The Downward Trend of Delusion

 The world is so opposed to God. He gives us over to judgment, then--we effectively reject reality, and He allows that up to a point. Which is judgment, moreover.

To be allowed to have what we want, when what we want actively destroys us...is judgment. Mercy is entwined in that, in the sense that the grief that's wrought, the suffering experienced, and the devastation observed--all these are a stark warning to us to turn from that course of self- and otherly-destruction and toward what would aid. 

We are so far at this point, though, that our world has become a parody: people in some fringe groups at this point are actively cutting off healthy body parts because they identify with being disabled. We are actively maiming ourselves and literally sterilizing ourselves and committing genocide on ourselves--wholesale slaughter--and calling these things freedom. 

Figments of Fidelity: On Attempted Reconciliation and Communication in the World

And, as with my family, if I can't have interactions founded upon and centered in truth...but only ones which are destructive...then, except the Lord were continuing to hold me still in the midst of that utter discord...I've pleaded for truth, I've pleaded for reconciliation, I've pleaded reconciliation with God above all. And have found no room. 

The Lord described explicitly the course of steps to take in seeking to make amends when someone has wronged us, in Matthew 18: we go to them privately. Then, if they won't deal forthrightly, there's the discussion with another present. And ultimately, if that's not received honorably, elders are also informed and brought into discussion. If there's still no honest reconciliation, the relationship has been lost: all space for intimacy and trust has been eroded and ultimately denied, the bond of perceived fidelity has been broken without recourse. We no longer continue in close quarters, but are made strangers.  

For Freedom to Obey, We are Set Free

Genesis 19:20, Genesis 19:22

Don't ask to go to Zoar [fixed link 11/13/21]. When the Lord directs, follow. 

2 Peter 2:7-9

Galatians 5:1

God is Great

 

God indeed is great, dear friend. ❤️ He is the Great Redeemer…and so much more.

19How great is Your goodness, 

Which You have stored up for those who fear You, 

Which You have performed for those who take refuge in You, 

Before the sons of mankind!

…

24Be strong and let your heart take  courage, 

All you who wait for the LORD.

Demoralization of a Culture

 There will not be time to outlay this significantly right now. The night is too far spent, too much grief already, and even joys. 

Many times recently, the Lord brings to mind the passage/s about folks crying out for rocks to hide them. In the midst of sore judgment, rather than cry out to God for mercy and aid, the hardness of hearts and the depraved excesses of pride yield over to crying out for the inert to shield against the infinite, sovereign, majestic, Omniscient One. Such blatant delusion. Such absolute dereliction of duty, moreover--rather than the worship the One we were created to worship, there's a hardening all the more against Him. 

Spitting in His face, again and again, moreover. And the more He presses the issue, the further the driving of one's heels into the ground in defiance--asking even nearly for death to hide one from His sharp focus and heavy hand. Rather than submit to God. 

He will not be mocked. Though for a time, things may seem otherwise, and lasciviousness and lewd speech and all manner of evil and lawlessness reigns--every bit as much in speech, then so as effected in heart and thought...depravity unto depravity, spewing forth madness unto damnation. Despising all good, defiling all which is pure, and degrading the most sanctified of all matters...as an outworking of absolute malice toward the One who reigns, untouched by all. 

We cannot unseat Him. We cannot throw off His chains of right order and morality, no matter that we turn our courses solely to evil and think only what is defiling and detrimental and destructive unto ourselves and all others, having so set our faces as flint to attempt to degrade Him and denude His status.