The eminent need of Prayer.

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“Barking Timeless truths.

For November 6, 2020”

 

What was so right yesterday cannot be so wrong tomorrow just because the circumstances have changed. The simple reason is that there is a God and he is sovereign and he does not change.

 

The truth, before it was mine, already existed not as a concept or a puff of air to breathe in and out but as a person namely Jesus. When by grace I buy the truth, it is not that I have a tool or a better mousetrap for my occupation.

 

As Jesus is greater than I am, so is Truth greater than any human being.

When I buy the truth, it is not in order to possess the truth but the other way around. I am possessed by the truth by virtue of the fact that truth is timeless and I am temporal.

 

My convictions of yesterday cannot be different from my convictions of today that I need to live tomorrow. Without the convictions of yesterday I have no life today and why should I need tomorrow if there is no vision for the future. Without vision people perish.

 

There was a time when I used to live in darkness without vision or need for it because I sensed my way through life. 

 

Since the light of the world came into my life the first thing I found out was “The Way.” Again, not as a road among many but as the only way on earth toward Heaven that also happens to not be a path but a person namely Jesus who says, “I am the Way.”

 

Even a judge made out of straws will agree with me that I have no need of a way or a truth unless it is to live accordingly. Life that also happens to be not a state of being but a living being formed by flesh and spirit that in our case “Life” is Jesus that without him there is no living.

 

All that has been said up to this point might sound coherently attractive but is as useless as any other worldly religion and view of life or philosophy. It does not take me out of space time and make me escape the universal gravity that pins me down to the temporal existence under the Sun as my maximum aspiration before I became the feast of the worms.

 

Let me say in different words:

 

God has given us Jesus as the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Jesus willingly became “the bridge over troubled water” to help us cross the great divide between the here and now to the hereafter of God in heaven.

 

Just like God the father gave himself up in Jesus, in the same way Jesus gave himself in the Holy Spirit so that through him he can be with us always to the very end of the ages and beyond no longer confined to a body of flesh as the carpenter of Nazareth but the very Son of God and God himself.

 

THEREFORE, let us not think in temporal terms.

 

Just because circumstances have changed around, do not think God has changed. “God has not changed.” What you have prayed to the Father Yesterday with the mind of Jesus led by the Holy Spirit is valid today and tomorrow.

 

No amount of counting and recounting of the Ballot boxes will alter the numbers already in the book of deeds of God in Heaven. Fraud is not a sin against Society primarily, but it is a sin against the all-seeing God and against the prayers of the will of the elect of God who know the will of God as revealed in scripture.

 

Let me assure you that if you have prayed first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness in this election, you shall see everything else granted as an additional gift.

 

If you have not invested faith in your prayers, it is time to repent and pray all the more the same prayer of yesterday, today and tomorrow to Jesus who never changes. Please, let us pray like the dogs of my little village at night that cause the other dogs bark in concert to dissuade the thieves of the night.

 

As for my friends and me, I will bark along with the Dominican, (God’s dogs.) I am from the K-9 unit of Jesus and I plan to bark even if my jaws are broken for barking at the wrong time. 

 

Auntie Elaine had a dog that never barked but the night that uncle Joe returned very late and very drunk tiptoeing in the dark it caused the dog to bark for the first time. Uncle Joe was very angry that kicked the poor dog and broke his jaw.

I rather have my jaws broken than to be remembered as the dog that never barked.

 

I look at the church and I see saints still praying a little softer than before ... I also see a great neon light question mark over their heads.

 

Instead of volume my humble suggestion is that in child likeness we take Jesus at his word and pray boldly knowing what Jesus said: “Nothing is impossible for him who believes.”

 

This was the rant of the litter on duty.

 

Gerry Gutierrez. 

 

PS. My little friends on my driveway for Halloween. My youngest son and family. My last Granddaughter.