The other day, I met a lovely lady in the fruit and veg section of my local supermarket. Our conversation started as she held out a bunch of beetroot towards me and exclaimed how expensive they were. From beetroot, it went onto discussing growing vegetables at home, recipes and food tips, the state of the world and then Christianity.
The Christianity part came due to her noticing I was wearing a Cross of Lorraine. She’d never seen one before and asked about it and why it differed from the usual cross most people wear. It has many meanings, but the reason I choose to wear it is because of its, and my, connection to Joan of Arc and the fact it represents divine protection, heroic resilience, spiritual intuition and the fact those who wear one are celebrated and recognised as being a warrior of God.
I like to think I am a warrior for God and that those who think of themselves as being part of His Poppy Army are too. After exposing this, she talked of women ‘priests’, how they’re better than men and how she doesn’t accept God as being our Father in heaven. Despite being a good person, she continued talking about her warped idea of what following God meant and of Christianity in general. So much of what she said was of her own making with very little of God’s actual teachings.
Our conversation had me thinking about her and what she’d said for the rest of the day. I’ve met many people like her from various faiths calling themselves Christians. Good people, lovely people, but they too had warped ideas they’d made up about a preferred Christianity rather than a true one. None of these people were bad from what I could see from talking with them, but none was a true Christian, despite believing themselves to be.
How can so many following that faith all have such differing ideas, often far removed from God and His laws, and still think it’s Christianity when it isn’t? Yes, they go to church, take part in services or masses depending on the denomination, but how many sitting in these places truly follow God and His laws, His rules rather than their own? How many leaders actually do?
Some are following their chosen religion rather than God. Others are just making it up as they go along. In fact, the religions they’re in are also making up their own rules and laws rather than follow only those God gave us. Between these various religions and people, it makes me wonder just how much of actual Christianity in its purest sense remains. Not a lot from what I’ve seen and heard.
There are so many differing faiths under one banner, each practising in completely different ways with differing beliefs yet each of them insist on still being called Christians, claiming their very varied ideology is still Christianity.
Is it any wonder the words from heaven I’m given and asked to share? The work I believe heaven is asking me to teach to others and guide people in to bring them back to God’s ways rather than their own. The divisions are so extreme with so many far removed from God that this is now becoming very serious indeed.
The problem is getting people like the lovely lady I met to listen, to understand, to care. They’re so zealous and fixed in their own beliefs with heads buried in sand and a complete refusal to listen to guidance or teaching. Their way is the only way, no matter how much they can see the division it’s causing, how far removed from Christ’s words their ways of thinking are.
No matter how divided they are from others within the various faiths or even within their own, they refuse to hear or see the reality of how far removed they’ve become from God. It makes me wonder if they ever knew Him, listened to Him. How then are we to reach such people? How do we make them realise how far removed from Christ’s teachings they actually are?
I was told from the start that if I accepted the task given to me of teaching and guiding others, how hard it would be. I was told it would make some love me, would love words and teachings given to me to share with them, but that most would hate me. I’m used to being hated, so such things go right over my head. Nothing and no one can touch me or bother me these days.
I’ve been made so strong, a real warrior where nothing and no one can affect me no matter how much they try. I’ve been attacked, provoked, abused, lied about, threatened and so much more over the years all by people professing to be Christians, yet displaying behaviour far removed from anything even remotely resembling anything of God.
Satan is in our world in far more ways than anyone seems to realise he is. His workers are here thriving and using bad people, weak people, even good people who lack discernment and those who refuse to test anything or anyone. It is these people who I’m to try to reach. As Jesus said, He wasn’t sent here to save those already saved, He was sent to seek and save those who are lost; for the spiritually sick.
I am not anything near as pure or wondrous as the Son of God, but many humans are put to work on this earth to help and work for heaven. Quite a few who are asked to serve and work for God find it too hard, no matter how pure their hearts and willing they are. The further one progresses in heavenly work asked of them, the harder it becomes and the more one is attacked.
Attacks don’t bother me these days. None can touch or affect me no matter how bad they are. I have been through the Dark Night of the Soul and nothing, I can assure you, is as evil, as bleak as what one faces going through such darkness. No earthly being can come close despite working for him or having him in their hearts. Too many today call normal earthly trials the Dark Night such is their lack of understanding. In reality, they have no idea what it really is, how hard, how dark, how utterly draining it is, how it sucks everything out of you leaving nothing behind. Nothing.
My apprenticeship, for want of another word, is over. I have come through many earthly and spiritual trials over many decades and survived them all. The bigger they became, the harder the fight, the stronger I became. I’ve defeated Satan as we fought head on, I have battled his demons and I can and will defeat any one of mankind too. I am ready, I am willing and soon, my work for the Almighty will start in earnest. We’re almost there. Just a little bit longer. When it starts in its fullness, this will be what I’ve waited, been trained and longed for all my life and I can’t wait.
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