History tells me I should not be at all surprised by the things I see happening in the world today. Knowing this world is not my home makes me joyful. From my perspective, I see people whose hearts and minds are either filled with truth or with lies or lost somewhere in between. As open dialogue and critical thinking appear to be moving toward extinction, there is a powerful force working to hide truth from all who seek it.  Enveloped in busyness and noise, chaos and confusion, the world and those of it would have us believe truth is subjective, that our truth can be whatever we want it to be. Crowd mentality tells us to choose the wide road everyone else chooses. Truth tells us we need not look at anyone or anything outside of God and His unchanging Word to determine the path we must travel. We maintain the direction and the purpose He planned for our lives from the beginning through obedience and faith, not comparison and opinion, worldly values and lies. The Holy Spirit must be our life source not someone or something else.

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For anyone questioning the unchanging, inerrant, infallible Word of God or the reality and omnipotence of our Creator because He has not eradicated evil from the earth, know that He has every intention of doing exactly that. It will, however, be at His appointed time not at the request or prophecy of some earthly human. Contrary to what some might think, God’s timing is perfect. He is patient. We should all be thankful for that. God wants us to get our lives right, to walk in the truth of His Word. "The Lord is not slow concerning his promise as regards slowness, because He does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9, emphasis mine).

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God has His hands all over the chaos and the craziness, the evil and the confusion permeating our lives. Do not misunderstand...He is not responsible for it; however,  His creating the Earth and all that is in it does not make Him the Creator of this mess. That all started in a garden, with a woman, a man, a serpent and a piece of fruit. Woven into our lives and linked to our personal choices, evil speaks loudly into the noisiness of the world. Yet, God remains. He does not let go. He has been with us from the beginning. He did not release us into the world expecting us to figure everything out on our own.  We need to stop arguing with God or ignoring Him or doing whatever it is we do to avoid following the path He has for each one of our lives. Clarity and discernment come to those who choose to focus on the wisdom found in the truth of God's Word and to follow it. 

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Living in a fallen world impacts us all. The many roads I have traveled tell me choices matter. I am grateful that God allows turn-arounds, U-turns and detours. In the words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 

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"Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability--and that it may take a very long time. 

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And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually--let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don't try to force them on, as though you could be today what time that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will make of you tomorrow. 

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Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling your self in suspense and incomplete."

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For me that the slow work of God became the slower work of God until I got out of His way and allowed Him to lead me on the road to His perfect purpose for my life. Thus, I forge ahead walking right through the middle of this stormy world and those of it. 

 

Society seems to demand my silence.  I, however, will not bend to the lies of the world, and I certainly will not ignore the truth of God's Word simply because it does not fit the world’s image of what my life should look like or because it conflicts with the cultural norms of the day.

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Mine is a biblical worldview. Immersing myself in God’s Word gives me the wisdom I need to see the confusion and chaos, deceit and worldly desire for what it is--a sin problem, not a biblical one. “Forever, OH LORD, thy word is settled heaven” (Psalm 119:89) His Word is settled in my mind as well.

 

I am neither prophet nor preacher nor biblical scholar. I am a woman, not the woman the world suggests I should be, but the woman God created me to be.  You will find that woman here. Embark with me on a new journey into One Solitary Voice.