Over the past months in growing earnest, but over many years in fact, I've watched with rising internal anguish as a darkness has crept over the country in which I live. Some may deny it, but I would challenge them to open their eyes. Though there is still life occurring in Christs Church (I don't dispute this), in one of the places in the world in which one could be most free to enjoy the privilege of worshiping our God, a spiritual disease has taken root. Though I despise it, it was in essence foretold and must take place in order for Christ's own words to be made unerringly true. Because of what must come, our faith will begin to become of much greater consequence than before. This is why I am writing now. Each of us has been given a measure of faith. The power of that faith is dictated by what we've chosen to invest it in. Many without any recognition invest it in the predictable things in this world and in the nature of things around us. There are recurrent...
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke