I realize it's been a few months since my last post. Keeping up with this thing is going to be a bigger task than I thought...so updates and posts may continue to be spread out. I wanted to share one of my writings from my journal. It a little all over the place, but I think it will communicate some of the revelation the Lord has been giving me the last few months.
The consequences of sin turn a soul, a heart fearful. The sin nature leaves a heart searching for comfort, grasping to be covered, hiding from God and the world. Sin corrupts a heart so much that the heart is sin, a eternal slave to selfish fear and preservation. A heart held captive by it's own dark nature continually longs for more but still not wanting to change. Violence and force can not make a heart change because these are already in the hearts nature. Bombarding with suddenness, abrasive force are part of the vocabulary of a dark heart...they are of the same substance. Only something foreign can change a dark selfish heart. Only the brightest light can change a race of dark hearts. Only love-pure love can pierce such fear, such selfishness. Only selflessness can set free selfish hearts. Light, true light turns darkness into light..
Love comes as a foreigner to a fearful heart. Love knows after it has entered fear that it will take time to fully take over. Just like an army when it enters a land has a landing point and storms the land to take over. The army has a plan to take over and conquer the land, to possess the land. Loves knows the journey ahead to conquering a fearful heart. Love knows it must fight fear, pride and shame.
Love knew to do this Love must come in the most peculiar way, in the most unsuspecting manner. Love had to get really small, leaving all glorious beauty behind. Love had to come as a baby in a manager, in the most non-threatening way to ease the fearful heart. Fear tried to kill Love in the beginning in so many different ways, but Love had a bigger purpose than to just enter darkness. Love had to grow up in a dark world and bear the weight of the darkness. Love had to die looking like a failure, a thief, a crazy lunatic.....
Love died for the seeds of life to come forth. What amazing Love?
