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MUSINGS OF A HERETIC

CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 31, 2023 – As most of you already know, I’m a born-again believer. I love God and I follow Jesus and I have God’s Holy Spirit in me, which enables me to communicate with God and Jesus at all times, and also at times to have them right here with me in person. This ready communication through God’s Spirit and at times in person was promised me by Jesus, in John’s gospel.

I love the Bible. I read it daily and I always have a Bible within arm’s reach wherever I’m living. At night, I sleep with the Bible next to me.

I offer these insights as a frame to what comes next in this article, which is that I don’t think that everything in the King James or any other published Bible is the Word of God. Certainly, these Bibles contain the Word of God, but they also contain words that are not God’s. There is a mixture of God’s Word and other words. I fully understand that stating this makes me a heretic in the eyes of many who identify as Christians. I also understand that heretics used to be tortured and on occasion publicly burned at the stake. One such “heretic” who was burned at the stake was William Tyndale, the Bible scholar, linguist, and chaplain who first translated the Bible from Greek and Hebrew to English.

In the early years of my rebirth, when I used to attend Roman Catholic masses, the Catholic Bible would be brought to the altar in a procession. The procession included the officiating priest, along with the deacons, altar boys, and a few laypeople. A massive, ornately covered, and I assume quite heavy and costly Bible would be held aloft by the priest, who was preceded by an altar boy waving a thurible filled with burning incense. Behind the priest would trail the others, with another altar boy at the very rear of the procession, waving more incense.

Like an idol, the Bible was held up for reverence, and the faithful would cross themselves and bow their heads as it passed by; some would even genuflect. When the procession reached its destination, the Bible would be gently laid on the altar like a child being placed in a crib. The priest would then kiss the Bible, much like a mother would tenderly kiss her sleepy child. The entire procession, from the back of the church to the altar, would take about five minutes.

I kiss my Bible. I unabashedly and without hesitation admit that I kiss my Bible. But I don’t worship it and I don’t hold it aloft for others to bow down to and genuflect. The Bible is not an idol to be worshiped; it is a book that contains love letters from God to his people – love letters from a stern but adoring father to his cherished children – as well as information and useful instructions on how those children should behave. But mixed in with the words of love and promise and information and instruction are other words that have been added for various reasons, not all of them well-intentioned. We know that such mixing has been done in the past, as why else would a warning against adulterating the text be explicitly included in the book of Revelation, accompanied by a curse aimed at whoever still chooses to do so?

I am a prophet not by virtue of anything I’ve done but by virtue of God’s Spirit dwelling in me. The indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit is the very definition of being born-again. All born-again believers have God’s Spirit within them to varying measures. Jesus had the fullest measure (no-one will ever have as great a measure as Jesus had), but we all have a measure of God’s Spirit. That’s what puts us in a state of grace. As long as we remain in a state of grace with the presence of God’s Spirit indwelling us, we’ll be God’s prophets.

But my being a prophet of God doesn’t mean that everything I say is prophetic or that everything I do is holy. Far from it. Still, being in a state of grace and having the advantage of God’s Spirit, I can see and discern things of God that others without that advantage cannot. And what I see, when it comes to the Bible, is that some of the words in it come straight from God, whereas others have been added for context or agenda or confusion. So when I kiss the Bible, I’m kissing the love letter of the Word of God that is contained within it, but I still wouldn’t hold it aloft and idolize it, as that would be breaking a Commandment.

The Bible should not be idolized, first and foremost because to do so would be to break a Commandment, but it would also require willfully overlooking the man-inspired rather than God-inspired words contained within it. God gave us instructions and also discernment so that we shouldn’t do that. We are not instructed by God to idolize the Bible; quite the opposite, in fact. We’re to learn from the Bible and honor God’s Word, but we’re also, by the warning that comes at the very end of the Bible, be aware that just as false prophets have crept into the worldly church, so too have false words and translations crept into the Bible.

Does this certain knowledge stop me from reading the Bible? Absolutely not. I read it cover to cover several times a year, and every time I read it, I see something new. I say “I read it”, but in fact it’s God reading it to me, it’s God, through his Spirit, showing me something new every time I open his book.

I wrote years ago about how the Bible is not just another book, and my assessment has not changed. Nothing over the 24 years of my rebirth has changed my regard for the Bible. However, the Bible itself has changed for me, or better said, my understanding of God’s Word has changed over time: the closer I grow to God and Jesus, the deeper my understanding of their words. This should not be surprising, as we serve a living God, not an idol that’s writ in stone (or on paper), and as we change, so too does our perception of God and his Word. They don’t change; we do. As the measure of God’s Holy Spirit in us increases, God can show us more and more and more.

If speaking God’s Truth as a prophet of God makes me a heretic, then so be it. I cannot or rather will not speak otherwise. The Bible, as I mentioned earlier, has been messed with, so we need to have God read it to us through his Spirit in order to discern his Word from words that are not his. Without God’s very present hands-on guidance, the Bible runs the risk of being just another book, which we born-agains know for certain it is not.

In fact, we’re so certain, we’d stake our lives on it.

WAR DISPATCHES

CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 30, 2023 – God is infinitely merciful while there is still time, but if you remain willfully unrepentant even after being warned, you will be judged without mercy.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”

The children of Israel witnessed firsthand what it means to fall into God’s hands. Before they destroyed Jericho, they were warned not to take any spoils other than gold, silver, iron, and brass for consecration to the Lord. But Achan ignored the warning and stole clothing and precious metals, hiding them in his tent. When God revealed the theft to Joshua, and Achan confessed to it, he and all his family, servants, livestock, and possessions were stoned, burned, and buried under a heap. An earlier uprising by Korah and his followers against Moses and Aaron was abruptly halted when God opened the ground beneath the rebels’ feet and the earth swallowed them, their families, and their servants alive. Those who ran from the pit were burned to death. Even Moses’ own relatives were not spared when God incinerated two of Aaron’s sons after they’d offered “strange fire” to demons using censors from the holy tabernacle.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Modern war is no different from previous wars. Those who are in it are in it to kill and gain spoils. When God told the children of Israel to destroy a place, he himself fought for them, so the victory was sure and the destruction complete. Nothing was spared except whatever God specifically stated should be spared. In most cases, not even the children were spared.

Should we condemn God for not sparing the children? Of course not. God was clear that the wars he directed and supported were payback for centuries of unrepented and ever-worsening sin. The destruction was an earned reward, just as the destruction of Jerusalem under King Zedekiah and later under the Romans was an earned reward. God is no respecter of persons; he’s as willing to destroy his own people as he is to destroy others, his justice being impartial and his judgement perfect.

It is difficult for me to look at the wars taking place around the world today and not see them as God’s payback for centuries of unrepented and ever-worsening sin. I do not see any innocent victims.

“But what about the children!!!?” What about them? Souls come into this world already sin-laden. If you consider children victims simply because they’re young, you call God’s justice imperfect. Yes, God does distinguish between those who are too immature to make informed decisions, but he also knows those who are evil by nature, meaning children of the evil one. Evil doesn’t grow up and automatically turn good. The children of the evil one remain children of the evil one, no matter how many chances they’re given to repent and turn from their evil ways.

As born-again followers of Jesus, we don’t go looking for people to help; we’re obligated to help only those whom God puts directly into our path. This is what Jesus did and this is what we, as his followers, are to do, even if they’re enemies. God gives mercy to whom he gives mercy and vengeance to whom he gives vengeance, and in everything he does he is just and perfect. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. I am deeply saddened that so many people reject God’s Way, but I won’t support their ungodly causes or call them innocent.

I won’t fly their flags or wave their banners or chant their slogans or spread their lies.

The only real victim of war is objective reporting.

ON SPIRITUALLY SPARKLY THINGS

CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 29, 2023 – Paul tells us that God has given his children a sound mind. Having such a mind, we needn’t fall prey to flights of spiritual fancy like being “rapture-ready”. Millions have been seduced not only into believing these types of hysterias, but also into financially supporting them and spreading the hype. Meanwhile, the ringleaders are cashing in big time, either through the sale of doomsday survivalist gear or from being the recipients of their followers’ liquidated assets. The commercialization of the end times means boom times for the unscrupulous, which is why we need to keep our mind sound and fully focused on God, as only by God’s Spirit can we discern the wolves among us.

By their private jets and Escalades shall ye know them.

I confess to have fallen prey to a few smooth-talking false prophets early in my rebirth. My sorry excuse is that I was on a steep learning curve from atheism, but still, I should have known better. I was just happy at the time to be part of any organization that at least admitted God existed, as Canadian society in general has kicked God to the curb. So I gave as generously as I could to the local churches I attended and expectantly “sowed” into various online ministries, anticipating a bountiful harvest in return. When the bounty failed to materialize and a closer reading of the ministries’ doctrines revealed alarming deviations from scripture, I bowed out of the organizations and turned directly to God’s Word. That’s when I my promised “sound mind” began to develop in earnest through constant prayer and daily reading of the Bible. That’s also when my spiritual investments began to pay off.

The straitened and narrow path is just wide enough for one person to walk at a time. It’s not wide enough even for two to walk abreast. Each of us follows Jesus at our own pace and alone, just as each of us will stand before God at the Judgement alone. God made the path narrow for a reason – so that we won’t be “unequally yoked together” with those who either don’t have our best interests at heart or have been led astray by false prophets. Being on the path alone, we’re answerable only to God, though others can still see us and be encouraged by our presence and progress.

Jesus was very much alone on the path, despite being constantly surrounded initially by his family and later by his disciples and followers. But he walked the path alone, as evidenced by him saying “I always do that which pleases the Father”. He never claimed to compromise in any way or to do that which pleased anyone other than the Father. When you walk two or more abreast, there is compromise, even just in the pace of your gait. You adjust your gait to align with your partner’s, and your conversation and thoughts are towards each other, not towards God, even if you’re talking about God. You can’t truly walk the path any other way but alone as there’s only room for one at a time. You pass through the gate alone and you walk the path alone.

Mass movements are a snare to the godly. God permits them as a test, just as he permits false “rapture-ready” prophets for the same reason. The path is narrow because it’s uncompromising. Truth is uncompromising. Perfection is uncompromising. We likewise need to be uncompromising, even and especially if it means we stand apart and alone.

To be uncompromising in a world that values compromise is no easy feat. If we know something is sinful, we steer clear of it. If we make a mistake, we repent, take our knocks, and keep going. If someone tries to lure us off the path, we rebuke them and pray to God to keep them far from us. We only get one chance to walk the path and that’s it. If we knowingly and wilfully leave it, we can’t get back on it, and if we can’t get back on, we can’t go Home.

The world is the realm of diversions. Knowing that, we need to give a wide berth to spiritual hysterias like “rapture-ready” and other sparkly things that are vying for our attention. A sound mind is the inheritance of the children of God – we’re given it as a gift, but it’s up to us to maintain it. This we can only do by keeping uncompromisingly to the very center of the path and focusing fully on God.

LIVING BEYOND “MY SIDE, RIGHT OR WRONG”

MCLEODS, New Brunswick, October 23, 2023 – Honor differs from culture to culture. For some, it means defending “my side” (that is, family, organization, nation, etc.) regardless of what that side has done. Defending, in most cases, means killing or at the very least socially excoriating whoever did the alleged dishonoring. In other cultures, honor is more the upholding of a vow or cherished norm, such as integrity, even if it means you have to stand against your family, organization, nation, etc., to do so.

I have never been a fan of being a fan. I never understood the practical purpose of supporting a team solely for the sake of supporting that team. To me, such support has shades of defending “my side” for no other reason than it is my side. Even as an atheist, I found that kind of blind allegiance troubling.

Not being a fan of being a fan has positioned me on the periphery of mainstream society for most of my adult life. I like it here. As a fringe dweller, I enjoy the advantages of living within a society without having to be participate in its blind enthusiasms. I contribute my fair share (that is, I pull my weight; I’m not a burden), but I don’t identify with the mainstream or any of its cultural tributaries.

Jesus, during his ministry years, and all prophets throughout time have been fringe dwellers. To be a fringe dweller is not to impose your opinions on others with the intention of getting them to agree with you, but simply to state your opinions, letting them fall where they may and living by them. Fringe dwellers respect the free will of others because they so cherish their own.

I didn’t choose to be a fringe dweller. I wouldn’t even say it chose me. When Truth (or the finding of it) is more important to you than going along to get along, you are automatically relegated to the fringe. You find no other place suitable for you but the fringe. Anyplace else is claustrophobic and inauthentic.

Years ago, when I was an atheist, I spent time occasionally within the bosom of mainstream society. In hindsight, I guess you would call me an imposter or interloper, though I never purposely intended to be one. I was just going to school or earning a living or involved in a personal relationship that required me to spend my days and nights among mainstream dwellers. And so I read what they read, ate what they ate, wore what they wore, listened to and watched what they listened to and watched, and generally tried to make myself agreeable. This is what you do when you’re trying to get an education, make a living, or nurture a relationship – you adapt to your environment. Only I found I could only adapt for very short periods of time before I had to get out. And so I moved from school to school, job to job, and relationship to relationship without really understanding why I never felt like I belonged in any of them.

Truth, to me (even formerly as an atheist who otherwise believed in nothing but my own self-gratification), doesn’t dwell in mainstream society. It can’t dwell there because mainstream society by very definition is built on compromise. It’s composed of a group of people who agree to set aside their differences so they can mutually benefit from each other. There’s nothing wrong with this set-up; I’m not criticizing mainstream society (it has its uses for me as a fringe dweller); I’m just saying I can’t live there because it doesn’t value Truth.

For mainstream society, if Truth gets in the way of doing business or pursuing an agenda, Truth gets the boot. The mainstream will always gravitate towards whatever supports the continuation of its status quo, like cultures that define honor as “my side, right or wrong”. That today’s status quo was yesterday’s anathema doesn’t faze mainstream dwellers in the least. In fact, they’re oblivious to it. Their willful or unconscious blindness is what marks them as being mainstream dwellers. Without such inherent blindness, you can’t live in the mainstream for very long.

I was blind to God before I was reborn, but I believed in the existence and supremacy of Truth from a very young age, even if I didn’t know what Truth was or where I could find it. My desire to find Truth was what drove me to pursue higher education and romantic relationships. Needless to say, I found no Truth in any of those pursuits. Like mainstream society, higher education and romantic relationships are premised on compromise and self-justification that at times stands against Truth. I eventually found that the costs of these pursuits far outweighed the benefits, so I got out and have no plans to go back.

Jesus, as I mentioned, and all prophets throughout the ages have lived on the fringe of society. There is nowhere else for Truth-lovers to live. Some are outcast and driven to the fringe, while others gravitate toward it on their own. And there we stand, like lighthouses in a stormy night, shining the Light of Truth both as a welcome and a warning.

Honor, for me, can only mean standing for Truth, no matter the personal cost. As a born-again believer, I have come to know Truth not as a concept that is “out there somewhere” but as a living being that lives within me: His name is God, and I love him more than I love myself (which, if you know me, is saying something). He is not “my team, right or wrong”, because he’s never wrong. There is no compromise with God, no flawed self-justification just to keep the ball rolling or save face. I can fully and with 100% of everything I am stand for him with no regrets and no doubts, like Jesus did. I know he will never let me down, never betray me, and never change, because he has never let anyone down, never betrayed anyone, and never changed.

There is no Truth outside of God. I may live on the fringe of society, but I’m nestled deep within the heart and core of God. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

LIFE AFTER DEATH? WHAT TO SAY WHEN UNBELIEVERS DIE

MCLEODS, New Brunswick, October 22, 2023 – One of the most difficult and heartbreaking situations we can encounter as born-again believers is dealing with a mother whose beloved child has died of suicide. In one recent incident brought to my attention, the daughter had killed herself after years of unsuccessful attempts. The mother, in tears, wanted to know whether her daughter had made it to Heaven.

Christian tradition holds that suicides cannot be buried in hallowed ground, and so those who’d killed themselves are usually interred (if in fact they are interred) outside “official” graveyards. No funeral mass is said for them. The reason for the corpse effectively being banned from receiving Christian burial rites is that it is assumed the deceased did not make it Home.

But hold on there a second. I was born-again from atheism over 24 years ago, and I died before I was born-again. I don’t just mean I was spiritually dead; certainly, I was spiritually dead, but I was physically dead, too. I died on a deserted beach in South Australia, and in the early stages of my physical death, God came to me and made me an offer. Not in words but in a series of images, he showed me that if I chose to forgive someone I thought I could never forgive, the pain that had driven me to my death would disappear; if I chose not to forgive, the pain would not only continue but grow worse.

The pain at that point was so unbearable, I didn’t care what I had to do to make it stop, including forgiving someone I considered unforgiveable. So, wanting only for the pain to go away, I chose to forgive. As soon as I’d made my choice, God showed me that the pain I felt – the pain that had so overwhelmed me, it killed me – was nothing more and nothing less than the sum total of the pain I’d inflicted on other people throughout the course of my life. The pain I’d felt was the pain I’d earned.

When I came back to life, everything was still in deep darkness, like it was when God made me the offer. Then I heard a loud, long inrushing of wind… and I found myself lying on the beach facing the ocean. I could see nothing but sand, sea, and sky.

And all the pain was gone.

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I mention my rebirth experience here briefly because people need to know I was dead. I died an avowed atheist and came back to life a born-again believer. God came to me and made me the offer when I was dead, both spiritually and physically. I don’t know why he brought me back to life instead of leaving me to rot on the beach, but the fact remains that he did bring me back to life in every conceivable way.

If I, the miserable sinner that I was, could be forgiven my sins after physical death, it must also be possible for others to be forgiven theirs after physical death.

So this is what I would say to those who, like the tearful mother, are wondering about the spiritual fate of their loved ones who die as unbelievers. God came to me after my death and gave me one last chance to make things right. No, I hadn’t committed suicide, but I’d certainly died deep in my sins as an unbeliever and I had attempted suicide previously. I know for a fact that God can work in souls even after the body dies, because he worked in mine; I also know for a fact that bodies can be resurrected, as we know from scripture and as I know from personal experience.

A few weeks after my own rebirth and resurrection, when I was pulling out some white hairs from my head (don’t ask lol…), I discovered that the roots were brunette, which is my natural (that is, pre-white) hair color. All of the white hairs I pulled out that day were about an inch brown at the root. This should not be, but it certainly could be if a body were brought back to life through an extreme energy burst or some unknown phenomenon. Jesus mentions in scripture about God being the only one who can turn hair black (or in my case brown), and that he surely did at my resurrection. It wasn’t just a spiritual rejuvenation that happened to me on the day of my rebirth, it was a physical one, too.

Judgement is reserved for God alone. None of us knows for sure (unless God tells us) whether we’ll make it all the way Home, so we have no right assuming that other people will be condemned. God can work in the souls of sinners even after physical death, like he worked in mine, making those souls an offer and giving them one last chance, like he did for me.

I believe that as born-again believers we are here to give spiritual guidance and hope to those who are open to receiving it. It’s never wrong to give people hope. There is no such thing as “false hope”. If a grieving mother wants to know whether her suicided unbelieving daughter made it to Heaven, tell her that with God all things are possible and that conversions can happen not just on deathbeds but after death as well. God is merciful and does everything he can to bring souls Home to him, even when to others it looks like it’s “too late”.

His mercy doesn’t stop at physical death. If it did, you wouldn’t be reading this because I wouldn’t be here to write it for you.

FOLLOW JESUS

MCLEODS, New Brunswick, October 21, 2023 – We all come into relationship with God and Jesus in our own unique way. No two conversions are the same. Some are sudden, unexpected, and out of the blue (like mine or Paul’s), some happen slowly over a period of years before reaching the rebirth tipping point, and the rest fall somewhere in between. But once converted, we’re all on the same path and walking the same Way that leads Home.

Being on the path, we’re all expected to make the same decisions that Jesus made during his time on Earth. We dare not veer to the left or to the right: We need to walk straight on. Mind you, we could veer to the left or to the right, if we wanted to; we still have free will. But we’ll pay the price for it. Do that enough, and you never want to do it again.

Do that more than enough, and you’ll lose your grace.

I’ve been on the path now for over 24 years. Just like everyone who’s born-again comes to God and Jesus in his or her own unique way, we who are on the path walk it in our own unique way. That’s not to say that we don’t follow Jesus’ commands and teachings. Walking the path in our unique way doesn’t mean we’re blaspheming or turning from God. Far from it. That’s just to say that none of us is the same despite having the same Spirit and heading for the same destination.

We’re not robots or drones. God doesn’t want robots and drones, he wants children – living, breathing children who love him and do his will not because they’re threatened or forced or programmed to do it, but because they simply want to do it, like Jesus did during his time here. My relationship with God is not like Jesus’ relationship with God because I’m not Jesus. Not being Jesus, I love God differently. I love God like I love God, and he loves me differently than he loves Jesus, but in the same measure. He loves me as much as he loves Jesus, just differently. He wouldn’t be our Heavenly Father – the Living God – if he didn’t love each of us differently but in the same measure. His love is as living as he is.

I thank God that he lets me walk the Way as me, Charlotte, and doesn’t expect me to be someone else. I thank God that he not only allows me to be me but encourages me to be me. If we’re not walking the path authentically as ourselves, we’re not walking the path. We’re spinning our wheels or maybe even sliding backwards.

When I was first born-again, I thought I had to change the way I dressed or the way I interacted with people, that I had to say certain things to them that I wouldn’t otherwise say. God let me roll with that for a while (thank God, it was a mercifully short while) until I realized that not being me is not what God expects of me. I don’t know why God chose me; I just thank God that he did. But he chose me, Charlotte, not The Born-Again Person Formerly Known As Charlotte. He chose me in all my glory and all my flaws.

We need to deeply understand that in following Jesus, we don’t mimic Jesus. We keep his commands, we learn the lessons he taught us, but we remain true to who we are as unique individuals. We come to God uniquely and we walk the path uniquely because we are unique and genuinely one of a kind. God made us that way. Still, Jesus is our example, as Paul put it, so when it comes to making decisions, we base them on what Jesus taught us.

As born-again believers, we don’t become Jesus. We remain true to God by remaining true to ourselves, true to how God made us, each of us unique and different from everyone else.

As born-again believers, we don’t become Jesus: We follow Jesus.

And in following Jesus, we make our way Home.

WHEN THE DEVIL FORBIDS YOU TO SAY “GOD”

MCLEODS, New Brunswick, October 20, 2023 – With the “HUG-A-NAZZI” scandal still making waves across media streams, and just when you thought Canada couldn’t fall any lower, the Canadian government one-ups itself by issuing a decree forbidding chaplains in the Canadian military to say GOD during official ceremonies, including during the upcoming Remembrance Day services. The official reason why GOD is now verboten in government circles is that the Canadian government has replaced the worship of GOD with the worship of DEI (Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion).

As reported in LifeSiteNews, the Department of National Defence spokesman explained the GOD ban as follows: “Chaplains giving reflections in public, mandatory military ceremonies should not use the word ‘God’ or other references to a higher power such as ‘Heavenly Father’ in order to ensure that all feel included and able to participate in reflection no matter their beliefs.”

Yes, you read that right: The chaplains can’t even say “Heavenly Father”.

It’s worth noting (and not at all surprising) that the last name of the government official who issued the NO GOD decree is “Belisle”, which is pronounced “Belial”, another name for the devil.

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Chaplains are ordained ministers of GOD. If I were a chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces and I received a command from my military superior not to say GOD during official ceremonies, my response would be this:

Can I say “I Am”?

Can I say “Jehovah”?

Can I say “the name that’s the same as the name of the band that sings Dancing Queen”?

Can I quote the very first line of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? You know, the one that states: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of GOD….”

Can I say “Father”?

Can I say “Dad”?

Can I say “Daddy”?

Can I say “Da”?

If not, how can I not say a name that is embedded in the very name of my country?

Can I now not say CanaDa? Must I stop at Cana?

If I cana say Da, I cana be Cana-ian.

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If I were a chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces and I was commanded not to say GOD, I would no longer be a chaplain in the Canadian Armed Forces.
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AMEN!

GOD-INSPIRED OR DEMON-DRIVEN?

CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 16, 2023 – This is how you can tell the difference between the God-inspired and the demon-driven, even when the demon-driven have the appearance of being God-inspired.

Jesus says when someone demands your coat, you give him your cloak as well. If someone asks you to go a mile, you go two. If someone borrows from you, you give without expecting to get it back. You love your enemies and pray blessings on those who hate and persecute you. This is what the God-inspired do.

The demon-inspired protect their possessions at gunpoint. They not only want what they have, they want what others have, too. They covet. They constantly scheme how to take more and more from others, whether money or possessions or land. The demon-driven lend expecting not only to get back what they’ve lent, but to get it back with interest. They hate their enemies and curse and dehumanize them, wishing only evil on them.

But more than anything else, the demon-inspired want to control. They want to control people, situations, organizations, and nations, and to do so by any means possible. Lying, cheating, stealing, and threats are their tried-and-trued methods. (Not much has changed since The Fall.)

The God-inspired, on the other hand, respect your free will, which they know is God-given. But they also urge you to use your free will wisely. The God-inspired inform you, advise you, guide you, and even at times persuade you, but they would never coerce, force, or trick you. Coercion, force, and trickery are the hallmarks of the demon-driven.

I mention the importance of discerning between the God-inspired and the demon-driven because we are currently neck-deep in a propaganda war made all the more deceptive by artificial intelligence. Claims are being made backed up by images and audio that may or may not be AI-generated (like the image above). We must question everything we see and hear online and on TV because all digital representations of reality can be altered and compromised. A talking head could in fact be just that – a digitally-generated image of a person saying something the person never actually said. Putting words into someone’s mouth has never been easier, thanks to AI.

The world chooses loyalties based on emotion and coercion, but we need to choose ours based on discernment. As born-again believers, we stand before God as his children, shoulder to shoulder with Jesus. Our unquestioning loyalty is to God and Jesus. If we choose to support someone or something in addition to God and Jesus, we must first use our discernment to see whether that person or thing is God-inspired or demon-driven and whether the evidence claimed for the support is real or contrived.

There is no excuse for born-again believers to be deceived or coerced into supporting a lie, as we are graced with God-given discernment for just such a purpose.

Now more than ever we need to be using it.

I KEEP THE SABBATH FOR MY BENEFIT, NOT FOR GOD’S

********** A repost and a reminder for those who may need it! **********

WE DON’T TAKE SIDES

CHARLO, New Brunswick, October 8, 2023 – Jesus taught us that the measure we mete is the measure we get in return.

In other words, what goes around, comes around and we get what we deserve, whether in love or in war.

Other than for Jesus, there are no innocent victims. There is only God’s justice playing out in real time.

That’s not to say that things don’t on occasion happen that you haven’t earned, like with Job. But when a Job-like situation arises, it’s a test. You don’t fight it. You stand your spiritual ground but you don’t fight it.

If you handle the test in the right way (that is, the godly way, the Jesus way), you’ll not only recoup whatever you lost, you’ll get it back in spades. God is very generous with his reimbursements. Look at how he reimbursed Jesus for his sufferings. Look at how he reimbursed Job and Lazarus the beggar. I know from personal experience that when I respond to God’s tests the right way, God rushes to shower me with gifts afterwards, like the father rushed to shower his prodigal son. But when I grumble or whine or push back against my heavenly Father, no spiritual cigars for me and I have to start the test all over again.

Unfortunately, the world has no time for God’s lessons. In the world, when someone strikes a blow against you, you strike back, as in an eye for an eye. Only, it usually ends up being an eye and a nose and half a lip and a few teeth for an eye, because vengeance is the purlieu of God, not the world. When God says “vengeance is mine, I will repay”, he means that he and he alone knows the exact measure that is due and the best time and means to deliver it. The world only knows crude measurements and crude timing and crude delivery methods that worsen the situation rather than even the score, prompting further retaliation and yet more eyes.

And because the world has no time for God’s lessons and does such a bad job at vengeance, we should never get involved in the world’s conflicts. They are not our concern. They are either God’s tests or God’s chastisement or God’s judgement, none of which we should protest or question. We don’t take sides because Jesus never took sides when it came to the world’s concerns and we always follow Jesus’ example. He never got involved in issues related to the Roman occupation, for instance. He only said that God had put the world under Satan, but that he’d overcome the world, so we should be of good cheer.

We are followers of Jesus, not of the world. We stand with Jesus, not with the world. Our realm is the Kingdom, not the world. The conflicts of the world are not our business. Our business is the business of the Kingdom only, as exemplified by Jesus in his preaching and teaching.

We don’t take sides, no matter the provocation. We observe – we’re always watching and praying that God’s will be done – but we never take sides.

“…for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”

Matthew 26:52