THY WILL

AND GOD SAID

My spirit will not contend with man forever.

Genesis 6 - 3

On this Easter Sunday we would do well to meditate on the words of the God of Genesis.   Frankly looking at the state of the nations we can only pray for righteous judgement and that the Lord will return and rule with a rod of iron.

Will of the people - today there is no such thing.

Elections can be rigged - results ignored.

The power mongers - dangerous men/women  - extend their grip until the day finally arrives when they will have to deal with GOD'S WILL.   They will not get away with their heinous crimes against humanity.  

Mahatma Gandhi said "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to re-make the world - that is a myth of the atomic age - as being able to re-make ourselves.   Wise words from a holy man who left judgement to God ignoring the religious divide between Hindu and Muslim and near starving himself to death to stop the religious zealots from killing each other.  He endured brutal treatment and imprisonment from the English heading up none violent civil disobedience.   Surely he rests with God.       

Time is running out and those who suffer injustice now, will - in that day of days - be able to watch the procession of government officials, wonky church leaders and prosperity preachers being taken down the wide road and into the distant black fog of nothingness.    Their palaces empty, their  possessions destroyed.

Last year the writer met a middle aged woman in a local park.    For reasons unknown she witnessed to a perfect stranger that she was a born-again pentecostal christian.    She was unable to find a church in an area that had half a dozen churches all of which she considered were "on the wrong track"   Of course she was correct, but where should she go, she was obviously troubled and very much alone.

When you have experienced a church alive with children, teenagers, young adults and seniors with joyful happy hearts singing and praising their God accompanied by anointed musicians the impact of walking into sterile churches, unable to find any joy, happiness and a genuine welcome for a fellow pilgrim or stranger in a town -  the effect is chilling.   

As I have experienced the same apathy I could only console "God knows your heart - He is everywhere - he inhabits the hearts of His people and the way we live our christian lives is more important than the weekly trip to the "musty damp smelling edifice" that houses those who would be seen as first in the Kingdom yet walk past the man sleeping on the street, the drug addict, the homeless.    She is not alone, Yeshua has followers around the globe,  but I reminded her that we don't compromise the Word of God -  Revelation 18 - 4-5 - And I heard another voice from heaven saying 4 -  "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.  5 -For her sins have reached heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Sadly I never saw that woman again but I often wonder if she had managed to find other like minded christians and now has the love and support of a fellowship  "home group".     I can certainly concur I haven't found a place in the last two years I could call my spiritual home on earth and although physically I would be a liability on any protest march my contributions will be to CRISIS and other charities that make a real difference in a hurting world where there is little compassion for those who fall through the net or have lived too long and are considered a crushing burden on the state.   Obviously those who don't follow Yeshua are ignorant where His teaching is concerned.   But thankfully there are many who give from a moral conscience and put others to shame.   

Matthew 25 - 46

Yeshua said 'for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

36 - I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.'

  

Many years ago a young woman totally on fire for her Saviour was bringing tramps, alcoholics and drug addicts into her local church.    She was told NOT to do this.   The congregation (mostly from a professional background) were objecting to the "great unwashed" in what they considered 'their church' perhaps someone should have reminded them that the young woman was following the example of her Saviour.   However she continued to follow Yeshua.   She was told if she didn't stop doing this she would be disciplined.  Hard to believe that a Pastor who was supposed to be leading the sheep was literally bowing to the tithe.  This cowardly act resulted in a distressed "child of God" wandering off prey to the wolves that hit on sole sheep.

Tithing as most people who seriously study the bible will concur - "isn't biblical"  Of course it has made Rome rich and powerful and given beautiful palaces to the prosperity preachers - the Son of Man had nowhere to lay his head and when He dined with the rich people in His day it was mostly to encourage them to give their money to feed the poor, considering their souls in eternity more important than their luxuries on earth. 

Perhaps the greatest stupidity in this era is the total lack of respect for wisdom that usually, and I do stress usually, comes with age.   Although there are some children so full of wisdom that like Yeshua they could teach their peers, but they are the exception, not the rule.   

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying 'we can no longer afford to scrap-pile people' suggesting the retired should be re-cycled'    I doubt many of those employed in manual work would be fit for purpose, but the politicians and those in the legal profession could be re-cycled for public service work, their ex.employers should foot the bill.   Then perhaps we would have tidy streets, pristine hospitals and public transport.

As a child I was taught cleanliness is next to Godliness.   How far we have fallen.   How our planet is suffering.   Time to sort it before God runs out of His infinite patience with us ALL.

SHALOM