We refuse to be, what you wanted us to be
We are what we are and that’s the way it’s going to be.
You can’t educate us without equal opportunity
I’m talking about my freedom, people’s freedom and Liberty.
We’ve been trodding on this wine-press much too long – Rebel!
And we’ve been taken for granted much too long – Rebel!
Babylon’s system is a vampire.
Sucking the blood of the sufferers.
Deceiving the people continually.
Building churches and universities, graduating thieves and murderers.
This Babylon system is a vampire.
Tell the children the truth.
Good morning,
The love for the Word of Yahweh is not simply the knowledge of Scripture, this I found out in my later years, and so I always feel a sense of loss whenever I consider the time that has passed; time I could have been understanding my Father more by really allowing His words to saturate my spirit. Yet, I’m grateful that I’ve been taught His ways and precepts even though my understanding of these things lagged behind my knowledge of them, like a child trying to keep stride with a full grown man. But now that my understanding has caught up to my knowledge, and the journey is no longer hindered, I walk confidently toward the goal Yahweh has predetermined. There are not very many people like you and I, and this is not vanity as some may suppose, for we have been set apart for a purpose from the womb, and it’s not until we take on that purpose that peace will finally step out from it’s hiding place and our ‘identity’ will begin to crystallize. Have you always felt that an unseen hand has guided your every step and has protected you even when you’ve so foolishly placed yourself in jeopardy? Has the pleasures that lull the rest of the world to sleep never been enough to sway you, have you found no solace in the temporal thrills that the heathen call ecstasy? Have you always had to come back, no matter how much you’ve tried to convince yourself that this life of holiness and right-doing was just not your cup of tea? Has your mind drifted to scripture during tasteless conversations with people you have tried desperately to fit in with? Has it always been difficult for you to lay aside the guilt of breaking the commandments you’ve recited so emphatically?
You just might be a citizen of the Holy Nation. You just might be a member of the Royal Priesthood. You just might be a peculiar person.
There are not many people like you and I.
One of the most electrifying prophets of the scripture, in my opinion of course, was the prophet Jeremiah. I read the words from that book and I get goosebumps. It is absolutely amazing how Yahweh used this man to affect the whole nation, how early in his life he was called to stand and declare the words of Yahweh, and how drenched in the spirit of Father Yahweh he was – to the point when there were times he could not sit still.
“Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth from the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you as a prophet to the nations.”
Imagine that. Yahweh had preordained this young man to declare his words even before the embryo was formed, and yet Jeremiah had his doubts:
“Then I said; Ah Yahweh! I cannot speak: I am only a child”
It seems it is the natural inclination of the gifted and special people not to be able to recognize their own gifts. There are so many examples in scripture of the greatest leaders not being aware of the power that Yahweh had blessed them with. They started out as you and I, confused from the start, because the gift had already been put in place and it was only waiting for that catalyst to set in motion. For Moses it was witnessing a Hebrew slave being beaten unmercifully, for Isaiah it was the death of a King that stirred up his gift, but each of them realized their full potential. They laid aside the business of this life and took upon themselves the task at hand, never looking back to wonder whether they were on the right path. I heard this line in a movie – “One day you will realize that there is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” Many of us are already walking the path, eventually we will come to know who we truly are. As in the case of Jeremiah; the end had already been written before the story began:
“Don’t say I am a child: for you will go wherever I send you, and whatever I command you, that will you speak. Do not be afraid of their faces: for I am with you to deliver you.” The Yahweh put forth His hand and touched my mouth. “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. I have set you this day over all the nations and over all the kingdoms to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”
And here Yahweh defined Jeremiah’s purpose. It was all within, and because Jeremiah’s heart was meditative and responsive to the Word of Yahweh, his mission was made evident. It is not until we surrender our own will and lay aside those doubts and fears which whisper such terrible and weakening things in our minds, that we can begin to understand why it is we are so different from the world at large. And then we can begin to allow Yahweh to use that gift he inserted before we were formed to affect the people we were made to lead into His truth. If we continue to refuse and rebel then another fate awaits.
Jeremiah Weeping for the People who forgot who they were:
Jeremiah 9
“Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people and go from them! For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Shall not I visit them, says Yahweh, shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it, for the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through. Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice, but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim (Babylon), which their fathers taught them, I will scatter them among the heathen, whom neither they or their fathers have known, andI will send a sword after them until I have consumed them. Hear the word of Yahweh O women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daugthers wailing, and every one of her neighbors, lamentation. Death is come into our windows, and has entered our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the strong man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his possessions, but let him that glories, glory only in this: that he understands and knows me and that I am the Elohim that exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. In these things I delight, says Yahweh. The days will come when I will punish the circumcised with the uncircumcised, for even though all the other nations are uncircumcised, the house of Israel is uncircumcised in the heart.”
My prayer for the people who have forgotten who they are:
Blessed be the name of Almighty Yahweh, who has taken us as his people, to declare His words to the heathen nations, to step aside from their corrupt system. Help us Yahweh never to compromise by keeping the commandments of men for fear of retribution. For we love your judgment and righteousness more than we fear the hand of man, for what is he but the creation of your hand. Your arm is strong enough to deliver us from the snares of the enemy. Who will stand to declare your words to this perverse generation? We will. Who will represent your kingdom in the struggle against Mystery Babylon? We will. Who will rise up for you against the evildoers? Who will stand up for you against the workers of iniquity? [Psalm 94:16] We will. Who will ascend into your hill Yahweh? Who will stand in your holy place? We will. This is the generation that seeks you, that seeks your face O Jacob [Psalm 24]. Then, and only then will you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering (praise), then shall we offer bullocks upon your altar (worship) [Psalm 51].
Marc Wellington
Scripture of The Day
Isaiah 44:21-22 (King James Version)
Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you will not be forgotten of me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.
Quote of The Day
“I’ve grown certain that the root of all fear is that we’ve been forced to deny who we are.” – Frances Moore Lappe: Social change and Democracy Activist.
Continue to live life in love, continue “Living Well” everybody.
