GOD GAVE ME THESE WORDS A YEAR AGO TODAY AND THEY’VE BLESSED ME ALL OVER AGAIN THIS MORNING. I PRAY THEY DO YOU AS WELL!

Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It’s cold this morning but it will be warming up soon and as much as I’d like to see it, there’s no possibility of snow. I looked out onto the horizon being lit up by God and I gave thanks for it all, but as I was trying to let the sunrise soak in, my eyes kept shifting to the limbs and the twigs on the trees as if I was seeing them for the first time. Each one is unlike all the others and each one has a allotted time for when it will fall to the ground and become part of what used to be. Isn’t that just like people? Some of them will cling to the Tree of Life all the days of their lives, while others… the “weaker” ones… will just give up and fall to the ground and become part of what used to be. Isn’t that the way you see it too?

It can be so easy for us to clump all the “people of Faith” together as if we’re all the same…but we miss out on the Majesty of His Creation when we do. Each one of us was knit together in our mother’s womb at the Perfect moment in Time and there’s no such thing as a mistake or bad timing in His eyes. Each one of us has a unique Purpose in this Journey called Life…whether we ever get around to fulfilling it or not. Each one of us Knows the God of all Creation and most of us have been Taught the same Lessons. The biggest difference is that some of us will desperately cling to the Tree of Life while plenty of others are content to fall to the ground where they’ll get mixed in with all the rest and their uniqueness will fade away in the shuffle. We all have the God of Creation in common, but that’s not all we have in common. One day each one of us will succumb to our weakness and we’ll fall to the ground just like all the limbs and twigs do, and the opportunity we had to Cling to the Tree of Life in the time we were Allotted will be over. When that happens we DO get clumped together for all of Eternity. The desperate ones who clung to the Tree of Life on one side and all the others content to fall to the ground to be part of what used to be on the other. This is the Key to the importance of sharing the Message of Truth with ALL the world…in and out of the church.

There’s a big difference between being determined and being desperate. Some people walk out their Journey of Faith determined to be God experts and they aren’t afraid to let you know how smart they are. They believe the more head knowledge they have the stronger their faith so they study and study and they judge and judge. Sadly, most of what you hear from them comes from the head and not the heart. These same people have THE REASON for why people sin and suffer and they probably can’t even spell HUMILITY or COMPASSION. Those poor souls don’t realize that they’ve already fallen to the ground like many before them because they’re lost in their quest for knowledge. It doesn’t take knowledge to desperately cling to the Tree of Life, it takes Heart…the kind of Heart that may not have all the answers but one that clings to every Word anyway. The kind of Heart that knows how helpless and hopeless it is without Him so it clings even more each day. The kind of Heart that overflows with Compassion for all those lost people and for the others that somehow went from clinging to becoming part of what used to be. The kind of Heart that understands the finality of the fall and the kind of Heart Desperate to Share the Truth because of it.

I marvel at the One who Commands the sun and moon and that He would send a Reminder to me in the twigs and the limbs this morning. You won’t find me clumped together like an everyday card-carrying Christian and you won’t find me fallen on the ground becoming part of what used to be. You’ll find me celebrating my Uniqueness and embracing my Purpose. You’ll find me desperately clinging to the Tree of Life all the days of my life, and when it comes time for me to fall to the ground, I’ll be clumped together with my brothers and sisters in Heaven. The Heart for Christ is a Desperate Heart and that’s the only kind of Heart I want to have. The only determination on my radar is the kind of determination that makes me want to be all that I can be for Him and a determination to Boldly Share the Truth with all the ones who have fallen to the ground.

How about you?