God has a plan and all things work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. Today especially, there is power in being a person of faith, one of the reasons being because eliminating fear is a main goal. Without faith it is impossible to please God. (Heb 11:6) The just shall live by faith. (Hab 2:4) The one who fears has not been made perfect in love, because fear involves torment. (1 John 4:18) Faith eradicates fear. It is the belief that God has a good plan for me, for you, for everyone and everything, our job is only to know Him and walk in what He wills. God created each and every one of us with a purpose that aligns with our pure passion and He loves us all so much, desiring to see us walk out what good we were made for. He wants to see us believe the best about ourselves and see each other the way He sees us, imperfectly wonderful and eager to have a healthy relationship with Him and with each other.
All of us are reeling from what is going on in the world right now, if you’re paying attention. So much has been so hard. Images, words and actions just ripping the very fabric of our society apart, causing us all deep pain (some more than others) as we see what is going on. It has been very tragic. I see how God is using these difficult experiences in our society to shape willing people’s hearts, myself included, more and more toward the marginalized, poor, indigenous, and afflicted… and I am so thankful. Jesus said when we take care of those with the least, we take care of Him. (Matt 25:40) Racism is being combatted. A lot of corruption is also being exposed. Systems of underground criminal behaviour are being brought to light and this is so amazing! God wants to expose evil, He is allowing the shaking, and He loves justice! He promises that everything which is done in secret will eventually be brought to light. (Luke 8:17)
On the other side of the coin… I am also seeing many words, images and actions in our society troubling to me in a different way as I do not believe they’re leading to positive change, left unchecked. I wonder what’s become of our words and views about ourselves and others in light of the love God has for us and what He thinks of us and wants us to think of each other? What I see in this space is devastating to me. Many people are calling themselves, others, and/or our society negative names and placing judgemental labels on the same, putting other people or themselves in boxes based upon something physical about them, their vocation, or their history. People are finding an interpretation of meaning about themselves, and others, not based on how God sees us, but based on their own, another’s, or the socially acceptable perception. Our world is becoming more and more caught up in interpretations based on the outward appearance. The norm is evermore the identification of the self or other through a physical, temporal trait, and this is highly stifling to our eternal complexity and Godly spirituality. Man looks at the outward appearance but the Lord looks at the heart. (1 Samual 16:7)
I increasingly see people feeling the need to remain silent on their own discomfort with these stifling labels, boxes, and judgements. Many people’s experiences and perspectives don’t fit inside these confinements, but they are ostracized for expressing what does not fit in with the ever changing mainstream narrative. There is grouping based on physical or vocational features and shaming of groups based on what is temporal, not eternal and, really, grouping of what cannot and should not be grouped, labelled or judged. More and more people (out of fear or programming) are speaking only on what and when our culture deems as right. Yes, it is good to root up evil and to speak against it when (and not when) mainstream media says so. But it is not good (edifying, loving, or ultimately beneficial) to negatively group and label yourself or anyone for anything and assign to all in that group something irredeemable based strictly upon that label. It eliminates our unique individuality and overall mental and spiritual health to so strongly identify with only one physical feature or aspect of ourselves and see ourselves, or others, primarily through that lens without a way of escape. It closes us off from God and one another to do this. Where is there room for redemption when you are in a group labelled by society as irrevocably irredeemable? Those in the ostracized group then self-shame in hopes of appeasement to their perceived other, but to what end? Biracial people, for example – does the white half of them owe their black half an apology for a perceived suppressive superiority over the other’s lesser-ness? Or the lighter skinned mixed brother to the darker? Do you see the damaging divisiveness in this line of thinking? Do you see how far this is from how God wants us to see ourselves and each other? I sure hope you do! Because if not, you’re being duped. Meanings are being manipulated. While God will use what is intended for harm to be made into good for those who are willing (Gen 50:20), those who don’t understand the spiritual battle going on beneath the physical reality will come ultimately to ruin. (Hos 4:6) My heart. My heart.
I am not a perfect human by any stretch and I’ve made a lot of mistakes and some bad choices. I’ve found mercy in God and healing for my brokenness and so I know Him because I love Him so much and I spend time with Him and learning about Him in His Word. It makes everything in me writhe with pain to see how we have so much anger, outrage, and indignation here in our society over only what the media puts in front of our faces and most aren’t seeing the great deception we are under. Our society is not perfect, but it’s one of the most free places in the world with so much opportunity to be better if we truly understood. Yet our freedoms are quickly dwindling away while our minds and spirits become more and more imprisoned as we Netflix and chill through increased tribulation. Most don’t pay attention to what’s really going on in the world. The whole rest of the planet is literally being physically enslaved and traumatized by the very elite groups and corporations that mentally enslave us to our culture and consumerism, puppeteering us into further emotional, mental and spiritual degredation, brokenness and servitude to them. Most people have no idea what’s really going on because it’s not on the news or mainstream media and they trust CNN, Hollywood, Google, etc. to tell the truth. Why? Why do you trust? These outlets are controlled by greedy globalist elite who want to control and use you. Almost no one talks about it, and even less people talk about what these evil elite are really connected to.
I don’t talk about modern slavery, human trafficking, a lot. I don’t share with people the countless tears I’ve shed and prayers I’ve said over the past ten years since I learned about the occult ritualistic abuse taking place underneath the very fabric of our society and the massive rings of underground slavery, where humans are bought and sold for mere dollars and the rape and torture of children and women runs rampant. I don’t want to bother people with what keeps me up at night. Nobody wants to hear that slavery and the mistreatment of people is more prevalent now than it ever has been in the history of the world. No one wants to remember that the clothes you’re likely wearing right now were made by tiny little overworked hands of colour in a corporate owned sweat shop under forced slave labour. You think it’s a far away problem but it’s all around us. Please hear me, it’s not that I’m unhappy that racism is being talked about in the West – I can see it’s starting to lead some toward greater care for the marginalized which is the heart of God! We need reform and support for those who are vulnerable here in our society too! It’s just that I see plain as day how the greedy unwholesome powers that be are manipulating people’s very real pain into a race war, taking advantage with their powerful media voice to focus on creating division and distraction, and it infuriates me how the devil is such a LIAR! Our nations are disintegrating into hate for, and fear of, one another as the world around us cries ever louder and bleeds, abused. While there is good going on right now, I can’t help but think that overall we are moving backward in the West with our loving, respectful connection to one another, and to God, as opinions and people become muted or amplified based on whether or not they fit with the engineered cultural dialogue. Our ability to even help ourselves, let alone help the rest of the world, is being lost amongst our fear and infighting. We need to be able to be imperfectly wonderful to each other. We need to be free to respectfully connect. We need God.
I am not trying to pass judgement on anyone. I am always learning and growing. But I do wonder if and when people are going to look deeper than what and how the digital screen in front of us tells us to? I hope this movement to see brokenness and the marginalized moves beyond our own society and we begin to grow past stifling labels, boxes, and judgements to really see the whole broken world for what it is, in need of salvation. Our culture is still a long way off from that it seems and it makes me very sad. I get it… it is not easy to wade through the mainstream media propaganda, since most don’t even recognize that’s what it is. The mission, should you choose to accept it: get to the issues on the heart of God. What can I do? I pray. I donate. I am writing. I dream of a day when I can do more. I speak when and how I feel God leads me to. And right now He’s telling me it’s time to pick up my shield of faith and start speaking loud and clear. #KingdomOverCulture
