Praise the Lord for His faithfulness in correction!
In a moment, it's time to go again. Things to do. Worship and study.
Prayer.
New revelation on the nature of what it means to be in contempt of court, today. It's not my place to correct anyone, but when it's given as to speak, after prayerfully submitting concerns regarding matters brought to my attention today...it was given to explain the situation, rather than just remaining prayerful in an increased awareness.
Disobedience is rampant when we seek to perform the work of the judge, whether by ignoring edicts or by blatantly going against them.
Just as the Lord is judge, so it's our place to desire to adhere to His will. Refusal to submit to His will, whether by pre-empting the timeframe for action or by way of ignoring certain aspects of submission unto repentance...either equates to being in contempt. Disobedience displays contempt, whether intentional or not.
- the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn."he showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly"
synonyms: scorn, disdain, disrespect, scornfulness, contemptuousness, derision;More - disregard for something that should be taken into account."this action displays an arrogant contempt for the wishes of the majority"
synonyms: disrespect, disregard, slighting "he is guilty of contempt of court" - the offense of being disobedient to or disrespectful of a court of law and its officers.plural noun: contempts; noun: contempt of court; plural noun: contempts of court
Which is why prayer and study and self-examination are so important, as to submit to the work of the Holy Spirit in transforming and renewing.
Pre-empting or disregarding the will of the Lord, for the sake of trying to move into even a place of ministry...is dangerous business as being potentially disobedient. As being in contempt.
And there are so many places and people wherein the desire to act and to be fully mobile in the Lord's will is used as justification for attempting to force the Spirit to move. As an attempt to force a situation into rectitude of what the Lord's will ultimately is conceived of being, in regard to any and each.
This is all spoken from experience. I tried to rush the issues and pre-empt the Lord's will for my life in so many times and ways and places--trying to do good works which were perceived as being something which would be His will, without actually asking Him nor submitting to His guidance.
It's why these past few months have been particularly trying, in ways--there still exists that desire to just get up and run head-long into whatever can be taken on, in the name of the Lord, and yet without submitting to His perfect will for the matter. For Him to put on my heart the foremost need to study and to pray, and yet for me to crave action and involvement in all things?
For me to do the latter, despite His leading unction to the former...even as deluding myself to call it "doing His work?" That would be disobedience. So, it doesn't matter who understands or not, as to the ways of things. Doesn't matter who's expressed derision. Because the will of the Lord is of utmost reverence.
Even as I don't begin to have such arrogance as to even give in to thought that I'm in His perfect will, given that He's still working in me to eradicate fleshly desires. But it's an ardent desire to be utterly conformed to His will. A life's work, that. And one which requires all due attention, rather than ardent physical pursuit of "doing whatever" MIGHT be His will.
It's one way to get into things, I guess. Just to do anything and everything, then to receive chastisement and correction...if a one is paying enough attention to the Lord, along the course of the process...if a person is actually seeking to be conformed to the will of the Lord, along the course of the process...if that, rather than just seeking to do good works for the sake of achieving righteousness--i.e., for the sake of doing what is EXPECTED as being the Lord's will.
His will is inconceivable by "natural" means. So, I suppose it's just that I'm completely confused at the ideas which have been presented in so many places, recently...wherein the focus is on doing -something-, no matter what, as a means of beginning to operate in the Lord's will. It seems more a distraction to request folks who aren't wholeheartedly seeking the Lord to begin doing His work, as though there's a detour into His will which can come outside of ardent prayer and submission.
But it's become a common doctrinal decree in places where the Spirit has been moving in some capacities, as submitted to.
I don't understand the ways the Lord works, though, in all ways. It's beyond mere man.
He's does new things, too, so how could someone expect to be able to conceive of the Lord's will and workings in all things?
New things.
So, I don't know, but I pray that His will is done, no matter what men conceive to do.
Because it will be. It always has been, and it is, and it always will be.
For He is sovereign.
He can work in ways which are inconceivable, through means unimaginable, as to His glory.
And so He can work in these instances, as well, as howsoever is His will.
I just pray that He does so, as howsoever is His will. To His glory, in all these things.
That the myriad clouds of delusion are torn asunder, even as the veil was, so that all of us have a new revelation of His majesty and His glory, so to be rightfully brought into and kept in a reverential fear and worship of His awesome might and power over all. For great is His majesty. And awesome is His glory. His grace and mercy abound beyond comprehension, and to be so blessed as to know Him in any capacity is beyond the scope of mortal conception.
All obedience is due Him. All glory is due Him.
Praise His mighty name! Oh, Lord Jesus, help us all!
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