Awaken!

I don't know about all of you but starting this week is midterm season for most of us, including myself. Exciting! (Not...) Tonight begins the first night of two weeks of 꾸준한 (steady?) studying and late nights. I don't have any excuses for being behind in my readings so I'm sacrificing the very good things of life, God-given goodness, which in fact I am as much entitled to and also very much in disadvantage for not taking a part of them. But praise be to God even in this moment of weakness!

Without making my introduction too long, I conclude it by confessing that the blessings of the Lord are upon us. He truly lavishes it over us. It is in this season of time, we all with spiritual eyes see awakening in different forms and capacities. I firmly believe that a new dawn is breaking upon the souls of our generation. It is in this very moment that is most critical and most dark, for the enemy the devil prowls with a sense of final ferocity before a spiritual awakening and it is during this most critical and most dark moment the conscious of man is our greatest enemy.

May God continue to pour out His graces and sanctify us through the Word of God. We cannot claim to know the way (the procedures), the truth (the doctrines), and the life (our relation to God, one another, and this reality) in and of ourselves with our interpretations but only through Christ who is the Way itself, Truth itself, and Life itself. May we be found seeking Christ now all the more in this grave hour in which the world bombards us with a million voices and as our own voices so many times mislead us.

As Abraham Lincoln once said in his Second Inaugural Address, "Fondly do we hope -- fervently do we pray -- that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgements of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

So it is similar that there is a great spiritual and moral compromise in our culture and society and there is a great and mighty spiritual war upon us all with all the piled up wealth, power, and influence of the ungodly and the injustice upon the speechless men, women, children, and the unborn of the world and their spilled blood goes unpaid... So we must cry out to the Lord for mercy and cry out to the world for reform and reconciliation (repentance). Lest God's common grace is depleted as our days are truly numbered and on the scale of justice we are found wanting and the judgement of the Lord comes upon us all, for His children also will be found accountable on That Day.

Convicted, struggling, and seeking God. May His face shine upon us and give us peace.