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LAST DAY

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Hear the Word of God. Salvation is not a toy, a label, a clique, a cult or a dream. It is ending the War between you and God. It is forgiveness for all that you’ve done and will do. It is not a doctrine of doing some great deeds to earn God’s Love. It is done by God not by you. Your responsibility is to believe, truly believe and walk as if you truly believe that you could never and can never save yourself from death, hell and the things to come. It is a total belief even in moments of doubt that God is the only way to escape the chains of this life found in our sin against Him. God sent His Son to live the life we must suffer through and do it perfectly then sacrifice Himself, voluntarily to pay the debt incurred by our sins. This gift is the only thing that separates one man from the next. When we choose to accept that gift we are now protected, changed, born again of Heavenly seed to withstand all the assaults of evil with courage and a certain understanding of our everlasting life to come.

Now the hard part. We cannot clean ourselves of the poisons and filth of this world. It is something once again that may only be accomplished by God, through His indwelling Spirit and the Constant/Continual relationship between Him and each believer. We are here to suffer the tests of this fallen world and in so doing see the remaining defects of sin within our Earthly bodies to offer them daily before the King to have them removed as dross from purifying metals. Yes, some day, that wonderful day we will be cleansed completely and receive our Heavenly Bodies in glorification, the moment Christ removes us from this world to be with Him forever. Many believe that this represents rapture and the Bible is very clear just as the Old Testament was very clear that the Messiah would come to Earth Twice. There is no other currently known and understood way for the obedient church to be removed before the dispensation of Wrath and judgment upon the wickedness of Earth’s Dwellers. There is no other way to present an environment so dangerous and desperate to force all who remain conscious to make a decision for or against Christ.

Why do we always push things to the point where we are forced to consciousness? Well, in my words it is my own propensity towards pride and disobedience. Somehow though it is a foolish position with no supporting evidence I believe that I know better than the scripture and the Word God placed upon my heart. For some reason I crave the sinful realization of the momentary sensory fulfillment found in adoration of my sin. I want what I want when I want it how I want it disregarding the logic and inescapable import of God’s Will upon me. What is coming is inevitable. What is coming is coming soon. Believers and unbelievers alike must face the same fact in the absolute primacy and imminence of Christ’s return. We must either decide to obey and follow the direction of His indwelling Spirit or choose to go another route. As a believer the joy found in obedience is righteousness and certainty in the dispensation of God’s Power found only in the Holy Spirit. It is a seal against the wiles of the enemy and a sureness found in the understanding, knowledge, love and faith in Jesus Christ and a protection against the dangers of false doctrine or deception. For those who do not believe or choose to disobey and backslide it is an inclusion in the reward of the Earth Dwellers and those predetermined for everlasting separation from God in the Lake of Fire.

The choice is yours, the days are upon us whether you see, don’t see, heed of don’t obey. This naturally then is nearing the end of the time of preparedness offered all men. The days of decision and action based on belief or the days of self-service and idol worship to fulfill the quests of the fallen heart within our mortal man. It is a time that most will never even consider using wisely, sparingly and urgently to get right with God. That is why God’s prophetic word says the before He returns the Spirit of Elijah will come calling us to a righteous walk and returning our hearts to the Father. The time of the Covenant fulfillment of the Jews is nearing where they will find Grace in the Holy Spirit. For that time to arrive the time of the Gentiles must he completed. We are in that time. Therefore this is the last call for all men to make a decision for or against Christ or remain indifferent which will accomplish the same as an adverse choice of Grace. There is no escape but God through Christ in the Holy Spirit’s Power. There is no other decision as important. There is no other time to make that choice and find yourself prepared for Christ’s retrieval and return for rule and reign. There is no other message more important or worthy of action. This is the day for which each of us was made. How will you spend your last days?

Only One

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Looking to my love for you, compared to the one God first showed me I am ashamed at how poorly I’ve loved this world. There is no justice in the peace you preach, no safety in the coverage you offer the vulnerable, no pride in the law you dispense calling for order. You embrace chaos as if it were solace or tranquility. Embellishing every lie with truth to somehow sell this abomination to the simple. What then is the prediction of your objective? Relative destruction, absolute tranquility in lifelessness, hope in all things unbelievable.

The rub is none of that is my duty, but the love I am meant to show you despite your indwelling demons. Friend of the dark that you are, the time limit is not my own, but the countdown Almighty has ordered. You will find your end in shame, regret and the maddened fires of pitch and satin black, but none of that is my prerogative or passion. Where you go will be determined by your failure or success in acknowledging God’s offer, not by how I feel you’ve erred or come to reason. My only wish is to let you know how much you are truly loved.

There is no margin where my purpose concerned. No dawn to the fog within my thinking. I have no excuse to offer but only the apologies for failure or self-aggrandizement. There can be no failure in loving. For when it is offered something perfect ensues. Even when denied or forsaken love changes hearts, minds and matter. There is no end with love only beginning. No forgotten repose no faltered fealty only sacrifices or self-concern. Just as in life one may not choose separate or competing passions for in love sacrifice is natural, normal and will always prevail. Those who know not the purpose or have never known the truth in love forever, claim they’ve found it only to see at solemn conclusion that they never knew God’s Love.

Yet, I kneel before His Throne. Broken in my spirit, by the lack of interest when judgment is first found. For to look upon a man in worth or unloving candor I am stricken by my own equation to God in presuming that any man beyond the depth of His eternal Hand. This is not my world; I did not eat of the fruit desiring equality or superiority to Creator. Why then would I continue to fail as such perfect works, loving every child, every man or woman for the creation God devised for His Good Glory. Their fate is not my dilemma but the aspirations of Jonah in disobedience to deliver the Hope eternal to all who would listen, leaving their repentance before them and their salvation to the only one who May, Jesus Christ the King.

Embrace

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Clinging to the neck of Mother Bird feels so right and fine. Yet, as she is forced to move to live her life each child is acquainted with the inevitability of the broken connection which may or may not be restored. What is relationship? Is it the constant yearning for the connection or is it the confidence that at some points we will feel the brief/sustained embrace, warmth, comfort and love of that union with the person of our origin? What is the personal responsibility in establishing, maintaining, protecting and honoring the moments and the period between those times of shared interaction?

What changes? Is it everything or is there something in our universe that is outside the effects or periods of broken connection? Obviously, all of creation continues to change, entropy, decay and eventually die. This is the same with knowledge for it may be adjusted to reflect the acquisition of new updates adding to or reshaping the realm of experience. The power and authority of information is to know how to rapidly benefit from or adjust to those inevitable changes in order to somehow become personally improved or edified. However, this ability to change depends fully upon a choice. Knowing, believing and honoring that within the realm/reality of constant flux there is one thing that Never Changes. GOD.

Can you embrace God too much that He breaks the connection for purposes of health? NO. Therefore, the embrace and relationship with God is the only sustainable connection available to each child to become adult to find our way back to Him at ending. Why then in stark contrast to our yearning for connection do we seek to do it on our own, struggling, fidgeting, yearning to break free from the embrace of the one that that never changes? It makes no sense and yet it makes sense for purposes eternal and temporary. However, recognizing these facts begs the question: What would happen if I never sought disconnection from the connection, relationship and embrace of God?

What then is the process by which, through which a man or woman may both establish a consistent connection with the source of stability while venturing and experiencing the trials, education and shaping necessary to achieve relative perfection in each human experiment? Do I personally benefit exponentially from being in constant connection with Almighty? What is the precise or best determined, sweet spot so to say, where God and I are tethered, yet I remain free to master the toolset and freedoms that make a robust man? That is the wonder that astounds the angels, the tether of Spirit, a bond never upset, never disengaged, never interrupted based upon the promises of the One Person who does not change, Almighty Father God.

Contrary to worldly dissolution, the Trinity provides an unchanging relationship between Creator and little C, creation that answers the states unavailable in the realms of constant decay or change. Basically, this relationship by nature is defined by its freedom from the hands of Time and thus may remain constant and absolutely free in the same instant. For just as sustaining any relationship is defined by moments of unbroken connection, Time. Maintaining the relationship/connection is also defined with the same hand or parameters of constancy in, Time. Thus, to have a relationship outside the parameters, boundaries and definitions of time we must have relationship outside of time itself. And God being the only Being outside those constructs or constraints the constancy of Prayer, Gratefulness and Spirit found only in the connection with God, IS the only exception.

So, what is the nature of ETERNITY that exceeds the controlling or excluding clenches of time upon all men? Well, you must be REBORN of something eternal, something heavenly, something outside the original limitations of the man/woman born by the waters of human birth. The only way to achieve a CONSTANT relationship, an embrace that may never be interrupted is through the introduction of a seed of that REBIRTH, the baptism of fire birth, the HOLY SPIRIT’s indwelling with the heart of man. Living with the Holy Spirit’s seed, seal, power and absolute unchanging connection with God Almighty, because He IS who He IS, IS the only path to unceasing embrace.

To be totally loved, provisioned, protected, purposed, promised and portended that eternal connection must be wanted, chosen, yearned for, maintained and honored by each person who seeks everlasting life and growth beyond/outside the constraints of mortal existence. Yes, arguably there will be charlatans of false hope extolling the avenues of PURE KNOWLEDGE as pathways to everlasting, but they never existed outside time and therefore do not have the keys or access to provide its unceasing elements to the buyer. ENLIGHTENMENT or the promised fruits of the tree of the knowledge of GOOD AND EVIL are shiny objects trapping one in a Mobius loop. There is no way from here to there for there is no connection from here to there but through the Spirit, Son and Father who created and sustains all Time, Space and Matter.

First

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Without promise there is no belief, without belief there is no faith, without faith it is impossible to please God. This all stems from the Sovereignty and Reliability of God. For it is upon His act of creation and promises of active participation and prophetic future intercession that even made belief/trust possible. This entire lifestyle of reliance upon God was started by His action and will be ended by His Promised action. Upon that we Trust, everything else is suspect. Therefore, it is my trust in God that is the only Truth within me.

Why then do I read His Word. Is it the story? Is it the flowery language that gives me an electric shock up my legs and back? Is it to be a member of some fellowship or aspiration group? Is it to find out why so many strive to stand with Him when none of them can see Him? Is it to find a way out of my circumstances? Is it because nothing else seems real or discernably true? Is it to give myself strength to tackle the objects and obstacles before me? Is it to find my Creator and understand why He made me and what His promises mean measured against my will and desire? Or is it so that I may stand against Him in my vain imagination, pointing out how simple, uneducated and foolish all Christians have always been? Whose imagination do I hope to support in robust argument, mine or His?

This day, tomorrow we celebrate the day of which the hymn was written. When those of Jerusalem welcomed Him with cries and tears of Hosannah in the Highest. They laid palm fronds before the colt’s feet as they welcomed the realization of promised deliverance in the Messiah’s arrival to fulfill ALL prophecy. Yet, deception and argument offered by religious/military/political leaders led them to within the same week demand His death upon the cross, hung on a tree as cursed prisoners always were. Their reliance was clearly not upon God’s Promise but on man’s offering of protection, palace and prosperity.

Since when have we demanded a shift in the meanings of these feast days, the HOLYDAYS, that we have transliterated to holidays? What are we observing when seeding our children with a quest for the fertility of rabbits and the mystery for painted, golden eggs, gifts, money or the laps of men/women in costumes of the same? What are we pursuing in our own imagination or the stories we have been sold of those who worship air, tree and water? Do we truly understand the Promise that represented in observance and remembrance of the terrifying joy of Christ’s punishment for mankind’s sin? He took our place on that cross, taking willingly the death that we owed for our disobedience in sinful pursuit against God’s command. Why are we so intent on allowing the enemy’s prostitution of first intent, always ready to accept the revisions to the Promise. The small deviation from what God said which eventually leaves the ship astray, the compass untended, True North absent in our travels?

The joy of mistakes made is the time to focus upon their correction. I find myself in the unavoidable countdown to God’s intervention in America and this world. Knowing the only Truth is what He has given me combined with this sense impending urgency of His return I am self-counseled and spoken clearly to by God’s Spirit to do those things commensurate and consistent with a man who in faith, believes and in belief acknowledges the TRUTH that is God’s Sovereignty. These are the days of our participation and validation/declaration of that Truth. God holds accountability for my alignment or departure from His direction. My choices that are consistent with that accountability are the only power I personally possess to deny or confirm the blessings of this life and the next. I choose Truth. I choose God through Christ. I am Christian and I follow Him, am changed by Him and loved by Him to eventually resemble Him in the Family of those who first Trusted and Believed His Promises.

Don’t fear this

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The Lord did not give us the spirit of fear but of love, power and of a sound mind.  This buoys us to the overwhelming pressure of fear paralysis, inoculates our minds from imaginary energy sucks, drives or influences and inures us to the use of fear in bullying unbelievers to salvation.  Certainly our senses of danger may be properly employed to warn of us of impending harm, but this is not the spirit crippling fear that calls us to abandon ship or flee our posts in utter despair.  We were meant to see fear, name it for its origin and then overcome its oppressive influence through faith, prayer and trust in God.

Face it, our enemy is thoroughly capable of destroying, deceiving and devouring each of us.  If not for God’s Divine protection we would most certainly be consumed in the devil’s quest to steal our lives, joy and eternal blessings.  However, take joy in that fact for it is not me that the devil fears, but Christ who lives in me.  Although he may deceive into believing my own inadequacy, my own unworthiness and my own lack of power, potency and protection to overcome his legions, this is all subterfuge, as though these all be true none of them is truly important.  For it is Christ who is worthy, Christ who overcomes the power of the devil, death and Hades and also Christ who strengthens/protects me.  Praise be to God that I am not waylaid by the grand deception that it is my strength, worth or ability which sustains me to stand in battle.   I have the power of the Holy Spirit to guide, prepare, arm and sustain me to complete any task which God has allotted for His Good purpose.

Please don’t fear me and if you do please let it be God’s Holy Word of correction spoken through me as vessel to which you pay homage.  I am a man, crafted of dirt as Adam but remade in Christ to become something beyond my own capacity.  My job is love, not fear, hate nor conquest.  Yes, I pray to take back lands ceded to the enemy by our lack of vigilance, but the power to overcome this usurpation is always that of God.  His Word is true, so let mine also reflect that justice.  I seek to capture your heart through care, win your allegiance through prayer and effective modeling and serve you in  those moments of greatest need.  Christ showed us the way when He washed the Apostle’s feet, for ours is the pride of service in reverence to our King.

Folks in coming months and years the enemy would have us palsied in overwhelming fright.  Darkness seeks to expand its domination of this world, knowing fully that time is short and Christ’s return approaches.  We must prepare our minds and hearts for these weighty impacts, remembering God’s word regarding the origin of fear.  We are to be strong and courageous, ever vigilant in our memory of the God we serve.  Christ died on the cross for all mankind, but many will resist belief and be indwelt by the unholy spirits of fallen.  We must not fall pray to their deceptive recommendation or twisting doctrine.  They will always seek to pollute that which is divine, so learn the Word of God, repeat the Word of God, brandish the Mighty Double Edged Sword of God’s Holy Word and the enemy will flee, himself in fear of Christ and the eventual judgment to which all wickedness approaches.

God has already overcome fear.  Let it not enter my ear, my thoughts or infect my heart, for I was not made for such things.  Stand with me Brothers and Sisters, hand and hand, side by side, singing hymns and songs of God’s Glory, even as we pass through shadow.  Know God, fear Him who might damn souls to eternal fire, but pay no such heed to other created beings,whether angel, man or other.  We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.  I prefer love, for fear is not within me.  Praise God in Jesus Mighty Name.

Hands too small

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The pain available for consumption in this wretched old world is too much for me.  Lord is nothing Holy, nothing sacred, sacrosanct or treasured anymore?  Must all be trampled underfoot or reduced to grime and ashes?  We see word twisters, and faith changers pushing ideas designed to trap simple folks in an indecent quest for “identity”.  The caps, boundaries, laws and guidelines have either been torn down, forgotten, ignored or corrupted so that all contemptible pleasure is permissible if done in the name of self expression or actualization.  The pinnacle of human resolve has been reduced to things of low character, golden trinkets and burnished medallions of lowly character and dismay.  Our children follow heroes who threaten, burn, kill and mutilate the innocent, counting themselves wealthy for ill gotten gain.  I will not mourn this world when you remake it, I shall not miss them, but for now I will bask in the remaining light of Your Glorious Spirit bidding make disciples of men, leading them away from the precipice.

Father, I long to spend time just being with You.  Just breathing, listening, watching and following every gesture, each word.  The gum has lost its flavor and though I have not lost my salt, I wish that the dish were finished.  Father, how long must the weak, orphaned, sick, hungry, thirsty, miserable and dying suffer their misfortune?  Will You not set them free and avenge their travesty, soon?  Forgive me for asking Father, but will I ever have that kind of patience?  The kind that You seem capable to displaying for millennia upon millennia, piled up through the ages.  What have we done that could make You wish to wait out our folly?  I pray to have a heart that sees us worthy in the end, for now I see nothing but disobedience, mockery and self concern.  Will I resemble Your Son enough to be recognized as Your child or must I continue to dissatisfy?  Frankly I am bored with my attempts at measuring up for they always fall short, even my grandest and most well thought efforts.  This thing, salvation, must be Your work for my own will forever be inadequate to this tasking.  Praise and bless Your Holy Name that it is Your design and not mine.

This world does not impress me, but You love it so and that is all that matters.  I love people in those moments when I see Your face kindled in their eyes, when their hearts reach out to the needy for the asking.  They may forget me, sometimes I wish that they would so that I might rest.  But Father, let anything that I do remind them so that they never forget You for even one moment.  My legacy is the child who needed love and encouragement and I happened to be there by Your Good graces to pick him up and send him on his way.  My victory is hearing the name of Jesus upon the lips of a young women we all thought lost forever to wickedness, deceit and foreign plunder.  My agony those lost to false teaching’s siren, leading them away from freedom and eternity.  Grant me those people who might be saved by our collective ministry, that I might someday look upon their faces in your presence, knowing I had some small part in making You smile.

Faith working through love

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What is it that I really want?  Maybe riches, in gold, land, material goods a conglomerate of immeasurable wealth?  I doubt that any of us would say that we have never contemplated being truly wealthy.  I like to think that I would be a philanthropist, changing the world, utilizing my great wealth to further the kingdom, keeping myself pure, remaining consistent with the Word.  But it just doesn’t match up with the reality I have seen in my own heart.  Typically for me, the wealthier I become the less concern and focus I pay to the things of Christ.  For me the foothold of the enemy in my life is complacency, comfort and a luring away from the things of God.  For this reason wealth may be poison to my walk with God.

Perhaps, I would like to be in love so much that I would go to war, travel the seas, sell my kingdom, just to spend all my moments with the one that I love.  She would fulfill me in a such a way that I could dismiss my ambition, my envy, my longing for purpose.  There are few of us who have never imagined this type of consuming romance, losing ourselves in the eyes of our beloved for eternity.  But, I know myself, and I always wake up at some point realizing that this other person, however astoundingly beautiful is after all just another human.  I come awake to the fact that it wasn’t as life altering as I originally expected and frankly leaves us with the realization that a love relationship with another human often entails a lot of work, growth and personal sacrifice.

If not love or wealth, what then would fulfill my life, power perhaps?  Conquering, leveraging, strategizing and overcoming every land, group, individual and corporate/political entity standing between me and total control.  Maybe standing at the top of the world overlooking all the territory over which I extend my authority would give me peace.  But, I know the tyrant within me, the consuming maw of controlling master, the never ending quest for more power.  This beast would never allow me to be at peace.  And evil has no partners only servants.

What now, not money, nor romance, nor power, will nothing fulfill my agonizing quest for purpose and understanding?  Could it be magic that I seek, maybe a control of matter, manipulation, cleverness and science?  Would that endow me with the completeness heretofore unattainable?  No, for I would conjure evil, even when I intended greatness, for this is the true alignment of my heart in wizardry.  I would be bent on obtaining all power, all knowledge all craft turned to the fulfillment of my own desires.  No this too would be spent on nothingness, pain and suffering for those around me.  Arch angels were incapable of self control in their self-worship via God given power, how then could I hope to maintain reason?

You see my service to God is not only a faithful walk of love but also withstands reason’s interrogating finger.  I know myself and I want to know God, more and more each day.  This is my purpose to love God and do His work for there is no other fulfillment in this life or the next.  I have seen love, power, money and magic and none possess the qualities of a life well lived for God through Christ.  Do I want miracles, yes, when God in His wisdom shows me the glorious imagination of a child or the caring heart of a saint, I am amazed.  Do I want power, yes, I want the power to choose to obey, having the faith in something greater than myself, standing in the face of overwhelming adversity, believing God for His Divine Promise.  Do I want love, yes,  the love of my wife, equally human and wonderful, struggling to remain pure in the world seeking to consume our goodness.  Do I want magic, oh yes, the magic of God’s wisdom finding a home in the mind of a man who deserves neither wisdom nor the love of God.  I choose God because it makes sense to do so.  For in so doing I am fulfilled as with no other device known to humanity.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fmr-israeli-general-iran-hezbollah-planning-joint-invasion-of-israel/  Hiding, turning a blind eye or cowering will never make evil simply, “Go away”, some conflicts must be confronted before the threat becomes reality.

Sense Fitters

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How utterly boring to conform to a world view that screams to all, the innocent and the brave, “survival of the fittest”.  What manner of hysteria has overtaken humanity that the secularists may proclaim, “diversity” at all costs yet subscribe to the elimination of anything that resembles lesser gene orientation?  For the sake of their beloved, “tolerance” they would eliminate every Christian and Jew on the planet.  How then was their objective tolerance?

By their own religion, evolutionism, they would have us believe that Stephen Hawking should have been destroyed for his ailments, rather then adored, cherished and interviewed as a dynamic creation of Almighty God.  In Hitler’s Germany, he would have been destroyed out of Hitler’s desire to usher in the “perfect race” that evolutionism promises.  It is only through the Grace of God, having been born in a Judeo-Christian nation, that he has been protected and supported in to becoming a well known, respected scientist.

Of greater interest is his apparent denial for the existence of God and the impact his argument has on the general population.  Here is the difference between Christian and Evolutionist; the Christian will pray for him, hoping that God choose to have mercy on him by removing the veil that separates him from God and the Evolutionist will embrace his defiant stance, while worshiping him for his scientific denial of God’s existence and simultaneously being disgusted by his weakness in disfigurement.

Victory of the strong lacks the greatest power available in this lifetime, that being mercy and compassion, both born of love.  If only the strong survived then my life would never have been blessed by most of my tremendous friends and colleagues.  I do not doubt that I would have been included in that list of the weak.  I cherish the weak, love the innocent and pray that God gives me the abundance to dispel the poverty and illness of the unfortunate.  Those who resist God not only lack reason but they also lack heart.

Would you be the one to evolve and show the world your newly emerged mental competencies?  That is just the same old pursuit attempted and judged by your predecessor in an attempt to replace God upon His throne.  We all wish to do magic, use telekinesis and practice transformation of energies and matter.  Why do we wish to have these powers?  Isn’t it for the same reasons that any other tyrant, bully or would-be emperor desired greater authority, prowess or militaristic projection?  I fail to see that we have evolved as a species at all, as we continue to do the same horrid things to each other throughout the ages, indeterminate of who is in power.

Would a reign under your newly evolved capacity be any different?  How then would life be to the recently evolved, suddenly set apart from the rest of humanity?  Would you rise to control of the masses or possibly be eradicated as “different” or odd?  As with most liberal theory this idea of evolution of the human race is strong on imagination and absent empiricism.  If survival of the fittest were law not theory, then the gene pool of man would certainly have been cleansed of any weak aberrations by this point in our “so called” evolutionary cycle.

Being and growing in resemblance to Christ is a walk in victory.  This is the true trans-formative advancement of humanity.  We begin to utilize the qualities of the Holy Spirit, understand the fear-dispelling courage of Christ and possess a sacrificial love for fellow man.  Christ never faded when the Father’s Will was at stake, he never faltered to do what must be done, even when it challenged the impossible.  Christ resisted the enemy throughout a lifetime of assault, the likes of which none of us could begin to comprehend.  Jesus, could have been worshiped here on Earth, by calling forth legions of angels to dispel His enemies and protect Him, yet He chose to be humiliated for the fulfillment of God’s Holy Plan for humanity.  That is the sacrificial courage of a kind that we are all called to emulate, standing in the face of total loss and fulfilling each of our personal destinies to the Glory of God’s Will.  Jesus had all the power and glory at His disposal yet “chose” not to use it out of love for the Father and love for us.  We must never downplay the power of choice, for this is the freedom associated with true love.

I love God and I love my fellow humans.  Yes, even my enemies, for they still possess the opportunity to choose Christ.  When that opportunity is removed and they are truly among the damned I will pray for God’s mercy upon their souls but they will become unlovable.  That is why I have no love for the powers and principalities that continually defy God, for they have no love in them, no saving Grace of God, no chance at redemption.  They are simply, wood for the fire, as Jesus has portrayed them.  I will not practice the impoverished thinking of those intent on denying God, whether by science, religion, mysticism or self-help.  There is no master race, no evolved species, no elitist group elevated to pious position.  There are only those who have chosen to obey God and those who defy Him.  I pray that you not be found sitting on the fence or worse yet blaspheming the Holy Spirit in denial of Christ when God finally says, pencil’s down, pass your papers to the front.

Follow Him

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Had I tasted victory, despair would be too sour to capture my taste.  Had I known peace through prayer, anger and the world’s molestation would own me not.  Had I dreamed in a glimpse of eternity, the past and present would make sense as a parts in the sum of the whole.  Had I known the truth, lies would have lost all adhesive quality in my heart.  Had I seen love, then my kind whispers would chase hate and fear to the darkness of their origin.  Had I seen the face of God, my joyous reward would be complete.  How then does a hypocrite profit when none of these inspiring influences have overwhelmed such that all else becomes dim?

It is not about religion, it is about following Jesus in truth, serving God in love, obedience and purpose.  It is not about the holiest man having been inserted between each of us and God for there are no barriers to majesty and no man who is free of sin but the Lord Jesus.  It is not about emulating the deacons, pastors and princes for each of them struggle alone in the dark asking God for guidance and forgiveness.  It is not about being alone because my vision of perfection somehow excludes those who are dirty, messy, poor, sick or confused.  It is about Love and only Love.  A Love so kind and deep that it overlooks imperfection, struggle and brokenness.  It is about following Jesus Christ, calling upon the Holy Spirit in power to sanctify each of us making us more like Christ then when we began.  It is about the walk, with purpose, truth and intention, demonstrating love for God as evidenced through action, not to win some prize but knowing the prize has already been given and works are a natural part of thankful joy.

I do not want to be like my pastor, I want follow God.  I do not want God’s power, I want to use it to the Good Will of His Glory, Majesty and Love for mankind.  I do not want to be congratulated for my prowess, gifts or faith, unless it is from the mouth of Jesus welcoming me home to His Presence.  There is no defeat now but not loving as God has directed.  I must have Love, the Love of God, nothing else matters.  Forgive me Father for pursuing any side road that does not lead directly to Your Righteousness.  May my heart, life and words always be true to my quest of following You.

What kind of miracle?

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Faith.  A belief that does not require proof, having accepted something as truth without demanding existing evidence.  How did I know that my earthly Father loved me?  I cannot prove it but I seldom questioned that fact.  I just knew.  It is the same way with God, though He has given much less reason to doubt His love than my earthly Dad.  I trust, hope, believe in and “know” that God will show up in my life.  Sure the first few times I trusted took all the faith that I could muster, but now I have “empirical evidence” based upon the thousands of times which God has shown up in my life.  My faith is based on His trustworthiness not my own capacity to accept facts.  I have faith in His Faithfulness, His Word, His Grace, His reliability and Consistency.  My faith is increased each time that His Word washes over me as it is fortified, perfected and encouraged by Truth.

Mustard Seed.  One to two millimeters in diameter, yet capable of producing one of the largest plantings in the garden, a tree in fact.  This demonstrates the potency of even a smidgen of faith, that from the smallest spore a vast sustainable set of branches will eventually ensue.  God had faith enough in me to offer His Life upon a cross with the hope/knowledge that I would someday accept that gift in humility and be filled by life eternal.  I may not know that much about God, but I know Him, and what I do know of Him surrounds great “love”.  A love that would never leave me alone to flounder, incapable, incapacitated, threatened by enemies who hate me for His sake.  I have “faith” in that love to catch me when I jump, fall, stumble or reach for the everlasting in hope and trust.  That seed that He chose to place in the soil of my spirit has grown, watered and fed by His Word and kept safe by the demonstration of His faithfulness.  I wonder what can be done with a pumpkin seed of faith?

Trust.  I don’t always know what God is up to in our lives, but I do know that it feels good to know that we are in relationship.  I know that I am not always going to understand or appreciate the “goodness” of His disciplining Hand in my life,  but I always eventually see that it was meant for the best.  I have zero comprehension why He chose to offer me salvation , but I am overjoyed that He chose to do so.  I trust that His Word is Truth and that His plan is the perfection of mankind, saving us from the self-evoked chaos to which we are otherwise committed.  I simply accept His righteousness on “faith” and wait for the knowledge, justification and belief to show up at a later date.  Trust in God is not chance but opportunity to sustain hope in something more dependable than the universe itself.

I love You Lord.  Can I explain Love, certainly not, but I know that I love You.  How is it that I am fortunate enough to accept factors with faith that I cannot explain or prove, accept and give Love, something I cannot explain or understand and share Hope with those around me with nothing but words/life actions to demonstrate its probability?  He has made me another creature, a man who believes in things that he cannot explain, evidence or demonstrate.  A man who walks a path that he cannot see yet maintains, with absolute surety that it leads to eternity.  A man who weeps at the plight of humanity when by all means he should be disaffected, simply because God loves them so much.  A man who believed in little else but self gratification now accepts the Truth that is God without question.  What kind of miracle is that?

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