See God

"God isn't political. He's holy."

GOD ISN’T POLITICAL. He’s holy. He’s right. He’s truth. All other points-of-view are wrong. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a pew or a political office. He anoints the office a man is elected to but sometimes not the man elected because is he doing what God wants done? Of all the kings of Israel, either Judea or Israel, only 3 were deliberately chosen, and only a handful were even godly and blessed by Him.

In this nation, He blessed our struggles for independence because He knew Israel needed an ally, and we would be it. Some have said we were created to spread the gospel. Yes, this is true, but it is because we support Israel. Israel are His covenant people. His Son, who is God, is a Jew raised under Old Covenant Law. This had to be. Yes, Jesus of Nazareth, born to Mary, raised by Joseph, His earthly father, went to the temple and celebrated all the feast days, honored all the sacrifices set up to exemplify Him. This shows God’s honor for the system He established. But see in it, the New Covenant that Jesus ratified in His blood. This means He put it legally into place.

“Think about Jesus Christ. He is the one who came to earth from God. God showed that he had truly sent Jesus when Jesus was baptized in water [MTY] and when Jesus’ blood flowed from his body when he died. God showed this not only when Jesus was baptized [MTY], but also when Jesus’ blood flowed from his body when he died. And God’s Spirit declares truthfully that Jesus Christ came from God. The Spirit always speaks what is true. 7 There are three ways by which we know that Christ came from God. 8 Those three ways are: What God’s Spirit tells us, what God said when Jesus was baptized [MTY] in/with water, and Jesus’ blood that flowed from his body when he died on the cross. These three things all tell us the same thing, that Jesus came from God. 9 We usually believe what other people say. But what God says is more reliable/trustworthy than what people say. So we must believe what God has said is true about ◄his Son/the one who is also God►.” (1 John 5:6-9 T4T)

God’s heart for people, His love for us, caused Him to set into place the covenant (the promises) of grace. Grace is the favor given by a greater power to one lesser, or not on their level. We were created in God’s image, after His likeness, but we are not God. We are like God, which are the words Jesus quoted from the psalms (John 10:34). The thought was that we should behave like our Maker. Jesus wanted those listening to hear the Father and to see the Father and to realize that the moment had come when all they (Israel) honored looking for Him to come was being completed. God had chosen (has done) something new, a covenant of mercy and peace where He would be seen as Comforter.

This is told us in John 14, 15, and 16 where Jesus referred to Himself and the Holy Spirit as Comforter, but also in 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 where the Father is called the “God of all comfort.” The BSB translation translates this passage beautifully. What is done in us is so that He will affect all men and rescue all men. We should have His heart for people and set down anything that causes us to criticize or judge. We should sorrow over sin instead and pray for all men. Instead, I see great men in the church using their platforms to spur hate and laughing over the world’s response. It does not matter how wrong that other person is, God loves him, and as I ask myself a lot, “Who could he be with Christ in him?” How happy would that one be in heaven? And greater, who would they influence on the earth? For salvation is now.

“This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.” (Acts 2:32)

“Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” (Acts 2:41)

We see celebrities and those with known faces become avid for Christ and choose to laugh at them, usually. What does it matter if they are “weird” and have strange habits when they now have the Savior, who is Father, Son, and Spirit? God can handle all they are. And what of that one who is on the edge and pushed over by either our mocking or our rejoicing? Which way do they turn? And whose glory is it?

I heard of a ministry which was asking for volunteers to work at the altar, and I started. Someone still has an altar? Because we’ve traded ours in for fear over health issues (and God is our protection) and time convenience. We say, “This is how it’s done now.” No, it isn’t. The heart of the Spirit is the altar, to have men and women confess Christ and be blessed with hands-on prayer and to be filled with the Spirit (Acts 10:47). What He desires to do is what people in the church now call “how it was done.” There is no WAS. That’s how it IS done. Ask Him. Because He writes these words. Stop fearing retribution politicized on the news, and the vengeance of godless men, and trust Him for your safety. Hear His voice and do as He asks you without excuses. I have stood in that place, and I came to realize that all that He’s asked me to do comes from His knowing my every thought and intent, my every word before I speak it (Psalm 139:4). In short, He knows me and so He will help me do it.

“At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.” (Luke 4:40)

“Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.” (James 5:14)

I’ve chosen obedience over fear and the heart of God over spinning my wheels in the mud trying to survive. The Remedy Translation of the Bible uses this term a lot – survival-of-the-fittest – and there is so much truth in it. It repeatedly says the devil’s world is one of selfishness and survival, whereas God is love and trust. It doesn’t use the word “faith” because it has itself been politicized. Faith has become something you have absent of God, and I want to turn your gaze back to Him, to find in Him all you are seeking. That is His desire. Seek God. Seek Jesus. Seek the Spirit. And you will find Them and the completeness of salvation, all of shalom, all of protection and healing and rescue with your needs completely met on a daily basis and you with not one shred of fear, doubt, or worry about any of it.

That’s His fullness. That’s heaven Jesus died for us to obtain. For us to share.

“The old me who lived for self—who sought to get instead of give, the me who lived on the survival-of-the-fittest principle—died when I recognized the true significance of all that Christ has done. That old me no longer lives, but Christ—with his character of self-sacrificing love—now lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live by trust in the Son of God, who loved me and freely gave himself to win me back to trust and to purge humanity from selfishness and death.” (Galatians 2:20)

WHAT JESUS ASKS US TO DO:
“And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” (Matthew 10:1)

“And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:7-8)

THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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