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Dream 116
I have been standing here with the friendly man looking at this herd of Giraffe, chatting about many things for hours.
He unlocks chambers of frustration that have hidden themselves in the recesses of my soul and allows me to pour out every drop so that the chamber can make space for the immense load of emotion and information that is required for the journey ahead.
The conversations have been deeply personal, at times uncomfortably so. But I learn the most incredible truth about this wonderful man, a truth that I wish I had known twenty years ago. He is completely unfazed by sin. My sin and my past mean nothing, less than nothing. All that he cares about is how much I care about the things that are important to him. Now, as we stand looking at a Giraffe, he brings such perspective that has eternal consequences for all who hear.
Friendly man:
“Love is not a compartmentalized thing that can be selectively aimed at specific things or people. It is a complete state of being. If you have surrendered yourself to love, you will love both animal and man equally. You will love every flower, every insect and even your worst enemy. And because you love them, you will actively work to bless all of mankind and all of nature.
To love only those who love you is not love. It is instinct. If you treat a dog well, it will respond to you in kind for you appeal to its instinct. The most evil of men will treat those well who treat him well. This is not love. Love encompasses all, embraces all, seeks to prosper all.
For love knows that a world filled with love is a world with less shadows in which evil can hide. Love always works for the greater good and deals with evil in such a way that it has no excuse before the throne of judgement.
I have completed the assignment, I have atoned for the sin of man but I cannot force man to love. Carefully take note of this Courier and all who read what you write must cast these words in concrete:
If you do not love, you cannot enter the kingdom if heaven. I have borne the punishment of your sin so that you may be free to choose love yourself, of your own free will. Thus mankind is without excuse. If you do not actively love, I do not know you.
The kingdom of heaven is like this:
A man calls his master to beg for help. The master helps him. The man receives a cry for help from a friend but refuses to help him. His master calls him and confronts him about his selfishness saying: “How is it that you receive help from me but refuse to help a brother in need? Leave my house, my spirit is not upon you.”
Those who been forgiven and provided for in every way and refuse to do the same for their brethren do not have my spirit. They knowingly, consciously leave others to suffer and think that their loud ‘busy’ noises in their churches impress me. I don’t care about that stuff, I care about the hungry and the lost. I did not send the comforter for you to become more selfish, I sent the comforter so that you would become more aware of your role in my plan.
If you ever wonder what your purpose is, start with Eden. Companionship and stewardship. Look after each other and look after nature. The stuff that the devil has you chasing after is completely worthless. His entire economy is designed to isolate you into selfish communities where you don’t even know your neighbor’s name and your neighbor probably prefers it that way.
Life’s burdens are too heavy for you because you are not created to carry things alone, you are supposed to work in community as sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters who care dearly for one another and share each other’s burdens. You should be living in community with believers, buying property together, building farms together, feeding the poor and helping the hopeless together.
But all of this sounds foreign and impossible to the vast majority of you because you do not know me and you do not know my father. You have become like the pharisees, assuming that weekly rituals are pleasing to me.
Far from pleasing, I am saddened by it. If you want to please me, feed the hungry and find those who are lost.
You are like a bride who ignores her husband all week and then seeks intimacy for an hour on Sunday, then thinks that we have a healthy marriage. We do not, you cannot ignore me and profess to love me. If you love me, you will do what is important to me and that which is important to me is you being generous and loving to those who need generosity and love.
Love.
How can you possibly assume that you speak for me if you speak without love? Those of you who lead and assume that being harsh with my sheep is acceptable have another thing coming. You misrepresent me and cause believers and unbelievers alike to hate me. Where is your gentle spirit? You can use your staff and your whip on the pharisees and false teachers but never upon the sheep! If you profess to represent me, make sure that everything you do is in love, especially your tone of voice and your treatment of your brethren. Remember, judgement is levied upon you with the exact measure that your mete it out. All I ask is that everything about you is loving.”
I stand in awe for a while as the friendly man feeds a Giraffe and lovingly strokes its bowed head. His intensity in his desire that we engage in acts of intentional love as a community of believers is contagious. Everything in me wants to see it happen immediately.
Me:
“I wish I could make this happen right now! Believers working as one I mean, it really sounds like the Christianity I have always longed to see.”
Friendly man:
“Just do it then Courier. Speak to believers and get the ball rolling. Don’t let fear of rejection govern your behavior, let love drive you. If you know something is the right thing to do then do it. Inaction draws out injustice, makes it last longer, and even one moment of injustice is too long. Believers cannot make much of a difference alone but when you are in community, you are unstoppable. This is because when you are in community, we are in community. When you gather in my name, I am there!
You assume that gathering in my name is the brief hour or two that you call church on a Sunday. I can’t do much with such limited time, half of you are falling asleep or lost in thought. I need your full attention, full focus and all of your resources working together all day every day.
Or do you think a body only needs to work in unity once a week?
Do you see now how the enemy has made you so blind that even logic escapes you?
Ten thousand of you could meet every week and go your separate ways thinking that you have achieved something great, which you certainly have by worldly standards, but you have not achieved much in advancing my kingdom because I need you to be as one, working in community, living in community where my commands are your community laws and there is no lack whatsoever.
How is it ok for your brother’s children to starve while you testify of my goodness because you bought yourself an expensive car? If you were truly filled with my love, such things would not even cross your mind!
Concentrate Courier. Take careful note of what I am saying.
I want my people to live in community, I want them to be a living testimony of the goodness of my father. They cannot do this alone because that is a contradiction. My father blesses his people but he will never bless one at the expense of another. He blesses them collectively, as a group. Where there is unity, he commands blessing! If you want to see abundance beyond your imagination, start working and living in community.
Don’t be weird about it, use technology and advance technology to make living in community better and better. And receive council from wise men and women so that people cannot take advantage of you. But work as if my kingdom is actually a real, physical kingdom, because it is. I want it on earth as it is in heaven. I want my body to have the power to take physical ground so effectively that even nations who persecute my servants end up outnumbered. I want my body to shine so brightly with love and grace that there are no shadows left for the corrupt servants of satan to hide.
My kingdom is not of this world, it operates on a completely different set of rules. Love is at its core. Run with it Courier. Recruit believers from all over the world to help you. You don’t need to be anything or anyone special to do it, just be a messenger, a courier. Do this Courier, do it for me and do it for mankind.
I love the world as the Father loves the world and the only way to reach the world is with a powerful, consistent display of love and unity. Don’t hold anything back Courier, tell the believers that this is my heart’s desire. I want you to be one as we are one!
We shall speak again, make sure that you let my sheep know how much I love them.”
I wake up.
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