Blessed Are They Who Hunger And Thirst For Righteousness (Beatitudes #4) (Photo credit: loswl)

There is a place where we were not.  There was a place of eternal peace, unity, and purpose, which thrived heartily under the Most High God.  Then one accused and all that was pure became broken.

Now there is become a place where man is.  And we are created as a garden for the Most High God, from which He comes among us and prepares a meal for His pleasure; a people for Himself.  He sends His servants to cultivate, fertilize, and harvest, at His pleasure and desire.  Miraculous work they perform.  As they cause pleasing plants for their God from a soil what once produced only weeds.  And as they work, God watches intently.  “Will any seek My face?”  Who will turn from the works of their hands and look up?  Who will allow themselves to desire cleanness?  And as they taste the cleaning, who will desire more?

The body is nothing more than a likeness to a shell.  Within the shell is the meat God is intent on harvesting; the will of man is this meat.  And it is this will that God is intent on creating in His likeness.

Man thinks the body is all.  And he praises everything to do with the body.  But such men are blind to God’s ways.  They know nothing of what was.  And they do not consider what they are.  And they miss the mark because they do not consider what He has sworn on oath will come to be.

God’s ways are to be sought after as if a starving man might smell a hot meal in the distant breeze.  His nose is keen to search out what gives him strength.  He takes note of his lack and a deep desire welms up within him to eat what is good.  It is the hungry after God’s ways who receive the good meals.  They thrive where the others do not.  They are well fed and taken care of, as if prized plants in a man’s garden.  They are, by no means weeds.  They are not the second-rate foods which the animals might prefer.  They become the desire of God, even as they are taught to desire Him.

Who, among us, is hungry enough to seek after God’s ways?  Have we tasted a little and pushed the plate away?  Who will surrender all their pride for the sake of God’s desire?  Who will surrender rebellion and discord for the sake of His Holy name?

All good things, within man, come from God.  It is a blessing He bestows upon those who call out to His name with a pure desire to learn from Him.  He is quite able to leave a man blind and worse than an animal.  But He is also quite able and willing that we should eat what is choice from His hand.  A righteous man who turns to pride can be lowered to a fool.  And a fool who turns to God can be raised to a righteous man.

Do not mistake what man holds dear as the end of things.  Only God knows the limits He is willing to cause you to become.  Seek His Holy Face, while it is still called “today”.  For there is a day coming when all that is, according to man, will be utterly destroyed.  And all who have loved this place for the sake of the body will find themselves starved orphans.

To those who surrender to the will of God, are promises untold.  No one has seen or heard what God has prepared for those who love Him.  Learn from Him.  Give up what you perceive is yours.  And take what is His.  “There is a way which seems right for a man.  But the end thereof is death.

There is a place where we “enter in”.  And in that entering we find understanding, holiness, and a willingness to obey the Lord in all His Holy commands.  We learn to speak as if one voice, the message of God to all men.  Those who refuse His call remain in a deep and utter darkness; without understanding, holiness, and the willingness to obey the Lord in all His Holy commands.  They will not enter His peace.  They will be utterly destroyed, as a man might plow under the weeds in his garden.  God has every right to do with his garden as He sees fit.

Join with Him to restore what was once His.  Speak and act as those who will inherit what is good.  For the inheriting begins now, and will become fulfilled at His appearing.  Do not listen to those who leave this inheriting for a time when heaven is reached.  They are speaking foolishness.  God has not promised fulfillment to those who do nothing.  He has made this promise to those who will render their hands to His will NOW.  It is eternally established: He who does what is right is righteous.  And he who is righteous is born of God.  Why would you listen to a man who tells you otherwise?  Only God is Righteous.  And those who take from His table to eat become righteous.  All others are starving orphans by their own choice.  And so they will remain forever.

I have heard many complain that God is unfair.  They say that it is not acceptable that God should condemn all who will not bow their knee to Jesus, God’s Son.  In this they judge the judge, while they sit in the seat of the condemned.  They are foolish men who praise the body and hate the Lord of all creation and heaven.  They will receive the rightful due in the proper time.  And to you who know better, having read and believed, what will become of you for having turned your back?  You did not enter in.  And, even now, you accuse the Lord of lies and injustice.  Folly is yours, for you now hold it tightly in your weak and decaying hand.  But the Lord’s hand is full of eternity, life, justice, righteousness, peace, and Holiness.  He will never fail, as you accuse Him now.

Reach deep and consider what I have said.  Who are we to judge the Gardner?  We are but food for His table.  We are but grapes which will be crushed for the juice within.  But you judge the Lord as if the body were the end of things.  Such behavior will speed these men to absolute destruction.

So be it for all who hate the Lord and refuse to be taught and changed.  Hatred belongs to all who hate God’s ways.  It is all they own now and all they will own for eternity.  They will hate the Lord then just as they hate Him now.  How can they be acceptable?  What will become of those who are enemies of the Most High God?  This is the judgment that has already been rendered from the Throne of the pure judge of all.  We stand condemned before we rise up to accuse.  What utter folly.  What a complete void of understanding and wisdom.  What they now think is overly harsh will become the judgment against them.