Battles are never won without courage and an attitude of long suffering, for they shall neither be begun nor completed.  The Lord requires us to stand, prepared for battle, suffering, loss and, yes a continued resolve to remain upon the solid Rock of His foundation.  We should always anticipate victory, but not that it conforms to our own vision, ideal or anticipated personal or prolonged outcome but on that which is consistent with God’s Good Will.  My job is to stand in faith-inspired courage and know that God will see me through whatever valley, battle, chaos or objective, that He has set before me.  For I am not my own, my life belongs to Jesus as He gave His in proxy of my own condemnation.  I truly grasp the impact of the term, forgive for I do not know exactly know who said it,  “He died my death so that I might live His life”.  What I owe Him is the courage and patience to stand against the storm, wielding the sword of His Word, knowing that He will provide for both if I but show some measure of faith and devotion.

As an Ambassador for Christ I must understand the equivalent detrimental impact upon those in my sphere of influence brought on by my demonstrated cowardice or inaction.  I am a Prince and a Priest, a joint heir to the Kingdom of God, shared in faith with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.  I must understand the gravity of my position and take it seriously that I am a representative for Almighty God Himself, betrothed as the Bride of Christ, standing in stead for His leadership, rule and reign upon this planet.  There is no one else to accept that coveted charge to action and intercessory prayer.  What I do or do not do has effect and I should neither take it lightly nor ignore the obvious impact upon the furtherance of the Gospel Message.  God called me and it is up to me to answer that calling, being empowered for the completion of the potentially impossible tasking I have been given.

Do not look away Brother, do not listen to the false whispers of necessary fear.  These are the enemy sirens leading you to complacency and absence from the call to battle.  God did not give us the spirit of fear but of “love, power and a sound mind”.  A sound mind at this point in history demands, “preparation, study, prayer and meditation” upon the character, Will and aspects of God’s Righteousness.  Be courageous and know that you stand here for Almighty God and He will never forsake you, especially in the midst of exercising His Plan for mankind.  Show us your mustard seed and God will always magnify your capacity to fulfill His Will.  Blossom in the Hand of Almighty God.  Jesus Be Praised.

Delighting in a child’s smile is not the same as making them smile.  Observing, wishing well is not the same thing as lending a hand.  The sidelines is not the place for an heir to the kingdom of heaven, we were meant to be in the game.  Where is the game, you ask?  This is where local churches and I quickly depart, as they are unwilling to answer the following questions; How many orphans live within a half mile radius of your church?, How many widows live within a half mile radius of your church?, How many missionaries/volunteers from your church are actively serving at the local hospitals, old folks homes, orphanages, prisons and homeless shelters?  The Christian ministry is associated with “Walking” in each and every image or discussion of the new testament.  It requires “action” to be an obedient ambassador for Christ.  Don’t you want to be delighted before Christ in accounting for your life as you review the pictures, memories and emotions associated with “walking” with the Holy Spirit through this life?  This is the time preparing for the harvest.  As with any farm there is much work to be done and we are the workers, whether preparing the ground, planting seeds, weeding, fertilizing, watering or cultivating, this is the work of any Christian.

Do I know my neighbors?  If I don’t how do I expect to demonstrate Christ in my own life?  How do I expect them to know who is available when this world gets too tough for them to bare?  How do I expect to have the opportunity to share Christ in those brief moments of relationship, if there in fact has never been any attempt on my part to form a relationship?  How do I expect the Holy Spirit to speak to them through this vessel unless I am willing to provide an opportunity for the Holy Spirit to use me in the lives of those that live nearby?  What manner of a success plan is this that I am following?  It certainly makes no sense and most likely does not follow the orderly, sensible and logical reflections of God.

What are my goals with regard to sharing the Gospel message with people that I know or meet?  Do I believe that without any preparation for sharing the message that I will “out of the blue” effectively share the message of salvation in the moments when they arrive?  What intentions do I have with regard to helping the church to reach those in my neighborhood?  Have I seen the Mormon Elders in my neighborhood and dodged them, effectively missing an opportunity to share Christ with them on my doorstep, because I am too bothered to be an ambassador?  Do I use that old excuse that I do not know the Bible well enough to share my testimony, so I will leave it to those who have the skill to share the Gospel?  Do I truly believe that “being a slave to righteousness” is meaningless and that I owe nothing for the price of my salvation?  Can I disobey the command of God to share the message of salvation, judgment and the coming Kingdom of God without some manner of repercussion in this life or the next?

Have I once discussed with my pastor how I might best be used with or outside the church to further God’s plan for my life?  Do I quickly leave the church to avoid any opportunity to get involved or be known for my walk?  What do I wish to be remembered for when I leave this planet?  I struggle with being accepted, even in the church I am ridiculed for my willingness to share the Gospel message with all people.  This is my tiny piece of sharing in the suffering of Christ.  If I must be a gadfly within the church body raising concerns about our complacent hearts then let it be so for I am not here to serve the church but Christ whom saved me.  I know this that I have never felt so good as when I got in the game and gave it my all, even in temporary loss.  The only regret is to never have attempted sharing the Gospel.  I am inadequate to the task but that does not free me from the obligation to do my best to learn the Gospel, discipleship and counseling so that when God calls upon me to play that part.  If God has not yet called upon me to fulfill His plan for my life then I must be in the period of preparation for said calling.  Don’t be scared, be prepared.  Praise God for Jesus Christ the King of everything.

At what point in our national history did self-evidence fall to strangling grasp of epistemology?  Do we no longer believe that all men are created equal and that they have been endowed by that same Creator with certain unalienable rights?  This exercise in tolerance has contorted our culture to near breaking point.  To allow for the probability and expression of every minority view, we have set our selves on a foundation correcting course of revisionist history.  We can no longer believe what we believe if it does not give equal and sufficient voice to “every” perspective seated around the table.  All may say the pledge of allegiance to a flag, an ideal, a guiding principle if at the same time they learn and chant the mantras of even their enemy’s flag, concept and moral doctrine.

This commits our children to a permanent vacillation of self image by forcing them to embrace the facts that all men may not be created equal if their creator was evolutionary astronomical probability.  It detaches their thinking from reality to consider that maybe all fish, animals, microbes, heterogeneous mammals and ideas are equal before this nebulous commitment to a tolerance of every thought, however preposterous.  It begs them to question those rights we have traditionally fought to uphold that we are all free to pursue life, liberty and happiness.  It forces us to eventually turn against the historically conservative to solidify the authority of “tolerance” as the new dogma for proper thinking.  Eventually it commits us to conformity to the most charismatic speaker present in the global, media dynasty as entire populations follow the voice that most closely heralds the desire of the internal urges.  Thus the efficacy of radical Islam as they are handed the fuel to fire the angry inferno brewing in their own dissatisfaction with current economic and social dilemma.  Point in case the German population being captured in pursuit of that which we all abhor in those moments of reflection.  When we adhere to the self evident principles of Creator endowed equality we rarely go astray from righteous behavior, but when we depart from that foundation we fall into catastrophe, such as the misery of allowable enslavement of any race, creed or nation group.  This idea of tolerating, then embracing the views of the highest bidder, special interest or even the most abstract and minor, audacious religion or ideal is guaranteed collective destruction.  For we cannot depart from those ideals which have brought us good fortune, simply to acknowledge a politically correct imposition of the ridiculous without losing the benefits of that time tested and assured foundation.

Truth maintains the probability of effective national harvest.  As truth is tortured by the whims of opinion, dogma and abstract ideal, weeds, poisons, insects and the ravages of natural disaster damage the potential yield of collective productivity.  Once we have forgotten or willingly strayed from those things which we believed to be “self evident” then the foundation to which we collectively committed begins to crumble and eventually collapse.  This abstractly imposed, survey bound tolerance is the wedge being driven beneath moorings and pylons of our national edifice.  All men who believe that they have been endowed by the Creator with equality and unalienable rights must return to that same Creator in humility, repentance and re-commitment in order to forestall this deconstruction of that which was shaped in His expert Hand.

Repent and be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and you will be given the Holy Spirit of God, sealing you for eternity and redeeming you to relationship with Almighty God.

http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/love-worth-finding/player/jesus-christ-the-son-of-god-and-god-the-son-437710.html  This is one of those sermons all Christians should study.

So simple a thing so hard to accept.  They will accept that extra-terrestrials seeded Earth or somehow brought about the great flood and that vampires/werewolves freely walk among us, but they refuse outright the evidence of Sovereign God.  Is not God “extra” terrestrial, did He not reach His hand into humanity through fire, cloud, prophet, parted waters, brimstone and flood.  The difficulty is not in accepting something that is too difficult to understand but in making ourselves of secondary importance for worship.  I think therefore I am the center of the universe.  Pride is a powerful narcotic.

If I acknowledge God then I have to disobey God because I cannot possibly obey His commands which are entirely inconsistent with my self actualization.  Therefore I will do my best to deny His existence and persecute His people, thus nullify His authority and judgment.  This is standard practice in today’s society, commit sin then simply act like it didn’t occur repeating a practiced lie as frequently/loudly as you possibly can to countermand justice.  That certainly coincides with the definition of irrational thinking?

I cannot deny that my worldly Father exists to avoid the punishment he would most assuredly deliver for disobeying his house rules.  Nor can I simply forgive, explain away or dismiss the repercussion of nefarious or criminal action just because I do not wish to acknowledge the authority of the law to judge my actions.  This is man’s predicament with God.  To forgo His offer of salvation is guaranteed damnation, self prescribed separation from our Creator for eternity.  There is great danger in toying with the portents and purveyors of deception.  Pride is hypnotic.

Why are men going hungry, because me and friends refuse to care enough to go and share our food?  Why do children go orphaned when there are thousands of churches in each State, tasked by God to watch over them?  Well most certainly it is because we think ourselves above that command or perhaps we feel that God meant for someone else to do it when He was pointing directly at you and me.  Why do the lost go uneducated to things of God, having not known salvation because we are unwilling, too busy or frankly disinterested in sharing the Gospel message with which we have been entrusted?  What Ambassador would ever expect to keep his job having not even attempted to establish productive relations with the host country.  We are not citizens of the world, only ambassadors of God’s Kingdom sent to share invitation.  Do we understand the difference between a request and an order, or perhaps between a piece of wood upon the wall and the Sovereign King of the Universe?  Pride whispers, “he is not referring to me”.

I repent because I am bent, corrupted, poisoned and chained.  I run because I am in fear, of death being near, so I steer my wagon away from the chasm, in spasm I drive directly toward the abyss from which God has just relieved me.  Of what then is my courage made?  Will it simply fade when time for price and passion is paid?  Will my judgment be stayed, when my last breath is made and I haven’t done the work to make the grade?  Can I afford to look into the fiery eyes of the Lord knowing I kept my gifts stored for a season or reason that never came?  Is He then to blame for what I have ignored, forgotten or simply chosen to never do?  I cannot abide my denied pride for it opens me wide to all manner of hateful and disobedient sin.  Let’s be awake for majesty’s sake.  Jesus Christ my savior and my King.

http://www.insight.org/resources/devotionals/god-doesnt-have-to-explain.html  Chuck Swindoll on the sovereignty of God