GOD OR THE WORLD?

"Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do..."

    What if you were offered Sharia law in heaven?  Would you kill, maim, and destroy to obtain it?  Your reward would be many virgins and other "benefits."  This is what is creeping across the world!  To have fingers, hands, noses, clitoris cut off if you rejected this religion!  Does this sound like any faith that would offer anything to a woman?  Women, where are you?  Men, where are you?
    Created in the image of God!  What is that image?  What is our heart's desire?  Does God love evil?  Israel is at war with evil!  They remember the holocaust.  An evil, that if given the chance, will wipe out any semblance of our God!  Love, joy, peace, freedom, righteousness, respect, intimacy with a loving God!  He will discipline, but with a purpose.  Like a skilled surgeon -- to heal and not destroy.  To give hope and a future, not to destroy.  Mercy, gentleness, goodness, kindness.
    He prayed for us.  John 17.  He prayed for Himself the night before they crucified Him.  He sweat what looked like great drops of blood.  Stress, pain, fear.  If there is any other way, let's find it.  But never the less,  Father, Your will be done!
    Would I have the strength?  God remains the strength of my heart.  Psalm 73:26.  Nothing can separate me from the love of God.  Romans 8:39.
     I asked Him, has there ever been such evil on the earth?  He showed me a picture of the cross and all it involved.  And it was to destroy the evil that is marching across the world!  The evil that beat Love, and crucified Love and spit on Love and rejected Love, thinking if it killed Him, it would kill that Love.  They didn't know they were trying to kill God. They didn't know they were releasing a power of love and forgiveness that has marched across the land for centuries and will continue to persevere until every last one who can be saved, is saved!  Greater is He who is in us, than he who is in the world.  Great is our God and greatly to be praised!  Psalm 73:26
    Nothing that comes against us can prosper.  Will we stand for something, or stand for nothing?  Fear is the enemy's greatest weapon.  It is not just a feeling, it is a spirit!  God does not come in a Spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind!  We shall overcome.  Revelation 3:19-22   Rev. 21  Luke 11:28
    Great is our God and greatly to b e praised.  Lord, Brother, Friend, Lover, Intimate Savior.  God with us.  Our life, our choice!  He said, "When you see all these things happening, it is only the beginning.!  The enemy is not after you.  It is after Him.  He, the enemy, knows his time is short.  He cannot win.  Jesus is Lord!  He will always stand for what is right.   Will we?

In His love, a work in progress.