Is God Far From You?

Morning Musing: March 31, 2019

All you who sorrow and sigh for the many griefs in our time I sigh with you.

The rebellion among professed Christians, the hypocrisy, and politics in the "churches" the donuts and coffee and vain chatter the irreverent children...

Oh AWAKE, AWAKE, AWAKE to righteousness, and sin not!!!!!!

How long will wisdom cry in the streets and so many keep their fingers in their ears or buck like wild horses when those who fear God cry unto them!

Friends, how long!!!! My heart breaks to see my friends indulging in worldliness, sensuality, no fear of God to awaken their senses of right and wrong while they attend "church" on Sunday.

Did you know I called myself a Christian when I partied and drank myself into a fool!

When I paraded my half-naked body around like a whore!!

But guess what?!!

I showed up to "church" on Sunday like a "good Christian"

I was naked and blind in chains and fetters of darkness!

But I called myself a Christian.

God is not mocked. You may have a warm fuzzy feeling at the name of Jesus and call Him your Lord but when you delight in what grieves Him He is FAR FROM YOU!!!

This distance is what finally broke me and brought me to my knees and the deep realization that I was a wicked person before a Just, a Righteous, a Holy and blameless God! Like the woman that wept and anointed the feet of Christ I wept over my sinful deeds that broke the Holy heart of Christ. 

God is not to be blamed my friends.

God is not to be blamed for the problems you suffer in your life.

He is not to be blamed for world hunger and lack of clean water for those in need.

He is not to be blamed for the inhumanity of His creation, the men/women that He created in His likeness who act quite the opposite of Him.

Those who love darkness more than light are to be blamed and all of us have been there and done that; and to my deep sorrow, many continue, though they claim His name to cleave to the darkness.

Time is short.

Don't wait to evaluate your Christian walk, compare your life to the life of Christ, and don't be deceived to think your life can't look like His. He calls us to be Holy as He is Holy, and Perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.

What does that perfect look like?

What does that holy look like?

Are you even at all striving to reflect it in your life?

Luke 13:24
"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."

If you think it has nothing to do with what you and your children wear, think again. For the heart is reflected in the actions, buying clothes and putting them on are actions.

If you think the Messiah would buy tight jeans and a tight T-shirt to wear today you are de-sensitized!!

If you think the holy women of old would wear by choice today: skinny jeans, spandex pants, cleavage-revealing tops, fitted clothes you are under a strong delusion.

My heart cries for you to turn from Vanity-Fare from the deceitful lusts to AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND SIN NOT.

And my heart breaks at the fear that my words will fall on deaf ears...

...On hearts hardened that think they are safe and sound in the arms of the Lord and imagine me to be a self-righteous Pharisee while they themselves are filled with the Spirit and secure in their salvation though they wallow in the filth of this world.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom friends, it will steer you onto the narrow path that leads to life. Where you will be a true reflection both inward and outward of one disciplined by the teachings and example of Christ. I have my imperfections I am working on, but if we are not broken by our own shortcomings and if we are not striving for the things of eternity we need to REPENT TODAY!

TOMORROW IS NOT A DEFINITE, SOME NEVER SEE IT.

I can't fully express my burden here...somehow I hope these words draw those who read them to a deeper longing to prioritize their relationship with God and forsake the foolish to live for Him and His will.