WORD TO PONDER:  CHILD TO MANHOOD STILL WITH SIMPLICITY 12/25/07

Spinning from ever ending circles, patterns and ruts of childish thinking and behavior, I brought your world to a stop.  It was painful to let go and cut ties with the past, but this was necessary My beloved one.  Sugar and spice are nice, but not to help distinguish between naughty and nice.  If I had allowed you to continue with the mixture of the world, you would still be spinning in the same circles.  I sent you off to the school of manhood and discernment to eat meat for greater growth.

However in forsaking childishness, never forsake the beauty of the simplicity you once had through loving relations and joys in your gifts of giving.  Always remember that I have loved your simple ways, your pleasures of sharing simple gifts, joys in fellowship and reassuring relationships.  Always remember that I love your childlike faith and simplicity.  Your transparency and purity of heart is so dear to Me.  Please dear one, in seeing yourself through the eyes of the religious and the world, never forsake the beauty of your childlike expressions and delight.  It is not your childhood that I want you to forsake, but your childishness that keeps you locked in childish ignorance. 

Do not fear what was cut away from your past, for even before you come into the fullness of maturity in Me, you shall know how to refuse evil and choose the good. Remain simple to the world and wise to what is good.  Honor those with simple hearts always bowing low to heed My voice through whomever I choose.  Always remember that manhood will never outgrow the language of love, no matter how old fashioned. 

 

Isa 7:4; 14-16 NKJV

4 'Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands... 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.   15 Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. 16 For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.