Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. I met with the Alpha and Omega at the beginning of this new day with a broken heart for the world, but it didn’t take long for Him to set me Straight all over again. All it took was a little time in my Instruction Manual, a Heart willing to Learn, and a Spirit in need of Rest. With those things in Perfect Alignment, He spoke Life into my life and He put Heavenly Perspective on the world again. I wish everybody could feel what my Heart feels now and I wish everybody could have peace like mine at such a time as this…but, not everybody is willing to work for it. Are you willing to work for it?

If there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that God will be Victorious no matter what our outward circumstances look like from where we sit. He IS the Beginning and the End with a Master Plan that would blow our minds if we could see it now. But we see victory as a win or lose, while God sees Victory with the Master Plan in mind and victory isn’t always so cut-and-dried. When David became King the Philistines set out to kill Him so David inquired of God IF he should go against them and IF God would deliver them into his hands. God assured David that he would, so David set out full force to annihilate his enemy. When David heard that the enemy’s army wasn’t finished yet, HE INQUIRED of God again. David didn’t assume anything without first approaching the Throne of the Living God for instructions. God responded with “As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly because that will mean the Lord has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.” God isn’t just “with us” – God isn’t just “for us” – GOD GOES BEFORE US and HE delivers the victory Himself. This is the Key to Peace at such a time as this.

I’m just as broken-hearted for my brothers and sisters in Christ who are overlooking the One with the Master Plan (as they write a playbook of their own) as I am by the condition of the dark world. There is only one Solution for ALL our problems…problems that are a part of the Master’s Plans…and it has nothing to do with victory for the left or the right. The Solution is Jesus Christ…the One who sits at the right hand of the God of all Creation and intercedes on our behalf. The lost ones don’t know any better because they don’t know the One who died for them yet, but my brothers and sisters should. If they Know my God they should be confident in the Outcome even if they disagree. If they Know my God they should seek His will through the battle and be willing to wait to “hear the sounds of marching in the tops of the poplar trees” before they do battle with an enemy they cannot see. But most of all, as my brothers and sisters shake their fists, spit out insults, and claim to have exclusive rights to their own master plan, they aren’t willing to let the Lord go out “in front of you to strike” the enemy down Himself. He can…and He will…in His time…in His way…and THAT is the foundation of our Faith ESPECIALLY at such a time as this.

I care about the condition of our world and I have plenty of “opinions” of my own, but none of my opinions matter to the One who wrote the Master Plan that cannot be altered. Victory isn’t cut-and-dried and it doesn’t just happen overnight…at least not from where the God of all Creation sits. He’s my God and I trust Him…I love Him…I want to please Him…I surrender my all to Him…I seek Him and His will…and my Faith is unwavering. You won’t find me living in fear or shaking my fists at the Plans my Maker has in store. Instead, you’ll find me walking out my Faith with confidence that He will ALWAYS go before me to strike down my enemy and you’ll hear me sharing the Gospel like never before…a message much more important than the left or the right… because that’s what being a Witness for the Living God looks like and His Agenda is the only agenda that matters at all.

How about you?