Oftentimes, the sad reality is that what passes for discernment is really just mental sense.
I was reading the passage in Exodus and while I was reading 5:10-21, I sensed the L-rd laying a charge at the feet of many leaders in the body of Christ who are stubbornly choosing to live without the discernment Father intended them to have.
“They are the Israelite foremen in Pharaoh’s brickyard. They feel obligated to treat the Egyptian labor as reality when Father is attempting to liberate them (leaders without discernment) to pursue Him more deeply in the wilderness for the many oases He has for them.”
Unfortunately, in many, many places, leaders and people who were designed to be leaders have contented themselves with the bricks and straw of the world’s brand, the world’s fragrance, and the world’s way of thinking for fear of the structures of “crazy” and “unstable” and “black sheep” being exposed in them. It occurs to me Father may be trying to get them to walk where they are supposed to walk so those labels and structures can get exposed through the trats mistreatment so Father can ultimately remove those labels so they can walk in comfortable possession of the authority they have earned.
In order to do that, they might have to lay aside the world’s brand, and the entertainments with which they have sated themselves, whether that entertainment is social media, sports, movies, friendships that they believe improve their image and reputation. They will need to lay these things aside so they can run with the Shepherd and climb among the crags of the High Places.
It is time, gang.
It is time to thrust aside, even if for a season, the things that beset you.
It is time for a tighter, crisper, and fuller, more satisfying walk.
Be blessed.
I feel so outraged by the things i am hearing from the pulpit, i am in a new town and visiting churches, this past Sunday, the pastor and his grandfather who is affectionately called paw paw and founding pastor of this church in the 1980’s, unbelievably states that neither he or paw paw will never send out people to give others a ride or pick up to bring to church, if they are hungry they will find a way to get here themselves, and we only want the hungry in our church!
Whattttt, i do not in any way think that Father is in that, or that what Jesus speaks in Luke 4:18 or Isaiah 61, i think they are heart broken by the attitudes snd words being spoken by “men of God” in the pulpit snd “leaders” in the church, the congregation were like puppets sounding off agreement, i guess my puppet strings got cut a long time ago! My heart is angered but i am determined to not let this crush my spirit toward the church, what to do?????