July 2nd Day of Atonement

Websters on line. Atonement: Being reconciled. Reconciled: To restore friendship
This is what God wants!

Acts Chapter 13 talks about Paul going into the synagog and pronouncing Christ as being raised from the dead, and Jesus being the promised salvation they had been waiting for. The gentiles heard it as well as the Jews, and they all seemed to have accepted it, until the next week when ALL the people in the area came to hear it. When the Jews saw this, they became jealous and stirred the people up, and ended up getting the men cast out of the city.
We have done the same thing today, we're casting out, casting off teachers, apostles, evangelists, prophets and pastors who do not teach what we want them to teach. But worse yet we are raising up for ourselves leaders who don't Love Christ the way we should, and who don't love the sheep they've been entrusted with. There's a love lost there. The kind of Love that Christ died for, the kind that makes all things possible.
As I do this at 1am, I realize that no one may ever read this, but God is reading it even now. Is this the inspired Word of God, or the ramblings of a man? My own thoughts, my own vision of what I think what God wants. i hope not because I trust in Him to speak, not just to me a man, but anyone who trusts in His Name, those of us who have been called according to His purpose, not of our own choosing, but we've been chosen, called, redeemed, and indwelled by His Holy spirit. We must trust in Him to speak, for just as He reminded me this morning; "Lord You have these words of life, where else can I go?" Where else can we go as Peter said to Jesus in John 6 when all the disciples left Him when He started talking about how He was the Bread of Life, and "He who comes to me shall never hunger or thirst." Then they started complaining about this and He said: " Do not murmur among yourselves." He hears us complaining the same way to day. Then Jesus said something very important, that no one comes to Him unless he is drawn by the Father.
Some of the christians in our church just simply haven't been drawn by Him, it's not their fault, they feel like their real Christians in many cases, but the lack of vision, the hearing of the Spirit in our congregations isn't catching all that, it's slipping by, and it needs to stop.
But can we have a body that hears, that sees everything the Spirit see's? He promises that My sheep know My voice (John 10:27) If we know Him, and are known by Him, then we are His, and we hear His voice.
Lord help us to hear, help us to see all that You have for us, and let us not miss anything You say or do, let us be attentive children.
In Jesus Name!
AMEN!!!