That Summer in Pennsylvania.  Men were present before their God in humility of purpose and presence.  Petitions, declarations, proclamation of Liberty made on the eve of intent for remorse, reprise or rapid subjection to indictment and death.  Simplicity had found its breath in the voice and heaving chests of a group of men daring to declare peace their intent but war if occasion required.  The line drawn, rope ended, last knot traversed, hanging out over the precipice of circumstance and occurrence they chose the Hope of God instead of doubt.  Insecurity present, without surprise they determined beyond the cost of their lives that living as subject to tyrant and price immeasurable.

And who came to plead God’s case that all men are Sovereign in their relationship, fealty and obedience to a perfect King?  Well, all who came to offer everything, knew fully and wholly of the Holy God that they entreated with request and answered blessing.  A nation, a start, opportunity, not chance because what does powerless fate have to do with the Sovereign Declaration of God in answered prayer?  What fickle minded philosophy or cadence can count time to the music playing outside of its existence, a melody beyond reference, simply to be enjoyed, gathered and remembered as the day when God spoke to all.

This would cost, probably everything, but then that is what comes when the word priceless has been covered.  But what is all material good or treasure in weighted measure against humanity’s freedom and promise of inalienable expression and pursuit of God’s unalterable rights?  Comparison may not be entertained when reviewing Heaven’s blessing.  This was God intervening in the material plane, proving once again that for those whom He loves all things are not only possible, but probable, likely and loving in expression to His Beloved.  When men chose to act upon their creative courage in likeness to God they honored Him and when they doubted not or offered all as expression of faith, they learned that pleasing God is possible to men who will be righteous before Him.  What were they given on that sweltering day when men came together in their committed expression that they had a King and No Man could take His Place?

Well, they were given choices that belonged to few in History; Choices of where to live, how to serve, what to teach and what to learn, how to govern and how to join in the governance of a people yearning, agreeing and enjoying the Freedoms God presented?  What price had they paid, well surrender, not to some tyrant King who would show them prison, rope or blade, but to the King of Kings giving their lives to divine providence to live out God’s Purpose for a Nation.  This Nation, a free nation, was dedicated to live for God’s Plan for humanity, in living their lives as a fearful poem, written to reflect His honor His Glory His Peace and Power before this world that all would know clearly, completely and endearingly that Jesus ruled the hearts of America.  Though others would come with freedom to choose whom they served in the afterlife, this nation had made a choice by invoking God’s Gift of freedom, inalienable from the assaults and frailties of men, that we had dedicated our freedom’s to the God who had given them.

Why then the assaults upon family, upon Christianity and the olive tree of Judaism?  Well, in a country dedicated to God only those with the moral compass and spiritual understanding could truly comprehend that deep meaning.  Placing them in assaults travel they forgot, in fear of their own potential loss, the Power they served and the story they had sworn to tell, teach and cherish.  They had forgotten, not the freedom that blessed them but its arrival, its source, it preciousness, before God and men. Now forgiveness is launched, for repentance must be made and without it no cleanse conscience for our leisurely treatment of Holy Objects and Ideals.  When men are sworn to watch the vault of important things day and night without loss of intent or vigilance and they depart that august duty, what shall become the nation in the time of darkness and defense?  Without appeal before God there shall be no measure or recourse, for what was given of Him in gift and loss through Him in adulterous behavior, must be regained From Him in request for pardon.

These are the days of Glory, not for Americans though we can review the times through which God’s Hand has delivered us, but for God as the World’s Eye turns to our recovery and reshaping again given by His Awesome Craftsmanship.  This America must change, transformed through the sanctifying Hand of Almighty God to become a nation that shall not forget our way again, remembering the Sovereign God, expressing His reflection and Love for the People He Created by bestowing that Sovereign Free Will Upon their free nation.  We are protected as long as we remember who it is that offers that protection and from whose mighty Hand we cannot be plucked by any enemy whether man or principality.

This is One Nation Under God and that is the only Way It shall continue to be a Nation. Roar America, raise your mighty Voice to Heaven declaring your worship of the Almighty God who Loved you enough to hear that roar and whisper back, I Love You.  May God Bless this United States of America and may His name be ever on our lips and His Love indelibly inked upon our hearts and minds in the Freedom He Gave Us, two hundred and forty three years ago today.  Thank you Father in the name of the Precious Son you gave for our salvation, Jesus Christ Our King.

Afraid to face the dark? Or is it the dawn? Perhaps the middle of the day when your mind is so taxed with information and obligations that you would prefer to escape?  Maybe you fear the tax man, elephants, mice, clowns or balloons?  Are you frightened by the thought of fear, not yet knowing from what to flee but knowing it will come nonetheless? This emotion is perhaps one of the greatest motivators in this life.  It is drives, cowers, stifles, reflects, mortifies, stumbles, hobbles, regrets and petrifies more people from achieving their joys in life than any other motion. It stops loves pursuit, forces one to stay in an abusive circumstance or makes us weep out of shame for the steps not taken.  What is fear to you, is it master, humbler, threat or thief?

Stop for a moment dear one and realize that it is okay to be afraid for in this moment there is the great possibility for decision and growth.  I embrace you and am sorry that you are terrified, I wish I had the power and authority to take that from you, but it is here in this lifetime, provided somehow by God as a motivating tool or obstacle to provide for our successes.  Yes, my fears may all come true right now and then where I am left.  Dead, perhaps if that is the nature of my terror?  Incarcerated, alone, tired, hungry, impoverished, ill, unloved, unwanted, separated from those you love, what is the end result of this fear that haunts you in its promises?  What happened right now if every fear you had were to suddenly be realized in an instant?  Where are you?  Are you still alive, are you okay or has the fear truly rendered you incapacitated as it promised?

Is fear rational?  I don’t think that matters, because it is emotional, and being of feeling its logic is frankly irrelevant.  However, fear is belief based.  If you do not believe that an emotion can hurt you are subject you to some fearful punishment then you will deny its worldly claim to effect that outcome.  As well, since fear is sponsored by belief then if God tells us that the spirit of fear is an enemy given facet of life, does it change the nature of the understanding of how to defeat it or navigate its promptings? Basically, if God didn’t give us the spirit of fear and it is therefore an enemy attempt to control our emotions to provoke specific action or inaction then God’s Word says that we are to speak His Word and the enemy must flee, for we are to resist his attempts to drive him from us.  Therefore, describing my fear through the lens of faith, it is one of those obstacles provided for my overcoming. For victory’s sake, I must resist, understanding that the temptation to flee is just as any other temptation; lust, pride, covetousness, adultery, fornication or thievery. When I resist them patience will strengthen my faith and when patience has done its work, perfection is revealed.

I know that this task is not easy, but no one has tried to tell you that it will be in fact it may be down right impossible, which is the true blessing.  You see, the things that you can do are simply life successes that may be overcome with our time, talent and a measure of hard work or coin.  It is in the impossible task that God’s Glory is demonstrated.  I don’t know what your fear.  I am sure that it is equally as terrifying as my own.  What I do know is that God Loves you so much to never frighten you and that Perfect Love Casts out fear.  The worst the enemy can do to me is take my life in a frightful moment of fear and mortality.  Almighty God is the only one with control of my immortality, my spirit.  Reverent fear of the one who holds every soul in the palm of His Hand, now that is a rational fear and a good one to have.  Work out your salvation in fear and trembling, not of any man, creature or power or principality, but of Almighty God.  Lord Jesus we are holding on until your return.  Let us do good work for you in the process of waiting.  In your precious name.  Amen.

Okay Caleb, you’re fat. Yes, I am thank you for reminding me the need for a more healthy consideration of this life over which I am the steward. I will not answer you in the worldly fashion for to do so would require me to put back on the skin suit of the old man who really cared what the world thought of me. My identity is in God. What you call dumb, funny looking, fat, weak, smart, incapable or simple He made for His Good Purposes. So, are you insulting me, who is fearfully and wonderfully made by the Almighty Hand of an Omnipotent God with perfect skills as a master craftsman or are maybe are you challenging the work of His Mighty Hand?

The methods by which the enemy will seek to assault you will always be identified with those that gain him access to the treasures of your joyous heart. We must be vigilant, diligent and aware of these creative attempts and become wise to our own navigable pathways in defense. It is entirely possible that the Lord allows the enemy at us through these avenues just as He designed the Law as a mirror for our self realization of sin, this too is a glorious mechanism that we might see the weakness in our defensive posturing. If is hard to protect an opening that might become a foothold or lead to a full on entourage of enemy encampment if we cannot ourselves see that weakness and take it to God with request for its healing, closing or eradication.

The Lord gives us more than we need, perhaps we are simply failing to recognize the tools and weaponry of our overcoming?  It is apparent that if I continue to walk this road that the Lord has determined for my footfalls that I will be assailed by the slings and arrows of enemy assault because of the nature and the importance of my mission for God’s Glory and purpose. Therefore, God’s Word is clear about a businessman embarking on a project without first considering the capacity, manpower and finances to finish or undertaking a battle for which there is no rational reason for victory. I am walking this road in the absolute certainty of victory.

Now that victory does not depend upon me but it does depend on my willingness to acquiesce and follow only the Lord’s direction. If I determine to follow my only tactical or strategic bullet points of objectives then I will most certainly not be following the path to victory dictated by Him in the outset or agreement. That means I must expect that this enemy also knows that I am a soldier for the Lord and the enemy being an effective planner will always assail me with the hope that I will find the road too difficult and take it under my own counsel to quit or come up short. Yes, God will use all things for good for those who love Him and walk according to His purpose, but that presupposes that we are in fact walking for His Purposes, not our own.

I might want seclusion, safety and limited relationships with saints and the World, but is that consistent with His rules for my Life? Of course not. So if I want His Goals, His Victory, His objectives then I must embark on this project with the intention of following His guidance, His wisdom and His planning for strategic and mission realization.  That requires that I see that you are being used by the enemy to point out the weakness in my defensive field or to show me that the Lord, as in this case has eradicated or deactivated that button that used to be effective in my persuasion. I praise God for His Glory in protection and thank Him for providing the mirror that you’ve given me to show me how much He truly does love, provide and protect me.

Thank you for being you, In Jesus Name, you are fearfully and wonderfully made in His image. Will you embrace that or avoid it as you’ve continued to do so for the duration. I pray that you surrender to His perfect Will for you life, In Jesus’ Holy Name.

If you go into a room and discuss any topic with the intention of bringing about an argument, there will those ready to oblige. However, if you go into a room and have complete love in your heart and wish to have a conversation things will likely go smoothly, that is until you determine to discuss one of two things; Jesus or the specific sin to which those in the room regularly practice. Why is it that those two subjects are inflammatory just from their mention? Could it be that we do not want anyone determining our worthiness or righteousness because it is directly attached to our self identity? If we identify with sleeping with multiple partners that are not our spouse or live the life of drunkenness every night then it is perhaps something for which we have already built considerable internal criticism and shame. Maybe our families have already spoken to of our pursuits and we already stand upon a position of weakness or the need for defense? I understand that about mentioning my normal practices by why would the mention of Jesus prompt the same veracious appetite for argument and self-defense?

That is a tremendous question upon which entire series of PhD’s have been offered and accepted. Far be it from a knucklehead from no where to render expository argument otherwise, but to me it is all associated with the inherent mechanisms associated with conviction of the Holy Spirit. We know that we are doing wrong regardless of the cultural norms so when anyone alerts us to that fact, especially in the circumstance when we have surrounded ourselves with advocates we have the propensity to rush to self-defense.  That is why they hate Jesus and avoid or immediately try to extinguish the topics surrounding a discussion about Him. Because, Jesus is the only worthy and righteous Judge.  In fact, the Bible states that He is the only one assigned that position and that the world, nations and individuals will all stand before Him one day in that judgment for their lives.  Additionally, let’s face it the idea of positing yourself as God on Earth here to save the entirety of mankind and making it exceedingly clear that you are the only door to Eternal afterlife is going to provoke some response, especially from those who desperately cannot have this information expressed or actually be true.

Sin, is the problem of man.  No religion deals with sin other than Christianity. Judaism delays it, allowing a yearly atonement for that sin that returns again the next year. Buddhism simply recycles it and the sin foretells the quandaries one will face in the righteous expression of our next life since the sins of this one determine the destination in the next. Islam determines that we simply have to try real hard to legally and morally balance the scales of good vs evil in our lives that on that day of our judgment we will be found 50.1% good allowing us entry into the next. Most other religions simply address the living of a virtuous life without addressing the complex internal dilemma of my psyche full of sin. There are some new age mystic faiths that deal with it in through meditation and living a centered life in touch and in tandem with the spirit of the Earth and nature but still never tell us how we are to deal with the sin of our past and present. Yet, Christianity deals with this subject head on. It says that the entire reason for our separation from that which is Godly is that sin which marks us, poisons us and determines the direction of our journey into the afterlife.

Christianity deals with the most caustic subject in any room anywhere that will always provoke argument, the sin of mankind. Jesus came to accept the punishment for every sin of all of mankind for the history and future of man’s existence.  God addressed this problem of our conviction by allowing us a method by which to be cleansed of previous sin and be forgiven for future sin all with the unbelievable benefit of being adopted into His Holy Family and being given as an added bonus of eternal life with Him, rather then the separation and punishment that befalls all those who are not forgiven. What God requires is repentance from that sin, simply admitted that it is wrong and that you did it, then admitting the belief and faith in the work that Jesus came and performed because God loved us enough to deal with the greatest topic of religious consideration our moral insurrection against the things of God; Sin.  What makes Jesus the center of men’s argument and some times heated response is that He says that if we don’t accept that free-will, Loving Gift that we will in fact be sealing our eternity in separation from Him within the Lake of Fire that He prepared for disobedient Angels. It is the judgment or the mention of the incumbent judgment afforded to all men once they leave this worldly plane that provoke or evokes the anger of men, for they feel that no one, even the God who created them should have the authority to determine the rules for their passing to the afterlife. They have in fact invented a god of their own imagination and a heaven of their own day dream and if you challenge their narcissistic understanding of that construct you have now threaten to destroy the fabric of their entire existence.

I guess looking at those odds I too would have the recourse to express some ideas in dramatic fashion if you were challenging my reason for being or the determination of my fantastic afterlife with your words about a God who had a differing set of rules. That is why it is so important for disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ to understand the circumstances in which they will stand for speaking the Word even in Gentleness and Truth will in fact challenge man’s existence in this life and the next. Why does the mention of Jesus or the sin that people practice provoke such emotional response, because the Truth of it would mean that we are all damned unless accepting the one path to life set before us by God. We are simply so independent and rebellious to authority that we will not accept any mandate that is not of our own volition. Well that is okay, this one is by choice, you can choose to be cleansed of all unrighteousness, transformed in this lifetime and given eternity with God in the next or you can choose to be judged in front of that Holy And Righteous God and sent for eternity in a pool of fire with His Angels. It is in fact a rational choice with one clear option that is to the benefit of all mankind. Yet you still out of the Love of God for all men have been given the choice to serve whichever god you choose. You can choose the gods of this life in which case you will receive the rewards of this life and no reward in the next or you can serve the Everlasting God who will reward you in both this life and the next. The choice is yours. Whether you have effective argument to justify your current behavior the choice remains in the background awaiting your decision. No other religion deals with it except the true Gospel of Peace, provided by God through Jesus. The way the Truth and the Life found only in Jesus Christ the King. Choose, this day whom you will serve in this life and the next.

Searching the quizzical origins of argument, I was forced to inquire of myself, I said, “Self, what causes you to believe that everything that proceeds from your mouth, is indeed true or correct”? Then self was perplexed for he was stumped without answer, indicative of a man who had not yet pondered the questions he ought to ask of, well, self. How do I know with certainly upon those things about which I pontificate regularly that they are asserted fact instead of the idle ramblings of a man who would be king? In this endeavor I was driven to the origins of how “truth” might actually be defined.

If I know that my truth or the words that I am speaking are truth then I naturally assume that you will perceive them such as the august gifts of wisdom I have come to bestow upon a world that is in desperate need of my insight. Say, what? If truth is based upon perception then how does one group corner that which may be assumed is truth? If that is our guiding structure than whatever the ruling class, the dominant set of thinkers determines is truth is then in fact the accepted truth. But then what if I don’t accept it, being a sentient being and finding what they’ve said, preposterous, I am free at that point to simply deny their truth submitting that since truth is simply respondent to the perception then I therefore perceive it to “not be true”.  Therefore, truth must have a larger construct, rule, law or guidance that is not subjective that is indeed objective and may be reviewed by all, regardless of perception to in fact be the reliable facts upon which we may secure our thinking vessels.

Okay, so there has to be some manner of objective, reliable compentry to the Truth in order for it to be truth.  What then is that agreement or those elements upon which reason relies that defy and objection in determining some fact is in fact the truth? How can we for instance stand in front of a judge and proclaim, “I promise to speak the truth, the whole truth, so help me “God”. Oh, wait you have now injected a disputable measure of spirituality in to this argument. That is frankly unfair.  For how might I have an argument based upon truth, in fact regarding the subject of truth itself without now having to also have an argument that the truth is unavailable in its entirety without such discussion about a Sovereign God who is the Keeper or the Reviewer of all that is Truth?

Is it impossible for us to just come to rational agreement that 2 and 2 are in deed 4 in order for it to be truth? Well, that injects several other difficulties into the mix you were hoping to simplify. Yes, in deed we may come to some agreement that 2 and 2 are 4 and that being the sole determination of its truth as a statement until such time as some departs from that agreement as that continues to rely upon man’s perception or power of definition as the determination of “Truth”. Additionally, we are now left with the hopelessness that at some date in the future someone may come a long and demonstrate a circumstance where 2 and 2 do not in deed add up to 4 at which points the entire basis for our reliance upon the truth was subjective from the outset. What then must we assert from the inevitable injection of Sovereignty in to the mix by judicial partners and authorities?

Many would believe that they are in deed subjecting humanity to some arbitrary or faith based duty to respond to a Truth that is determined by a God in which none believe. However, what men have determined over time is that since truth may not be simply subjective, within the purview of man’s determination that it must be “a” “lien” “able” from the whims of man to subjectively transform its state of origin. Basically for Truth to be truth it may not simply be agreed upon by a majority party it must have been supernaturally defined as outside the subjective findings of man. Oh, wait, you mean sciences continued notion that they will experiment and experiment until the in deed have a proof upon which they will make millions of dollars and acclaims to fame by submitting some heretofore misunderstood concept of a natural truth?  If I follow the process of cheese being made back to the source that was the goat or cow from whence it came have I now discovered or won the capacity to define that Truth?

The universe exists, if I deconstruct it and find the components that were used to construct that universe is it my realization of this that makes it truth, or simply is my realization giving credence and support to the objectivity of the universe that does not need my definition in order to be proclaimed Truth? You see God exists outside of my definition. He does not need my belief in Him, my perspective of his believability or my definition to objectively be Truth. Therefore, God is a better basis for determining truth than is that of a round headed, pontificating, self proclaimed Holy Man of God. It is God who is the only Truth and from His definition, His origin, His instruction, direction and design that we capture an agreement that surpasses the gullibility and subjectivity of men’s narrow conceptual analysis and fickleness.

Without God then therefore we may not have any Truth and in fact the Truth that is God is the only reliable and responsible Truth to which all men may subscribe. That coincidentally is what is said in Roman’s 1 and once we have denied that fact God turns us over to our own decadent thinking. This is where I believe we create that point in man’s errant thinking, the Point I refer to as, “The House of Cards” or the “World of self-creation” which again is something warned of in the ten commandments. Men, once turned over to their own decadence are forced to construct a universe based upon their own subjective analysis and must then surround themselves with members of like-thinking that their definitions are safe from challenge and subsequent loss of reality when that definition is in fact challenged by rational or different thinking.

I believe that is why when a culture group driven by their own desire to become a certain way that is inconsistent with God’s direction that they must then convert all members of their communities, businesses, faith groups and support mechanism to repeat that mantra or it begins to fray the lightly woven tapestry of their subjective “house of cards” definition of the universe around them. That is why they are never satisfied in pursuing their own self-interest once approval is gained or tolerance ventured, they are driven to have the entire world acknowledge the reality of their thinking otherwise their universal definitions are forever tenuous and may  be challenged at some distant point. This fear will cause them to destroy ever group with whom they disagree, in a quest for self-preservation of the Truth that cannot be Truth without their decadent supportive thinking and active defense. It is a sad circumstance wrought with feelings of shame, inadequacy and insecurity, often replaced by hypocrisy and condemnation of those faith based groups who submit and hold dear to the only origin of actual and factual truth being God Himself.

Truth is not what I make it but it defines me as I am a created being living within the Universe defined by God. I do not possess nor may I acquire or hijack the capacity to defined truth in my own subjective measure for it will forever be based on my inadequate thinking and therefore subject forever to interpretation, agreement and subject to the internal errors within my original thinking. God is the only source of Truth. It is the Truth that Jesus Christ is God having submitted himself to the humbling reality that He alone could come to Earth and fulfill that law that He presented in order to save us from an achievement beyond our capacity for performance. He laid down His life that we might be free by our reliance upon the Truth that Jesus Christ is Lord and upon that Truth that does not for one moment require my belief in order to be true, that will set all humanity free from the horrors of sin and death. The Truth is Truth regardless of what the enemy says that it is. We know it we feel it we smell, understand and crave it for it upon that Truth the only available immovable mooring within the universe that we may securely lash the eternal ships of our Spirit existence.

The Lord God be praise in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Has free speech gone the way of the horse plow, useful but seldom displayed as an effective method of readying the fields, too cumbersome and slow to make ready each row? Has sarcasm become the application ready field of expression that skirts the rules and entertains the fancies with potent question, yet dances deftly around the difficult topics for which one might be proclaimed “hate speaker”? Have we entered the day where truth must be embodied within carrier jargon and protected by lettuce wrap or cabbage to keep it warm and safe for eventual consumption? When did we lose the appetite to hear it like it is and the courage to enter on to the threshing floor of reasonable argument in the determination of an ideas qualities of efficacy and social acceptability?

Recently I determined to put out a book on the rules surrounding “safe speech”, those words will never get your thrown into jail, that may not pass political muster but are so vanilla that they hold no specific or underlying threat of imprisonment. The impact upon our free speech rights has become so drastic with the advent of super human artificial intelligence editors and analysts that now you don’t even get the chance to eat your words or retract them before the brown shirts are standing at your door demanding justice. Now it is more effective to change your dialect to one that reflects the “watering down” of America, specific words used with social charm to saw what you would like to say without really saying it.

No longer protected by the first amendment unless you are also accompanied by a well paid staff of “civil activists” not unlike those currently employed by those who have stolen God’s promise to Noah.  If you are well funded by European or worldly enterprise seeking to divide and destroy American culture and you have the legal teams and assembled bodies ready to picket any expression of decent caliber in truth, you shall prevail. Whilst the man on the street telling it like it is may find himself with three hots and a cot for expressing ideals that are too domestic for the foreign appetites of social engineers. Now you must be one of the paid members of the cadre employed by the counsel for this and the commission for that or the Group that meets in secret to talk about the legality of public expression in order to be protected by the first amendment. If you ain’t for the good old boys you ain’t gonna find the reality of your circumstances very appealing when they come and shut you down for telling your truth.

These are dangerous times for those who hold true to tradition and truly believe in the inalienable gifts from God within a nation that fought for these protections. It is no longer assured that if you have salient reason for a particular perspective that its expression will not get you fired, lose a love interest or worse. These are the days of the cautious objector, the closet courageous, the avatar or character actor intent on claiming it was merely comedic expression or a “satire piece” in order to maintain a state sans incarceration.  What does that sensibly portend for Christians? Go ahead, say it you know that it is truth and by any measure in today’s America the one group are readily allowed to hate without fear of reprisal are the Christians.

Men and women willing to remain in their faith and be faithful to the proclamation of God’s Holy Word meant for man will soon find themselves wearing much more than the traditional labels of intolerant, cynic or hypocrite. The days of persecution for even telling people God’s view are just around the bend awaiting those who are not prepared for the onslaught that faces expression by those faithful to Almighty God. Soon we will be in the midst of an all out battle against the Holy Word of God forcing most without backbone or escape to water down the word and find within it loopholes for tolerance to sin that the Lord proclaimed abomination. We are seeing even now the larger churches struggling for the inclusive language to avoid saying what God proclaimed sin in exchange for a broader explanation or vanilla understanding of a Holy And Righteous God who says that one small sin earns the judgment of “death”. We will be forced to take a position in our faith that is “luke warm” or even cold in order to escape the “heat” of public ostracism and acquittal.

If you have not readied your heart for your reaction to this movement then you best rapidly turn your heart toward preparation. For although I will put out the book on safe speech the moment that you venture into the public forum expressing the true, logical and everlasting Words of Almighty God without some manner of governor or sarcastic covering you shall be assailed or punished. This is the time for which we have been prepared in the Bible. This is the time of our testing. This is the time to either live free and tell the truth about your faith and withstand the consequence or cower and deny Christ. Which of us shall rise to the opportunity and withstand the pressures. If the Apostles of Jesus are any indication, then if you have not significantly prepared in prayer and heart adjustment then you will fail in the short term. Being successful in the long term is certainly the objective but don’t you wish that you could escape that eternal regret which must certainly accompany that luke warm denial of Christ given in the moment to save your mortal skin?

I do not know what shall befall America. I do not know why we shall fall pray to the coming One World Government that is peaking over the horizon upon us. What I do know is that we will. I would like to believe that the reason we do is because Christians, indwelt by God’s restraining Spirit must be removed in order for the son of perdition to arise and that single removal allows America to be overwhelmed by the remaining populace who crave globalization, but I do not truly know what occurs, just that it does occur. God’s Word is clear. We shall not prevail in the long term in keeping America from the grasp of this global empire. For whatever reason we do become part and parcel of its global dominion and unification. Therefore, since that is God’s Plan I believe that what we do leading up to that time is perhaps the most important set of steps or period of time in the life of each believer. Just as, the test of taking or not taking the mark will be for each person who holds to the faith after the rapture we are all being given the perfect opportunity to utilize our voices in the faithful proclamation of our belief in God. This ideally must be done in the face of overwhelming odds where doing so will certainly and may certainly cost us everything.

Since my free speech is the dividing line between my safety and my faith, then I must remain clear in my expression and understanding that I am going speak the Word of God always, in gentility, honesty and truth without shame until the day when God calls me home.  For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for these are the Words of salvation for all mankind and if no one tells them then how will they hear? I and others have been sent to share that Word in its entirety, not with sarcasm or special care to protect ourselves or pamper the constitutions of sinners but to warn them from the wrath to come.  I fear God more than I fear man. God told us the persecution is coming. It would be utter foolishness for me to believe that I will escape those trials. I would rather prepare for them then hope they never happen. I pray for you the same, IN Jesus’ Mighty Name.

Is there an acceptably appropriate moment to begin the accounting of one’s life? Shall we venture to the beginning to capture the entire flavor of a man’s story of accolade and failure? How briefly is the importance of child hood events ought be discussed or treasured? Do we linger merely for the sake of taking pleasure or interest in the pain of youth or simply move on to moments of maturity, calculating and defining adult hood as the only true concentration for the measure of man?

Is there associative pain with being born, living as youth or is it primarily defined from the cultural or economic circumstances of each person’s upbringing? Do we remember the early years of most men or perhaps do we rapidly skip to adolescence or early manhood to reflect upon the totality of lessons grasped as a young person? Is it the story of tragedy in which we find interest, flavor or rhythm, finding all else but the emotional upset of comedy, poverty or intrigue necessary for interest garnishment? You see each of us remember those episodes of youth bountifully, whether painful or pleasant for it may be contended that every moment of this life truly matters to us and certainly to God.

We ran, we cried, fell and wandered immensely regarding the first moment we recognized the finite and final price of mortality. Whether a bird shot from tree perch, a dog, a gerbil or even more drastic aunt Gertrude we grew that moment with regard to understanding the temporary nature of our reality probably more than any event since. Some were blessed with resilient family who made it through the primary years unscathed, free from incident or disease only to come crashing down to the cold granite of this world’s truth when we saw our best friend die or our man’s best friend. But what of life, when did we practice or recollect our understanding of the life’s robust measure, its abundance, hope and treasures to be carried through and beyond its apportionment? We found those moments of hope in the spiritual conversations either with those understanding and conscious leaders seeking our fulfillment or much like myself in the quiet moments with a God who cared enough to show up and explain the inexplicable.

Do we remember the pains more than the joy? Perhaps, but in so doing are we not indicating the nature of our own perspective heart? If I recall the first kiss, the first love, the joy of the kindness and reward shown by a caring Parent, do I then lose the potent story of victimization that accompanies most youthful exuberance? Am I poisoned by the tale or do I poison the potential by how the tale is remembered or its affect upon psyche and reason? Do I have more authority than I let on, to simply concentrate the focus of my story in its telling to paint a picture of slavery or worse, when in fact when told by objective author it was one of glory, learning, purpose, difficulty and growth? What then is now my excuse for a life spent without the exclamation of joy and abundant life, replaced with the hardships of a journey most arduous but splendorous in measure depth, and outlook?

My story begins with the moon. Reaching it, standing upon it, looking up to it, wondering the temperature the touch the seismology and the mountainous events. The light caught my eye, the light of a sun that warmed my shoulders, the light of that same sunlight as it danced through her sandy hair. The smiles, the anger and the unfortunate tragedy of siblings who thought themselves perhaps dislocated, having been placed in the perfect training ground that their pain would produce a measure of epistemological perfection in traveling the perhaps painful unwilling moments of participation with tyrants. Subjected to pressures of overwhelming authorities, barely mature themselves, angry, dejected, overbearing, guilty and ambitious to make such a statement in this life that the entire pond would scant forget the splash.

The moon offered no solution only respite, dream and imagination. In that imagination I found the salvation offered by escape and the salvation offered by a Holy God. For in the moments when this world offers more than we can process we are forced to investigate that which is beyond our circumstance. If not for the moon I would not have met God. If not for God I would never have loved living on Earth in an understanding that the moon is a dusty, dry, cold and lonely escape for most lovers to pine and porch pontificators to venture in oration.

What then of the humdrum moments of mere existence? Do they simply not count as they have no flavor, capture no measure of attention or emotion in their mention, so they simply cease to offer importance to our historical existence? Are my failures perhaps of greater import or interest of my successes, since we must faithfully admit that we learned more when on our backs, faces or fallen to our knees then we ever learned in joyful expression of our recent victory? What then shall we tell of a man for an abject and effective retelling of a story replete with pain and pleasure? I don’t know, but I do know this that it all mattered. You mattered within that retelling, nothing was unimportant, even my sin.

For in the vision of my cruelty. frailty, wickedness and unworthiness, I fully realized how precious to God I had always been. Even before my remembering of the story began. See we all have a beginning that He remembers of which we have no account, that time of our crafting and design. That time that is only God’s to remember and recount as He wishes, as each of us were known to our Loving Father before we became a thing headed for the procreation, we were a thing of precreation. I wonder how His view of our lives differs from our own. Simply seen in hope and expectation and guaranteed victory before it even began. Can we perhaps see ourselves in God’s Eyes. Maybe this will offer a greater perspective than the limited thinking of my own?

Trying to do what the mind will not allow without freedom. The freedom to imagine that day, that wonderful day when the joys of anticipation fully answered, we are free to escape that which reason limits. Understanding, a complex bundle of science and thought never matures to bouquet without the splendor of daydreamed horizon. These paths these one way, singular vehicle roadways are the construction of those who would capture the imagination and seal it tightly that we may never challenge their ruling. The joy of this life in the midst of pain is something that requires that projection, understanding and contentment of things only seen in the certainty of a hopeful mind.

Even now this world constantly seeks control. Shaping, twisting, parrying, indulging and then bullying each of us in to a conditioned mindset. The nearest victim that of our dreams, imagination and expectation are soon put away as folly, useless and impractical components of a world ruled by reasoned thinking. All discovery is found within the realms and boundless universe of the imagination. Practicality is useful in paying the bills and planting crops or walking the dog but it fails to feed the spirit which is made for universality.  That is not to condone those seeking false release in to the ethereal understanding available through relationship with God’s Word and Prayer, for we must remain vigilant in our focus to defend against the powers, principalities and realms that will gladly offer us a taste of personal power to ensnare us. Why else would God have allowed them among us, fully knowing this mechanism would present ample opportunity for our capture. That men would fall for the ploy of personal magics and conjuring, thinking themselves having cornered the seat of imagination?

These are the days that must be faced with faith or capitulation. We must either hold true to the ideas of hope, a hope found within the confines of our thinking and belief, tested by that which may be seen, felt or touched. Or give into the hopelessness of what lay before us in this circumstantial reality, lacking the visioned promises of Almighty God. They would sell you on sorcery yet have you limit your thinking to the understanding of experimentation that at its outset excludes the possibility of God’s intervention in the world. It is a quandary, a maze from which there is no exit, for it requires a man to imagine within the confines of reasoned thinking, a painful and hopeless experience. My imagination is pure, it allows me to imagine the Lord’s face looking down upon me in favor and delight. It gives me a mental picture of New Jerusalem as it comes down from the sky and the solid full-color vision of Christ’s Return. These are not the things of sorcery but my minds capacity to imagine the realization of the Promises Given within the Word of God.

I do not need your empiricism to tell me about the Lord, I have the mind of Christ, given me by the indwelling Holy Spirit. Do not tell me that history of man’s cruelty to one another in legalism and conquest dictates the limits of our morality and love. How small our borders, how limited our thinking if we are held in check by the sorcery of man. God is infinite, we were made in His likeness, then what does that portend for our constructive boundlessness? They will challenge the ideas of relationship with Almighty God by any assault or ideal that limits the freedom which comes to each person who discovers the universality of that relationship. It is control they seek and the best way to control any specie is to corral them, herd them, place them within the controllable barriers of paddocks whether mental, physical or spiritual. We must embrace our imaginations but never let them act as enemy foot hold or opportunity. There is safety but it is only available under the Mighty Wings of God. Seek Him and you shall find those things beyond your mortal envelope. In Jesus’ Name.

Is our rebellion so significant, so complete that we are even now planning the long term overthrow of God’s domain? Do we secretly harbor resentment of His Ominscient authority to the extent that we ponder, reflect and make safe harbor of those thoughts of being free to pursue the depths of heaven without the worship of its King? What manner of man is rebellious against the Father who loves him? How can a man believe to be given, protected and provided life and all things, blessed then turn his teeth toward the very hand which provided that succor? What are we as humans that we cannot simply accept the rules that God has given for they are not egregious but a requirement that we acknowledge the one right path and that we set ourselves permanently upon it in a journey to the righteous return to our Creator?

Often, in review I am thoroughly unimpressed with my own manufactured wisdom, for its structure lacks surety and the objective of its mission is typically self-focused and reliant upon want. Where do I seek to go that is beyond that place where only God may take me? What joy is there in self rule when that sovereignty would cause me to lose the greatest gift of all the love and salvation provided by a God who so desperately wants to spend an eternity with me? Do I in turn crave to spend eternity with God, or is this just an accommodation I’ve provided to earn eternal existence without going to the depths of judgment? What is it that I truly want from the Lord? Do I wish that He would give me all things and then maybe a hand of magic that I might be my own ruler in my own alternate version of the reality He crafted? How foolish are my wanderings from the Lord?

I see the predicament of the fallen. I see, smell, taste and feel the lure of sin and find it bitter. For once enjoyed and accepted it inserts a wedge between each man and his Creator. For we are no longer able to pursue that sickening sweet aroma of our wanton lusts and remain within good relationship and standing with a Holy and Righteous God who hates the creation and sin within man’s bosom.  It is just reality. It is not something difficult to understand, yet it is something very difficult to accept once we have made determination that we wish to have our lusts fulfilled regularly. This is the choice of separation from God and the provisions everlasting. For some it takes a long time to incrementally edge away from the Lord’s sovereign protection. For others their hunger is so ravenous that they immediately turn their backs on truth and the possibility of God’s pleasure. Yet for all of us it remains the greatest choice of this lifetime for it not only dictates the pathway of this lifetime but the destination and position in the next. That seems so drastic to many, that they cannot dare to believe in a God who would believe Himself the only power capable and rightful to make the rules for this life and determine eternity is a reserved position for the faithful. In there rebellion they dismiss the reality and accept the imaginary to simply press the limits of avoidance to escape the proclamation of Almighty God. Not very smart and certainly less than effective.

I pray that you find a quiet place of peace and resolve with the Lord God that you too are free from the rebellion of wanton sin. The only path to this destination is through the continued participation and relationship with His Holy Spirit in sanctification. Being with God and ending the war by being cleansed of unrighteousness is the greatest place a human may ever reside. His yoke is light, His blessings tremendous and the love He offers you will find no where else in this life and none of it in the next through separation. End the War with God today, believe upon Christ Jesus and be cleansed of sin and have the desire for it removed over time. Sponsoring, feeding or embracing your rebellious heart will mean your eternal death and separation from all that you once loved and the Almighty God who awaits us all in eternity.  In Jesus’ Name.

At the crux of our battle sits something unknown, inexplicable, something devious from which all shy away. The fear is palpable; you can see it within them if they fail there will be no forgiveness. Gone are the moments when lavish dreams are answered for decades resulting in nothing but excess, destruction and exhausted souls. Yet some have been made wealthy to the depths of our imagination, where halls are filled with gold, silver and gems and fat dragons atop them in luxury and watchfulness. There were no limits but now somehow things have become practical as people arouse and remember the value of conservative ideals, storing for the future and utilizing taxes collected in prudent expectation of a better life. Now the enemy roars and threatens and beckons those susceptible to fear to cower back into their cells with promise that they will be torn asunder for pondering, wondering or the straying departure of this tired of unending lust.

They have seen the innocence and heard the cries of those in defense of the vulnerable and they have remembered that they were once one among many, yearning for safety, happiness and a better life. The lure of easy money passed, not so effective the whip as the sugar cube at capturing the wanton desires of those who would be filled, then filled and filled again. They have cause to fear, but now have remembered the call of true fear lost to them when they departed from the known truth of the God that they once respected. Omniscience beckons reminds, recalls and challenges all to find a place free from the plying eyes and ears of a Lord who is indeed everywhere.  And worse, he sees the heart, not just that which is done in privacy but those intentions, the reasoning, the sour and bitter motivations of an unclean existence. Wealth will not purchase escape for there exists no respite from arms that made eternity. The time nears and it is not that some have begun to fear the darkness less merely understanding that the light is to be respected infinitely. The dawn comes and passes and some begin to yearn for a taste of the light that bore them, recalling the joy and warmth and depth of His never ending Love, hoping beyond measure for the rekindling of fires gone dormant long ago. How could they have forgotten so long, how could memories be so effectively wiped clean that even now it is difficult to remember our origins. What a palsied hopeless place to reside in the darkness wondering why you miss the light, losing satisfaction of the sensory input that sustained so sweetly for so long.

What of the stories that we all know to be true, what if this is the moment when those captured tales emerge to reveal the truth of God’s Long and Patient Plan for mankind. Do we begin to ponder our ending, considering the separation from all that we’ve known and loved to great a distance for the earned entry? What now this measure of wealth, health and stature compared to the good name spent as copper in quest of gold. So old the stories of redemption that we now know to be truth for we see those against whom we are aligned and they certainly are God’s Kin. It is evident in their walk, in their footing, smell, speech and enduring character. They have forgotten the fear of this devil we’ve named king replaced by the reverent understanding of a lasting, eternal God who lays beyond the hand of creation’s ploy. What a dismal place this storage house for treasure, once gathered that must be protected, hoarded and recounted for the remainder of the mist of this life and forfeit at the end. What then of something lasting, something precious something eternal, it shant be found in this line of inquiry.

We listen to the same old convincing leveraged clichés; it has been rewritten, the Bible is nonsense, God is a higher power, it is the invention of cunning men, none of that happened it is fiction and Jesus was most certainly not God. But it has never rung true, never grasped hold of the imagination of stolid men who in the seeing, reading and researching of this sacred tome find nothing but truth, education, wisdom, knowledge and historical fact. Again the master warded us pour ourselves upon it in disbelief, refracting its promises, dissolving its surety and distrusting its maker. So much time has been spent in watering down its importance that even now we have begun to wonder why so much time has been spent to dismiss something that is so blatantly false?  Who attacks the enemy of no regard? Who paints with radar the tank that is without threat? This will not and cannot stand logical investigation for in its review we find the enemies documents powerful, fresh, everlasting and whole. Certainly we hate them just as we have been trained to hate their penman and their prophets, saints and sanctification. But now the cracks that once were ignored are now gaping rivulets through which run the waters that once sustained our views as truth, trickling into the bowels of the Earth leaving us thirsty for some Word, perhaps even hungering for the Word of God. Yes that is it we just want to have one drop of its everlasting waters to touch our cheek or drip in coolness across our sandy tongue. This is the beginning of our fear for now we see the portended result of fiery lakes and dusty mouths, Forever Dry.

Maybe we can escape this escapade of madness, Perhaps the King of everything will once again welcome us and offer some manner of work through which I might earn forgiveness. Too cruel to expect that He would consider me eligible for the kindness and care of His offered Mercy and Grace. Is it a dream this madness I am experiencing that I would even now crave to be a slave to righteousness in exchange for the promises of all Earth’s wealth and plenty? I see them in their happy groups, with their joyful smiles and the pious loving words, counting all the empty blessings of poverty and truth. How can they be even for a moment considered of envy, they aspire to nothing, own nothing and struggle in song as if the work, toil, troubles and pain are a reward for service. What manner of super fool has God created, lulling them into an impoverished, nightmare that no one with a right thinking would call life, yet they taught it as abundance in power, peace and humility? How does humility pay the bills, reward the victorious or pleasure the proud angry rituals of those seeking esteem? But it still seems so well perfect, comfortable and dare I say deliciously simple and boring but in a pleasing manner. Maybe I can sneak a peek at this moronic troop from afar and gage what measure of insanity grips them and holds them so tightly to folly that they actually go the grave appreciative, in joyful adoration of this Righteous King they would serve with nothing. Yet, still there is something quite odd because it all seems to make some manner of sense, this foolishness of God’s Faithful. I cannot put my finger upon it but there is something that requires further inspection and I might add some quiet reflection away from those of my banner guard on constant quest for conquest. We’ve made slaves of many. I will  venture among them when the times are quiet and figure out their madness once and for all.

My friend, it is not a myth but truth you seek, the Truth that God put within each of us, that we might know Him and have no cause for excuse at judgment.  Don’t call me friend or I will pull out that lousy tongue that continues to make me wish vehemently I had never heard you utter a word. It’s okay, I said the Lord of Glory knows you and has loved you from the time before you were even an idea. Don’t say that you wretch how could he love something so putrid, poisonous and provocative? There is no way that God even knows me never mind has some concept of love for I deserve no love, only pain and hate, the same pain and hate with which I have fashioned and driven those before me.  God could not love one like me.  I don’t know your sins, but I am certain that they are the same sins of every man, pride, envy, hate, distrust. The Lord says that there is not one man good, that all are deserving of the payment for sin which is death. That is why He made a way so that “all” who repent, believe and accept the gift of salvation might find life abundantly here and eternal life in the life to come. How can this be that an all-Powerful God wouldn’t punish those like me who have done nothing but rebel and cause pain and suffering for humanity? There is no way that He would leave even a crack large enough for my slithering escape of my own predicament, Deeds and nature? Why would God give me this choice of which you speak? Because my friend He loves you so much that He came into this world, experienced our temptation and pan and lived a perfect life then took all sin with him to the grave and arose by the power of Spirit to everlasting life that we might be redeemed to Him in Heaven for the price of believing and faith. That sounds too amazing to be true, you must be lying, but then again I have never seen you lie in all the miserable years I have had to put up with your ridiculous grinning. How does one achieve this redemption to God? Simply admit your unrighteousness, repent of your sin, turn away from your wickedness and accept the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit that He might cleanse you of all unrighteousness, forgive your sins of past and future and seal you for eternal life with Him. It can’t be that simple, that sounds like some kind of a fairy tale, but I cannot get over the love you have in your eyes nor the way I see you live with those around you. I will try this thing called repentance and accept His Sovereign offer of Mercy. Lord I am a sinner. I need your salvation. Please come into my life and cleanse me of sin and save me from my prison. I want so much to know you and to be free of the debt that I can never pay. Forgive me and lead me to the way you would have me live. Fill me with your spirit of Truth that I might gain discernment and wisdom to understand the right path from this life to the next. I love you and thank you for offering me redemption and grace. Jesus I love you.

At that moment I felt the pain reside and the peace come into my heart I also heard the raging screams of the dark one having lost me for good to God.  I walk now in the light forever. The darkness has no lure and no claims upon my immortal soul. I will learn, to walk in faith and stand against the enemies of the Light that I too might rescue those that may still be saved from the darkness of eternal separation from Almighty God. My service to darkness shall be forgotten but it shall make me ever mindful of the painful cost of deception that trapped within its promises of wealth and leisure. There are grandeur things in life than the promises of this mortal and temporary body. I look forward to the day when I shall receive the incorruptible body having been paid for by propitiation of the Perfect Sacrifice, Christ Jesus the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, to the Glory of God Almighty.