It's God, Y'all

 

I’ve been wrestling with God in the last months, the Holy Ghost insists I tell His truth, but I’ve struggled with fear and rebellion. I don’t want to mark myself as some kind of nutjob, although I know many people already think that of me. In this world I have some odd ideas, and I’ve never been one who conforms easily, and I rarely take the simple answer as the whole truth. I learned at a very early age that what seems one way on the outside can be completely different on the inside. I’ve learned that people can turn on a dime, calm one second, raging the next, and I always needed to keep my guard up and be prepared to escape, be that physically running, or simply disappearing inside myself. This world has been tough on me, and I know I’m not alone in that arena; it has been tough on a lot of us.

 

In the Bible God allowed Job to be tested by Satan, and Job lost everything down to the comfort in his own skin, but he never lost his faith in the glory and holiness of our Father. Job’s friends insisted that he must have sinned in some form or fashion, that he must not be as righteous as he claimed, and God was finally settling the score for his iniquities. His friends didn’t understand that God allows Satan to test us at times, and there is a reason that story was left in the book. Right now we are in the same type of testing phase as Job endured, the test isn’t focused on just one man though, but all of us. Will we do as the Bible instructs, or will we turn our back on the rules and embrace the world? That’s our test right now, and most have cleaved to the world. Others have chosen the world but still go to church and believe those couple hours on a pew will save them, yet in scripture God and Jesus state many times how the pastors and priests are leading the flocks in the wrong direction, and how they will face a worse punishment than the sheep. The truth is no pastor or priest can save us, the only path to salvation is by turning to God, being honest about our sins and our darkness, and following His rules so we can be cleaned up enough to enter the Holy City and face Him.

 

We all feel something coming, something big, but no one seems to know what it is. I follow hundreds of different groups on the social medias, a wide variety of news, interests, and hobbies, and I always read the comments looking for nuggets of truth. And the truth is people of all walks of life, in a myriad of different situations, with different beliefs, and living in different regions feel something big is right on the horizon. They’re seeing the things that we’ve been warned about, such as figs blooming in the wrong season, and the rhythm of nature changing in an odd way that makes them uncomfortable. Some think they can survive whatever it is if they prep properly, food, money, guns, and water, but the only prepping we need is to turn to God, be honest with Him about who we’ve become in the Job-like testing field, follow His commandments, and He will supply the rest.

 

The oddness we feel is because things are changing, God is near, and He’s warning us to turn to Him before it is too late. The world (Satan and his minions) is distracting us with continual threats and chaos and trivialities because they know their time is up and they are working diligently to hurt and maim and steal the salvation from as many as they can. If we’re thinking about celebrities, politics, and worldly issues all the time and are caught up in gossip, hate, and fear we’re going to miss it, and this is the final test before it all changes forever.

 

I know how crazy it sounds to say that what we’re feeling is God, but there it is. He is on His way, and that’s the truth that I’ve been hearing over and over and have been refusing to write in my own struggle with fear and rebellion. Last night I was led to a passage in Ezekiel that seemed to be speaking directly to me. “When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.” (Ezekiel 3:18)  And this morning in that space between sleep and waking I heard it again, “Tell them I’m coming, tell them to get ready, tell them to turn from their wickedness and follow my commandments. Tell them to ask for forgiveness and remember my Sabbath.” 

 

I don’t know what this will look like or when it will happen, but God is consistent throughout the Bible in how He punishes the wicked, and most seem to feel something in the air. The one thing we can be sure of is whatever the world medias are saying and no matter where they are pointing, it probably won’t be that. It’s God, y’all, so please pull yourself out of the worldly concerns, fears, and dramas, and turn to Him, time is very short now. And if I’m wrong and crazy, well, so be it, the world can only take my life, not my soul.

 

Keep seeking Him.