If we ever needed to rise above the fray, it would be now. So many voices jockeying for our attention, our hearts and minds. Our choices. Our agreements. The amazing part of that? Every single one of our agreements matter. Do we align with truth, feelings or fact? Do we align with order, peace, righteousness & joy or fear, worry, backbiting, negativity and lies?
When Jesus calmed the storm, he spoke directly to it, but knowing exactly who He was and His authority over the situation. It’s odd to me that as the church in the earth, literally Jesus’s body, most of us have no idea who, much less whose we are, outside of bake sales and feeding children in foreign countries. I mean, let’s be real.
Recently spending a morning on a left coast beach attempting to decide what I would ask for, what I was seeking from God, about God, to God or about me or others, it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe all those visits to private mountain top moments for Jesus, was just about hanging out with His Father ( and ours). Maybe it was just about sitting in silence and being reminded by faith, of who and whose He was ( and is).
How simple.
Maybe from there, He fed and moved mountains. He did battle with satan with regard to his own humanity, the exact same things we are tempted with, He was too, yet sinned not. Maybe those moments were the moments He was reminded from whence and why He came and cast out devils and delivered and rose people from the dead. He caused the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear and released the adulteress from her guilt. He came, he saw, he kicked spiritual arsh and said we would do GREATER?!
I look at my country, the world and I think to myself, we are not winning Lord. You may have won, but your army is not winning. Your army has retreated in unbelief, comfort, false gods, and idols. We’ve retreated to false love and co-dependency with sin. We’ve retreated to unholiness and guile. We scheme, backbite, fear and worry. We hide in the shadows and pray you will return soon. But for what? A faithless, impotent army?
We say we pray, but for what exactly? Do we call upon your armies to come and kick confusions arsh when the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ is exploiting humans who deserve to be categorized as your creation you long to set free from confusion and oppression? Do we call upon your armies to confound our enemy’s plans in the earth? No, we are still arguing over whether the OT is real and it’s for today. We still want proof. Even as believers.
The 37,000ft view is probably sad and lonely. I know you know our frame and have pity upon us as Father, but as a human, I just shake my head and feel grieved. As a warrior, I want to say screw it, I’m done. I’m going back to my lazy boy of life. But I can’t. You’ve shown me too much. My spirit is grieved and cannot be sustained without your easy yoke and light burden. Let your love be mine, your sobriety be mine and your humor be mine. Let your joy be my strength as you’ve promised. May we all remember and find those 37,000ft moments to retreat to and simply enjoy you and you us. Let us slay the enemy of our souls with your weapons of truth, as our weapons are not carnal but spiritual.
Let us remember this fight is Ephesians 6:12 and to not be afraid. Let us remember our home is far above this land called earth and we have been called to occupy. Let us do this in righteousness, peace and joy.
Shalom,
Monica