Friends? Your ears must hear this! Your eyes must see!

To us who have said, “Ceremony, ceremony, I’ve found you empty.” To us who have said, “Triumph, triumph, I’m the result of pain” To us who have said, “Revolt, revolt, I will make change for I’ve rejected the irrelevance of religion.” To us who have been skillfully, single-mindedly trained to look for one thing: pleasure and found that we just don’t make the cut. We have searched, we have studied, we have consumed and toiled. What do we have to show for it sisters and brothers?

Confusion sore to have life.

Who is this who comes from the rehabs, street corners, prison cells, orphanages, nursing homes, hospital beds?

 “You’re cries are ever before me. I’ve known your late-night anxieties, dead-end games and fruitless labors for I have attended you night and day. Fighting that you would let me in and would then be justified by my unceasing contending for you. Believe me dear heart; I was the answer to your question before the universe was made through my breath. Your heart was created to be satisfied only in me. Materials are only band aids to the problems your heart is undergoing. Walk with me and you’ll find true life in much more: my spirit within you healing, renewing, saving you closer to Me.”

Too good to be true. We are jaded beyond repair. Stayed in contentment with lies, entertained by fools, reduced because what else is there. I know what I see. That is why I ask: is hope relevant? I will fight down anything that teases my wounds with talk of healing. SHOW ME TRUTH!!!!

“You give yourselves away so freely as if you were worth nothing. I made myself the payment for you the one I love. I saw the brokenness that had captured you, I was there to see the darkness that drowned the deeds you wanted known other to see, I heard the preoccupations of crowded hearts and minds. I was JEALOUS. I want you! So I allowed the consequences, shame, and wrath of all the times you were disqualified to overcome me so that I could call you mine! I beckon you, come, fit into Me; put your life in mine and I will make sense of it all. I offer you all of me to empty you of all the, “but’s” all the distractions, to heal your wounds with my words that will soothe over and over again. Give me everything and I will call you Mine, beloved, bestowing on you glories not of your making. Successes you cannot yourself reach. Love you cannot conjure. Power with selfless sight. Your hungers will be trained to remember what it is to be filled with Me! Sin no more! Change your mind and all the impossibilities will be made possible as you find rest in my name: Jesus Christ.”

You decide which cup to drink. Only one abounds with life.