Enough

Restraining evil is full time job now. he Father has determined that it is time for the Great Dividing Line of Christ to separate humanity into those for God and those against. There no longer are any attempts at camouflage or common ground as it does not exist in this period of disambiguation. Those who harvest children and seek endless freedom from accountability have clearly determined their Right to own and direct the world. This situation will end in collapse and one side shall prevail. The Bible clearly states that the Wickedness of the Empire of Anti Christ will rise at least for the Seven year period of Tribulation.

However, we do not know the extent of the potential revival before the rise of the Prince that is to come. We must admit the environment is ripe as many if not a majority of people in the world appear to want sorcery, sin and satiation rather that the things of God. This situation may instantly be changed by the power of the Holy Spirit but at present people are indifferent to Christianity at best and at worst serving the enemy full time. Our eternal hope then calls US to reconcile this circumstance with God’s desire for all to come to the knowledge of the Truth. The only plausible explanation, not discounting those that I cannot yet see, is that God will spark Revival’s Flame that all those in the world who will accept Grace shall do so before the rise of Anti Christ.

The Empire must rise, as God’s Word says it will. Therefore, the outcome of that rise must be fully investigated to understand God’s objective for the coming period. The pain and suffering will be sufficient to transform hearts that those unwilling to make this choice voluntarily now, will in fact give their lives during that ferocious period of God’s Wrath in order to find Grace. Thus, knowing what is coming we may now begin to unpack the formation of Empire fully understanding that the enemy has known these days would be upon US at some point since as early as Daniel 2’s proclamation of the Empire’s in Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream.

How does an Empire rise in a long term planning function when it does not know the exact time of it’s arrival but knows that at some point it Will Definitely occur? It must take all the steps that it can to prepare for Empire without launching that Empire. Let US review the period from roughly 500BC from when this knowledge was revealed to the world until this time when they are clearly seeking its arrival/launch. New World Order, the term most readily utilized to describe this coming Empire is accurate but incomplete. Without the biblical understanding of the position and power of Anti Christ in this Empire or the fact that it is the continuing Empire of Rome we are left with incomplete understanding of its implications.

The last Five

Trying hard is on me. Surrender is acknowledging God’s presence within my heart. If I could have done, I simply would have. That is the importance of miracles and the impossible for mortal men. They are not signs of God’s Power that we may believe or kinder faith, but the realization that without God there are many things beyond our abilities, treasure and time.

They want me to self help myself into eternity. It cannot be done, that is why I refrain from writing books that rephrase or repackage the Bible into some of my own best ideas for men to improve themselves in to heaven. I care not how long you believe the history of man extends, yet I do recognize that throughout this history regardless of length, we as men will always try every possible iteration of self help before entering God’s throne room in contrition seeking His Help. Is this the insanity that Einstein coined?

God made the World and all that is in it, even the destroyer. Therefore He is the only one with the Power, Position and Understanding to make the Rules, Laws and guidelines for everything within it. Playing by His rules although voluntary because He loves us enough to give us that choice, only provides one outcome based upon a single choice. We get to Choose God or Not. Recovering from the separation (Sin) that distances us from God is only done in positive affirmation of this choice.

We cannot save ourselves, which goes in saying that we cannot make our own provision or invite ourselves to Heaven. Only God determines our acceptance or acceptability and that is based solely upon that aforementioned choice. If you choose wrong you will be separated from God forever as penalty for making the wrong Choice. Equally just as inclusion in heaven is not within your power beyond making that Correct Choice escaping the judgment and assignment to hell is equally beyond our authority, power and imagination.

God knew we would mess up before He created us and time. Therefore the solution, the choice was also created before the universe began, providing us the hope and context for the possibility of escape. That escape was given us by Jesus as a sacrifice of His Perfect Life lived that we may be set free from sin to make that Choice to join Him in Eternity. We can tell ourselves another version, another construct, building our own house of cards or constructing a graven image of God, but it by definition leads to the same end.

Now to the joy that comes with loving a God who loved us so much that He planned before time began to provide a way of Escape for all men. It is perhaps of greater amazement that He would punish His perfect Son to achieve that objective. That’s Right, God punished Jesus on the Cross for our Sins. That is the only way we are set free by that sacrificial payment of a Perfect Lamb of God given upon the altar to appease God’s Fury and end the War between Him and Man.

So, our job now includes the discerning clarity to silence or avoid all other explanations: lies depicting alternate routes to heaven. See we are not alone here, there are influences that specifically possess power and authority to deceive the saints, leading them to make that eternal choice with faulty information. I cannot save myself. I cannot adopt myself, nor forgive myself for my sins against God and His Laws. Christianity is the only God Help Program, all others are self attempts to overcome or rewrite the immoveable truth of God’s Word.

I have been foolish but thankfully this truth is absolute in my thinking. There is no coming back from a departure from God’s Wonderful salvation. So, although there is a measure of time left for us to make the right choice and even time for us to repent of having gone astray/backsliding, the end of the respite is upon us. It is time for all men to make the choice and then time for all men having chosen sides to get about the work of support or resistance to God’s Coming Kingdom. That’s right if you choose something other than God your only hope is to try and void His inevitable return. That means you are contrary to ushering in God’s Rule and Reign for Eternity in the Person of the King of Kings the Lord Jesus Christ the King.

I am sorry that you have chosen the enemy or made the fateful mistake of sitting upon the fence and ending up having Christ mke the Choice for you, but I will not be joining you in the Lake of Fire. I will not weep at your passing as you make the free will decision to depart from and be separated from God eternally. I will however love you as I would want to be loved and tell you the Gospel Truth of Eternity to Come that you may join me forever, but the Choice has always been yours alone to make. Choose Wisely because there is no coming back once God says “Pencil’s Down”.

Dissuaded

A dusty page of prophecy pulled over a tv screen, when all along discounting the Truth we should have seen. In freedom there is wonder and wander to and fro, never taking time to acknowledge the way we were meant to go. In distance there is complexity of ignorance and doubt, never admitting in our self worship what closeness is all about. You see I was designed to walk in clarity, revelation and the Truth but often followed folly and the perceptions of my youth.

Oh, how far I have sauntered away from God led by my Pride, knowing as I grow older how often I could have died, Protected in my ignorance as if it could ever be labeled bliss, what demonstration of the Loving could be greater found than this? And in my obfuscation, deliberation and certain self, I left the brilliant guidance of His Direction to gather dust upon the shelf. Inclusive administration, diverse in our intent clearly shows our foolishness represented as intent.

What is the price of return to frazzled thinking, linking all of our victimization to drugs, or sex or drinking? Am I guided by my sin the yearning deep within, not subject to accountability as my ancestor’s had clearly been? What is this newfound entitlement and surety of station that threatens our own families and the foundation of this nation? Where have we taken liberty, wisdom and understanding, that it cries to be released from our current understanding? Each time I try to justify the works I’ve done in dark I am embarking on the hopeless excuses the journeys of a lark.

This is not so rare, some exception from the course, nor is the loss of reason part of some contested debate or uncontested divorce. We knew where we were headed when we veered away from God the fact that He didn’t stop us seems all together odd. Two steps from the slope of which we are so fond that leads to stinking swamp or deadly silent pond. So measure clearly your departure your journey or your search as you stand there all alone on your ungodly worship perch. The church of imagination is an island made of sand a place that no one ventures when they seek to make a stand. This land of God’s resistance is built upon the Rock, An Aged piece of mountain that is measured by eternity not by any clock.

When you seek the World’s Summit the high place of our lives you’ll find it in humility where the truth of God revives.. In the War’s enbding you’ll see redemption that Christ sacrifice hsa bought not the glory and incandescence that your previous journey wrought. I bought the legislation, the lies and all the prose and wandered down the boulevard where everybody goes. But when I found the skinny path I knew it led to God and every other pathway became darkened, false and odd. So on this road to my salvation I hope that we shall meet replete in our hopefulness that victory has replaced defeat.

Limits

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

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

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

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

In action

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

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

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

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

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

Being Seen

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

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

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

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

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

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

Purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

Engage the path

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

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

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

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

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

Caleb’s Crossing

Traipsing the country roads. Taking care to camouflage in normalcy. Perhaps a man walking from a broken down truck or a guy too drunk to drive the distance home, dreading the words of a spouse left too many times to worry. Nonetheless, you weren’t meant to notice all light neatly tucked beneath the woven wicker. My boots never mind the dirt or sand and the stones too frequent are easily shaken loose from beneath my toes.

Seldom shown a larger picture than the moment. I argue with the Master because, well, I just want to know it all right now. In argument your will takes prominence and once revealed may not be hidden in capped bottle. Forsaken by my foolishness I am left in the spot light of Sovereign command and obedience. Choice is not burden but the opportunity to become greater than the parameters of previous possibility.

The night gives me just the right chill to counter the sweat and heated discussion beneath my hat. Swear against this and fume against that my expectations serve me poorly, never failing to leave me outside the party wondering why I never fail to fail in pursuit of my fancy. Calming the clamor and clap of my boot falls upon the roadway. Reciting distant rhythmic memory of dances and days marking time on random parade deck of flat top.

What went wrong? Or perhaps why should I fume about all that went too right that it made my life charming yet predictable? Feeding the desire for extraordinary I wander the whispering lakes and fade into pines seeking something exciting within which to acquaint myself to knighthood. All along knowing that the association with good people and doing the works set before me are the only path to truth, sacrifice and recognition in so doing. Saving babies and leading those bereft of hope to a meeting with Mount Moriah or Gilgal leaves no room for regret or what could have been. On these mountain we find only what should and shall be.

Another state, another thousand people, who knows if it is our meeting they will remember. But that has never been the objective. For in their conversation I saw the need and pain, crying out for meeting with the one who loves them dearly. This world is short term, temporary and therefore holds no promise but to live, prosper, struggle and die hoping beyond worry that we did enough to perhaps be remembered by tombstone, township or Tory. My job is just the opposite knowing that in this life I will most likely be forgotten to be remembered forever in the next. That is my greatest hope that in my passing they met Him and found everlasting that we may truly get to know each other in eternity. That is a true reward, not the temporary fulfillment of sin, pleasure, accolade or fame but the certainty of being known by Him and those who truly believed forever.

The walk is my job and promise. Town to town, lake to lake, sky to sky. Never knowing the things I passed and never truly wondering the things I’ve missed in the treasured realization of the places been and the people met. You see to me they are family even if I’ve just met them. People telling me their deepest truths and trusting me with the knowledge that something I say or do will somehow make it all right, some how make it make sense. They know from whom I’ve come and they know that in the talents given, power imbued and righteousness worn as covering that they have met the agent of the King. I know what they need and have but to ask it of the Master then step aside to see them healed, prospered, made whole and fulfilled in the promises of His crafting. Leaving behind people now on the skinny path to abundant life everlasting.

Joy in this heart the road is my venture my Home not yet visible beyond the skies from whence it’s coming. It is faith that feeds my footfalls, love that fuels my heart and understanding that gives me peace and hope beyond the worlds’ understanding. I roam for Christ, seeking the one in hope that my findings will produce the last to accept His offer that His coming is assured in that timing. By the Grace of God I hope to meet you and share the Love of Christ that you may see His burning light of life and power within my eyes, heart and in His Words. You know Him and when we meet I will show you that meeting so that you too may walk these miles in hope of being who He made you. Welcome my Brother Sister my Friend to Caleb’s Crossing.

My Lane

I see the lines upon the road and sky, why you preach to keep within my lane I often ponder why? Celebration of all that comes from the indwelt breath of God to limit demonstration appears to inconsistent and quite odd. No one wishes to share conversation, perspective or my dreams yet dampen celebration and unmastered music clearly seems. The basket is not perfect but lets out little light and the fists are less than adequate to conduct this spiritual fight. In accolade find folly and in pride we find our will but to surrender to forgiveness we all must pay the bill. I don’t know why He made me but to sing with all my might I am so sorry for your sadness within this desperate plight. My dance is consequential, my song essential to my life in leaving the message He gave me wielding His two edged Knife. In clarity’s presumption I must remain tranquil in my stance living obligation is to continue this romance. I love with more than passion and tears of joy remain the purpose of my musing is found in this brief pain. I was made to wander along this winding trail to dance in my great wonder how quizzically I fail. As good is brought to mistake and abundance to the scant why would you tell me to observe limits when you know inside I can’t?