Everything you hold back from Me
Holds you back from My blessedness
MIC Check
Today’s Most Important Challenge is…
- Facing my own buried pain
- So I have grace for yours
Angel Approach Memo
Continued from Quarrel With Us
I am… terrified.
My runaway Heart
Just told hardened mercenaries
That he would lead them to their death
“Look!”
I tell Heart
“You can’t run around like that
Telling the truth“This is a hard, cold world
Full of violence and distrust“And if there’s one thing
People hate more than being lied to
It is the ugly truth
They’ve spent their lives avoiding.”
Heart looks to me.
Not with defiance
Or resentment
But sorrow
And compassion
He says to me:
“Don’t look.
See!”
I turn around.
I see Buck
And the other
Lawless mercenaries
Weeping
Tears of gladness
And grief
Together
I stare at Heart.
“Why
Aren’t they angry at you?”
Heart smiles
And says:
“Because
They see my Heart
And know that I speak
From vulnerability
And sacrifice
Not judgment
Or distance”
I interrupt.
“Hold on
How are you going
To send them home
If they are dead?”
Angel interrupts:
“Ahem
That is where I come in”
He steps closer to me
Lifting his double-edged sword
Eyes glinting
As he invades my personal space
To say:
“But first…”
“I need your permission!”
To be continued
Reflection
I feel…
- Threatened
- Insecure
- Cynical
- Bitter
- Jealous
- Cowardly
- Hope?
Scripture
“The king of Ammon answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they seized my land from the River Arnon to the River Jabbok, as far as the River Jordan. Now give it all back, and we’ll be at peace.”
Judges 11:13-24 TPT
Jephthah again sent messengers back to the king of Ammon with this answer: “Israel seized neither the land of Moab nor the land of Ammon. When the Israelites left Egypt, they passed through the desert to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. They sent messengers to the king of Edom requesting permission to go through his land, but the king of Edom refused. They also asked the king of Moab, but he too would not cooperate. So the Israelites were forced to remain at Kadesh.
Leaving from there, they traveled through the desert in order to bypass the land of Edom and the land of Moab. When they arrived at the east side of Moab, on the other side of the River Arnon, they made camp there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was Moab’s boundary.
Then, the Israelites dispatched messengers to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and requested his permission to go through his country to their own land. Because Sihon did not trust Israel, he assembled his whole army, made camp at Jahaz, and attacked Israel.
But Yahweh, the mighty God of Israel, gave the Israelites victory over Sihon and his army. So the Israelites took possession of all the territory of the Amorites who lived in that land. Then they occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.
Since it was Yahweh the mighty God of Israel who drove out the Amorites for his people, the Israelites, who do you think you are to try to take it back? You should be satisfied with whatever land your god Chemosh has won for himself, but we are going to keep everything that Yahweh our mighty God has given us.”
Inspired by Courage to Conquer
Radically Happy 
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