People who hammer you with guilt over the needs of another are working for Satan.
Here’s the way it works in God’s eyes: He gives you resources and talents. He saddles you with the responsibility to keep in touch Him regarding how to use them. In general, you offer them to everyone you encounter (with lots of complicated details, but you get the idea). Those who accept them are blessed, and you should seldom be concerned how they are used once given. If they are rejected, you ask the Lord whether you should keep trying or move on.
Nothing — nothing — in this equation is based on need. You cannot possibly know your own needs, so how can any human decide what another person needs? God decides. His directions to you in disposing of His gifts to you do not include a calculus of need. It’s the calculus of obedience. Do not attempt to work out in your feeble and fallen intellect what you think someone needs. Respond to what you encounter in the way the Lord leads you.
Don’t let anyone manipulate your feelings based on what they say someone needs, including themselves. That is not how God works. Every system which attempts to organize what they do based on perceived need is just a human attempt to unseat God from His throne. In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of churches do this and God is not pleased. Never mind whether it accomplishes anything measurable; it’s not where God works and you won’t find His lasting peace that way. It’s a bottomless pit that will consume your life to no good purpose, and interferes with God’s sovereignty.
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Good day, Ed,
I just wanted to say thank you for speaking out as a prophet.
It has caught my attention partially because over the last several months/year I’ve been hearing from several sources, many I wouldn’t expect, the message of the unreality of our world. A lot of them are not speaking from Christian wisdom, but the base message is the same. Is this likely to be God’s truth getting out however He wills it? Or am I perceiving a coincidence? Or Satan giving these people some portion of truth but twisting it?
Thank you again for your writing and your faithfulness.
This is actually one of those Important Questions. If you read my series on correcting our false Western demonology, you might recall I mentioned how Joseph and Daniel were right smack in the middle of pagan rituals and even black magic stuff. They knew the difference, but it was their calling from God to face that stuff in order to be in the right place for God’s plans. Even when the New Testament makes clear all pagan religion is worship of demons, we also know Satan seldom tells outright lies all the time.
There is at least one honest pagan who reads this blog, and you might be surprised he and I often have overlapping thoughts on some things. I’m not fearful of reading pagan stuff, because it’s part of my educational background (Antiquities, Philosophy, etc.). When I read his pagan posts on his blog, I recognize certain basic principles as partially correct from my own point of view. It’s hard to explain without referring to the common thread of mysticism as an intellectual approach. The Hebrew people were hardly the only Ancient Near Eastern Mystics; there is a whole class of ANE thought with common assumptions about reality. Hebrew is uniquely from God, but almost any ANE person would recognize portions of the Law of Moses as “common sense” in their world.
Do you recall Balaam, the Magus from Babylon? The Magi from Babylon who visited Jesus’ childhood home in Bethlehem a year or two after His birth? Those folks had some truth mixed with error, of course, but enough truth to have an effect by simply showing up and being included in the narrative. It’s only natural we should expect to find modern day mystics grabbing at least some of the Truth of God, echoing something we recognize as we draw closer to Him in our spiritual development. Mysticism is not a religion, but a particular approach to building your personal faith, an approach at odds with almost the whole of Western Civilization. The West is coming apart, and people are catching on to the Big Lie. It’s hard to imagine some of the wouldn’t sound somewhat like me.
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