About taking action…

John 13:34 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." (NIV)

The result of bringing Christ's love into the world can be fearful, for the world does not know Christ. The world still rejects Him and the world often rejects those who bring His love and message to the world. Your actions still speak louder than words. Your actions of healing, reassurance, love, humility, and contrition help break through barriers. Your acts of kindness and giving break down barriers surrounding a person caught in the darkness. The result of your showing the healing grace of Christ cannot be measured by any human standard. Take action against hatred, bigotry, insolence, and the haughtiness of evil by showing love, mercy, and kindness. When you show the love of God there is a thunderous ovation by the angels.

on self-knowledge and self-change

When it comes to self-change, we already have more information than we need. Our inability to change is not because we don't know what we should do, but because we have not yet found the muscle we need to use in order to do it. For example, some people can wiggle their ears. Most people can't. If you are one of those who can't and you were to try to wiggle your ears, you would immediately be confronted with a sense of utter blankness. You would know the objective--wiggling your ears. But when you go to do it, there is just a wall, a nothing.

More information about ear wiggling won't help. And meeting someone who can actually wiggle their ears doesn't help you either, because their ears aren't your ears. And if some expert wiggler were to carry on about how wonderful, empowered and liberated you are going to feel when you too can wiggle your ears--you would wonder why they are giving you all this information since it is of no help whatsoever, and in fact only serves to let you know how special they must be and how inadequate you are.

Self-change is somewhat similar. It requires the exercising of a certain, but at first indistinguishable, muscle. This muscle seems indistinguishable because it is neither physical, intellectual, nor psychic--which is why formulas and exercises that strengthen us in these areas still don't necessarily bring us closer to Spirit.

The way each of us comes to self-change is utterly personal and individual. Furthermore, all the descriptions by realized people of how glorious life will be "once you too have found this muscle" (i.e. find the light) do not actually help us to find it. Self-change can not be effected by getting more information about what it is like, or how to do it, or how good you will feel once you have done it. If information about the "event" could do it, then in this age of hi-tech communication we would all be there. There is only one essential issue: finding that muscle which is our genuine spirituality and using it. an inward research we must do utterly alone.

about future glory

Glory, power, victory, grace, love, abundance, and peace...these are words which describe our future. "Glory" is the best word in this group but even the word "glory" can not describe the whole future for us. We often lose sight of our real future. When we think of the future, we think about tomorrow, next week, or next year. As the apostle Paul reminds us in this verse, present pain and suffering cannot compare to our future glory. With our eyes on this future glory, we gain a new vision of our present life. The worst circumstance for any person is to suffer and not have a vision and hope for the future. When we have a vision and a hope for the future, no darkness can overtake us, and no suffering can keep us down. Each of us has a glorious future in Christ Jesus.

about taking action

The result of bringing Christ's love into the world can be fearful, for the world does not know Christ. The world still rejects Him and the world often rejects those of you who bring His love and message. Your actions still speak louder than words. Your actions of healing, reassurance, love, humility, and contrition help break through barriers. Your acts of kindness and giving break down barriers that surround a person caught up in the darkness. The result of showing the healing grace of Christ cannot be measured by any human standard. Take action against hatred, bigotry, insolence, and the haughtiness of evil by showing love, mercy, and kindness. When you do these things there a thunderous ovation by the angels.

about how love never fails

Love never fails because love always does the right and godly thing. Love always does the will of God in every circumstance. Even when failure appears to come in the outward world, in the inward world, love is succeeding with abundant joy. Love never fails because God is love and God is always right. Love does not know what failure is because all things in the universe, whether tiny or enormous, rest in the palm of the Lord's hand. When love works, Love makes all things align in His hand and align according to His will. Love never fails for love is pure and divine. In all things pure and divine, there is always success in the eyes of God and success within what God wills for each of us and for His universe.

about reconciliation

Is your world a jumbled mess? Do things seem to have spun out of control with madness appearing at every turn? Yes, things can be a mess. Things can really seem to have spun out of control. Certainly, some days, weeks, and months are worse than others. If we could see all things, in all the dimensions of reality, we would see a lot of chaos. Not only is there chaos in the world among nations, chaos in the weather, and chaos in the workings of ordinary men and women, but there is also chaos churning in the spiritual realms of darkness and evil.


In chaos there can appear to be little hope. However, in the chaos of darkness can shine the light of God. In the chaos of darkness can come forth the hope that someday soon Christ will come back, wrap His arms around each of us, and bring an end to our days of turmoil and chaos in which we all live. Someday, your days of turmoil will end, for in Christ, you will find magnificent peace and love where only His light prevails.

Especially during this Christmas season

Especially during this Christmas season, your love for Christ can grow.
At this time of year, you can sense His love in more profound ways.
As you see the many decorations during this season, think about Christ's birth.
Touch Christ's mind and heart this season so you will more fully know the power of His love.
Touch Christ's mind and heart this Christmas season so you more fully know the power of His forgiveness.
In His love, Christ will help you understand the full dimension of His birth.
In His love, Christ will help you understand how much He accepts you and loves you.
In His love, Christ will help you understand what it means to be born again.
Christ will show you how you are a new person in Him in any season of the year.
Christ will show you how you have the gifts of a new heart, a new soul, even a new life as you surrender all you are to Him any season of the year.

Cultivate your life in Him — and He will produce His fruit through you!

Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

At any time, how receptive your heart is will determine your response to God’s word. If your heart has been trampled, and harden by bitterness and unforgiveness, then receiving God’s message for you will become more difficult. If your heart is like shallow soil on top of a rock, then your mind comprehends God’s truths, yet these truths do not penetrate your heart to make a real difference in your actions. Or if you are concerned about the riches of this life, then your focus is on the here and now, and these pursuits prevent God’s Word from taking hold and producing quality fruit. But a heart that is on good soil, receives the Word, applies the Word, and in due time bring forth abundant fruit! This is God’s desire for you — to have a heart cultivated on good soil!

How do you cultivate a heart on good soil? Repent of any bitterness, unforgiveness, anger, or any other sin that is hardening your heart! Seek the power of God to search your heart thoroughly and completely to root out all the weeds that hinder cultivating good soil. Cultivating good soil is a daily task — weeds spring up out of nowhere to hinder our growth. But , you are not ignorant of Satan’s devices (2 Cor. 2:11). So break up your fallow ground, sow yourself in His righteousness, and soon you will bring forth abundant fruit fit for the kingdom!

On Christmas you may gather

On Christmas you may gather with others to celebrate the time of Christ's birth.
The Lord will help you remember Christ's birth in spite of an atmosphere of tension and talk of war in the world. Christ's birth was accompanied by efforts of the powers of darkness and evil to destroy Christ as an infant.

Mary and Joseph had to flee for their lives to protect Christ. In these days of your current time, when there is war and rumors of war, the Lord will help you understand your ultimate protection is not be found upon the earth. Your ultimate protection for all time and for all of eternity rests solely in Christ. Your ultimate protection exists in His heavenly home. You must stay strong in all things. Always call upon Christ to help you when you cannot help yourself.

Praise His Name. Amen.