Don’t fix. Grieve.
MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
- Being understanding towards those
- Whom I feel don’t [want to] understand me
Angel Approach Memo
Continued from Yahweh Raised Up
I am… pleading.
With the threatening angel
My donkey claims would kill me
Though I confess
I am more angry
Than afraid
“Look!”
I say to the angel
“I didn’t want to do this
Yahweh was the one
Who set me on this path
But you and I both know
He can be frustratingly unclear at times”
The angel laughs.
He replies:
“He is always very clear
About what you should do next“The problem is
Your human minds
Are twisted and broken
To where you cannot understand
Even the simplest truths”
The angel sighs.
“That is why
You have been wandering in circles
Instead of walking straight
Into the destiny God promised.”
I snarl at the angel:
“Fine!”
“Then why not
Show me the path
Rather than punish me
For going the wrong way”
The angel looks at me.
I am surprised
To see tears in his eyes
“I am sorry.”
He says
“I forget
How little you mortals
Can perceive
Or understand”
He points at the ground.
“You are already
Exactly
Where you were meant to be
But your own brain
Is lying to you
So you cannot see it”
He draws back his sword
“That is why
I must kill it…”
“To set you free!”
To be continued
Reflection
I feel…
- Brain-damaged
- Deluded
- Foolish
- Rescued from myself
Scripture
The Israelites again did evil in the sight of Yahweh, worshiping the Baals and the Ashtaroths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. Because Israel entirely abandoned the worship of Yahweh, Yahweh became furious with Israel, and he handed them over to the oppression of the Philistines and the Ammonites. They crushed and oppressed all the Israelites for eighteen years. They ruled over all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Gilead, in the land of the Amorites. The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan and fought against the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim, leaving Israel distressed.
Judges 10:6-15 TPT
Then the Israelites desperately cried out to Yahweh, “We have sinned against you because we have abandoned our God and have worshiped the Baals.”
Yahweh answered them, “Did I not rescue you in the past from the power of the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Midianites? When they swept over you and oppressed you and when you cried out in desperation to me, did I not deliver you and set you free from their power?
Because you have abandoned me to serve false gods, I am no longer coming to your rescue! Go ahead and pray all you want to these new gods you have chosen. Let’s see if they will come and deliver you in your time of trouble!”
But the Israelites continued to plead with Yahweh, “Rescue us! We know we are guilty. You can do to us whatever seems good to you, but please, come to our rescue!”
Inspired by Courage to Conquer
Radically Happy 
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