I sometimes feel like a fish out of water.  I have had dreams of battlefield visions since I was very young.  I have not shared that with anyone for a very long time.  I believe that God’s ultimate plan is unfolding now – yes today.  Each of us whom He has called, has a critical part to play, some large and some small.  It requires a true servant’s heart to do your part, with diligence and excellence, driven by the understanding of how much it matters, with no regard to recognition in this world.  That, my friend, is the ultimate love confession.

I was born and raised Jewish, met Yeshua, the Aramaic name of Jesus, in a charismatic church, and now serve in a smallish Methodist church, however, I do not refer to myself a Methodist.  This is just where God has called me to serve.  I do not believe in the concept of organized religions at all.  Most Christian denominations have become religions “about” Yeshua.  I endeavor to hold on to the religion, or better said, the faith OF Yeshua.  I lean toward, and continue to study, the Aramaic translations and concepts underlying what Yeshua taught during His physical days on this planet.

I am conscious of these things as I write, praying, as I strive to create content that embodies this concept, without pointing a finger and saying anyone is wrong… because it needs to be about communicating Yeshua’s understanding of God, and of Love, in a way that the reader will embrace, rather than reject because it contradicts a doctrine they have been taught in their church.  I am clear that God has placed me in this often uncomfortable role as peacemaker and guide, and honoring that role is my love confession in action.

There are no accidents.  God has a purpose for your presence here reading this right now.  God has a purpose for you in the coming days.  Will you be prepared to respond to His leading? He is preparing you, and the preparation is, by its very nature, an uncomfortable trial, but that is what it takes to move us from where we are to where He needs us to be.  The most important thing is not where you worship or how you worship… that speaks only to personal preference and is just one of many disagreements that divide the body of Christ.  It is truly, and only, about your love confession.  Who do you belong to?

Have you considered how you might respond to “the mark of the beast”? Most people treat it as if it will be something easy to identify, so you can point to a person and say “they are” or “they aren’t”.  I do not believe that – Isaiah 55:8 tells us “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. How self righteous one must be, to claim they know the specifics that God himself says we are not capable of comprehending!

Daily, we make the choice of who we belong to, and whether we will cling to life or to death.  Those who choose life, whose actions flow from the presence of conscious, active, present love as taught by Yeshua, will inherit the promises of God.  And what God has promised to those, who by their love confession belong to Him, is spelled out in Isaiah 55 just as surely as Yeshua, the suffering servant, is described in Isaiah 53.

The books of Daniel and Revelation do not call us to predict the future, but to recognize the signs and respond to them with the knowledge that we belong to Him and that the outcome is His victory over sin and death.  What that will look like to human eyes does not matter, what that will feel like to human bodies does not matter, because when it is finished, His children have the promises of Isaiah 55.

Blesssings & Adventure

Lynn “lynnibug” Rios

Isaiah 55 (NIV)

Invitation to the Thirsty

¹ “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. ² Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.

³ Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. ⁴ See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples. ⁵ Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.”

⁶ Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. ⁷ Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

⁸ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.  ⁹ “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. ¹⁰ As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, ¹¹ so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

¹² You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. ¹³ Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow. This will be for the LORD’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.”

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