Ripples in the Fabric

Posted on August 12, 2020 by ehurst

It is not possible for me to separate between my personal convictions and a broader teaching of Christian Mysticism. From the very beginning, I have said that my blogging was a matter of sharing my personal faith journey, with the hope that God will use some of what I write to touch others. I never wanted acolytes. I’ve always prayed that my message would somehow move people to find their own path.

So it’s very healthy that some of you have written to object to parts of my blog messages. I take no offense at all. I’m quite proud of you for knowing your own convictions and being able to express them. But did Paul back off his commitment to visiting Jerusalem simply because genuine prophets of God warned him it would result in arrest? That you may foresee bad consequences down the road is not sufficient cause to back down from my commitments.

I see those bad consequences, too. My prophetic vision isn’t blind to that. Have some of you forgotten that I teach my life was forfeited long ago to the cause of the gospel message? Have you forgotten that a very primary element of Christian Mysticism is the otherworldly orientation? I would much rather be dead in the flesh and Home with the Lord, but I have a mission and the firm assurance He will carry me through. The saints of God will tribulate; that’s our natural element. Paul mentioned how some folks lacked the courage to resist sin to the point of their own bloodshed.

Keep in mind that few prophecies are written in stone. The vast majority of them are conditional — “if things don’t change, this will happen.” The point is that if things do change, then the outcome will be different. And often enough, God Himself will change things to adjust the outcome. The idea is that a prophetic gift allows you to see how reality works according to His Word, and that you will know when to share what you see, and when you should silently watch and learn. It’s a talent for seeing how God operates in this fallen world; it’s way of acquainting you with His personality. And like any real person, God sometimes changes His mind on things, for reasons we could never understand.

He doesn’t change His mind the way humans do, and certainly not for the same motivations. But God has revealed that He keeps the door open until He sees how people will respond, and your individual response is rarely the deciding factor in things.

Often enough, He will change things in your path based on something you could never know about in the flesh, but He’s responding to someone else whose choices affect His work with you. Sometimes it is direct, and sometimes indirect. He has on occasions granted me the privilege of sensing this directly in my spirit. For example, before the 2016 election, I knew that Trump had compromised with Zionists and that he would fail his primary mission as God’s scourge on globalists. I had hopes Trump would still carry out at least some of his mission, but it looks more and more like he failed substantially. By my initial cynicism has been justified; something in the fabric of reality itself changed, and God allowed me to sense it. Then He warned me it would happen often in the coming days of tribulation, and that He would be selective in what He showed me.

And all the way through this, I’ve been saying over and over: I can tell you what He wants me to do, and you’ll have to work it out for yourself what He wants from you. It’s not a wide open gift, but I can sense ripples in the fabric of reality when they affect my mission. I’ll grant you that my flesh does too often hinder my ability to make sense of it, but the perception of change in the Spirit Realm is quite vivid to me. You don’t have to listen to what I make of it, but you should learn that it is possible for God to communicate this way to His people. And I remain utterly certain that all of you should be able to receive some form of guidance in your own convictions.

God’s will is not something written in stone. It will surely vary between us. We cannot rightly seek to know God’s will for the human race as a whole, aside from what is already revealed. What we can know from His direct guidance is what He expects from each of us. I’ll share what I know for me because that’s part of my mission and calling. I know that some of what I share will resonate with all of you in different ways.

So don’t hesitate to share back with me what He tells you. And never let any of us presume to know what God requires of any other. Make certain in your own heart and mind only what He requires of you, including what you must say about it. Leave the results in His hands.

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Law of Moses — 1 Samuel 28:7-19

Posted on August 8, 2020 by ehurst

Apologies for the delay in posting this lesson; we had guests this evening and the noise prevented my working on this until rather late.

The Philistines were on the warpath again, ready to humble Israel and make them pay tribute. The invaders camped in the upper Jezreel Valley. Saul led his army out to meet them, camping on the opposite side of the valley, on the slopes of Mount Gilboa late in the day before battle. Saul was nervous and inquired of the Lord. But of course, that was a waste of time, because the Lord refused to support Saul any more.

Despite having driven all the necromancers underground (sometimes translated “witch”), Saul asked his close advisers to find one. They accompanied him to Endor, a hike that took them out on the other side of the Philistine army camp. The text says that this practice was fake, referring to it as “having a familiar spirit.” It was someone who had cultivated a relationship with a demon who would come when invoked and pretend to be whomever someone sought to speak with from the dead. The demon would offer whatever lies would serve the purpose of deceiving the seeker. This was widely understood among those who were educated in the Law of Moses.

The passage also refers to a similar practice, translated often as “wizard” — someone who would use various kinds of deception, mostly a form of ventriloquism. It was a scam, plain and simple. The “wizard” would make it sound like a traditional concept of what a ghost might sound like, a soft whispering squeak, as far as we can tell. The necromancer actually used dark powers to get a demon to speak.

The necromancer would invoke the demon and could tell by the feel of things that this was the same dark presence they had felt at other times. But when Saul in disguise asked for Samuel, the woman had no chance to invoke her familiar demon. Instead, she saw rising from the grave someone quite real and not at all familiar, and not at all what she was used to. She described the spirit she saw rising, and Saul knew it was Samuel.

So the spirit of Samuel appeared and remonstrated with Saul about troubling his rest. Saul explained why he dared something forbidden by the Covenant: he was up against a massive enemy force and had no sense of assurance he could do any good. There was no sense of faith at all; Jehovah had abandoned him. Samuel reminded Saul he already knew the answer. Saul had made himself the enemy of God, and there would be help from above.

On the morrow, Saul would join Samuel in the grave, and the army of Israel would be defeated.

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A Mountain to Move

Posted on August 6, 2020 by ehurst

You don’t have to play along, but I’m declaring for you folks what God is doing in my life right now.

By now I hope you’ve read the companion post for this on the other blog (that blog is gone). Here I’m going to be more specific on certain points.

I refer you to Daniel’s prophecy, written by the young Hebrew nobleman God loaned to Babylon and Medo-Persia. The Babylonian dynasty declined horribly and ended up completely degraded under the leadership of Belshazzar. There was that moment when a disembodied hand wrote on the wall: מנא מנא תקל ופרסין — MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. In typical ANE fashion, it was a play on words based on Hebrew currency. It required understanding the Hebrew habit of leaving out the vowels to the words they wrote, and then understanding the ritual symbolism behind Hebrew prophecies. The first word is derived from mina (60 shekels), which also means “numbered” while tekel (shekel) also means weighed. The last word is a conjugation of peres means “divided,” which refers to a pair of half-coins (there was a common practice of cutting precious metal coins in half) and is a play on the Hebrew word for “Persia,” referring to it as a double kingdom (Media and Persia).

While his general was a Mede named Darius, the ruler of the Medo-Persian Empire was Cyrus. He ordered that the Judeans (along with other captive nations) should be allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild their temple. Cyrus was not a convert to Hebrew religion, but was apparently a heart-led man who made room in his reckoning for the Covenant of Moses as valid for the Hebrew people.

Babylon is fallen again; you and I languish in Babylon today. We’ve been oppressed and kept from our divine heritage for a long time. We need a Cyrus to conquer this Babylon and deliver us. Granted, the application of that parable can vary widely, but the parable still stands. While I’m hardly qualified to play the role of Daniel in this, I’m quite willing to do something similar if someone rises up to resist this degrading and insane oppression under which we live.

We need someone who will resist the quarantines, the BLM/Antifa takeover, and a lot of other nonsense. If you and I resist alone, our witness will be extinguished; no one will ever notice. But if the Lord sends someone sympathetic to our plight, someone with sufficient charisma to move millions to resist this tyranny, we have some hope of restoring a heart-led faith to this country.

In the foreseeable future, I will make it part of my daily prayer time to lift up the call for a Cyrus. Indeed, it will be a primary focus every time I pray, and I expect to spend a lot of time in prayer. I have experience with this in moving vast mountains in the past, so I know how to do this. I’m asking you to join me and experience the miraculous power of seeking the Lord’s presence for something so big.

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We Are His Peace

Posted on August 3, 2020 by ehurst

Our primary objective in life is to live shalom.

If we don’t get that right, nothing else will matter. It is the sole basis for carrying out the Great Commission, because it is what’s behind the phrase, “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.” That means teaching Biblical Law, and teaching is preceded by first walking in it yourself. The whole meaning of Biblical Law is the Person of Jesus Christ; He is the final revelation of what God intends for us to know about living in this fallen world. Biblical Law is the Word, and Jesus is the Word.

The whole point of that word shalom is peace with God. Peace with God comes only through His Son. That was the fundamental mission of the nation of Israel, the whole point of the Covenant with Abraham. It was to raise up a nation as a testimony of the divine revelation humanity set aside in the Fall. The only way back to Eden is divine revelation. It was the Flaming Sword in Genesis; it’s the Cross in the New Testament. You must choose to apply a death sentence to your fleshly nature. It was the same thing from day one outside the Garden of Eden — put the death sentence on your fleshly nature to restore access to the Tree of Life. Stop eating the Forbidden Fruit, which is a symbol for rejecting revelation and trusting in human capabilities without the divine provision.

Israel was given a covenant that would have provided their equivalent of the Great Commission. It wasn’t a perfect Law Covenant by any means; Jesus made it clear that Moses was obliged to soften some things. To be more precise, the Lord granted Moses permission because it was the Lord who warned Moses that the Nation of Israel was not morally capable of walking in the full truth of revelation. Even with those softened provisions, Israel steadily moved farther and farther from their testimony, their shalom.

They tested the Lord. They tried to put Him in a bind, knowing that He would be reluctant to punish them for the sake of His desire to reveal Himself. So they pushed the limits repeatedly. Finally, He sent His own Son, in the hopes of calling them back one last time. They murdered the Son, in part to silence the very loud testimony against their covenant failures.

So their nation was disbanded. The Lord ended His experiment with using an earthly nation to testify of Himself. Instead, He created a nation based on His own heavenly realm. He adopted a new people as His testimony on the earth. It’s no longer a matter of national identity; there is no such thing as a “Christian identity” in human terms. We are not an ethnic group, though serving Christ does generate a portion of what we might call a culture. Still, this new nation is wide open to all races, languages and cultural backgrounds. It transgresses every human boundary, pulling together a people who have no earthly reason for even acknowledging each other. Instead, we are held together in our spiritual and moral identity.

But given how that New Testament message has once again been corrupted, just like the Old Testament message, there is little left for us to do except calling His people back to their covenant identity. It’s a tall order, being pretty much the same problem Jesus faced in coaxing His nation back to their ancient covenant. We have to keep demonstrating the power of our message through the very evidence of our shalom. The burden is upon us to lay claim to the full heritage of divine promises after the Fall.

Those of us who find our calling under the Radix Fidem covenant must band together in prayer that the Lord would grant signs and wonders that testify of our shalom. We participate in the polarization of the gospel message; let it be clear to all. Just like it was with Israel in the Nile Delta during the Ten Plagues: We must be covered from His wrath by the Blood of the Lamb. Let there be a clear distinction as the plagues fall on everyone who rejects the identity He provides.

Let us be indeed His Covenant People, who are distinguished by the blessings of shalom.

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Keep a Clear Head

Posted on August 2, 2020 by ehurst

I need to reiterate something: Without a valid community faith covenant over you, a major part of your protection from demons is missing.

It’s not enough to say you are under the Covenant of Christ. His covenant requires that you form a contextual covenant community — AKA, a church. And a church by definition is a covenant community of faith. Granted, there may not be too many people ready to join you in a community covenant of faith. Still, you must hold one forth for others to embrace, or embrace one that exists in your area.

Without that community covenant, your divine covering is lacking.

Keep in mind that demons are bound by covenants, too. As long as you are outside any covenant, you are fair game. They own you. You will not be able to manifest the spiritual power to obey Biblical Law, because you stand in violation of it. You must not neglect the assembling together under a community covenant. To the degree you adhere to Biblical Law, demons are limited from afflicting your life.

This becomes a bigger issue as tribulation deepens here in the USA. Demons were set loose some years ago. It does take a while for their work to take effect when the mission is God’s wrath on an empire like ours. But in the past few weeks in particular, I’ve seen people suddenly act crazy in ways that can only be explained by demonic influence. People without a divine covering will be King Saul when he began to disobey God’s commands. He became tormented and paranoid, because he stepped out from under the covenant covering. The same kind of demons, and many more, have been let loose in the US. We need all the help we can get.

The heart must lead the head, and head must be kept from panic and folly. The only way to keep a clear head is to embrace a community covenant of faith and remain faithful to Biblical Law.

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Law of Moses — 1 Samuel 24

Posted on August 1, 2020 by ehurst

In the previous chapter of our text, David and his men had narrowly escaped Saul’s pursuit simply by being on the other side of the same mountain, somewhere near Maon, in the southeastern Judean wilderness. As Saul’s troops began circling around both sides of the mountain at once, David and his men took off down a wadi. At this point, a messenger warned Saul that a Philistine raider force had invaded again, so he rallied his troops to meet this new threat.

After chasing off the Philistines, Saul received a report that David and his men had gone downslope toward the Dead Sea, to En Gedi. This area on the western shore of the Dead Sea is riven with steep canyons, and caves all over the place. Saul reduced his attacking force to a select group that could travel faster. Keep in mind that they were moving on foot, as Israel still observed the Lord’s command not to collect horses yet. With a smaller group, they would not need wagons, but could reduce their baggage to what draft animals could carry directly and take rougher routes that ran straight to the target.

At some point, Saul needed a potty break — to “cover one’s feet” was a Hebrew figure of speech for relieving the bowels. For privacy, Saul happened to choose the one cave in which David and few of his men were hiding. Saul would have laid aside his outer garment and armor for this task. While the men with David tried to persuade him to take advantage of this moment, David simply slipped up close and sliced off a section of Saul’s royal outer garment. It would have been distinct from the rest of what his troops wore.

As it was, David really didn’t feel right doing that much, and backed off with his prize, despite the urging of his bodyguard. Besides, they never would have escaped the troops outside the cave. So David waited, and Saul never noticed his robe was shortened.

Once Saul was down a ways from the entrance to the cave, David popped out and announced himself. He reasoned with Saul about what had just happened. Clearly David was no threat to Saul, nor desired his death. For David, Saul was still God’s anointed King of Israel until he died or chose to abdicate. David refused to raise his hand against the Lord’s anointed. To emphasize his point, David held aloft the tail of the robe, obviously the same cloth as what Saul was wearing.

Saul was in one of his better moments, weeping with the full weight of recognizing what a fool he was. He confessed his folly and admitted it was clear who was acting royal here. There was no doubt David would be King soon enough, and he asked that his family be spared any vengeance once David took the throne. David swore a valid oath before the Lord, and the two men parted with their troops.

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Spur Marks on My Flanks

Posted on July 29, 2020 by ehurst

Keep your sympathy. However, you should know this past couple of months has been real tough on me. Not because of the planned-emic, nor because of all the chaos and lies. Rather, the Lord has really been leaning hard on me to prophesy, and I’ve posted things my flesh was very reluctant to write.

I’m sure some folks were offended. Take your complaints to God; I am utterly certain everything I wrote was rammed through my soul by God. I regret none of it. I still stand behind all of it. For those of you who simply felt a little uncomfortable, you don’t know the half of what I’ve been feeling. This is that ancient fire in my bones, forcing me to say things I am forbidden to keep inside.

Granted, I’ve always said that some of what I’m doing will not work for you. That’s still a major element in my message: You must go to God and clarify your own convictions. We walk together only when the Lord brings us alongside each other. Nobody has to follow me every step of the way. And you can be sure that I will keep writing the same stuff whether you read it or don’t. The Lord’s hand on me is very heavy right now, and I don’t have room to worry much about what people think when I’m so very accountable to Him.

I want you to be the same way, just as driven and self-assured in faith. That’s about the only way any of us can handle what’s coming. The demons of chaos are more active every day, and it’s going to be like nothing we can imagine. Without a strong sense of calling and mission, you will quickly lose track and become distracted.

Let’s pray for each other.

Let me remind folks one more time: The other blog (gone) is highly likely to be shut down by WordPress, once some third party is able to bring pressure they can’t take. I have no idea when that will happen, but I’m sure it will. This blog is not likely to fall so easily. And if things go quiet on both of my blogs, check the forum. If all else fails, and you need to get hold of me, call or text 405-503-1692.

As things get more crazy and restricted, the Internet will become a lot less useful for me. I’ll still do email, and still write and post as much as I can, but there’s something coming at us that I can’t see clearly, and it will make the Net far less free than it is now. There won’t be any point to spending as much time with it as I do now.

At any rate, I am fiercely driven to make sure that I nail down some very important distinctions between Biblical Law and our American cultural spectrum. This is an open call to get closer to the Lord and think like He thinks. Spread your wings and fly. You should depend on me less and more on your own sense of conviction.

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Parable: The Good Ship Shalom

Posted on July 26, 2020 by ehurst

I want you to see the logic here. We are using symbols to indicate something about the way reality works. Therefore, parables are at work here, characterizations that help you organize how to think about certain questions in life. Your heart will recognize the truth. It’s not for me to convince you with my words, but to transport you to another place where your heart can discern the truth. We need to peek at reality from outside our fallen human perspective. That’s the role parables and symbols play.

Pick any human organization you like, religious or secular, as an example. I have characterized the effective work of males as those who steer the ship, who have a vision of where to go. Females are effective at keeping things stable, keeping the ship afloat. It is a vital necessity that we think in terms of sailing, because living in this fallen world means constant change. That makes shalom a moving target. You cannot just calcify your habits and expect them to work forever. The model of a sedentary existence is not for us. You have to sense what the context is saying about demonic tricks and steer the covenant community through the storms and rocks. Yet the same basic principles of reality still apply to non-covenant organizations.

If the organization is steered by men, it doesn’t matter what their agenda is, it will tend to move rather intelligently according to that agenda. In other words, it will be logical from a human standpoint, but still tend to bump into reality once in a while. The question men often handle is which of the hazards we face can we best sustain and survive.

If the organization is steered by women, it will never get anywhere. It will become doctrinaire and calcify, so that the first generation becomes the new establishment, against which the second generation must now revolt. It will always be a series of revolts, with the organization morphing again with each new generation. Yet it still never moves; it becomes sedentary.

If men are steering and no women are involved in stabilizing, it will be a high risk operation that wins big until it crashes and burns — and it always will. If men are involved trying to stabilize, the organization will be internally chaotic. Even feminized queer males are unable to truly adopt a mothering instinct; it is simply not there in the wiring. But it’s just about as bad when the females fail to exercise their motherly instincts. A queer female can never actually be a man; she cannot steer with any kind of useful risk analysis.

Men cannot fully grasp the necessity of keeping things stable in the background, without having seen it done successfully with a wise female involved in a covenant community leadership. He will then realize he cannot do it well himself, but that it must be done. Having that support will help him feel empowered to morally discern what is a real threat, and what is simply a bit rough.

Women cannot possibly understand the moral hazards and balance between what the community can handle or not. She will start from the assumption of beating down all hazards, and she’s not wired to make the awful choices to sacrifice anything precious. Her ship will be rudderless because in our fallen world, those choices must be made. She does exceedingly well when those choices are made by someone else, then encouraged to make the most of what’s left.

Yes, this model has limits. It’s not a clinical analysis, because such an analysis would always miss the point, anyway. Rather, it’s a parable that indicates something about what we should expect. It applies with or without any kind of heart-led awareness; it is wired into reality itself in a fallen world. Test this with your heart to see what God says about how you can use it.

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Law of Moses — 1 Samuel 22:6-23

Posted on July 25, 2020 by ehurst

It’s very easy to get lost in the fascinating details of the conflict between Saul in his deepening madness, and David in his growing faith. It was the King’s paranoia that drove David out of his position in Saul’s court. We notice how David struggled to remain faithful to the Covenant without exposing himself to the King’s insanity. It only complicated matters that David and the King’s son, Jonathan, had sworn a covenant of friendship.

What matters for us here is how David weathered this fallacious persecution by remaining loyal to Jehovah. Nothing in Moses promised all things would always be smooth sailing; rather, God had warned that there would be times of testing. David was being forged as an instrument of divine justice.

In the previous chapter we learn that the priests had managed to reconstruct some portion of their divine service in a hilltop community called Nob. The Tabernacle was gone, as were the furnishings, but they continued with however much of the rituals they could as required in the Covenant. In his flight from Saul, David stopped by their worship tent. He sought to spare the current acting High Priest the liability from having to choose whether to cooperate with him, and so deceived him about the nature of his visit. The future king obtained discarded Bread of Presence and Goliath’s sword, since the technology of forging iron weapons was still a closely guarded secret of the Philistines.

We learn that Saul had accepted the feudal service of Doeg, who was from Edom. Such service required Doeg fully convert to the Covenant of Moses, and the rituals may have been a part of why he was there the day David and his bodyguards came. Of course, David knew who Doeg was, having served in the same royal court. He also knew Doeg would report it to Saul, but harming Doeg was simply not allowed under Moses.

David passed through a series of hideouts, even pretending to madness himself while staying in Gath of the Philistines. For a time he gathered an army of malcontents who had suffered under Saul’s reign, along with his extended family household in the cave of Adullam. Seeking to protect his aging parents, he committed them to the care of the King of Moab, relying on his kinship through his great-grandmother, Ruth.

Then, the prophet Gad warned David not to stay in the Cave of Adullam, which was on the border with Philistia, but to find some place in Judah proper. David and his army camped in the forest near Hareth. Our focal passage begins with Saul having received an incomplete report about David’s whereabouts. About the only reason Saul would be hanging out under a tamarisk tree would be the dense shade during the hotter months in Israel. He pulled out a characteristic rant about how he had been so good to his chief officers (fellow Benjamites), and here they showed their loyalty by keeping secrets about Jonathan and David working together against him.

Doeg had everything to gain at this point, because he was the only outsider. He related David’s visit to Nob and how the High Priest had given him Goliath’s sword and some leftover showbread. So the priest was ordered to appear before Saul. He did so with alacrity.

When presented with charges of conspiring with David, the elder priest answered correctly and honestly. He had no reason to imagine David was a traitor, and this was hardly the first time he would have provided any services David might have requested. It would have been treasonous to have refused David anything he asked.

In his paranoia, Saul refused to hear anything the priest answered, but ordered his servants to strike down the man, and then to go and destroy the village whence he came. But Saul’s fellow Israelis refused, because they knew it was a deep crime before the Lord. So he ordered Doeg to lead the reprisal. The Edomite didn’t hesitate, proving that his conversion was a mere formality of convenience. His depravity was characteristic of his home nation. Once again, the priestly service of worship in Israel was destroyed.

Indeed, the whole town was slaughtered as if they were Amalekites worthy of total annihilation. A single surviving priest managed to escape and went to find David. The young leader took full blame for the destruction. There was no just way to prevent that outcome. He knew Doeg would do anything to consolidate his position in Saul’s court, but had to trust the Lord. Yet he knew beyond all doubt that God would not abandon him to Saul’s madness.

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It’s for Him

Posted on July 24, 2020 by ehurst

I do not worship art and artistry. Some of the best art in the world is morally hideous. I’m not preparing to go on a jihad against art, but I also don’t care at all to preserve it. I will shed no tears with the last nude painting by some alleged Master is lost. If you cannot understand how God’s wrath falls on such things, you cannot understand God.

The refined appreciation for what is good and beautiful is not all interested in what God has said and done. Rather, it seeks to tell God what He is supposed to think. It’s just one more expression of the Fall, setting human reason above revelation. It’s another bite of the Forbidden Fruit, insisting that mankind can judge what is good and right without any reference to the Maker.

We are not activists; we make no pretense of changing the world. The world is going to Hell and there’s nothing at all we can do about it. There’s nothing wrong with decorations. They can brighten the moment. It’s part of what makes us human, but the issue is not some false aspiration to human greatness. The issue is expressing the fire God has put in your heart. You can ignore His boundaries for that fire, but the fire comes from Him. You should obey those impulses to decorate, or to appreciate someone else’s decorations.

You should also feel free to not like them. Let no one try to put a guilt trip on you for disliking any particular art expression. There are a great many music acts today I would do my best to avoid. Their sound is annoying noise to me, and I can’t be bothered to explain it to someone who loves their work. If you can’t understand how God could lead me in another direction, I have no reason at all to take you seriously — except perhaps as an enemy, if you start to act insulted by my tastes.

Talent is fine, but show me how it glorifies God. Otherwise I’m not impressed. It’s the same with my writing and even the images from my camera. It’s what God has called me to do, but I’ll be the first to recognize it isn’t for everyone. I’m not doing it for you, or for the sake of some abstract aspiration, but for Him.

Indeed, I cannot be silent. The divine calling is not an option; it’s a mandate. Prophecy does not come at the will of mere men, so it cannot be stopped by their resistance to the message. I will obey His will for me, even if it kills both of us.

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