Love is the only force strong enough to overcome this evil among us.
Without God’s love in our hearts, we will simply proceed to be 1) lost in our sin, 2) in exile, and next is 3) famine.
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As the success of the “No Kings” protest sinks in, let’s consider the opportunity we have. On one level is the battle between the US Constitution and an authoritarian administration. I think we need to acknowledge this is not left vs right, not Republican vs Democrats, not partisan politics. This is a dire fight for our democracy against this attempt to create a dictatorship. We need to drop our differences and the divisiveness cooked up between us to unite in the fight to protect the United States of America.
On another level is our inner life waiting for us to acknowledge we need help to be able to make sense of the underlying forces at work and determine our path. This second level is the basis of philosophy, religion, psychology, and other forms of belief systems developed over the millenniums. For me this second struggle is to live up to the expectation my Creator has for me. I’ve already described my spiritual path in a previous post. What is driving me to write is how alive my consciousness is with communication from God and with the urgency God is conveying to share with you. Many would identify the images and messages as prophecy. Certainly, it is truth bursting at the seams in an attempt to reach those lost in the chaos and distraction of the raging first-level battle.
God is telling me the next step is to establish some basics that are simply not taught today at Church and sadly not in many families either. Do not feel alone if you are estranged from the Bible. The Bible has been attacked for over 1,700 years and the attack continues. (The Bible was not compiled until ~ 325AD.) Yet, the basics for a relationship with God are there for all to read and to comprehend in their own way, on their own time. It begins with shedding all the baggage that religion has placed on you and any prejudices about the Bible. Let the Bible speak to you individually. Let go of all the hearsay and dogma that has given you someone else’s opinion. Read with an open heart and let God speak to you and only you. He wants so desperately for you to truly hear.
Some basics: the Old Testament is the only religious text I am aware of that documents the failures of a religion. The Jewish religion and, as its outgrowth, the Christian religion study the long history of failures in its relationship with God. It is a testament to how much God loves each of us that the Bible exists to teach us and to document the life of the greatest prophet, Jesus, for us to study. As such, the Bible shows us how to make sense of this life and to be the person we were created to be. Which obviously means it is attacked in every way possible by the inherent evil that surrounds us and is used for evil’s own purposes. The Bible includes this fair warning.
The Jews were chosen by God and proceeded to constantly fail as God’s people. The Old Testament is a lesson in psychology and in human frailty, but more importantly it reveals God’s character and plan. In response to the Jews desperate needs, Jesus rose to God’s call and lived a role-model, active life completely aligned with His Father. He taught by His conduct, by direct instruction to His disciples and those gathering around him, and by parables. The New Testament of the Bible is rich with Jesus’ life and teachings, and with what it means to be mature in your faith in God. We are fortunate it has survived 2000 years and that we are one of the first generations to which other writings from the time of Christ and the early Church have been revealed. All provide the basis for our conversations with God.
Once we realize our faith must include a close, personal relationship with God, we open a conversation with God. Controversy over the exact translation of the Bible falls away. The reason for religious wars and conflicts disappears. The Spirit Realm becomes real and erodes our ego, our focus on this temporary world in which we live to learn, and we begin to converse with God. Our ability to BE in the Spirit realm is huge; yet, it is often forgotten or totally misunderstood. It means we have the innate capability to be in the spirit realm with God. Yet this experience is almost foreign to Christians. And today too few know what this means or how to affect it!
Think about it. God does not speak English nor any earthly language. If we want to be mature in our relationship with God, we need to learn the language of the spirit realm, of heaven. We need to learn how to see, to hear, to feel, to taste, and to smell God and to learn God’s ways. Obviously, the ways are very different than the ways of the natural world and our lives spent only in the natural world leave us clueless.
We live in a world today where the Godly solutions we need are discounted and thought naive. 2000 years of misuse, of misunderstanding and of earthly propaganda to advance man’s agendas instead of God’s agenda have made honest belief unfamiliar, and, even worse, passe or thought to be outmoded. I’ve met few who can articulate what Jesus actually taught.
One of Christ’s key gifts to us was to re-open this path to the spiritual realm and make it available to everyone. God writes truth on our hearts. Our spirit is not hidden away, it dwells within us and is there waiting. Do not think of the spiritual realm as out there somewhere. God’s kingdom is at hand and all around us. We are to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. This is a command and we are to do it! To safeguard us from deception, the gifts of the Spirit provide discernment. We are to mirror Christ, just as Christ mirrored God in all He did during His life on earth. Set your hearts on things above where Christ is seated on the right hand side of God. Yes, we have responsibilities on earth; even more important we have responsibilities in the realm of God’s Kingdom. There is a path to the spiritual realm and it is a personal journey with the many who have walked this path ahead of you leaving their lessons to encourage you.
As we mature on the solid food of God our senses are trained to discern right from wrong, good from evil, what is God from what is not God. As we mature our senses are trained in LOVE and our senses engage with God. We are to eat with Jesus, know His Voice, and live on the freshness of our Godly encounters every day in every circumstance of our lives. Jesus describes the mature Christian in the Beatitudes. It is the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, that will win the first-level battle and bring God’s Kingdom to reality. May this speak to each of you.
Yes, you are commanded and are being challenged to meet the command. God is speaking in such urgent and concise messages with warnings that He is currently harvesting the Remnant of believers. The shaking currently underway in the USA and most of the Western culture continues as God awaits our acknowledgement of our need, our turn to repentance and transformation. and our simple humility to stop our ego trips and listen to Our Creator. God loves us so much the message has been clear these past few months. We have been given over to our sins of greed and idolatry. Like children in rebellion we have not heard God and this led to our exile from God. Yet God’s love is so complete, we continue to be challenged to awaken to God’s care and love for us. If not, the next step is famine. It’s all in the Bible. The Israelites experienced this and for some reason we are insisting that we have to learn the same lesson. If we do not learn this lesson, the first-level battle will rage on and on. Guidance from God and use of the LOVE given to us by God will be the force that wins this first-level battle. The choice is ours.
Accept the challenge today. May you find respite in opening a true close, personal relationship with God. May you join God’s army and be a warrior in the fight to bring the Kingdom of God to earth. Love is truly the answer. Amen.