Tweets - May 28th - Sodom and Faith

How easy it is for one to hold hands with their friends, their family, their community, and be absolutely vile and cruel in judgment and violent condemnation - all in one accord. How difficult it is for one to hold no one's hand, forgoing friendship and family, forgoing community and loyalty, all for the sake, the creation, and the preservation of transformative compassion and human decency.

There is nothing that God does to us that can't be understood by us. Adults oftentimes require a more complete understanding of a person or thing before they begin to trust that person or thing, but young children have no such requirement (hence, children are cautioned about accepting candy from strangers). Trust requires a level of expectation (for adult and child alike). To walk by faith is to walk in simple child-like trust; it does not require full understanding.

As we come to understand God, we learn that we never need to look forward in fear and devise a plan or make a decision in fear; but only to walk in up-building care (for oneself and the world), and to walk in childlike faith in the trustworthy arm of God. Trepidation is a form of doubt - it will prove unnecessary - and it cannot benefit us in our interactions with the world or with God.

God gives us what God requires from us. God requires faith, but why faith? Faith does not benefit God, but rather, it benefits mercy and justice, it benefits us as individuals, it benefits the salvation of the world from death and decay, and it benefits the preservation of God's Garden (the community of lovers who are saved from death and decay). Whether we trust God or not, we are surrounded by a form of incredible compassion that can only come from God. Paul, in his wisdom, explains it beautifully: "We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that this surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Christ, so that the life of Christ may also be manifested in our bodies." As for this "treasure" that Paul spoke of, well, it is for you.

We are denied no good thing. As often as we trust God, we are actively being healed. 

You know, Ezekiel (one of the Jewish prophets) cared for the gurls as much as he cared for everyone else.
https://www.sanctuaryforjustice.org/2020/01/tweets-december-12th-sodom.html

Tonight, while thinking about "Sodom", I thought about the fact that raising Sodom from the grave will mean the healing of some folk with HIV. They will look forward and see rest, and a mother running to her crying child will comfort them. (Yahweh, how we've come full circle.) There were light clouds tonight (I could still see some stars), and 3 bright spacecrafts flew over the clouds, one after another - then after a few moments, a 4th bright spacecraft flew, following them.

Tweets - May 31st - Update:

I felt the need to correct this. Faith is the glory of God, as it comes from God and not our own efforts.

When I ask God to transform or heal my flesh, I am only and always asking God to conform my flesh to God's glory, so that my body is the glory of God inside and out, through and through.

So to say, "faith does not benefit God" is untrue, because faith is God's glory (and it belongs to God); faith is not the glory of the one who is faithful (as it does not belong to the one who is faithful).