RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE WORLD ARE CHANGING

 In every way possible the relationship I have always had with the world around me has been changing over the last year.  I am seeing people and the world differently than I ever have because of my relationship with God deepening.  The things that continue to mean something to me are almost all spiritual in some way.  I even look at the people around me differently.  I think I am caring more than I ever have for other people, but I am looking at people in a different way.  I tend to look at others as souls instead of bodies.  I spend more time inspecting eyes than body language or telltale signs of any kind of physical difference in them, and I find myself wanting to address what God's Spirit shows me about them instead of dancing around issues.

  In my mind and heart today while I want for everyone to know, and have the chance to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior I also know that the vast majority of people who are caught up in this worldview of life will not be able to accept Christ.  I am beginning to realize that my job is to be a witness to others instead of beating my head against some kind of wall to get others to come closer to God, and that I cannot change anyone else's  views on life in any other way except to share with them what God is doing in my own life.  When I take the role that I need to play in my life seriously enough I begin to understand that if I do witness in the ways God has asked me to and if I do take seriously the kind of teaching that is required of me it becomes more than a full-time job.  I am finding that mentoring someone means I take their walk in Christ seriously enough to make a full-time commitment to their needs in Christ.  I realize that mentoring is different than simply teaching someone how to read or understand scripture, but it means showing them on a daily basis how to continue to walk ever closer to God.

  The more I strive to get closer to God the more this world itself drifts away from me.  I am on the Webb about every day now yet the more I see that is increasing in the knowledge of men in manipulating DNA and electronics through computer enhancements the less excited I am about playing any kind of role in it.  I can see with crystal clarity the path that things are taking since we as humans have still chosen good over the evil that waits in the weeds to devour us.  This last election was a remarkable triumph over the absolute evil that could have so easily taken over every aspect of our lives.  We are only beginning to see what corruption has been in secret places and being uncovered now after it can no longer be hidden.  All of this will be uncovered at some time because nothing can stay hidden...it will all come out in time.  I am feeling more sorrow for the world than ever before because like Jesus saw; I too can start to see the relentless attacks of evil upon the hearts of unsuspecting people.  Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do!

  The one thing that we must keep in front of us is that this world is changing because it must change and it must follow the direction of the principalities and powers that govern it.  Unfortunately, those powers are evil because we as men and women have given our rights away to evil and sin.  Because of that, we cannot turn things around, and we cannot save this physical world from the lordship or the rule of Satan.  All we can do is to be light and salt in a world that has refused God.  Our relationship with this world must change because of that, and we must begin to cleave to that which is our only hope.  That Hope is the Kingdom of Heaven that has been promised to us through our loving Father through the only plan He has given to us for our salvation; and that is Jesus Christ.  May you richly bless God through your life in Him.


THE UNWORTHY SERVANT