I pray this blog finds you all doing well….as many of you know I have been spending a tremendous amount of time engaging the Holy Spirit on the subject of religion…it seems to me (and you that know me well know i have strong feelings against religion) that religion is stealing everything from us that Christ called precious and magnificent….all His promises to us that are Supernatural have been dumbed down to reasonable and man obtainable processes by the institutuion of religion….as a result, we dont see the biblically promised outcomes in our lives we are quick to explain why with new theories that are not scripturally pure therefore driving us further from the Truth we are claiming to be striving towards…that is our problem…we have defaulted to so many devices, programs, and theories that we have lost the one thing we were promised…the Way, the Truth, the LIFE….I urge you today to put aside all the thoughts, routines, and religious processes that threatens the simplicity of your RELATIONSHIP with CHRIST…I am closing with a thought from Oswald Chambers found in “my utmost for His highest” dec 20th…
“The calling of a New Testament worker is to uncover sin and to reveal Jesus Christ as Saviour, consequently he cannot be poetical, he must be sternly surgical. We are sent by God to lift up Jesus Christ, not to give wonderfully beautiful discourses. We have to probe straight down as deeply as God has probed us, to be keen in sensing the Scriptures which bring the truth straight home and to apply them fearlessly.”
Basically, we cannot afford to be religious! Why? Because peoples lives hang in the balance…including our own….so may the God of perfection bless you and keep you. may He cause His countenance to replace your own, and may He afford you absolute restoration through your reception of His precious Son and the filling of His powerful Spirit.