Part One.
I write this as a part of a whole. I am a
small piece of the entire human race. I belong to the ocean, as just a
particle. I write this as guilty in my thoughts and actions, but saved and
redeemed by the blood of Christ. Who, can I just say, paid the price for ALL of
us. He hung on a cross and took on the punishment for the sins of ALL. Not just
some of us…He made a way for ALL. While we were still in our sin…He loved us.
He stood in-between Heaven and Earth as
an advocate and pleaded with the Judge. His life was taken instead AND THEN
resurrected so that we could HAVE LIFE. Gentiles and Jews. Men and Woman.
SINNERS. ALL.
When Jesus walked the earth, the Pharisees
and Sadducees could not believe He was the Christ because He was not following
the written law. Right off the bat, according to the “law” Mary, Jesus’ mother
was to be stoned. Before the angel even comes to Joseph to tell him what’s
going on, Joseph pardons Mary and he is called “just”. The beginning of Jesus: A NEW JUSTICE SYSTEM. There were many times
people were to be stoned; once example is a prostitute. According to the law,
she is to be stoned to death. Jesus tells the men ‘those of you WITHOUT SIN, go
head and throw the first stone.” THEN Jesus says “Woman, WHERE ARE YOUR ACCUSERS?” And he continued by telling
her that HE…THE CHRIST…GOD IN THE FORM OF MAN…DOES NOT CONDEMN HER. He also
says “sin no more”. GRACE. She ENCOUNTERED HIM and HIS LOVE. And He gently
corrects her.
There was also a time that Jesus healed a
blind man. According to the law, if you’re blind you’re cursed. So they would
spit on him and at him. HERE COMES JESUS. Who spits on his hands and
rubs it into the man’s eyes and HEALS him!!! Oh God, can you even take that?
In Acts, a crippled man (from birth) begging
for money sits at the gate of the temple. Peter tells him “Silver and gold I do
not have, but what I do have, I give you. Stand up and walk in the name of Jesus.” And he stands up and
walks! The part that gets me here is “what I do have, I give you”. Which is God’s
original will for the human race; “freely you have received, freely you
shall give”. We draw from the pure Holy Spirit…we turn to God and we draw
from His Holy Love and we give that to others. We give to the ones that
desperately NEED it.
I’d like to end part one with highlighting
that Jesus brings a whole new Justice that is hard for us humans. I’d like to
add that He says OUR righteousness is as filthy rags (mine included!!). True
Justice cannot be enforced without a heart of wholeness and true humility. A
heart that has had its holes filled by God’s light. A heart that is healed. A
heart that is secure in itself. Otherwise, broken hearts point the finger with
human righteousness behind it. If WE (me too!!) don’t have a heart BURNING for
the salvation of others, I have to question the fruit (actions and words)
coming out of that heart. If we don’t see others as broken in their worst state and YEARNING for them to be saved from
oppression and mindsets, what’s the state of our own hearts? If we pull out our
finger every chance we get to point it at another, instead of falling on our
knees crying out as if a woman in child birth…yearning for the sons of God to
come forth…yearning for GOD to intervene with His Holy LOVE to rescue our human
race…we have to check our whys.
Part 2
It says that we wrestle not with flesh and blood
but with principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. This is where I want
to open up the Baltimore situation. To be completely honest with you, I don’t
care who is right or wrong. At all. I see a bigger picture here. Can I tell you
that God’s will is for Heaven to come to Earth. That’s why he made Adam and put
him HERE. Unfortunately the human race fell and is now broken. But God’s will
never changed.
He tells us to pray like this: “Our Father
who is in Heaven, holy is your name. YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. Give us
this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US
FROM EVIL.”
There’s so much in that one, small prayer.
When I step back and look at Baltimore and
other recent events that have triggered aggressive division, I see a SNAKE. I
see the serpent slithering into human brokenness and intensifying it. I see him
putting salt on old wounds and creating new ones. I see hurt multiplying hurt. I see him provoking others. I see him causing
CIVIL WAR. This isn’t THE Civil War, but come on guys: THIS IS CIVIL
WAR. Humans…civilians…turning against other humans and civilians. And you know
God’s will is for us ALL to turn to GOD!! For Life and Healing and Safety and
Restoration. And LINK ARMS TIGHTLY TO FORM OUR OWN ARMY AGAINST THE
DEVIL. AGAINST DARKNESS. AND RISE UP IN LOVE AND BOLDNESS through the Holy Spirit
FOR THE SALVATION OF SOULS.
“Now
the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his
Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who
accuses them day and night before our God. AND THEY HAVE CONQUERED HIM BY THE
BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF THEIR TESTIMONY, for they loved not their
lives even unto death. Therefore rejoice O heavens and you who dwell in them.
But woe to you O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great
wrath, because he knows that time is short.”
So the snake has gotten in HE KNOWS OUR
HOLES. He knows where we aren’t Holy people. And when he gets in those holes,
he gets in our hearts and in our mind and he twists and turns us and he causes
this chaos. Its hell you guys. THIS is what hell looks like. Life apart from
God. Life ruled by darkness. We turn against each other because we don’t know
that we can turn to God and HE is enough. Enough to fill us up and heal us and
restore us…enough to overflow us and then we POUR OUT the same thing that we received.
JESUS’ name MEANS SALVATION. It literally means JEHOVAH SAVES. There is power
in the name of JESUS!! So why do you multiply darkness? When there IS another
WAY!!
I see so many fingers. Pointing in all kinds
of directions. And notice I haven’t addressed a side. We are ALL broken. Come
on people. We’re all broken. Some of us more than others. It’s satan that turns
us against each other. HE IS THE ACCUSER!! JESUS is the advocate!!
God can we just fall on our knees with
hurting hearts for the restoration of the human race. Can we believe there is
Hope if WE turn to God. Instead of pointing fingers and slandering each other.
Can we point to God and say “It’s YOU that can save us from THIS!” It’s YOU!
Bring Heaven to Earth. God save us from this Hell! Show us Holy Love! Help us to
pray for ALL humans. Whatever color they are. White or black. Whatever their
position is. Because we all bleed the same blood. We all have access to HIS blood. Help us to see through your eyes!
Help us lay down our filthy, filthy righteousness. Show us your Justice. Show
us Jesus hanging on the cross. Dead. For all of us. Help us all to gather at
bottom. On our knees. And resurrect us into people united. Set us on FIRE with
YOUR HOLY LOVE!!! God, come!! With everything in me! COME!! And save Baltimore.
Save us from Civil War. Save us from darkness. Save those in the war. And save
us on the outside who have our fingers out with another weapon: our tongues.
Help us use our tongues to pray instead.
Let YOUR KINGDOM COME! On earth, as it is in
Heaven!
On my knees in deep grief.
Will you join me…
-this Luna’s heart
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