| | What a year. I have been absolutely blessed beyond my personal hopes, and yet I have been dashed to what are the lowest realms that I ever could believe one woman's heart could handle.
Jesus is my portion, and brought me to this place, because He is not done with me. The volumes unsaid here are filled with actual intrigue and unbelievable encounter of His mercy and faithfulness, forgiveness and His supply. He did not wait until I was perfect, not did He wait until I was in "good shape." I am available to Him. I can barely journal this, and won't go into it here. It all boils down to not being about me anyway.
The thing that struck me hard today are two things. One I always told my children as they were growing up, and that is the fact that nowhere in the Bible do you see a generation of "teenagers." I am ashamed of the Christian so called culture and the self seeking ways and perpetual adolescents of this generation that a great price was paid for. Although it was paid for them, it was never just about them, you know?
The second is the loss of innocence. The worst of it is when it is by choice and not persecution. As an unsaved woman working and partying in a reprobate world, I saw some pretty bad stuff and walked in lower than low crowds. I had friends that would lead me, or just because of the nature of my job I saw things people just weren't meant to see. It is a fallen world and it is sick. But, when you purposely turn your face and walk away from the King of Glory calling good evil and evil good....well, it breaks me. My heart literally hurts.
I was with a crew up at our new property and got along well with the "20's" group I was with for week. A real bawdy bunch. I teased them because a lot of the "music" they were rocking to was mixed with loads of music from my era! What they listened to, what they talked about was no different than what our "20's" Christian kids talk about and watch.
However, so much of what both groups do, what both groups see, what both groups CHOOSE to allow into their lives is perverted and anti-Christ. As in not pleasing to God.
I still am ready to break into tears. Funny thing is, the pagan young adults were approachable and pliable yet as opposed to the brats we have raised in our church! (You know it is not a blanket statement, but much too real.)
Bottom line is this. Out of a book I was reading by Ted Dekker, he spelled out something that is the catalyst for this post.
From the book "Saint" comes the following. "Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time, the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don't want to go back, because they're comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy."
Some wells are meant to be redug. Jesus is coming.
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