I keep asking myself, “What is wrong with these people that they don’t even want to listen?” Why do they insist on trying to charge the Holy Spirit for the FREE homeless food and services for which they themselves, qualified me? Oh yea, REBELLION.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
I share God's Word to a worldwide audience, to any who have ears to hear. If you've read any of my postings, you know that I don't believe in coincidence. But indeed, irony bears witness to manifestation. All Biblical parables are instructional for our relationship to God, and our interaction with one another. Therefore, it is no coincidence that whenever God sends forth a messenger, there is a scripturally verifiable storyline, conveying the message that He seeks to impart, that consistent with their assignment: It was so in the church where this assignment initially began (which I will soon revisit), and the same is true in this city.
Revelation 1:19 Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.
The storyline in this part of my assignment is unequivocally consistent with the parable of the servant who fell among thieves in Jericho.
Homeless, not in a permanent dwelling place, I’m exiled in my own hometown.
Isaiah 66:5 Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
I share God's Word to a worldwide audience, to any who have ears to hear. If you've read any of my postings, you know that I don't believe in coincidence. But indeed, irony bears witness to manifestation. All Biblical parables are instructional for our relationship to God, and our interaction with one another. Therefore, it is no coincidence that whenever God sends forth a messenger, there is a scripturally verifiable storyline, conveying the message that He seeks to impart, that consistent with their assignment: It was so in the church where this assignment initially began (which I will soon revisit), and the same is true in this city.
Revelation 1:19 Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later.
The storyline in this part of my assignment is unequivocally consistent with the parable of the servant who fell among thieves in Jericho.
Homeless, not in a permanent dwelling place, I’m exiled in my own hometown.
● Journeying through this city, which happens to be my hometown, I am as a foreigner, on assignment, transporting my Master’s goods.
● Cast out onto the streets, I have fallen among thieves who show up to “take” what their idols have erroneously told them belongs to them.
● People pass me by daily, as if they don’t see me, even as I lay sleeping, on the outside of the inn. But no one, not even a priest, has lifted a finger to help this servant of the Master up.
● This city has been circling around her own city walls.
So many things in this city are consistent with the Jericho parable that it’s almost eerie. For instance, notice that the Master didn’t immediately remove the servant from the city; but rather left him there, for a time, to be cared for, and restored. Whatever payment would be due the caregiver, was to wait the Master’s return. I don’t think the caregiver rummaged through the servant’s pockets to siphon off the Master’s goods.
So much of what the Holy Spirit has been revealing and clarifying, particularly regarding past events, wonderfully reconfirms God’s hands on me. It's amazing. And so, God continues to navigate my assignment in the direction which brings His Word to pass. Yet, in following their idols’ instructions to “act like you don’t see her,” this city has truly lived up to, or rather down to the Jerichoan standard. BUT GOD, just as He did in Jericho, sends this servant help from out of town. The good Samaritan, in the parable, who stopped and rendered aid to the trampled over servant, was not from Jericho; he was from Samaria; from out-of-town. Guess you could say, God sent that servant some brotherly love from out-of-town.
Like our life journeys, our assignments are not about ourselves alone, but indeed give testimony to how God never lights a candle and hides it under a bushel.
LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE
We don’t tempt God, we test Him.
We don’t tempt God, we test Him.
“I am not ashamed of the Gospel.”
Turning your backs on your neighbor, then accusing me of betrayal because I favor a different baseball team - shame on you. I’m no more this city’s wickedness than she is my righteousness – God is my Righteousness, and if delivering the message of repentance to you somehow makes me a bond woman, then God is the liar which your idolatry infers Him to be.
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