Always...God

 While reading through some old writings, I found this from January 23, 2016. Eight years ago this was written. It could have been today so relevant are the words. Even though the punctuation and grammar may be incorrect, the message is timeless: always...God.

Sometimes...sometimes you have been friends a long time. You know you aren't perfect, no one is. Imperfections don't matter as long as together you are serving The One True Perfect God. But sometimes, the enemy comes in and deceives those with whom you have been a friend. Sometimes you are no longer in each others' lives. Sometimes there is a spiritual war that painfully affects the physical, and always...God is there.

Sometimes you cannot agree with those around you because God says "That's not My thoughts. That's not My way. That's not My plan for you. Even if the opinions and thoughts of others are technically "correct", outside of My law of Love no one is "right", not when hate is present. You are not to be a part of that, daughter. Remove yourself from hate and those who are hating. Take no part in division and strife. Get in here under the shelter of My wings in the secret place. Do not participate in hating. My answer on this issue is this and only this, no. Where there is Love, yes. Where no Love is, no."

Then, sometimes, God begins a journey of revelation and you are so completely captivated and enthralled with Him that the strife around you seems invisible in comparison to the light of His glory. While others around you strive, hating those God commands to love, you are wrapped up in the Lover of your soul. Your only desire is for Him, His plans, and His ways. Those around are saturated in confusion and sadness while you bask in Him. Sometimes God tells you that being right is completely wrong when being right becomes more important to you than being in Love.

Being in Love with God is the only matter of true importance, and when other issues take precedence over Love and  His law of Love, those issues are wrong, even if they're right. When the temporary becomes more important than The Eternal One, it's wrong. It's wrong because God says the world will know we are His because of our love for one another, so if we're not loving one another, if we are hating, we are wrong. Whether our stand on an issue is "right" or not, if we are operating from any base other than God who is Love, we are wrong.

So...sometimes...sometimes smack dab in the middle of the raging hateful fray God draws you away with Him into His garden of delightfulness and beauty. Into the secret place where He lavishes you with your heart's deepest longings and desires you are drawn and kept safe from the dogs of war, from the dogs whose mouths are saturated with the blood of those they've devoured. In the secret place dreams are given, truths are taught, and wounds are healed. Under His wings a beloved child of the Most High finds herself learning Who her Abba truly is while ideologies and opinions of men are stripped away. Sometimes when a daughter of the King discovers who the King really is she is then able to see the truth around her and sometimes, sometimes, always...God.

Sometimes God teaches His daughter who she is in Him so she can rise up and fight for those caught in the raging fray, war for her brothers and sisters who are deceiving and being deceived by the enemy of their souls. Sometimes, some of her brothers and sisters don't choose Abba or His way. Sometimes their eyes are blinded by the father of lies, and even though they truly think they are serving God, the Father of Light, with their passionate zeal, they aren't, and sometimes, sometimes a daughter of God runs hard to Abba and cries hard for all of her brothers and sisters. Because God's daughter learns the hard way when hate wins all of us lose.

But...always...God. There it is: always...God. Always this: God. Nothing else but God. God and God Alone. No one, nothing, nowhere, just God. Only God takes the deceiver, the deceived, the breaker, the broken, the one who tears, the torn, the fighters, and those caught in the middle of a fight they didn't know was being fought. Everything the enemy meant for evil God makes good, ALL of it, every little speck. It doesn't matter who was or was not "right". The only thing that matters is Him, and He is the only One who matters. Any and every thing else will pass away, but God and His Word will not pass away; they remain.

Forever and always, no matter what...God.