June 30, 2026

Could God have made it any more clear that He loved us more than the total of our faults, failures, and rebellious natures could display? On the cross, near the end of His life, Christ said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do…” luk 23:34 nkjv

I dare say, without exception, none of us can defend our sinful condition, then, now, nor ever. So, Yahweh decided to take our ugly clump of miry clay and transform it into a new creation in Christ… think about it. Most people give very little thought to their humanity or their spiritual construct that Yahweh created them to be. While we are said to be “free” willed and at liberty to go our own way, choose our destiny so to say, I think that within each of us there is a place and time when we each recognize the divine inner call that God is placing upon our hearts… now for some, this is early in life, and with others it may be very late in their lives… I do not understand how it works, it seems to me that it just is. It seems to go along with, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 pet 3:9 nkjv   In the mysterious substance of the working of Yahweh’s ways, He has made things His way for His reasons… I think He will reveal them to us when we pass into the Kingdom at the end of the plan He has in motion. Until then, within the Torah and in the person of Yeshua [Jesus], He has according to Peter, “provided us all things [in Christ] that pertain to life and godliness.”

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” 2 pet 1:2-4 nkjv

Now considering all this… if these things are meaningful and authoritative to you, meaning they carry priority to your thinking and you have a sincere desire to walk in right fellowship with God Almighty and your fellow believers… why would you want to die a copy instead of the original unique person Yahweh perfected you to be? The world’s system, the devil’s model, earnestly labors to mold you into their kind… a copy, not of the unique likeness of Yahweh, Christ-likeness, but of his [the devil’s] spiritually dead clones all around you… them having his selfish and rebellious nature, not the nature of Christ. Such is the pressure for all of us to be “DEI,” or common elements in the new world order… cookie cutter people, with hive minds and dull senses. This is the nature of our educational system [for the past decades], gradually telling us what to think, rather than teaching us how to think… it Is the deep state’s planning to use facebook and social media, sports, and entertainment, etc., to blend us into a homogenized conglomeration of ignorance and programmed thinking… but all copies of the deception of the evil works of men… now with AI on the horizon, and neural implants, and virtual realities, to fantasize us, to ensure us for a happier life… you think? Listen carefully to the words of the Apostle Paul:

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” rom 12:1-2 nkjv

Notice the focus here is a renewed mind… what is the pressure all around you trying to corrupt? Is it not how and what you think? It is my sincere hope and prayer that you will take this short devotional message to heart… nothing in this world is more important than your first love of Christ and your commitment to “be like Him.” The world’s attack is upon the truth of Yahweh’s Word, and the real person of Christ, whom the false religious powers try to recast Him into a good ole boy who is friends with all kinds of people with corrupted ways. Consider Paul’s admonition to the Corinthians, “...come out from among them, and be ye separate…” 2 cor 6:16-18 nkjv

If you have not done a recent study of Paul’s teachings in the Book of Romans, let me encourage you to revisit its message… you will be glad you did, and you will be much stronger in resisting the “reshaping” of your thinking and more aware of the subtle ways being used to press you into the cookie cutter mold the world is trying to fit you into. Along with it, you will find great peace and more true pleasure… as God intended for you.

Shalom, John