To the Body of Jesus the Christ

Perhaps there was a time when our felt need to solve this world’s problems with this world’s solutions would have been no big deal. It wouldn’t have mattered so much that we sat around debating whose lives matter the most or whether or not wearing a mask is loving my neighbor or giving up my personal freedoms and how iniquitous the other political party has become. It might not have been such a grievous error in judgement, a heinous misuse of time; but it is so egregious in this hour that it takes my breath away. How dare we waste time in arguments stirred up by a gleeful satanic host. There is no hour hand left on the clock of time, only mere minutes.*

We are the body of Christ to which He is the head. Do we not realize that when we criticize, argue, fight and defame one another we are criticizing, arguing, fighting and defaming Jesus - WE ARE ONE BODY! Oh be very, very wary of cutting words to your earthly brother or sister for they are one with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus. We are not responsible for solving the world’s problems, but for saving the people on it. Of course we will solve some problems along the way, but it will be a byproduct of God’s mercy - not our focus. 

 “The lost” is not just a platitude - it is a horror. Rip the scales off your spiritual eyes and open your internal vision to see the plight of those around you. They are covered in filth, slimed from head to toe and blinded by the demonic horde that grasps their soul, covers their eyes with the pitch of hell, fills their ears with foul and constant lies and stuffs their noses with the stench of death. Their spirits writhe with anguish even as they go about their day oblivious to the claws that cling to them. You say hyperbole, I say the truth is even worse, because we are oblivious to it. The worst horror movie man has invented cannot compare to the reality of what satan will do to take as many of God’s precious creation to hell with him.

Our job, our sole job, is to take the weapons of our warfare and hack, slash and destroy the demonic strongholds around each precious life now held captive to an insane and insatiable foe. Grab that precious life and haul it out of the oozing shadow of hell and bring them to the foot of the cross where the blood will wash away all traces of the horror that held them. We cannot wage this war, while defiling ourselves in petty grievances and arguments. We must see the truth. We have seconds to rescue, seconds to save, seconds to pray.

*A prophetic dream of Gina Lynnes, my prayer group leader. FB Lynnes Ministries or https://lynnesministries.com  Most of this post was inspired by teaching and conversations at prayer.