Hopscotch

"We must see through God's eyes and not our pale human ones."

WE ARE NEITHER Republican nor Democrat. We are not a house divided, though it looks that way, though there are wars and rumors of wars among us. In a vision, I saw Jesus Christ sitting on a throne atop Mt. Rushmore, and nothing can shake it from me – He is KING here. There is assurance and firmness of purpose in the Spirit. We must see through God’s eyes and not our own pale human ones.

I don’t know why we cling so tight to prophecies of destruction, or those which sound like that. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it twice, prophecy is meant to ENCOURAGE and EDIFY and BRING COMFORT (1 Corinthians 14:3). It is to lift up hope and keep us standing confident in who we are in God’s eyes. If it causes fear, then it isn’t from God. His end to all things – every situation, every circumstance, all the troubles that flare up around us – is shalom, peace and well-being.

Read Jesus’ words in Matthew 24 and see there when the end comes. When will all these things swirling around us, all the hatred and violence, finally cease? Not at the devil’s hand, pathetic thing. Not at the hand of darkness. What we see that sin has stirred will not make an end of this earth. No, the end comes when the gospel has spread to all men (Matthew 24:14). Minister Bill Johnson says it well: We have more faith in the return of Jesus than we do in the power of the gospel.

SIT UP, O CHILD OF GOD, and hear this. Our mouths get us in trouble. What we confess that we believe because we’ve thought long and hard on it, is what we will find ourselves swimming in. And if it is an end-of-the-world mentality, then I’m not swimming with you. I see God’s will for me. In all things, no matter what the government looks like, or the economy, or the church, I will walk in health and in complete shalom. Including anything of John’s Revelation.

God’s will for us is NOT dismay and anxiety and poverty. NOT A huge loss of life because of some apocalyptic war. There will be no battle. That assumes God comes up short. Last I read, His arm is long to save (Isaiah 59:1). We must change our thinking: about people, about giving criticism, about the wealth of our opinion, about God’s merciful nature. About our constant need for a fistfight that God’s not fighting with us. Most of our turmoil and unhappiness is us having the wrong mindset. We go by what we see, what we assume, what we feel like, instead of what is concrete: the Voice of God’s Spirit. And what is truth: the Word of God.

We teach faith, not asking, “Why do we have faith?” Answer: Because God is so very good to us. He is trustworthy. Now apply that to these UNITED STATES and ignore the devil’s hopscotch. Even better, don’t participate. Be strong in the Lord, which means speaking His Word and overcoming evil with good. And not speaking hatred, offensive remarks, and complaints. Be the oddball who changes the subject to talk about Jesus. Or the one who has nothing to say. Choose peace. Choose unity, not division. Be part of God’s solution and not the devil’s participation.

“Jesus—the true Light—was in the world, and even though the world was created by him, the world was so blinded by Satan’s lies that it didn’t even recognize him.” (John 1:10, Remedy)

“But all who recognized and accepted him—all who valued and accepted the character, methods and principles he revealed—he made them children of God, transforming them into like character, practicing God’s methods and principles.” (John 1:12, Remedy)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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