May I have your attention, please?
I hope you were looking at the illustration above with an iPad or better. On my Studio Display, it is spectacular. But that is actually the point. In the world today, everything is spectacular, or horrible, or disastrous, or terrifying, or orgasmic, whatever the enemy can do to distract you enough to cause you to fall for the delusion.
Everything is going to be fine. This is just a temporary malfunction.
We’ve got it all under control, and you don’t have to worry.
Added to it all is the fact that AI can lift so many of our burdens and we can relax a bit. Of course research is demonstrating that doing that without a lot of care can result in a major loss of cognitive thinking ability. You have to stay focused and run the AI under your control. I’ve found that, even though AI can draw a lot better than I can, I am spending a lot more time correcting and focusing the output of AI. Often, it’s better to just do things old school.
The Holy Spirit knows more and is wiser
How’s that for an understatement? This article is an exercise in walking by faith in the power of the Holy Spirit step by step—constantly asking for help and verification. That’s what the Lord has been teaching me since the beginning of 2020. He decided I needed some strong discipline and radical discipleship. I had desperately asked for help when my wife died.
Now that we are well into the Great Delusion, I am overjoyed that He cared so much to get me ready—more or less. He taught me how to have a relationship and come to know Him. He showed me what He was offering to make it all work. Remember, in the New Covenant The Lord promised to put His Spirit within us to enable us to walk out the Torah, to get the help we need, and to be able to help the people who come into our world.
——— He has not left us helpless! ———
But, we are called to turn to Him. The calling remains the same. We have been told to aspire to live quietly, to mind our own affairs, and to work with our hands. Our own affairs are to stay focused on what the Lord wants us to do NOW. We should be asking Him that exact question throughout the day, every day, for the time is getting short.
While we are restraining the enemy, He has things for us to do
He will give us things to say, pray, and do as we are quietly minding our own business, working with our hands. If it is something big and splashy, go for it. But for most of us it is doing what we have been called to do already. But we do need to regularly ask Him what to do. That’s where the idea for this post came from. Hopefully, everything I do is in response to the answers I get from that question.
I need to get a lot better at that process. But I can testify that all the good ideas come from my Lord. Sometimes, He helps me with my ideas. But usually they’re simply not up to His standards. He’s gracious. But, more and more, I’m learning to go to Him for ideas first. Even in my ideas, I’m learning to get Him in on the approval process earlier and earlier. Both the wisdom and the power are His.
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