A Jog Through the Blogs...

Occasionally, after I check my friends' posts who maintain logs here at Blogspot, I'll click on the option to go to the next blog the system chooses to bring up.

And, blog after blog, I find so much pain, so much anguish from a generation lost, a generation who does not know God, who does not know this hope that we have in Christ alone!

And it's no wonder.

The church, herself, especially here in the USA, thinks that she's got it going on, that she's got this thing down - almost as if she doesn't need God because she is able to feed and clothe herself and has this thing called salvation all figured out, yet she has not even the power to cure a headache. Oh, but she has this thing she relies on called deductive reasoning, philosophies, and ideologies to explain away her lack of power. And, if we funnel, filter, and melt it all down it essentially boils down to this: God retired and went on vacation to some unknown place like the Bahamas and told us to have a nice time trying to figure out what He expects of us and to leave a message on the machine so He can be sure and get back with us in the next millenium.

Not so!!! God has not changed!!! God's Word has not changed!!! He is still near to anyone and everyone who draws near to Him! Jesus said He would not leave us here like orphans to try and fight our way through this thing on our own! No! He said He would go to the Father - and He did! And He said that in going to the Father He would send the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, who would lead us and guide us into all truth! He is here! He is still doing everything He's been doing in the church since the day of Pentecost! It is we, the church, who have backed away and changed not God! Jesus said He would be with us always - even to the end of the world!

And, yes, The Holy Spirit is every bit as much God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is God, and Jesus Christ is God!

This is a Laodicean age if ever there was one and a Laodicean generation if ever there was one. Jesus said to the church of the Laodiceans:

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God,

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot; I would that you were cold or hot.

So, then, because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew you out of My mouth.

Because you say, "I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing" and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

I counsel you to buy of Me gold tried in the fire that you may be rich, and white raiment that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear, and anoint your eyes with eyesalve that you may see!

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten; be zealous, therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with Me.

To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in My throne even as I also overcame and am sitting down with My Father in His throne.

He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Revelation 3:14-22

Church, we'd better get it right! We'd best wake up from our sleep and our slumber and quit thinking we're "all that" and sitting on our "Blessed Assurance" thinking the laurels are all ours and sitting on them too while an entire generation groans and writhes in pain, groping through the darkness, looking for a ray of light of the manifestation of the sons of God!

WAKE UP!!! WAKE UP NOW BEFORE THE BLOOD OF THIS GENERATION IS REQUIRED AT OUR HANDS!!! Our life is not our own!!! We have been bought with a price!!! This is God's salvation purchased for us in Christ Jesus' own blood! He is King!!! He is Lord!!! We don't get to make this thing up as we go! There is a pattern set before us in His Word, and this is the pattern we must follow - and not by our own strength, our own might, our own ability or understanding but by the power of the Holy Spirit of God! If we're not following this pattern, we do not have it right! We'd best not think that we do!