Are you driven? And if so what objective, resource, tandem relationship or ideal spurs you forward? Are you relentless in your pursuits, do they pester you during hours dedicated to rest? Where are you headed my friend? What it the destination to which you’ve so aggressive directed your vessel? What have you left behind, deemed less important or too costly regarding time and energy that it had to be abandoned for the cause? What are the gains of such venture? Where will you be in five years having duly pursued this veracious appetite for success? Does this path seem so right to you that there is nothing or no one who could dissuade you from achieving that objective? What process sponsored this “at all costs” journey?

What is the nature of my “single minded” focus?  Why am I so determined to pursue this avenue even at the sacrifice of all other ideas or roads less traveled? Where did the idea come from was it generated in a moment of inspiration, am I copying someone else’s achievement of making up for their failure to achieve or do I have a hard time identifying the catalyst of my pursuit?

The Bible is very clear that there is a way that appears right to a man but its step leading directly to Hades. Now I am paraphrasing, but we get the general intent of the scripture. If it is myself and untrustworthy source at best from whom I have received “life leading” direction then by nature it is suspect. Do we have the self control of the Holy Spirit’s Character and guidance to understand that those voices that are not from God, even those voices of self must be investigated, analyzed and suspect at best in review. I don’t know what is right. I did not determine what the right path is in life by my own means or understanding, I was given that quiet whisper by the Good Shepherd and made the choice to obey that voice alone. “My sheep know my voice and another they will not follow”, does that sound familiar. This scripture describes a life where all other competing influences and voices are told to take a secondary or tertiary position to the clear direction of the Shepherd. Unfortunately for those of us who are really self-assured and motivated that includes our “own” voice as well.

I must face the fact that God gives me direction in HIS TIMING. When direction emerges internally, compulsively or with an appetite of “it must be done at all cost”, the mature Christian takes this to the Lord for confirmation. That process of confirmation typically resolves in an understanding that this direction did not come from the Lord but usually from our own mortal appetite for success, achievement, conquest, glory or wealth. If you find yourself driven, please slow down, pull over and let the Lord take the wheel because you my friend have gotten off that skinny path, taking another road of diversion from true purpose. I pray for peace in your life this very moment, In Jesus Mighty Name.

Are you ready for the great things that are headed our way or are you spending your days being concerned with the circumstances and revealed struggles before you? Have you learned to dance with joy at the pain you are graced to experience, as it tests, grows and prepares you for the Great Day of the Lord’s Coming and the time when you too will be filled with the powerful witness of the Holy Spirit of God? Do you rejoice in worship or cry in misery at the road that they Lord has lain before you in your fulfillment of his purpose and sanctification of this lifetime? Are you readying yourself or simply sitting around waiting, hoping and praying that the life you’ve been born to will somehow be transformed? Are you capturing all the joy that is abundantly flowing into your life by the Power of God or are you sitting and wallowing in misery that this life is not how you’ve expected or anticipated it should be?

What then is living for God, but simply walking the road that He lays out before each of us?  Are we meant for some type of reward, treasure, health, wealth great popularity or are we designed to bring Glory to Almighty God in our graceful method and volunteerism to the Life that He prepared for each of us? What is your destination? What is your objective for this life? Are you serving your own plan or have you come to know Christ and His Word in such a way that you know the majesty of the trials and tribulations set before you? Perhaps you have been given the greatest reward available in that you have been given trials, difficulties, pains, wounds and tribulation so great because the Lord will demonstrate His Glory uniquely through your overcoming those tremendous obstacles?  Can you imagine yourself blessed by troubles? The world would never have you think positively of your personal plight, they would call you foolish to rise above your pain and peril.  But won’t they be amazed at the power you have to overcome those obstacles and observe joy and abundant life in Christ?

What then are we being prepared for if not but for the revelation of God’s Glory in our adaptation to the trials of the life time? If we are to be witnesses, shepherds or examples of how to live in a way that places the onus upon the promises not upon the circumstances do we not then have to flow, change and adapt to those circumstances with a measure of victorious perspective upon our hearts and lips? How would the enemy prevail against Christians and Jews in the circumstance, of course by stealing our joy, which is how the Lord claimed he prowls about the Earth seeking to consume our joy. We were meant for great things, but those great things are not the things of our own wealth, glory, fame or imagination, they are the great things that come along with being the powerful witnesses for the Coming Kingdom of God in our testimony and witness for Christ the King. We will have power when the power will point to the revelation to the this world of the Glorious Creator of All Things.

I pray that our perspective our purpose and our power to prevail against all the obstacles set before us are firmly rooted in our faith upon the Promises of God. We are meant as the witnesses to set the road straight of the Glorious Appearing of Christ, that is a responsibility greater than any we could have been personally charged.  What a glorious day that day that Christ died with me upon that Cross and I was set free to become that which He designed for me from the beginning of time.  What a glorious day we face in the Glory of Almighty God revealed through each of us to a world that so desperately needs His Love. In Jesus name I love you.

You are right, I know so very little, it is understandable that you look upon me in wonder imagining how I can even navigate life’s obstacles with such limited assets. I get it that the ideas that cross your mind are of such importance that we ought instantly stop, listen and take careful notice of each powerful detail. I honor your commitment to your way for it does seem so right to you. And I apologize for not being passionately captured by the eye opening content that frankly is so high above my perceptive capacity that I have even failed to register its impact, its indelible significance.

I do not wish to see your worthy cause diminished, so please let me encourage you to call the helm to full steam ahead and may your ship find ports beyond this simple village with the inadequate receptors for such high minded inquiry. Oh, you don’t want to go, you would rather stay here and force me to understand your complex line of thinking that we have heretofore established is far beyond my inherent ability to comprehend. Oh, so you are going to teach me what I need to learn in order to grasp these golden grapes of satisfying wisdom.

Do I perhaps have any authority within this authoritarian structure, maybe to say something as, “I do not wish to become educated to that line of thinking”? Oh, that is not allowed in order to maintain a relationship with you I must first acknowledge my immeasurable ignorance and then volunteer to be force fed ideas and concepts that I frankly do not value or cannot ascertain that value you claim they have in reserve? Oh, there comes the finger in my face and the insults that are especially effective with those who are susceptible to bullying or having their character diminished until they acquiesce.

At this point I am going to utter something that is entirely intended with all love, care, gentility and measured thought, NO. What you haven’t anyone dare to disagree with your knighthood and dismiss themselves from the list of those who you deem in desperate need of intellectual modification? Well there is a new day and new experiences within each new day and it appears this is your new day.

I don’t know much. It is actually freeing to be simple. Though I do understand the complex reasoning and power behind the Love of God, something over which scholars have regularly argued for millennia. What does that mean that a simple man can understand the depth of God’s Love and yet be incapable of worldly understanding or pursuit of philosophical platinum reserved for those whose names painted history? I don’t know because I choose not to. Focusing on love frees me from the complex worry and concerns of this world that has determined that being complicated is somehow a badge of honor to be worn by chosen few.

Look I get it, please walk away perhaps feeling sorry for me because it makes no sense to you that I would rather just be sitting here with a couple of God fearing folks from the country, sharing a smile, a song or some fresh tea for the rest of my worldly existence than to spend even one moment in the complex, reasoned debate about man’s superiority over other men that I know will accompany those moments spent in your company.  I love you but you only love yourself and that my friend is a dangerous place to be, especially in this day and time.  May the Lord God’s Holy Spirit touch your heart and give you people more valuable than your thoughts. In Jesus Name.

It is an odd thing to rejoice in the middle of a nightmare. Perhaps even stranger to find peace in the middle of war. This world has secrets, not the mysterious, magical sorcery that they would have you ponder, designed to enable yourselves as fairy creatures that allow for super speed, knowledge and power. These are internal secrets of how to live this life in a way that is contrary to the fear based version they commonly portray.

We, created beings were endowed by our creator with certain rights, understandings and resemblance to Him. That similarity requires, even demands a realization that the Creator neither fears creation nor should those who have been created by His hand. You see fear is an invention of those influences who would see us enslaved in this world and helpless in the next. The Lord did not give us fear, what then is the secret to overcoming that same influence?

Love, perfect love casts out fear, driving its influence before it, dispelling it back into the realms of darkness where it normally resides.  You see, the Love for my family demands my lack of fear in defense of their frailties and innocence. The Love of my country requires that I stand in the fury of even apparently overwhelming odds and enemies defying their capacity to take that which does not belong nor shall ever belong to them. Love denies fear its power and authority of the righteous man who knows that although they may at most take this mortal life that they cannot touch me in eternity nor can they defend against the All Mighty God who loves me and defends me from their evil intention. You see even if I were to lose in a position in which I should have been driven cowardly by fear, they shall not escape the inescapable moment of their judgment before the Holy and Righteous God who created us all.

I get that the enemy sells fear to provoke, frighten, evoke paralysis and to instill an odd sense of despair and false authority surrounding the creatures of the dark. They do not rule, they are powerful but in the end the true ruler of everything says that we prevail and not in a minor fashion but in a way that makes it very clear that we were the rightful victors from outset. This is not a thing of fear this battle for the future of mankind. This is not a thing that gives fear some manner of victory in that we will stand our ground for as long as it takes to collect the last decision for Christ and properly and formally usher in the Kingdom of God.

Fear cannot be tolerated nor entertained for in its acceptance we are admitting our lack faith in a Sovereign, Almighty God. You see since He says that we shouldn’t be afraid it is then a thing of faith to dispel fear with love. The only fear we ought have is a rightful and righteous respect and fear for that Same God who made us. That is the rightful apprehension and respect that is the true sense of reverence in the eradication of fear. For I do not fear the Lord’s Judgment because I love Him with all my heart and know that He rewards the humble and has offered and I have accepted His gift of eternal life in Hope and Grace.

If you are frightened sit for a moment. This life is relatively short and then it is appointed to all men once to die and then the judgment.  What is it that you fear? Is it loss of money, stature, friendships, your life? Look to the fear first as illusion and walk through it with the understanding that it is an irrational spirit, and not a thing of God. This world is going away, do you fear that it will somehow go away faster than you expected? The evil influences serving themselves as the expense of men are going to face perfect judgment by a Worthy and Righteous King.  Do you fear them before that day of judgment, knowing that at some point they will be stripped of all power eternally? What is it that you fear. I know it is death isn’t it?

I get it the unknown can be a complex and distraught place of illusion and imaginary occurrence. But God has told us what happens to us the moment we pass from the plain into the next. We leave this life one moment and the next second we are standing before a Holy And Righteous God who wants to see us and welcome us to the throngs of heaven, our true family. What then is the fear intrinsic to this vision, to this perfect end? Perhaps, I would be fearful of not dying and remaining here for the collapse of humanity and the dissolution of historic and commercial religiosity and political structure. What you want those things to go as well. Well, I am refreshed because if your wishes are going to come true then the reason that existed for fear at the outset is now by nature, well irrelevant.

Live powerful, Live abundantly, Live full of Love and cast out fear in your wake as you walk this life with and for God. In Jesus Name.

This isn’t about me doing whatever strikes my fancy and then seeing if it fits into God’s perspective for righteousness and obedience. It is fanciful for me to expect that somehow not having read God’s direction in the Bible and then living my life inappropriately according to those standards that I didn’t read is somehow going to provide some manner of “I didn’t know the rules” excuse when standing before God.  Adam wasn’t obedient and that created a history long sin crisis that included the entirety of humanity for the duration of our species. What then makes me believe that God will somehow look upon my refusal to be obedient to His commands in a different light, especially since He stepped down out of glory to rectify the first issue?

Yes, I have grace and Yes, My sins have been forgiven by belief in the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross and through a sealing and indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit. What in my absurd perspective could perhaps lead me to for even a moment entertaining the idea that this somehow freed me from the obedience that led to the need for salvation and grace in the first place? Brothers, my fellow saints, do you truly believe that you can live this life in disobedience to the Lord’s expectations and that you are going to somehow escape the judgment that caused Adam to pass on his sin throughout the breadth of humanity hereafter?

Really, you are the one person to whom He was not referring when He said that He hates sin and that the wicked practice their sinful acts of wickedness. Let’s just take a moment to breathe and get this straight.  It is okay for you to be prideful, lustful, envious, jealous, greedy, spiteful, hateful, adulterous, fornicate regularly and disrespect your parents and authority with no expectant repercussions? Okay, I am going to resist the temptation to take a step back because I know that if I were God there would have been a large lightning bolt aimed in your specific location.  But I am not God and therefore my role in obedience is to Love You. So now in my heart of hearts out of love for you, I must ask; where is your fear of Almighty God? Don’t you for a moment respect His sovereign authority and the price that He paid for you upon that cross.  You mean to say you are going to disrespect that wonderful gift and in contempt simply go about your previous business as if nothing has occurred or will occur in consequence?

Okay, I can see that some prayer is definitely in order.  I also need you to understand that you are outside God’s fellowship and very definitely not listening to His Will for your life. Do I do anything in reaction to that stance? Well, I don’t yet know, because I am going to take it to the Lord and listen for His direction, while searching He Word for the right path to take. Perhaps you would like me to simply disobey and ignore, forget or overlook the circumstances, befriending your worldly behavior and then having the same level of fellowship and relationship with my Father, God?  No unfortunately being obedient applies to all my life not just the part I wanted to give to Him in surrender, thinking myself sovereign over everything over which I believe I have control.  Praying for you, in Jesus’ Holy Righteous Name.

For me, I think, he did this for me. And in those frantic moments when chill has taken hold of my spine or have lost my gumption, I am somehow, well, healed. Watching things raise to the level of catastrophic around me, yet the children still laugh with simplicity at balloons, friends and mysteries to be held in secret by friends. It is hard, isn’t it, how then are we free to laugh, love, contemplate the normalcy of the world around us?  Because it is still joy my friend, to see a child grow the way they were meant to live. It is still a grand thing to listen to the wisdom of those who came before us as they carefully recall the stories and reasons that demonstrate that sense and common sense at that still exist.

Lost in the lonely thoughts of a man in prayer for those who think themselves fallen but have deceived into believing that there remains only one option. Forgiveness is much greater than contempt or desertion of the principles to which you’ve dedicated a lifetime.  It is that time. The time for you to hold on with both hands to every memory, every ounce of sweat, every thought of satisfaction in triumphant predilection. Chaos is not a destination it is a storm of particular rapacious events that must be ridden to be esteemed. It is a cascading tumult of chemical or lawful interactions that appear likely destined for calamitous end, yet there is always possibility.

These days are not meant for my uncomplicated reasoning. These are the moments for much more complex men than this one I’ve become. At home simply walking primitive road, caught in a myriad of geometric shapes, practical tools and the gladness brought to shoulder by a noon day sun. This array, this time, these well contemplated strategies are for greater minds. My own limited to reason, rhyme, season and station that reflect a perspective believing in the likelihood of miracles and well springs of Spiritual Awakening. They want answers and it is not enough to simply bid them “be” and if that is not yet hardy enough for understanding then stop “trying” to be something else. One sip of authenticity makes peace a hearty brew but not for those who enjoy displacement, corruption or random occurrence.

Is it okay for everything to be okay? Is it alright to be alright? You look at me as if there is something wrong with my capacity for comprehension, as if to be akin to the world I must somehow feel out of place, disjointed or a bit to the right of dysfunctional. That’s okay, it is okay to be upset, but feeding it never builds only decay’s, destroys and siphons the probability of the natural occurrence of joy and humor. I guess I did not get the memo that said I have to remain with a scowl across my visage or somehow fall from acceptable facial configuration regulations. I am happy.  I love you.  God is with us, helping, providing, edifying and rewarding our efforts and obedience. We are part of something yet so cautiously defined that few would take this moment to jump for great joy at our coming reunification with the King. Sorry for me, that is exactly what I plan to do, for it is in this moment that I have realized my good graces and although the day remains beyond this one, not seen until that dawn, it is still as clear as ever in my determination and faithful understanding. Why must I wait to celebrate that which I know will shortly come.

I love the idea of His Appearing. I love that He provided you escape. I love now that He loves you so much He cannot even wait to chat with you this evening. I am sorry that this world has not gone the way that we would have preferred. It does seem that we should have been able to work it out in some manner. The dawn of a new era is nearly upon us a time when we shall rule and reign with the rightful King. I do not know the joy or the travails that shall befall us in the interim, but I do know that the work we do is for the greatest good of God and man.  I pray that you find joy in the midst of whatever comes our way for it is the greatest thing we could ever do is look to the joy of our eternal future and allow that joy to color our present circumstance. In Jesus’ Name.

Lord Jesus, was the Word that you were teaching that difficult to comprehend? I read it and it makes sense, even in the parts that require some contemplation to understand spiritual application or parable. But through what lens am I determining this measure of simplicity? I understand that people hear some difficult parables and do not comprehend at first, I get it that sometimes concept as the cleansing blood, and without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sin.  I get it that there are some issues surrounding Israel or the characters of the Bible as symbolic reference to the plan for salvation, but I am stilled perplexed the laxity with which people attend to the Bible’s importance.

For example, when we are youths we will spend thousands of hours, listening to music, conducting sporting event and exercise going to class for hundreds of hours to master the basic principles required to become socially successful.  However, the Book that promises the opportunity and discusses/explains the path to eternal life and the forgiveness of our shame, guilt and sin is given a small proportion of our time and attention at understanding. In fact, those who go to college will spend hundreds of hours going over the philosophies of man, the Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, Romans, Chinese and Indians, yet spend mere minutes upon the Words ascribed to the Creator of all those civilizations and the original of all original thought.  It frankly makes no sense.  I get the same feeling when I look at the impossible statistics regarding western universities being 97% liberal.  These are manufactured results, accomplished by infiltration and strict attention to creating this circumstance.

Now we must see the enemies planning and thus a consistent and logical step in its reversal. If we have achieved our current predicament and lack of Biblical understanding through the apparent attempts of nefarious actors to keep us away from a relationship with the Creator via a thorough study and comprehension of the Word He has given us then, by nature and reason, a thorough study and understanding of those texts would in fact remedy the anomaly.

Oh, wait you are making too much sense.  What if I don’t want to do that work and want to continue to state that things like being cleansed by the Blood of the Perfect Lamb of all unrighteousness or perhaps that His Body and Blood were given that whosoever partakes of them shall find salvation and everlasting life?  You see if I continue to claim these ideas are too complex, too radical, too representative in their meaning for me to possibly understand that is ample excuse for not doing so.

First, Romans 1 states that none of us have excuse since all were given the Truth of God by the Creator, so there goes that escape.  And second, if everything were working for us in society, no wars, famines, economic troubles, poor, dying, impoverished or tyrants, then I would say continue upon the same path on which we currently reside.  But, it isn’t working.  Liberalism is not increasing the freedoms associated with our thinking and our right but limiting them.

Therefore, by reason of simple logic we must be ready to pursue those things we have previously found excuse to escape.  It is time for those who call themselves by His Name to know His Word and to take the time and the honored pleasure of teaching it to our families, friends and foreigners who are within our sphere. To do otherwise is foolish and disobedient.

The greatest wisdom available is within the Word of God.  Prove me wrong. Show me the error of my thinking and correct my statements.  Oh, you see me a bit too clever for you cannot refute my arguments for faith without first understanding faith.  You cannot diminish the Bible by understanding the Koran or any other religious text. You cannot argue against the existence of God utilizing any philosophy or science for they are both within its text and you will find yourself confronted with logical argument for your conversion and retreat from the field of discussion.  So go ahead, prove me wrong. I can take it, can you.  Show me the error of my ways, In fact, I challenge all of America to prove me wrong, pick up the Word and show me the error in my thinking and my faith.  Oh, the excuse is becoming evident the plan of the enemy is revealed.  Keep them from the Book at all cost for within its Word they shall find relationship with the King and find everlasting Life.  How can I be other than Bold with such an armament of discussion available to the asking?

Choose, for that is your gift from God the free will right to choose.  But you must know the stakes and the implications of such choice.  To know these you must know and study the Bible and have a chat with Almighty God in the privacy of your own thinking and discussion.  I welcome that opportunity for your private choice and welcome the opportunity to be proven wrong, or perhaps be thanked for being right.  I am comfortable with either, are You?  In Jesus’ Name.

What is the nature of a man that when heat or searing pressure is applied, he begins to see his componentry? Why do we shine or fall through trial, battle and defense? What is this man that he rises to the challenges when forced beyond personal measure or capacity and demonstrates the qualities resembling God. For are we not only capable of the impossible when forced to demonstrate its majesty?

Why does God have to provoke us to war, confrontation or near loss of life or society before we will hear his earnest call to operate in a certain moral capacity? Why must we be forced into acting right, not having the concerned ideal surrounding obedience built into the machinery of our souls.  Why must we be forced by the hand of God to behave in a manner consistent with His calling upon our making?  What have we done that we consistently must provoke God’s anger that He lays down the gauntlet between us?  Am I not personally capable of behaving the way that God would have be behave? Must I forever force His Hand, holding me hostage in slavery to Pagan ritual or tyrants before I will sensibly acquiesce to His requirement?  What is the spring that has sprung, or the breaker which has tripped within my circuitry that I am incapable of surrendering to something that has been for betterment from the outset?  Am I foolish beyond measure?  Do I lack the capacity for discernment and understanding?

Why then when I have received sufficient pressure placed upon my physical being and my psyche do I suddenly and immediately come around to God’s way of thinking?  And when I approach that boiling or melting point or camel’s straw moment do I first feel compelled to ask God or inquire why He has brought me to the point to which I alone am responsible? Must everything difficult be a discipline of God’s hand or perhaps have I brought the difficulties upon my own body for my own betterment, because I knew all along that God was right and refused to give in? Is this not a new level of foolish previously undefined in dictionary?  I mean this certainly must  be a separate category of oddity that requires a unique asterisk in the world of human stupidity of frailty, Stating, “here is the man who always contends with God, just to see himself checked”.

And once a man has gone through this purgatory of his own making and understanding, is there some lesson learned that compels caution at next approach?  Of course not for the fool shall always remain the fool and continue in his folly until his back is permanently broken, or he is mightily and finally dispatched in a moment of behavior beyond ridiculous.  Enough, I do not wish to be this man that puts himself through trials with God for the sake of testing the limits of the relationship. It is enough to learn the signals and approaches of humility to God’s direction without having to suffer the painful shocks applied when consistent and repeated encroachment is embarked.

Being heated in the fires of the crucible is one thing for in those moments I walk hand in hand with the Lord through the refining fires of His intention and direction.  Bringing or sparking additional visits to the forge through my own arrogance and unwilling surrender is at end.  I will not contend with God. Certainly I am going to fall down and fail repeatedly as a man stuck in this carnality.  However, the repeated and undisciplined attempts to do that which I know will bring God’s reaction must end.

I am not so much like Adam as I am becoming more as Christ, for it is from Adam’s position that I venture to the resting place in God. As I begin to resemble the Lord I have found a willingness to do the work of the Father without force, cajoling or correction. Why would the Lord have to correct a Son who wants to bring Glory to His name. Certainly a Son of Good intent will make mistakes or take the incorrect step from time to time only to be kindly and forcefully corrected and set upon the proper path, but there is little discipline and more direction.

I love God and want what He wants for me. I do not wish to provoke Him but to serve and please Him in faithful action.  I am melting in this furnace with my nation as I see the people arguing with the Father who wants them to mind His correction, yet they refuse to hear, will not listen and presumably deny His existence as they pursue the paths of the own design and measure. Father, I see a time coming and the reason for it, where those hard of hearing from a loving God, must be persuaded to their continued and perpetual desire for ignorance.  God help us when that time comes for it require seeing our separation from you, a desperate spot for man or beast.

Lord Help us to follow your commands for our lives, understanding that they are gentle and safe regard for the best life possible. I pray for this nation Lord that even those who call themselves among the woken even now follow the path they know to be inconsistent with your call upon their lives.  May they be kindly corrected and not damaged or broken as I almost forced upon myself when not listening to your call. Forgive me Lord for not reaching them, I pray that your Spirit’s Call through my heart plants the seeds that may germinate in ample timing for restitution, correction and course recovery. Within the Hand of God I reside until the time when I may be standing behind you with the brethren waiting upon the things of God.  In Jesus’ Name.

Living in the public eye brings with it a clarity and a maturity that nothing may be hidden. Your lumps, warts, bumps and intemperance are there for all to see, inescapable.  Certainly, you may employ the tools of camouflage or even go to the extent of developing Thespian and makeup skills to “appear” as another man, but when pressed, tired, hungry or alone the truth is revealed.  I truly wish that I had no blemishes, faults or in temperance, but that is not the truth and serving the truth is not just a part time volition.  This is who I am, I love, cry, worry, rejoice, make funny faces and sometimes feel like karate chopping people who have not found sensibility or sensitivity to the other’s need. That is what makes a human human, yet we spend so much effort and time attempting to conceal the characteristics of normalcy.  Foolish errand.

Now my greatest struggle is that the Lord calls me to remain pure, holy, righteous and set apart as a Bride waiting for her Groom. That is when the rubber starts chirping as I take the quick turns and stops all in a quest to somehow remain upon a skinny path that is not meant for driving. I have to first learn to walk with the Lord before racing down the pathways of refinement.  That requires time spent with Him that I might be transformed. It is not a thing of self, sanctification is of the Holy Spirit and requires my surrender but the work is done through His power, in His timing.  Now resisting sin is my job, for that is what qualifies as overcoming. He has given me the power over this flesh, I have been set free, but I still have this carnal body calling me, egging me on in a quest for human cravings.  That as well may be hidden from the public’s eye through Thespian adaptation, but God knows the heart and mine is not yet Pure.

I do not seek to hide from people’s view or opinion.  To some extent I think this frightens folks, makes them critique me and laugh out loud at my misgivings and humanity, but the greatest thing it provides is the curiosity.  They are curious about authenticity and so many start out in disbelief that a man could be so unafraid of his humanity and so humbled by grace that he could live in such a transparent environment for all to see. There is no other way to lead folks to the Cross in my opinion.  They must see a courage, yes a courage to stand against the circumstances, odds and public inspection with a steady willingness and faith that God will make the changes when it is in deed time to make them.  I don’t hide it, doesn’t mean I don’t feel funny that you see it.

We are rapidly approaching a time when the Lord will be collecting His own.  In my heart of hearts, I know that He loves you so much that He cannot wait for you to accept His offer of Eternal Life with Him. If the open review of my humanity, weakness, worship, Love and Strength in any way provides the inspiration to come to Christ or the motivation to fight the fight until the end, then please consider my life Open for inspection in my service to God and You.  Please understand that being human is a wonderfully frail and temporary position in this dimension and therefore precious beyond compare. I live this life to the fullest, hoping and praying that my actions somehow bring honor and glory to the King.  Thank you for loving me for being me.  In Jesus’ Name I pray the same comfort and surety for your life.

Complicated folks and jokes told as testimony to those things above my head. What can be said about their works and the perks, excepts some are equipped nicely while others feed the trolls? Is each soul of equal performance, the Sudanese, Bolivian, Mongul, Roma or weed smoking weirdo beneath the 10th Street Bridge. What gives them the strength to pass oblivious? How do I excuse myself when I am the one supposedly in charge? You mean they could actually have an alternate agenda to which none paid heed because we thought them our public servant? It is a strange feeling this waking up, it doesn’t tickle.

We see people leaving entire fortunes to pet cats, men trading in $100,000 cars to suit their whims of middle age and governments paying $12000 for a hammer.  With all this blessing we still have a great number of displaced American’s living in boxes, barns, beside dumpsters and desert dunes. Are they, as the innocent done away before birth, somehow less important, disposable by categorization of impact on our pleasure and luxury. It’s their fault, you say.  Why certain that is truth, but truth does not alleviate the tragedy of our disinterest.  What then could or should be done about the burgeoning, no exploding, homeless population problem in the United States?

What then of the few who are not responsible for their circumstance? Do they now qualify for assistance? What of the man who asked you for money that you didn’t give because you knew he was going to drink it, but he really was hungry and never drank?  The Lord clearly said that if someone asks for some help you give it to them, in fact it implies that you go beyond just giving them some and give them your jacket too. I am not a man’s judge, if he is going to drink that is between him and God, though some would say that we cannot contribute to his illness.  That is a reasonable point, however do we not first have to become their judge and jury to determine that they have a problem that is beyond the answer to our prayers, or God’s capacity to resolve?

What about the errant angel sent to test your heart?  How then would you deal with the drunk man asking for some food if you knew he were an angel?  Ah, you would treat him differently, doesn’t that indicate something out of alignment within your thinking or your heart? Isn’t this more about our hearts than theirs, or perhaps about both in the same lesson. God giving us the poor and disenfranchised and God giving the poor us to see if the twain shall meet. What power would it give us as a nation if we came up with artistic solution and turned these miscreants without home into productive Americans or workers for the cause of Christ?

Look homelessness sucks, it is a drag on both parties those out in the environs and those who must accommodate them in their neighborhoods or provide for their needs in perpetuity.  There is a solution, though we collectively have never sat down and determined the best methods for resolutions, I believe because it is another political football utilized by the dysfunctional government to indicate that our system of government needs to be changed so that they may convince us of the need for a totalitarian replacement.  This concept is a thousand times more frightening then a burgeoning homeless population.  Let us get our hearts right and begin to have a chat about how to resolve this problem in a sound mind with love for all involved. The likelihood of it simply going away by itself are obvious and false.  Something must be done.  The question really is are our hearts and minds in the right place to take the time in prayer, conversation and action to resolve these problems that are being left because they want a global government to resolve them?