Happy New Year

Read something in the last day or so. Something about Ms. Winfrey and a new year meaning that we had another chance to get it right. If there was ever a failed humanist approach to life, that is it. The idea that man has what it takes, if he only gets enough opportunities to prove it to himself and the world. The idea that one day we will witness the life of a man who gets it right.

This is very attractive. We all also know that it would make him a god. We spend a lot of social energy looking for the human who will transcend his humanity and behave like a god worth proving that men have divinity in them. Society tracks the beautiful, because we know that beauty is a trait of the gods. We track the extraordinarily intelligent, the extraordinarily physically gifted, the ones born into generations of wealth and power.

They all fall. They all fail. They all fail to be worthy of worship. But so much hope was invested in them, that when the investment tanks, they become the objects of revulsion, derision. Ms. Winfrey has had to find a way to stay slim, because she becomes the failed god of her worshipers when she puts on weight.

Godhood for mortal men is very hard, and then you die.

But no matter how awful it is to be a human god, it is harder to abandon the illusion that it is possible. That is what it takes to be free, however. Just say, "I am not worthy of any measure of worship. The One who established the need to find One who is worthy of worship already revealed Himself to the whole world. I will only worship the One Who Is Worthy."

I worship You, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. You alone are worthy of all praise, honor, wisdom, authority, love, and grace. May the Name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob receive all the Glory.

I Want To Do This

I look at the stats to see if there are page views. I look to see where when how what is being viewed. I wonder why somebody in South Korea keeps coming back or has subscribed. The connection, and the few comments, are exciting. It feels good.

Maybe I need to fast that stuff for a season to see how much regular writing is driven by that stuff.

Because there is a connection with God here that is unlike any other. Doing this writing, this way gets a big Holy Ghost YES. When I sit down here, it is the most right things get. At least on this side of eternity.

Home. The home I was made for. Right here. Not just later, in heaven.

Daddy, call your children home. Sure, heaven if it is time. But please continue the call I heard that brought my whole heart to rest. There is so much room in Your perfect embrace. Like chicks under Your wing. It is the only way to find the Kingdom path. Once here in the arms of Love, thank You that the path onward never leaves Your embrace.

Community

Social critters, us. Some of us will be in the wrong place just to be someplace.

What would it be like? Let's you and I think for a minute. What would it be like if that thing was permanently satisfied?

Do you mean finding the perfect community, realizing it, committing to it, being in it and of it?

"For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."

We can find God the Spirit in and in the midst of the community of believers. We can find satan there, too. There is a perfect community where satan is not welcome and believers are. Seated in heavenly places.

We want the Spirit to invade our meetings. We "invoke" the presence of the Most High. We ask Jesus to manifest Himself. We live for a touch of the Heavenlies.

All the while, the veil is gone. He said, Draw nigh. He said, Come unto Me. He said, My son was dead, and now is alive. Bring shoes for his feet. Put a ring on his finger. My son turned off the well travelled road and came up the lane toward me...so I ran to meet him. This is what the Kingdom of God is like.

The perfect community where there is perfect satisfaction of every social need is right here. Seated in heavenly places.

What will it be like in human communities, and in communities of believers when everyone is satisfied before they arrive? I heard the teacher (Carl Koch) explain about the church as a camel parking lot where everyone who has been blessed brings their camel loaded with the excess of their blessing, to distribute to everyone else who comes. But he did not talk about the state of the camel leading believer. This believer comes to the meeting utterly satisfied by his community with God.

Thank you, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Thank you for Your Kingdom.