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He is Coming!
Livingwalk.com
- June 15,
2005
Our Lord is Coming!
The Holy Spirit
has many questions, for both myself and anyone whose eyes and heart
touch these words&ldots;
What is it we
worship my brethren? What do we hold so closely and so dearly that we
could never contemplate letting it go?
Is it correct
doctrine? Or the letter of Scripture? Perhaps it is our church or
denominational affiliation? Maybe it’s religion and all of its
trappings? Or what we believe about God and Jesus Christ – what
we have been taught all of our lives from people we think we trust?
Do we worship our
own brand of Christianity – Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic&ldots;
etc? Or our own concepts about the end of the age and the coming of
our Lord? Do we worship prophecy or divine revelation?
Each must answer
the question to his/her own self? Each will have a different
response, yet if the Spirit is truly abiding within us, we cannot lie.
Yet I say that all
of it is rubbish, my brethren, regardless what it is! Anything less
than the Life and the Light of the World is complete and hell-borne
idolatry, and I don’t care what it is!
Fundamentalists,
whether they admit it or not, worship the Scripture and delight
in their ability to cut people down with it! To be biblically correct
is everything to them, even more than likeness to the Living Word who
speaks to us through the Bible and in the present!
Charismatics
worship their affections, regardless of whether lasting spiritual
fruit is borne! They feel, therefore they are, and often what they
believe to be the Quickening Spirit is merely a fuzzy and temporary counterfeit.
Those who worship
the church adore numbers and increase and money – and all
worldly forms of measurement. I’m not even sure many of these
folks even care if God is in it, as long as it grows and grows and
grows exponentially!
Then there are
those who worship rules and order and procedure; which is to say they
love raw power, for this is why men tend to fancy legalism and human
government in the first place! “Give us a king” is their
cry! The Spirit is dead and distant to these people; they have what
they need. The people are kept in line, sitting and marching in rows
onward to their cardboard kingdom. Right behavior is everything, and
love is merely doing what you are told without question. Caution and
safety is the theme, as their God is a vengeful God!
Again, what is it
we love and worship my brethren? What do we expect from our faith,
from this thing called Christianity?
Where is the
Spirit among the Sheep - leading us onward and upward in the fullest
expression of the life and love of Jesus Christ?
I am profoundly
convinced that this is the end of the age of men and our Lord is
calling His own unto Himself. The ground is shaking and cracking
underneath centuries-old religious machines, and the leadership
doesn’t quite know what to make of it. I am guessing they are
privately worried, even though they will never admit it.
Are you still
holding on to your precious little religious playthings? Have you not
heard that the Son of Man, the Son of God is coming? Still arguing
about the timing of the rapture are you? Still wondering if the KJV
of the bible is the only God-breathed kind?
I dare say you
have more pressing issues confronting you my brother – namely
whether you are a sheep or a goat, true wheat or an ungodly weed?
Where is your
heart right at this very moment? Who do you serve with blood, sweat
and tears? If it is anything less than the Bright and Morning Star
– then I fear for you my brother! I fear for any of us who have
not the covering of the Blood in this darkest hour. He is coming
don’t you know!
Before you is Life
and Death! Choose wisely, my friend!
Is He your first
and only love? Do thoughts of Him fill up the chambers of your mind
and life? Do you really worship Him my brethren, or just pretend?
When you walk out in this lonely world, is He beside you, and within
you, filling up your soul, holding you up, and tearing down the old man?
I fear for all
those in this hour who forever have a proof text and have not the
Shepherd of their Souls; who are quick to copy and paste verses from
an online Bible, yet who have never really encountered the Living God.
Oh that He would
breathe on us now my brethren! Oh that the wind would blow where it
will and fill us up with the Heavenly Life and Power! Oh that this
life would be so much more than a book or an argument or a method?
My brethren, it is
not enough at this time to stand outside the veil, while others are
venturing inside. They cannot save you, nor is there a mantle big
enough to cover this whole camp of Christianity. We must boldly
enter, and accept that we will be deeply and forever changed. The
world will lose all its splendor and color once we return. Once we
have seen the King, there is nothing left for us here. Oh that we
would grasp this my friends – that we would let it all go,
whatever it is that prevents us from releasing ourselves wholly to He
who is our Shepherd and High Priest!
Anything less than
He is IDOLATRY, and you cannot take your idols into the Kingdom of
God! Renounce them at once, and stop believing that first and vicious
lie that knowledge is the answer. Indeed! It is LIFE that is the
answer, and from this tree who is the Christ we must partake. He is
the LIFE of the World, and only in Him will we have LIGHT to fathom
the deep mysteries of God and eternity!
He is your life
now my brother, my sister! He is your breathing in and breathing out!
He is the Captain of your Soul, the one who carries you onward and
upward into the bosom of the Heavenly Father.
Grab Him around
the neck right now and never let go! Hold him tightly and let go of
all else, whatever it may be - even if you lose everything in this
life, cast it to the wind!
Oh Come Lord
Jesus, Come!
Please pray for us
here at Living-Walk, that we would watch and see the Master at work,
and understand what He would have us do.
Your friend in
Christ Jesus,
Wayne
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