risk must be assumed by the organizational stakeholder.  In this instance the stakes are so high, as nothing is greater than the prices of eternity, oblivion, salvation and infinity.  We must all determine our risk aversion and either flee from the judgment to come or accept the price of our collective action/inaction.  There are unfortunately only two directions and only one path, one way leads toward God and the other leads away.  Our choice is the love He has for us, for Love always requires a choice.  Praise God in the Name of Jesus Christ the King.

A promised day, free from fear, iniquity and the ravages of time and death.  This road we must take, pondering, wandering, walking with passion and purpose.  What separates the audacious man from timid?  What impact has wealth or wisdom upon the life of man?  It is certainly the vision of a superior outcome which transcends the immutable drudgery of the real.  Even the evolutionist hopes.  Hopes for an end that surpasses the chains of sustained normalcy, faith that the spicy gifts of super natural performance will wash away the chalky blandness accompanying life’s white-bread sandwich.  It is the faith in things to come which delivers a man from the prison of circumstance, without it we are destitute, determined and destined.  We of faith in God, through belief in Jesus Christ, hope for a day that has been defined, foretold and promised us by God Himself.  That is our salvation, that this life has no authority over them bound for eternity with God.

A day free from my own evil, washed even of the spots collected while traversing this passage.  Can you see it, transformation, re-creation, emergence from the chrysalis of man’s mortality?  A morn, where I mourn no more for the lost and ravaged innocent.  A pure day, a whole day, filled, overflowing, knowing that I am with God and He with me, always.  That day transcends any and all my suffering.  Do not think us odd, we do not wish for sacrifice, martyrdom or purification through pressure, but we know the joy that accompanies their presence.  For they are evidence of Spirit, the Holy Spirit, living within each of us, a Holy of Holies, God’s living participation in man’s mortal passage.  They are reminder of our kinship to the God who surpasses time and beginnings.  They are our hope, hope in a day when all the suffering and tears shall expire, leaving us free to live in peace.  This is the day into which we dedicate and invest our hopeful existence.

That day is what makes me live this day to the fullest.  Knowing completely the purpose for which my breath was allotted, that to tell all with ears to hear about the promised day of God’s coming.  For it is Him I hope and through Him I find strength, courage and provision to carry each successive burden.  Perhaps, I will be blessed to help you shoulder yours, with hope in a day, an imminent occurrence, scheduled at the Will and behest of God Himself.  Watch, wait and wonder in vigilance and hope for the day that God has promised all of mankind.  In Jesus Name, I pray.

Knowing you are saved is a wonderful thing.  Father guide my words, so that I stay on the path of Your intention.  When does the absolute Truth of God’s Word truly matter to each believer?  I would submit, that moment begins when we understand that the Lord is the only Sovereign in the universe.  Without accepting God’s Sovereignty in my life I will continually resist, modify or ignore His Commands, leading to a lingering inability to accept His Word and its guidance for my decisions and walk.  Therefore, I must come to an acceptance of God’s Sovereignty before surrendering to His Word and Will for my life.

This is the path of the worldly Christian.  Having accepted the Truth of God’s intervention in humanity via His corporeal visitation as Christ, the Son of God, they never truly surrender to His Spirit exercising choice to continue on the path of self-determination.  Many, wishing to escape an eternity, separated from God by unrepentant sin, will fearfully say the Sinner’s Prayer, hoping, praying to save themselves from judgement.  Pastor’s will aide them in this half-hearted commitment, failing to mention what it means to become a “slave” to the Hand of Righteousness.  These ill prepared believers will never truly embrace the sanctifying Hand of God’s Holy Word upon their lives, leaving themselves with one foot in eternity and the other constantly slipping in the loam of this finite world.  We must always remember it is by the sealing of the Holy Spirit that we are recognized as citizens of Heaven.  Without Spirit we are simply men and women who have expressed regret for our sin, but never coming fully to the knowledge of the Truth.

God is sovereign in my life.  That means when I am faced with a choice or decision I always depend on His Word instead of my own understanding.  Just as with Love, another principle impossible to understand without relationship with God, obedience demands willing acceptance and surrender to the Absolute Sovereignty of God in each our lives.  Without acceptance of God’s Word as our paramount guide we are left vacillating between what we know to be right and those urges that guide our worldly desires.  In effect, our unwillingness to accept His Sovereignty allows the enemy footholds into our lives through which he and his fellow fallen may exercise authority, given them by our resistance to accept the Truth of God.  We are our worst enemy in this instance for we are acting as double agents to our own demise.  Understandably Christ is praying for us to come to this knowledge and surrender to His Will for our lives, but being a loving and Holy God He cannot simply allow disobedience without consequence.  So, those caught in this dilemma will most likely continue to wonder why calamity and chastisement follow them in life, when it has been their own resistance to God which has brought these unwanted effects.

Praise God for His Mercy and His Judgment.  In Jesus Holy and Righteous Name.