Love’s
Search For Fugitives Fleeing a Threatening Past
These
words came unto me in the spirit,
I
have not abandoned you and left you to die. I have led you in
a plain path because of your enemies. The subtle plan of your
enemy, the accuser of the brethren, has caused you to imagine
many vain things in your mind that are not so. Do not be as the
ungodly, who are not so, but be godly and then will your mind
always be stable. I have set you as a pillar in my church. Now
be not moved by the forces which masquerade as agents of justice.
The light of justice shall not shine in vain. Justice is not vain,
neither is it blind or deaf. Justice has the mind of holiness
and does not err. It is undeniably accurate in every way. The
accuracy of justice does not aim with the tools and handiwork
of human resources. The accuracy of justice is unerring and will
hit its target and find its subject.
Lift
your eyes unto me, and turn from speculation. The assumptions
of speculation are inaccurate and full of deceit and defeat. Lift
up your eyes and your mind to the confidence of faith, and be
not moved away from the hope of the gift in you. The gift in you
shall make room for itself. Nothing will detour the gift. The
gift in you was granted by love. Now shall love fulfill the promises
guaranteed by the giver of the gift. Do not speculate any longer,
but submit to the restraint of love and then shall you be turned
in the right direction to behold the plain path of love and victory.
Faith
is not careful, for it is accurate in everything. When you trust
your mind and your own understanding, you will judge yourself
by human standards and speculations unfounded by the principles
of faith. You have judged yourself erroneously and taken flight
from my love and my blood. Run no longer from love lest you become
a fugitive from it.
Many of my people are fugitives from the love that is chasing
after them to declare unto them their freedom. Be not a fugitive
from love’s faithful heart. I am faithful, and I love you. I have
not come to execute you, but I came and made you free. Vain imaginations
and the subtlety of the accuser has given you a false concept
of justice. Justice is not blind. It has seen everything and will
act according to the claims of justification. If you run from
love, then as a fugitive, you will not know that you have been
cleared of the charges against you. Many are running from love
and cannot understand the intents of salvation; therefore, they
have no foundation for true commitments. Will you run forever?
Will
you flee the sound of the voice of justification because of your
lack of understanding?
I
did not free you to wander as a fugitive and a vagabond. You have
labored in vain many times because you are not settled on the
confirmation of love. Perceive the cost of Calvary and then will
you perceive the reality of its benefits. Perceive the reality
of my blood, which was shed there, and know the freedom granted
by its flow. Perceive the value of love, which authored the laying
down of my life for you and then will you run to my blood instead
of through the swamps of this life. You will not run forever,
for you will tire of the constant voyage of uncertainty and fear.
The voyage on the waters of fear offers no comfort for your fleeting
soul. Your accuser will never give up until you are dead. Settle
it in your mind today that you will not engage in this endless
voyage of extreme madness. You cannot outrun a tireless foe. Condemnation
never gives up its search for those unsure of their justification.
How will you buy your way out of the new trap ahead unless you
face humility and become its passenger?
I
have sought you to love you, but you are running from my love.
I have sought you to love you, but you have accepted the threats
from the darkness of your past. Your past can only torment you
if you accept the unbelief fostered by your accuser. Justice has
not accused you. Mercy is not following you as a tormentor to
execute a cruel sentence. Goodness is not chasing you to bind
you up in the chains of despair. Love is not seeking you to jail
you and strip you of all pleasure. End this nightmare of endless
journeys into uncertain paths. Truth has made you free to lead
you in the paths of righteousness for my name’s sake. The accuser
will continuously cut you off from reality if you listen to the
voices sent to frighten you away from love. Are you searching
for peace, or are you running from commitment?
The
accuser desires you to hide in the boxcars of pride instead of
the elevator of humility. You have weighed the wrong things in
the balance and accepted the identity of a loser. Do not conceal
righteousness because of unbelief. You are justified by faith.
The accuser has vowed to push you to the brink of spiritual suicide.
He has chased you with the weapons of condemnation and brought
you the citation of false judgment. Cast down the sentence of
his judgment, and hear the voice of the spirit which cannot be
overcome. Your past will make you a slave in the pens of swine
and force you to labor for the meat that will perish. Accept love’s
forgiveness, and forgive those who have sinned against you then
will you hear the voice of love’s plea. How will you cease your
flight as a fugitive from love if you won’t forgive those who
have sinned against you?
Love
awaits your arrival to its bosom, but how will you arrive at the
bosom of love while fleeing its long reaching arms?
I
have chased you continuously to love you, but you have imagined
the vain things from your mind and your own understanding. The
bars of humility are not the inside of a jail cell and captivity,
but the bars of humility are the outside restraints of love and
liberty. Pride’s bars have been placed in your way and turned
you from love. Now you are fleeing from the sirens of condemnation
because you have not resisted pride with the muscles of faith.
The strong legs of faith will bow down even when they are strapped
with the huge balls of judgment and pain. The strong muscles of
faith will give into the restraining arms of love. Cast aside
your pride, and wash your brother's feet with your tears then
will you see that the love that you have sought is the same love
that you have been a fugitive from.
Open
up your heart to the words of prophecy today, and hear the sirens
of help and mercy. I am not chasing you to jail you. I am chasing
you to free you from your past. The past will only offer you the
meals from the trash bins of this world and force you to wear
the identities of a sinner unless you cease your flight from my
love. Love is calling to you in your swamps. Love is calling you
in your basements of refuge. Love is calling you in the alleys
of fear and loneliness. Love is calling you behind the locked
doors of entrapment and the poverty of self-exile. Love is right
there with you. Hear its voice, and do not try to ransom yourself
from love by self-righteousness and works. You will not escape
the accuser in your own flesh. He has broadcast your flight aforetime
and sent warriors to blockade your path. You will not elude the
roadblocks of the accuser without the blood of love. The accuser
has no justice to offer you. The accuser has no mercy to grant
you. The accuser has no ability to sincerely love; therefore,
his entire life is dedicated to chasing after you. The blood of
love awaits you to wash away your sins and your guilt. Why settle
for the threat of another citation of fear when you can cease
your flight as a fugitive from love?
You
are searching for another way out of your imagined judgment. Your
imagined judgments are largely because of your unwillingness to
humble yourself to true love. True love does not seek its own.
Seek the welfare of others and then will you know of the plain
path through the trauma of shame. Shame is not bad for you, but
shame is good for you. Shame presents the nakedness of success.
Behold the birth of success before your eyes. It is naked and
free of all chains. Wrap yourself with the under garments of humility,
and the outer garments of my righteousness will grant you the
identity of a citizen of heaven instead of the identity of a fugitive.
You
are not an animal. You are wounded, and you have responded to
your wounds and your hurts with the emotions of human reasoning.
Climb to the cross of love beyond the walls of salvation, and
you will know of the joy of freedom. The ladder of success is
against the walls of salvation. Use your legs of faith to climb
the ladder of success, and worry not about the exposure of your
shame. Pride’s photograph of your image will be the front page
of the accuser’s news if you do not press your way through pride’s
presence of resistance. Press your way through this resisting
presence of pride and then will you discover the motive of love,
and cease to be a fugitive. Love has pursued you. Run to its arms
with humility, and cast yourself at its feet. The benefits of
mercy shall be granted you, and the ornaments of goodness shall
be placed on you. Look up to love. It has not chased you to punish
you. It has chased you to announce its purpose for the chase and
to bless you with the expressions of its nature.
By
Don Grigsby
RE:
RHEMA - Love's Search For Fugitives Fleeing a Threatening Past
Even
if we deny him, he cannot deny himself. Original Greek is so straight
forward in this verse. If we deny or forsake him, he will never
“unlamb” himself. He will never say that the sacrifice
of himself as the Lamb at the cross is not worth it, no matter
what we do. The bottom line is that he will never “UNLOVE”
us! Our past is buried in the blood of Jesus Christ. It is
blotted out. How well can he make the wind disappear?
That
is how well he can make our past be nonexistent. We have used
the scriptural truth that he is the same yesterday, today, and
forever in trying to establish that he will do today what he did
before. However, this truth includes the eternity of God in all
of time. His eternal power has already given all things that pertain
to life and godliness. We seem to have a fair perspective of future
faith but not one of today faith. He can and will make our yesterday
just like our clean slate of today. Today is not the narrow hallway
between the past and the future. Today is the celebration of joy
in the large banquet room of forgiveness between yesterday and
tomorrow. The criminal on the cross hoped for some hope for the
future, but Jesus unveiled it right now in today.
A
while back the Lord spoke to me and said,
Men
look at the past and try to make today align with its greatness.
I can make your empty yesterdays just like your rivers that are
swollen with deliverance and victory of today. I can cause all
the guilt and the ghosts of your past to disappear in one blast
of the wind of my powerful presence today. All your fears of yesterday
have been arrested and denied the door of your dwelling today.
They are trespassers on the property of today that have been redeemed
from the past. I will never allow the compound interest of the
debts of yesterday to become due today, for I have paid your debts
in full when I completely redeemed you. I do not redeem partially.
I have not relieved you for a moment to allow the mudslides of
the failure of the past to block your victory today. Never look
behind you, for pillars of salt of yesterday are tasteless at
the feast of today.
Our
enemy is a thief and a robber. The past and the guilt associated
with it that hides in the depths of our being is the worst polluter
of today's joy. We must learn to refuse to live in one second
of yesterday. We must turn loose of all the past experiences that
have soured into resentment and turned the waters of today into
bitter pools. We do not have a container that can hold the acid
of unforgivness or the hurts of yesterday that have turned into
the pain of our heart today. We must refuse to communicate with
the past as far as the things that he has so delivered us from.
A flood of grace has washed out the bridge to the past in the
lives of true believers. Satan will do anything to get us to doubt
the love and mercy that has been given to us for the sins and
failures of the past. God will never try to embarrass us or intimidate
us with the past, but he will lift us above it. Sometimes when
things go wrong in our lives, we search the files to see if something
is chasing us down. This is a lie! Some pound away at the scripture
that what we sow, we will reap. Read it carefully. If we sow to
the spirit we shall reap the incorruptible. It is a well known
fact to those who have weeds in their yard that if they fertilize
the good grass it will choke out the weeds. It is also established
that if we sow in righteousness, we will reap in mercy.
Calvary
brought our freedom, and we are having the ride of our life. Condemnation
is not a passenger on the train of mercy. All executioners with
stones have been thrown from the train. Love is running down the
road to embrace the failure that has returned home. A celebration
of the fatted calf is ready for those who will join the dance
of liberty from the fear and guilt of the past. We will not live
in the caves of fear. We will not try to escape the spoilers of
the crops of mercy. We will stand with the sword of Prophecy and
defend the ground until the sword becomes part of our hand that
has turned loose of yesterday and seized tomorrow's blessings
today.
1
Timothy 1:18
This
charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies
which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good
warfare;
