Are we ready for the gathering?

And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.  And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?  And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. ~ Acts 19:14-16

I was blessed and encouraged to meet with a group of Orange County Teen Republicans Friday night. We discussed a wide variety of topics ranging from the 2020 election, the COVID-Con, Thomas Sowell, Communism/Islam, the NYC mayoral race, our Christian roots as a nation, and the Constitution as our guiding light. And I realized, these young men and women are wide awake, hungry for truth, and ready to take the torch that will be passed to them!

I was blessed this morning by a friend who shared that his father had passed away when my friend was only seven years old…leaving him to blame God, until a good shepherd resuscitated him years later with the John 10:10 Word of God. Only a few days ago I saw a powerful clip of a first responder who found 4 abandoned and lifeless puppies, and miraculously resuscitated them…

It’s about to get REAL friends. Contrast the Acts 19 pretenders with what Chambers has to say about Spiritual Evolution: The natural view and the Bible’s view of man are different; the natural point of view is that man is a great being in the making, his achievements are a wonderful promise of what he is going to be; the Bible’s point of view is that man is a magnificent ruin of what God designed him to be.

The enemy who is able to tell the pretenders from the contenders has a very loud roar, but he is no match for the Resuscitator! This is why God tells us not to worry about the tares:  Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. ~ Matthew 13:30

We cannot pretend our way out of the magnificent ruin we have made of ourselves, though many are the fools who will join with the tares. One of the teen Republicans shared the fact that many of his high school friends are fearful of identifying as Conservatives and/or Republicans in this culture, which led me to share the story of how Moses sent the twelve spies to spy out the promised land, but only Joshua and Caleb demonstrated the courage, faith, and trust in God to see them though (Numbers 13:1-33).

The hour is late and the times are treacherous and full of deception and betrayal. Friends will turn against friends, and brother against brother. Know this; the fog of war is lifting as the shadows that hid them are fading. Ours is to endure knowing that we battle not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:10-20). And there is no power on this earth that can snatch the Wide Awake from the hand of their Creator. We will be One (John 17:21). Amen?

I curse the darkness knowin’ daylight has a way of goin’ , freedom shines when I’m Wide Awake.