Friday, October 29, 2021

Coping with scope

Over the course of this blog,

  I've done what I pray believers are doing. 

The audience -- whomever God sends this way. 


What I write is for far more than to say my 'piece' , although for a believer, The Word alive inside of you, there's power in speaking for moving in agreement with God and His body of believers. 

In pouring here, I carry the burden that believers in Christ are being called to carry. 

The information presented and surrounding us on a daily basis is in a process of forming the world we are living in. Only where Truth is defines a reality where there's a future in sight.

If you are a believer in Christ, congratulations. You have The Truth. 


The TRUTH is powerful, having specific qualities. It is definitive. 


The Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 

In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength. Rev 1:16

 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. John 6:35

 
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psa 119:105

And he said to them, Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand? For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.  If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.  And he said to them, Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.  For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Mark 4:21-25


To attempt to come up against the The Truth requires the total opposite - deception,  depravity -- all of which will never exceed The TRUTH in power.  


This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.  Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.  For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,       
 
“‘The Lord said to my Lord, 
“Sit at my right hand, 
  until I make your enemies your footstool.”’              Acts 2:32-35


When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.  He will glorify me, for he will take what is Mine and declare it to you. John 16:13-14


What is Mine ... 

You know ... what persons know about themselves and others in love is a mirror into Who God is, more than people would like to take a look at I think. He created us. So, why wouldn't our love language, the way we understand love,  be the language in which we come to know Him?

The persons closest to you are those with whom you can share the more with, an expression in love. We have those acquaintances we like to tell our good news. We have those we like to vent to. However, those considered 'true blue' get a view into our good and our difficult seasons.  Can you imagine coming to one of these and after sharing something difficult with them, you couldn't seem to catch up with them again? 

Those 'true blue' want to see you through, want to know what you need and know they can expect the same from you.  The TRUTH is, Jesus called His disciples friends before He went to sit on the throne (John 15:15). What did a friend of Jesus look like ?

" ... I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you . "

Jesus went to the Cross and then ascended to Heaven with the marks on His hands, feet, and side -- the burden He carried for us -- as an eternal testimony of True Love. His exalted body has holes in it, for you and me . As the church matures, I believe it looks like an understanding of what it means to carry the burdens on God's heart. He finished the work, He went to the end of it .. so that we can meet Him there. 

He took everything on Himself in all the ways that would be the experience separation from God if we had to do the same. When there is a burden we carry in our life for any season, it's a place Jesus has already been.  As a friend, He says that what He has is ours. Will the Church learn the honor of learning the whole person?  Jesus, The Way and The Truth is a deep place with the capacity for looking on at all that is going on today and seeing His ends, to the Glory of God. 

If we think this never looks like carrying a burden on the journey He went before us, we have missed it. 


In my personal testimony post,

 I share on how getting to know God can be shocking. This has been an ongoing process wherein I've had to learn many things I did not learn in a church.  A burden of God's heart is a real thing .  I'd not come into acquaintance with anyone carrying a burden of God's heart most of my adult life, or know of this as a part of the believer's journey until making the decisions I describe in my testimony post made me available to get to know God instead of keep acquaintance with my finite assumptions concerning most of what I thought on the whole matter.

I describe these things in order to start getting to the point in a razor sharp manner. It's easy to review so many things today and possibly absorb, if any, a mere fraction of what may or may not be true. 

The great news is that Jesus promised in John 16:13-14  the Truth will come and meet His people. 

 In my experience, the Truth can very well be heavy. I've decided, if Jesus is yet there, then it's the only place fit for me. 

What I will share hence is not a light thing. It is, however my invitation from a Friend to share in a burden and to partner with Him in the way He desires to with those whom He loves and calls friend. 

The reason I bring the Church into this discussion at all is because it is, unfortunately, a burden I feel I carry that I do not know personally any other believer carrying. However many may nevertheless be carrying the burden I will cover in this post, I have not crossed paths with them in my own personal life.  In comparison to the size of the crisis, no believer should be alone in weighing out the issues going on. 

Foremost, God did not design His Church body to have to go it alone. 

It is my prayer that the Truth go out and bring with it the courage to start/have the conversation within the Body of Christ, which, as Esther, is the answer God is partnered with. I pray that courage looks like going after the Truth, without fear. 



Again, this is not a light thing to share. May God's grace be on this post to receive and process according to His heart, as I also am in need of grace. In the name of Jesus, Amen

Danny Silk recently shared several messages at Jesus Culture in California. They were very fiery, calling the Body of Christ out of a slumber of fear and complacency. 

One of the scripture references he used is the one found in Luke 14:34 -


Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?

A short time after listening to his messages given at Jesus Culture for multiple listens, I had a dream that I could only relatively gather the meaning of when trying. 

In the dream, I went into my kitchen and my attention was drawn to a bag filled with what I would assume was something like a large storage of dry cereal - being in the size of a bag it was in my dream - but containing what looked the color and size of what I'm familiar with as pink salt crystals. In waking life, I do not use processed salt. 

As I took a look closer look, I noticed bugs crawling in the mix. In the dream, without further weighing on what this was actually a bag of, my attention was immediately redirected on confining what was in the bag so that it would not progress into a home issue. I went to grab a garbage bag in order to throw the whole sack in the garbage. In the midst of my attempting this task, I observed as cluster formations of the infestation began crawling around my kitchen. 


 I will stop here to interject that God has never shown me something to be fearful of. The Truth is Love. 

In the days that followed the dream, the meaning began meeting me in an alarming way which brings me to share, as one would to family members they care for ... and to do so with the Grace that God allows to carry the burden instead of try to go on as if I saw nothing. The Truth is, God already has the Victory. God's people have the real revelation of this where we yield to partner with Him in the ways in which He has chosen to reveal the Victory in this season . 

This thing actually goes back a few months. 

Another ministry I follow in California streamed a conference they held, where many guest speakers were present addressing the current events of health, politics, etc. from a Christian perspective. It was in viewing the video playback of this conference, in May of this year (2021) that I  first came across Carrie Madej. 

Carrie Madej is a doctor from Michigan who received her medical degree from Kansas City University of Medical Biosciences in 2001, specializing in osteopathic medicine. 

What I know about her own testimony has been a sum of what she's spoken out of her own mouth during messages, podcast visits, or Q&A sessions I've listened to. In sum, the most important things I've learned about her story, including some of the sacrifices she's made as a believer Jesus in order to operate ethically as a doctor in the current climate, I have not found written down anywhere although there is lots of info to read if searching her name. 

Prior to first seeing her in my May viewing of the conference she participated in , I'd been closely looking into the issue raised - in Christian news at least - about the use of fetal cells in the development of the current 'fast-tracked' vaccines. Then in May one of the very first things I learn about this doctor, as shared in her testimony during the conference, is that she is an abortion survivor, surviving several attempts on her life in the womb. I have not read or heard her share this during any other interview she's been a part of.

In her choice to personally research what's contained in the new vaccines and provide the info in public forum, she speaks to a wide variety of persons who provide a platform to have the discussion. As a doctor, she shares the scientific facts of her finds and her passion for the preservation of humanity -- what is at stake when listening to the specifics of her finds. The conference in May was a Christian platform where what was shared was more wholly enabled by Christian audience. What she shared then was amazing, including being witness to the presence of God's angels on guard during seasons much like the one we are now in. 


So, since May of this year, I have been following the research and experiences Madej has shared during interviews posted. In them, she spells out what mRNA technology is, contents found in what she's observed under the microscope, and battles she's experienced within the medical community in choosing to peruse and share her findings. More recently, and shortly after the dream I had, recent developments in her findings brought the meaning of the dream into clear perspective. At it, a burden rested which brings me to share in this post for those who have ears to hear. 

I warn that going to look this info up will be a journey into having to process what only God can give you the grace for processing without fear. I've shared the basics in relation to the dream I had in this post. And, I pray if you're here at this post at all, God has lead your steps.   

Directly from her site on Oct 26, 2021 -- in follow up to observing what she described as a 'self-aware organisms' in a samples of the Moderna and J&J products, reported in early Oct  -- 


" Hydra, a hydrozoan cnidarian that takes its name from the eponymous creature in Greek mythology due to its remarkable capacity for regeneration ... capable of locomotion by creeping, as well as through distinctive looping and somersaulting maneuvers .. also capable of morphallaxis, a remarkable regenerative process where, after sustaining an injury, the organism is able to essentially reorganize its body, producing a smaller yet complete version of itself .."


In this post at her site, Madej describes the organism, which she believes she observed the likeness of in the samples she viewed, stated in reports during early Oct. 

After observing the recent info at Madej's site, I knew immediately that it was in fact related to the dream I recently had. What's most weighing is that the infestation I saw in the dream was in a bag of salt. 

Salt in the New Testament is representative of God's people, the light in the darkness, the Government of Heaven in the earth. As addressed way earlier in this post, it's up to the Church to make the choice to partner with God -- He will not force anyone.  He can let us know He's there, has already set the Victory in motion, even personally speak to us confirming what He has established in Scripture. 

If carrying a burden is required, I know to trust it means only opportunity to meet Him in a new place along my journey. He will never leave or forsake His own. 


 

Several years ago, 2018 to be exact, I was drawn to look into the narrative of Pegasus.

If you know even the least bit, you know that this is a mythical creature resembling a horse . 

The search and find was/is prophetic, coming to mind after seeing the name of the microscopic organism Madej believes could be what she observed. I hope you will gather something from it. 


from greekmythology.com

" In Greek mythology, Pegasus was an immortal winged horse, one of the two children of Poseidon and Medusa ... Pegasus sprang forth most miraculously from [Medusa's] neck after Perseus had beheaded her."


from worldhistory.org

" Medusa was a formidable foe, since her hideous appearance was able to render any onlooker into stone."


from greekmythology.com 

In mythology, Perseus accomplished his mission with winged sandals; a bag to carry the head of the Medusa; a helmet which would make him invisible. Using the winged sandals, Perseus flew above Medusa with a shield for his gaze and cut Medusa's head off.




The journey I began last year with this blog is quite simply strengthened this season in a way I had not expected. That is, 

appreciation for the creature God Almighty created in mankind, able to choose and look like Him. 

What this looks like to me in carrying the burden of this season is consistent with what I described in some of my first posts. Kindness, gentleness, patience. How far a smile or friendly eye contact goes ... when you realize the value of looking at a fellow human being and being able to know what you're looking at is God's handiwork work and not a genetic experiment's mess.

When I read the info I came upon recently, shared here, I am not frightened by the science, but sorrowful for the minds working in unison for satan against what God Almighty has fashioned .. as in the days of Noah. 

'Game time' is over.  


Move in gratitude for every place you see God's hand in your day, in your life and in the life of others. Every single person has a sphere of influence. It's not the strangers that are surfing through their feed and see a post or two by you on their social media. It's the living human beings passing you in the grocery store, driving next to you on the street, picking up their children next to you at the elementary and middle school. 

Wake up sleepers.  


Love is the only thing that conquers. 

Saturday, October 16, 2021

Psa 139

 Where shall I go from Your Spirit?

Or where shall I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, You are there!

If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!

If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10  even there Your hand shall lead me,

and Your right hand shall hold me.

11  If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,”

12  even the darkness is not dark to You;

the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with You.

13  For You formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s 

womb.

14 I praise youfor I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

my soul knows it very well.


Saturday, October 2, 2021

Isa 62

 למען ציון לא אחשה ולמען ירושלם לא אשקוט עד־יצא כנגה צדקה וישועתה כלפיד יבער׃

ישעה 62:1 

Saturday, September 11, 2021

ambitious thought

 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  Matthew 16:19 


Revelation 1:17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last, 18 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. 


For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.  Ephesians 6:12 


Rom 8:38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.



  And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. Rev 12:1



Matthew 16 | ESV.org

Revelation 1 | ESV.org

Ephesians 6 | ESV.org

Romans 8 - For I am sure | ESV.org

Rev 12 | Esv.org

 


anubis -  black jackal

" assisted in the “opening of the mouth” ritual to ensure a good burial. This ritual was performed so the dead person could eat and speak in the after life.

 .. of roles surrounding the dead included the Guardian of Scales where he dictated the fate of souls

ancient-egypt-online.com/anubis.html



thoth

"[in mythology] present in the final stage of the Weighing of the Heart which closes the souls of the dead's journey. 

egyptian-history.com/blogs/egyptian-gods/thoth-god-ibis


" ... initially worshiped as a moon god. The cycles of the moon performed a necessary function in historical Egyptian astronomy and astrology. Many of the very powerful rituals and occasions in historical Egypt had been organized in line with the cycles of the moon.

....  in all of the completely different [mythological] variations of the creation of the written phrase, Thoth was the one who created the written phrase for all of humanity to make use of.

... also called the report keeper of every part that occurs on this planet ..  saved the report of the variety of days and the years and can be credited for the formulation of the calendar, the emerald tablets of Thoth.

.. depicted as a dog-faced baboon or a person with the pinnacle of a baboon.

www.biographyicon.com/thoth-egyptian-god/


"Although there seems to be no direct indication in the etymology of the word “thought” that connects it to the ancient Egyptian name Thoth, the meanings of both words are so related that it could not be a coincidence. Of course, this is a bold statement because it would imply that the creators of the Egyptian language and thought are somehow related to modern-day English language and thought.

... In other words, the Sanctuary of Thoth [in The Westcar Papyrus]  becomes the Sanctuary of Thought ..  the secret chambers must be a metaphor for the hidden chambers or glands in the brain. 

.. we see that Djehudi (Thoth?) is 110 years old [in The Westcar Papyrus] . The number 110 is a key length in the sacred geometry of the Great Pyramid (110 cubits is a fourth of its base length) and in many other megalithic structures like the Hypogeum in Malta. Indeed, researchers have found that the whole Hypogeum temple is designed to resonate at a frequency of 110 Hertz.

In 2008, a report was published by Dr Ian Cook of UCLA in which he describes his findings of an experiment in which he monitored regional brain activity in a number of healthy volunteers through exposure to different resonance frequencies. His findings indicated that, at 110 Hz, the patterns of activity over the prefrontal cortex abruptly shifted, resulting in a relative deactivation of the language center and a temporary shifting from left to right-sided dominance, related to emotional processing. This shift did not occur at other frequencies. This means that the Hypogeum’s oracle chamber was constructed in such a way as to induce mystical experiences and hyperdimensional consciousness. And please note that the Hypogeum was built 1500 years before the Egyptian pyramids!!!

... Apparently, the Maltese megalith builders had a complete understanding of how certain frequencies deactivate the language center in the human brain. And they knew perfectly well how to build sanctuaries resonating with these consciousness-altering frequencies. But why would these people have been interested in deactivating the language center in the brain?

Reality as we know it is made up of atoms and molecules that form increasingly complex and self-organizing structures which we call living beings. The relationships, geometries and resonances between the components of living beings are the “letters” that make up the language or “the word” of creation and are therefore “sacred.” As a result, we can say that language functions as the universal software program that programs reality.

.. Human language, on the other hand, is made of another kind of words. The letters that make up our words are phonetic symbols with which we can transmit very complex information but with which we can also influence our own thoughts and beliefs. It is our thoughts and beliefs that define what we call “reality” or “non-reality” or what is manifest or not manifest.

As a result, we can say that human language functions as a software program that programs our reality. In short, we can say that language and belief are inextricably intertwined like the two strands of the DNA molecule, the building block of life itself.

The problem is that because of their merely phonetic function, the letters and sounds of human languages have no connection with any geometric or resonant principle in the creational language. Although the Bible tells us that “In the Beginning was the Word,” we seem to have forgotten the deepest sense of the word “Word.” The fact that there are hundreds of human languages does not make a positive contribution to a united humanity nor to our self-identification as an intrinsic part of the planetary ecological system.

... In order to (re)connect with the source language of sacred geometry and resonance it seems logical that they switch off our “unnatural” language system in the brain. We can now easily imagine how our ancestors, during rituals inside these “thought” sanctuaries, resonated with the source, speaking the same language of the micro cosmos and the macro cosmos.

In a healthy system, every component, from the smallest atom to the biggest star system, “speaks the same language.” It is therefore right to say that it is the deviation of human language from the primordial language of creation that causes the deviation of humanity from nature.

.. Logically, when we “speak” this source language we enter into resonance with the whole of creation. This means that we gain a much deeper influence over reality at the moment we enter into resonance with the universe.


Igor Oakwood,  26 NOVEMBER, 2020 , www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/sanctuary-thoth-0014592



 

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Ambition

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Gal 5:22-23

Recently, I listened to a message about the spirit of the Pioneer, needed for a time like the one we are living in. It was a good one. The speaker closed with definitive statements for the listeners to agree in -- "... we're going to leave a good name, freedom from debt, anointing for the generation that is coming after us."  

Whether or not you're a Christian, I have a great news. Ambition started with GOD. In this post, I am going on a journey to shed light on it.

It can likely be considered 'news' if you are a Christian because I don't think believers have really known or believed this about God in the way we live. I have steadily grown out of a holy-stagnant (lets spend up to 95 years just thinking about being somewhere else, i.e. Heaven) mindset, growing out of this with bright eyes as He walks alongside me. In this progression, I am learning GOD is the best contractor. Everything good comes from Him, and if you want it, He's got it and desires to give you what you can handle. That is, what will multiply in Him forever. 

As a Christian, there is the pleasure in knowing and growing in the knowledge that the root of the 'contract' is love. Like the bond extending from a father and his son, the mutual desire for accel-ence exists and rests in perfectly good intent and actions.  If you're a human being , you've experienced that what is good is better when shared. God created man after His own image to enjoy such an exchange. 


Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
My steadfast, sure love for David.   Isa 55:3


If you're not a Christian, going on this journey with me may be a starting point to knowing for certain that you would not have to expunge ambition from your personal make-up if / when you decide you need God in your life.  Also, it can be a starting point into understanding that God has the BIGGEST ideas. If you like chasing after BIG things, God through JESUS Christ is your man. Of course, you should know that you may discover He is the biggest of it all -- He's the thing to chase after. 

                                                               

This post is inspired by experiences that have shaken me into the truth of just how unimaginably BIG God is. The answers we are in need of today require this revelation in all areas of life. It is also inspired from a general observation that ... it seems normalized for believers to have two different minds about them. One is that which allows them to function in and understand the language in the world about them, and the other is for God's ways. In actuality, God can and will use what people have disqualified Him from. 

Genius comes from and belongs to God. Wealth comes from and belongs to God. Enterprise, the taking on of ventures for profit, comes from and belongs to God.  His profit is His nature, Goodness multiplied. 


Jesus' Parable of the talents 

    Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.  
So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 
 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.   Matt 25:27-29


God's BIGNESS comes out in plan and strategy that's much too much for us to conceive the 'big' picture of as He peels back merely a corner of the blue print. If you need or are waiting on a miracle for a situation, just allow yourself to lean back on the one that was already achieved to enable all the rest, herein understanding the miracle is already underway. He came to the earth as us and finished the work, went to the end of it, said 'Yes' to everything God said about you so that we could see all the beauty of His plans actually unfold in our lifetimes. The ending is set in Stone, and now all we have to do is want to see it. (see Jer 29:11)

The dictionary explains ambition as --

a strong desire to do or achieve something; desire and determination to achieve success.


Let us start in Genesis. 

The first thing that comes to my mind along this journey and the dictionary definition of ambition is, 'God, desiring a thing?'  

There is the strong understanding as a believer that God's Word spoken is as good as done. We see this in action in the very first chapter of Genesis. 

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  Genesis 1:3 

In our human experience, we can comprehend desire as a part of ambition simply because in most instances the attainment of a goal is not instantaneous. The space between us an a goal is oft the determined desire to get there.  But, if God says a thing and it is so, does the idea of ambition fit? for even the first accounted insight into His character, in Genesis? I believe yes, if you read just a little further in Genesis 1. 

 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female He created them.
 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."  Gen 1:26-28

The very first thing I see in this passage is revelation of the Godhead. "Let us make man in our image... "  

Because Jesus, The WORD came in the flesh and revealed The Father, we have better picture of what was going on in Genesis 1:26-28. The WORD, as a part of the Godhead carried out the desire of God. This passage in Genesis is like a slow motion scene, where with the first parts of the Creation we see God speak a thing and it becoming so, we get to see a little deeper in into the process when He creates man. 

The first time we see this articulated, in Genesis, we see God's desire becoming so through the Word and we see the desire of God that would unfold outside of an instantaneous manifestation - at least from our perspective. 

            Be fruitful and multiply. 

Essentially, God expressed the desire for a process, an unfolding. He did not create man with all the fruit that He commanded to come from them and set them in the garden together. He created in them the potenial for it, through His Word. The Word said 'Yes' to the fulfillment of this desire before the foundation of the world (John 17:24), and then came to fulfill it as the Word in the flesh.


So, then. Returning to the dictionary definition of ambition -

            a strong desire to do or achieve something  ...


The definition fits with being able to say that ambition started wtih God. He desires to see a goal and gives His only Son for it, first before time and then within time when Jesus is sent to the cross, that we would be fruitful and multiply as His sons and daughters. Jesus expresses The Father's original desire as the goal for His disciples before the cross. 


Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 
 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:4-5


Intermission 

Why does it really matter if ambition started with God?  The same reason for which it matters that God created the rainbow. If you see a rainbow around someone's wrist or flowing on a flag outside of someone's home today, do you think to where the optical grace first appeared, in God's promise to Noah? I have quite determined to do so. Where one is present in their thinking is also the direction they are heading.  

Diving into the meaning of, the value assigned to ambition carries the same importance for me. We are in a time when narratives are being set before us toward goals that are not in the best interest of future generations.   While this working has always been going on at some level in culture, I have not in my own lifetime seen the working of ambition so monopolized, the desires of a set and limited party forming the goal for the masses while moving toward it as resolutely seen in the past year. 

A drug dealer could choose to be a philanthropist somewhere in their activities. But, this would not make giving  a drug-dealer thing suddenly existing outside of the realm of virtue.  

Likewise, people cannot wait for the bold advances unfolding today around them, in many instances against the welfare of their interests, to make them forget that they have dreams and goals.  Even better, God is ambitious and blesses those with this character all through the Bible. 




Abraham 

had to be ambitious in order to receive what God promised to him. With his wife Sarah barren, Abraham would likely have been alright with just one son. God promised him innumerable sons and daughters. 

He likely had to adjust his desire capacity in order to actually want what God was promising him. From Abraham, we can learn that it actually takes effort, and especially in Abraham's case, time to want and see the right thing unfold.

Abraham had to form his mind to it. 

And God brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be."   Genesis 15:5  

Abraham believed God and not only is blessed according to the promise, but counted by God as righteous. (see Gen 15:6)


King David

There are so many instances where David's relationship with God unfolds in David what may have been considered obnoxious ambition for his day. David expresses to God on numerous occasions that he would like to escape death. When I read these passages, I do not see someone at the edge of a sword, asking God to save them . I see a man asking God Almighty for immortality. 

Such a request has become known in today's culture as yet another worldly ambition, vanity. 

Yet, God heard King David's cry for him and the generations to come after him. 


 What profit is there in my death,

if I go down to the pit?

Will the dust praise you?

Will it tell of your faithfulness?


 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me!

O LORD, be my helper!

Psa 30:9-10


  O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; You restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit. Psa 30:3


  I will ponder the way that is blameless.

Oh when will you come to me?

I will walk with integrity of heart

within my house

Psa 101:2


  Then I said, “Behold, I have come;

in the scroll of the book it is written of me:

I delight to do Your will, O my God;

Your law is within my heart.”

Psa 40:7-8


Jabez

A short account of Jabez in the word describes him as more honorable than all of his brothers. Why? What follows in the passage, which is simply a genealogy of the descendants of Judah, is what Jabez did. 

 

  Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked. 1 Chr 4:9-10. 


The Pioneers 

I believe that the ambition of the New World pioneers (1620), articulated in the Mayflower Compact, is a sure steak in the rising and prospering of the American nation. The pilgrims draw out their ambitions in the compact --

    IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia ... 


"John Adams and many historians have referred to the Mayflower Compact as the foundation of the U.S. Constitution written more than 150 years later." - Bailey B., The Federalist Papers Project




Mayflower manuscript 

 hwww.mayflowercompact.org/



Instead of a new geographical plane to venture onto, the opportunity before the pioneer is new thought venture.  Terms like, 'new normal', 'mandate', 'restriction', 'isolate', 'safe', 'shut down', 'death toll' form a definitive border .. for the pioneer to make a clear distinction toward the direction of what to think OUTSIDE of.   

If you're a Christian, there's even greater news. 

The new land is guaranteed, delivered into your hands. 

Think of Queen Esther. God does his best work when the enemy is at play, securing pharaoh's chariots and chosen officers in the red sea, Haman hanging on the gallows he'd made for Mordecai, and satan stuck with the curse he meant for God. 

When I think of the times unfolding in front of me, I think of the mastery of the victory carried in Queen Esther's feasts for the king. In the beauty of relationship, recompense for Israel's enemies was not simply the wrath of the king against them. It was the request of their fate yielded by Queen Esther to the king.

As we are living in the New Covenant, recompense takes on a different color. It looks like loving our enemies, humility, grace. This was the saving declaration of Jesus hanging from the cross. 

Father, forgive them. 


Where does this meet with ambition? It is the border to a Promise Land. 


Jesus instructed his disciples, 

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 
 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 
 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 

 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He may give it to you.  John 15:12-16



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Reference 


Genesis 1 | ESV.org

John 15 | ESV.org

Galatians 5 | ESV.org

William Bradford et al. Mayflower Compact (1620).  liberalarts.utexas.edu/coretexts

www.thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Mayflower-Compact1.pdf

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Isa 41

v14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the One who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.







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