Many think that I am a fool. I hear the snickers and jesting behind my back at times and that is okay. See, I am a man that is privileged. I know things, I don’t think I know things, I know things. I am not going to lie there are times when I wished I didn’t know what I know, but I do and I can’t help but to share. I know that love can save this world, and I also know that I live in a world where the word love is largely misunderstood. Love is true, kind and wonderful. Love can heal anything. I live in a world though where we are told to focus love on ourselves. That is not love. Love does not flow inward. It’s just not made to. Love is made to flow outward. For many years I looked in frustration for love. I thought I found it a time or two but I found it in man and so it was not perfect, resolute. I became cold, hard and angry. I tried to love with all my might but I felt I was trying to swim up stream against a mighty current. I believed in God and I loved Jesus but I left them at church every Sunday. Monday through Friday I walked as a man with men and women in a world forged by them with a lack of love, and so I was frustrated. I gave up. I turned my back on God, then man and focused on me. Day and night I focused on loving myself to make myself happy, like “happy” was some kind of destination. I never got there. Oh, I saw plenty of signs telling me, “Go this way to get to happiness”, but I never got there. I never even got close. All I did do was dig a deep dark pit which in the bottom I lived. Cold, dirty and alone I wept. I realized that the “happiness” I was trying to get to was a lie. I was still so hungry for love. Tired of digging I looked up. Sitting there calmly was God, waiting to love me. I didn’t want to accept it. I didn’t think that God could be true. If so, why was the world the way it was. Angry, confused and sad I prayed,
“Why if you are then this and that and all this horrible hate?” His answer, “Okay I will tell you but you must follow me and listen. I will show you and I will love you.” My reply, “Maybe”. It took time but I have come around. Am I an expert? No, but I am better than I was yesterday and trying to be better tomorrow. I love like God asks, like Jesus taught with the help of the Holy Spirit. Now when I look back I see wasted time on my “other” life, but thats okay, I am here now. God is right true and beautiful. He loves you and has set so much up for you and me because we are all worth it. God loves us all, but we have to accept. We have to take that first step. We have to be willing to learn how to love. The great thing is that while we have a hard time learning to love it is okay cause we have a Father that is a master at loving waiting to teach us ,and a home in heaven if we choose to follow God and find our way there.
Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14
9As I watched, Thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his throne. His clothing was snow bright, and the hair on his head as white as wool; His throne was flames of fire, with wheels of burning fire.10A surging stream of fire flowed out from where he sat; Thousands upon thousands were ministering to him, and myriads upon myriads attended him. The court was convened, and the books were opened. 13As the visions during the night continued, I saw One like a son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; When he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him, 14He received dominion, glory, and kingship; nations and peoples of every language serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship shall not be destroyed.
Psalms 97:1-2, 5-6, 9
1The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad! 2Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. 5The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth. 6The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory. 9For thou, O LORD, art most high over all the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.
2 Peter 1:16-19
16For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17For when he received honor and glory from God the Father and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased," 18we heard this voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain. 19And we have the prophetic word made more sure. You will do well to pay attention to this as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Mark 9:2-10
2And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves; and he was transfigured before them, 3and his garments became glistening, intensely white, as no fuller on earth could bleach them. 4And there appeared to them Eli'jah with Moses; and they were talking to Jesus. 5And Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is well that we are here; let us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Eli'jah." 6For he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid. 7And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, "This is my beloved Son; listen to him." 8And suddenly looking around they no longer saw any one with them but Jesus only. 9And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of man should have risen from the dead. 10So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what the rising from the dead meant.
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