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Should?

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Yes, the positive presumption is that as the recipients of Grace we should always succeed. However, we must reconcile the statement Jesus made that we would be assured of troubles in this World? They are not mutually exclusive. Therefore, perhaps the readiness and endurance we are to express is found in facing those trials, troubles and even tribulation in joy fully dependent upon the promises that build our faith? Are you ready to face the trials ahead of you or are in assumption of never meeting them? These passed several years and decades I have been readying myself for increased difficulties of path and portent. I eat less, pray more and seek a reflection equivalent with Fruits born of someone slowly and surely bearing resemblance to Christ Jesus. If not why not?

When I seek comfort I am leaning toward my fleshly desire to seek self-accommodation. It is not that I seek difficulty, discomfort and trial but would that practice be inconsistent with let’s say, John the Baptist wearing sack cloth and eating grasshoppers and honey? Have we become so soft that we abhor the sharpening or abrasive stones set before us for honing? Are we spiritually resolved to be the sole person who experiences no persecution though Christ promised it to all? How do you see the last days working out for you in this oddly, Biblically inconsistent review and understanding? Are you pursuing treasures here and yet expect that there will be resounding applause and welcome for you as you arrive in God’s Presence, having done nothing deterministically to secure His good pleasure through Faith?

There are wars and rumors of coming wars. There are earthquakes and natural disasters abounding, whether by accident or man’s recent ability to manipulate their creation and impact. There is pestilence created to capture, harm and control creation in a way that is consistent with the times of Noah as we approached God’s wrath upon this Earth. We see seen rampant, lust an acceptable cultural norm and a greed that rivals or exceeds the history of Man’s satanic empires. When do we confidently acknowledge and align with our expectations/actions to mirror the recognition of God’s direction and commands for humanity? And if not, will we let go of our false expectation of observing His rest, being adopted into His Heavenly family or hearing those faithful words? These are clearly the times for which we were made and it is irrational for someone who neither shows fruitful evidence of the Holy Spirit’s Presence nor the conviction of the Spirit’s chastisement for wrong action or sanctification to expect an outcome consistent with living, set apart, Holy Righteous and True as God bids us live? We ought not be fooled by our own inconsistent behaviors or deceived by enemy promises of heavenly rest when nothing but separation, weeping and gnashing of teeth awaits. The Beginning of Wisdom is fear of the Lord. Without it should we counsel ourselves ready?

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.