Thoughts of Another Traveler…

Over the last two weeks I began to write down thoughts that came to my mind while digesting the current events.  This is a reflection of those thoughts.  They are pretty raw and not documented with quotes, scriptural references, or evidential apologetics.  You might agree with them or disagree with them, that is ok. I am praying and trying to tune into what the Holy Spirit is doing in our world, while simultaneously lamenting and struggling in my inner spirit.   Here are the thoughts of this traveler that were written recently.

• A powerful locomotive is steamrolling with the bold proclamations of faith, family, freedom, Biblical truth, and living for something worth dying for…God is moving and as believers we might want to pray, open our eyes, seek the spirit’s move – and probably just get on board.
• I have never witnessed (in my lifetime at least) a clearer call to truly love people with the love of Christ, while simultaneously boldly sharing the truth proclaimed by Christ and the Holy Scriptures in the places where it is most despised.   There is a new, clear revelation of the Biblical teaching that Christ’s love was not separated from proclaiming clear truth, the narrow road, and the sharp sword of scriptural authority; rather, it was the envelope that wrapped it and sealed it.
• People are finally realizing and rejecting the void of proclaimed truth that has been left by American Pastors and Churches who have settled, stayed quiet, and avoided standing for much of anything.  And that void is being back filled with new bold proclaimers of the Gospel who are not afraid.  This sounds familiar as Jesus rejected the religious leaders and experts and instead called sinners, fishermen, tax-collectors, and ex-murderers to initiate the inception of the church the first go around.
• I believe we are seeing people from all walks of life, including powerful and influential men and women being challenged and drawn by the Holy Spirit to evaluate and investigate the message of the Cross and the truth of the Scriptures.  We are instructed to pray for our leaders in government.  My prayer is that those who have used a platform of faith for the advancement of their power and political positioning alone, will be convicted that faith in Christ is not something to be simply considered like King Agrippa in Acts 26:28.  This is real and eternal and of more value than any position of power.
• We are witnessing a generation who are realizing and rejecting the black hole of hopelessness and chaos that has been created in our country with the accepted injection of moral relativism, humanism, progressivism and removal of nearly every level of absolute truth, generational wisdom, philosophical reasoning, and historical fact—and they are boldly rejecting what the generations before them allowed and instead seeking truth and what will guide them into life, freedom, hope, and true happiness. 
• Churches who have reaped crowds by sowing the seeds of post-modern religious middle ground and rejection of so-called “Christian Nationalism” may soon find themselves with empty buildings and a remnant of bitter, shocked sell-outs if they miss how the Spirit is moving right now.
• It is time to remove the stigma of addressing “Politics” in the pulpit and realize that if a Biblical truth needs to be addressed, and it just so happens to be “Political” then address it.  Great movements of the Holy Spirit in History have never failed to be in a direct, head-on confrontation of sin and evil regardless of the cultural or political ramifications.
• It is imperative to take a stand against common sense evil that can be recognized by even the most uneducated and simple mind.  We don’t need more theologians trying to dissect the scripture looking for cultural loopholes.  We don’t need psychological doctoral degrees to help reconsider what we know is common sense morality or reconfigure norms and moral values that have ancient and historical importance in societal survival.  We don’t need rocket science or AI to see evil and call it out.  There is an eternal war in the spiritual realm taking place and the enemy’s most powerful weapon is to convince men and women that what God said is not actually true.  The enemy’s primary attack is deception and distortion of the most basic truths of God’s instruction on how to live, how to love, and what pleases Him eternally.  Stand strong for simple, clear, ancient Biblical teachings and truth, they don’t need to be defended or justified (although they can be) with academic brilliance, scientific analysis, or theological interpretation intertwined with cultural relevance.
• We may be on the verge of seeing an incredible growth of the “Church” that most likely will be so antithetical to our current Westernized model of traditional denominational establishment that it will shock us, and it quite possibly might mimic the book of Acts and the early church more vividly than any time in history!  We should pray for this to become reality like never before!

May God move as he would move, may Christ be lifted up to the highest pinnacle of love, truth, and salvation.  And may we join the mission and the move in the specific and unique manner God calls each of us!

Never forget:

¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written:  “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”   ²⁰ Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹ For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. ²² Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³ but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, ²⁴ but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.  I Corinthians 1: 18-25