The true battle

 To know and follow your calling from the Most high is the true battle. The daily trials on the jobs, at home and our other interactions with the world are mere tools of learning for our journey-but this is not the true battle. 

The true battle is the work God has given us to finish,  to be obedient to Him,  to love the brotherhood, to live honestly among a crooked and perverse nation, to strive to be at peace with all men, to contribute to the gathering of the twelve tribes of Israel , and bring his people into the flock from among the nations that are His by Christ. 

The work of God takes consistent labor and the war of communal and individual prayer to complete it. In this work as in other daily exercises you cannot take breaks before the work is done. 

Zarach 

Counselor

 "If  you seek God, you will find him," stated the Messiah Yahawahshi. It is through our sincere request and active search that we come upon the jewels of the life giving Wisdom of God in the holy scriptures. Yet, there are many paths one can choose to seek wisdom and counsel in the midst of the storms of life. The counsel of great men, wise teachers, honored elders are all options. But, if they drink not from the pure fountain of life that flows from the God inspire holy scriptures, then they only  pave roads that lead back to the same unanswered questions we started with. 

And how do we seek out the wisdom and understanding found in the holy writ for true counsel and direction? We cannot will to know it, nor can the arts of academics uncover this source of illumination.  It comes only at the complete surrender of ourselves to God. It comes with the realization that "I can not," that "I do not know," that " I do not complete myself by myself." It comes by knowing and accepting that it is God alone that directs my heart unto the living water of truth.

Zarach