From the desk of TL.
I truly believe that as spiritual seedlings growing in the Garden of God before we were born, in choosing the lives we were to live, if we had comprehended what hardships lay ahead we would not have chosen the path We were Called to Walk.
Had I known for example that I would be separated from my Spiritual Other Half for what felt like forever in watching Their Life from above, and that in being born into this world I was not to join LC immediately or to even remember who LC was, I would not have been able to face it. Those who do not know hardship cannot truly grasp what it means until they have experienced it for themselves, just as those baby seedlings yet in Heaven do not know the sorrows of this life because they have yet to feel what it is to be in a fallen and Redeemed state.
Or, had I known that I would be a constant target for the steadily growing evil in this world that has yet to reach its zenith, from everyday difficulties to being stalked even in my dreams, I don't know that I still would have chosen this Life I am Called to Live. It's probably better that way as the heroes and heroines of adventures never know what obstacles they are to face, so they cannot opt out of the experience altogether but must choose either to do Right or to do wrong, to be Courageous or a coward, to take their Alamo stand or to sell out.
In the same way, those detractors and mockers who have not experienced these hardships find it so easy to Sunday afternoon quarterback from the comfort of their cushy little sheltered lives in what they would do better than LC as of course they know better in having succeeded in whatever wealth they have amassed according to the standards of this world, whether looks or intellect or worldly wisdom or possessions or whatever chains they currently wear. Even the Spiritual infants that hide in eschatology and opinions of human scholars that have been dead for hundreds of years for their validation have never faced up to Life, the hardships that assail the Saints, and an actual relationship with a Living God Who Speaks in multiple dimensions as He is a many-Faceted Spirit. God Demands everything You have and more, as His Business is to Fashion His Children into Their True Likenesses as Reflections of Him.
It is not purely about who is right and who is crazy. It is a matter of Faith. For those who are like the colorblind puppies that cannot see the rainbow and therefore mock the one who can, this place is not for you. For those looking to be clever or all-knowing on comment sections, but cannot face the occasional ass-stomping by those who do not know any better, this is not for you either. God Will Prove this out in time and it is not easy to wait. Even Isaiah's beautiful poetic prophecies about the Messiah that are read in church on Easter Sunday and taken for granted were hundreds of years before their fulfillment.
I don't expect the mockers to go away as you have to have someone around to kick to make yourselves feel superior in your miserable little Godless lives, and I pity you. You will never know what it is to have God Lead you out onto that limb and Hang out there with you as you stare at the ground and sway, praying not to fall as you cling to Him, or the indescribable Joy when He Rewards you for your Faith as Spiritual Growth is what is important. And it is a constant struggle every day to be Walking on that invisible bridge like Indiana Jones in no certainty of the things which are Revealed, but having to Trust with every Step.
This is not a Life for those afraid to be thought insane or those that show up to be counted when the battle is already won. For those of You Who are out here with Us, God Bless You and Protect You, and Reward You in Blessings Overflowing for Your Faith. In Jesus Name Amen
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