This violent reaction to the status quo in the USA - is speaking to me. While the violence, the looting and the rioting is contemptible, the goal is not: for they are saying, quite loudly-
WE WILL NOT LET LIFE RETURN TO NORMAL. WE WILL NOT LET THINGS GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE.
and folks, that is straight from the heart of God!
We must not let "life", America's spiritual life, return to normal.
Think about it - the entire pandemic has been a huge wake up call - the cry of God's heart, a shaking, a disturbance, an opportunity to disrupt and displace "normal" with something much better! We are living in Hebrews 12:27&28.
"Normal" was la la la, let's just float merrily along in this dream life, focusing our lives on ourselves, our needs, our comforts, our desires - after all, it's "My Life" as Billy Joel put it, always consuming, a nation of consumers, getting, getting, getting, not giving, giving, giving- and I'm not just talking about money. Let's go to "Church" once a week (or twice for the super super spiritual) and call it a life given to God. Yes, our religion taught us to give God that one day a week and that's enough, to make God a part of our lives instead of teaching God has made us a part of HIS life! Indeed, He is our life! In Him we live and move and have our being! And even in that one day we give to God, we decide to submit to flesh (our pastor's) rather than Spirit (our God's). Let's be content to pray for our needs, our wants, not God's! What does God want? Or need? Our very lives! Our souls matter! To Him! He wants our souls, for His pleasure and glory. He wants every minute of every day. He wants every heartbeat to beat for Him! Surely the virus, with it's resulting lock down has taught us this much!
He hates being denied His proper place - which is the highest place in our hearts - our heart's throne. He is a very intimate, romantic God! In His love for us, He is saying
" RISE UP, MY LOVE, MY FAIR ONE, AND COME AWAY"
"Come apart, be separate, let's get to know each other better, more deeply, more intimately" - can't you hear Him?
So, we see in the spiritual realm a great unrest with things as they are reflected in the natural realm. No, i do not condone violence, ever - but i do condone a hard slap to America's collective face, if it will provide the wake up call she needs - the realization "normal" , as it used to be before the virus, is NOT ACCEPTABLE!!!
If the kingdom of God can suffer violence and the violent can take it by force - could what we're seeing on the streets of America be an example of that, a taste? Violence, after all, is misplaced passion, fueled by hate instead of love, but could God be saying "get violent, get passionate about your relationship with me!" No more Laodicean Christianity in America!
We need to change! We need transformation! We need to break out of our Chrysalis and fly! We need Jesus! We need Yeshua Himself to break us out of our religious prisons. We need Him to visit us personally like He did the man at the pool of Bethesda. America, will you be made whole? If He comes down off His throne and visits us again in His flesh or He visits us by His Spirit, it matters not - we just need Him! More and more of Him, not our religion that supposedly honors Him but denies His power and presence. We need His touch - we must become as desperate for His touch as a leper without hope, for that is what we are! Like the woman with the issue of blood, we must become so desperate for Him we will not allow anyone to keep us apart from Him, even His own disciples! He always responds to passion, violent passion that tears the roof off the house to get to Him!
Cry out My people! Cry out to Me! Do not cease till you hear Me say "let My people go!" Cry out till your reality is what it should be - tear the veil of your religion, your religious fantasy of who I should be, and enter into My Holiest of Holies - enter into Me! My heart, My very soul has been laid bare before you - I humbled myself and became naked before you that you may now become naked before Me as you were in the garden - for lover's requires nakedness! We are to be lovers, not just friends!
When will it end? When will your "elation with creation" and your "obsession with possessions" end? Stop giving Me lip service! When will it end? When will you give Me your hearts? When will you strip your souls bare of your religious fig leaves and quit hiding from Me? Seek to know Me! Only Me! Rest and abide in My presence - as lovers do. Babylon is full of whores, who will only approach Me for what they can get from Me....you are not to be so! You've been bought with a great price! I paid your wedding dowry! I purchased you with My blood! You belong to Me and I will not share you with another! I am a jealous God, have I not told you so?
Did you not see My son overturn the tables of tbe money-changers in My temple? Those who profit from My people, who use Me for their own personal gain? Watch now as I overturn a society that is using the blessing I've given to pursue wealth - not the wealth of My kingdom, not the treasure of My love for them, but riches that are soon vanishing.
Watch as I answer the cries of those who are truly in love with Me, whose souls are set on that which is above, who desire My presence above man's, who reject Jezebel's flatteries and Abalom's rebellion.
Watch as I cleanse My bride of all the filth this world loves to wallow in - you who desire pleasures more than Me, go back to your movies go back to your sports, your soul's pursuit of entertainment and your reward shall be the reaping of what you've sown - a life void of My presence, forever.
