Having faith & surrendering & letting the Creators take control of the things that are happening in your life even when it all hurts so much and for so long ... it can be complicated. It can be kind of like a tug of war sometimes. You try to hand it over to them, & then you pick it back up by worrying & stressing out & breaking down & trying to figure it all out on your own & trying to think of ways to fix it all on your own, trying to force it, to prompt it, to push it. Those negative & painful thoughts come back up, but the scriptures says that our faith quenches the adversary's darts. Even if we fall one hundred times, one thousand times, one million times, keep on getting back up & determine to have faith. Even if we doubt one hundred times, one thousand times, one million times, keep on making the choice to believe. How much easier is it to attack a sheep when separated from the Shepherd & isolated from the rest of the flock? Even a tiny seed of faith can grow & inspire miracles to happen. The book of Mark talks so much about faith & its power & the Messiah's compassion. Say: "I believe, Creators, help my unbelief." Say: "I can do all things through [the creators who strengthen
s me, & all things are possible with [the creators], & faith can move mountains & resurrect the dead." Say: "The creators will provide." Even if it feels like nothing is happening right now, know that the Creators love you, hears you, & will never leave you nor forsake you. You are never alone, because the Creators are always with you, whether you are in the heavens, in the sea, living, or dead in the grave, & his rod & his staff will comfort you [this is referencing the Shepherd", even when you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, even when you are afraid, the Creators will comfort you, the Creators are everywhere, & the Creators ALWAYS knows your heart. He [the Most High] sacrificed his son [the Messiah] for us, & we are all his sons & his daughters. We are not just adopted, we are HIS CHILDREN, for he created us with his own hands & breathed his life into us. He hears your prayers, & he urges you to keep on praying without stopping, talk to him as much as you want to, as much as you need to. He doesn't get tired of us, reaching out to him, because he longs for his children, that we would follow him and choose life and trust him, that we would submit to him, because he has a grand master plan for us that will prosper and empower us ... if we will choose the narrow path that leads to life & keep his commandments & follow his ordinances. The scriptures say that the adversary is like a roaring lion, prowling the earth & seeking those that he might destroy, that the thief comes ONLY to steal, to kill, & to destroy. But the Messiah has come so that we might have life AND have it abundantly. He has set before us life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life and live. The choice is ours. He can call us, and we have to choose. He wants all of his children to be saved. No one comes to the Messiah unless the Father calls them, and no one can come to the Father except through the Messiah, who IS the way and the truth and the life. He said "Before Abraham was, I AM". He IS the Creator, the son of the Most High, who is the Father. The Father and the Son, the Most High and the Messiah. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of the Father, which he sends to his true followers. We might not always understand him, his plans, his motives, & yet we can trust that he IS good and faithful, that his teachings are based on righteousness, even if we misunderstand or feel stubborn at times. He is not a respecter of persons, meaning that he is not prejudiced nor biased, & he doesn't play favourites. Rather, he blesses those that truly follow him, & he has made a covenant with us. What is taught is taught for specific reasons, at times hidden or even as a test, & it takes the wisdom of kings to seek them out & strong faith - even as small as a mustard seed - to overcome. With faith, we can do miracles through the power of the holy one that rules us. The adversary is no "lord", only a false "lord" ... of lies, of deception, & of wickedness. He will & does try to tear us down, he tries to force vicious lies upon us to hurt us & to alienate us from other people, to isolate us, to depress us, to ruin our self-worth, to guilt us, to anger us, to make us feel hateful. Forgive & be forgiven. Forgive others AND yourself & repent & be baptized, be annointed by / with his Holy Spirit. Follow the truth. Submit to him & to each other. Serve him & each other. His grace is given freely to those that choose to accept it and to follow him in the truth. The wages of sin is death. The free gift of the creators' is eternal life. In his great love for us, he chose to die (no greater love than to lay down one's own life for others, he loves us DEARLY), and died a horrible death and then arose again and then ascended to heaven, he died to deliver us, to give us grace and to forgive us, to pay our ransom price, and to save US from death. No one is righteous. His grace is for all of us. Confess the Messiah in front of people, and he will confess you in front of his Father.
We are not saved through works ALONE, but through faith, but faith without works is dead. Act on your faith. Even if that means acting on it by having patience, waiting, and praying. And love. Always have love. You are loved. You are always loved. The Creators are love. Love him & one another & yourselves, keep his commandments and his Sabbaths and his holy days, ask for his help to repent & to forgive & to love, feed his sheep, take up your cross, and follow the Messiah. We are promised life, REAL LIFE, living waters that will quench our thirst forever. That’s not to say that we are promised perfect lives without persecution, and yet even through persecution - he is always with us, and being persecuted for his sake is worth it. For all that he's done for us and promised to us.
Being set apart and given true life rather than perishing. Do not let the cares of this life that is only passing and will one day be like chaff in the wind choke the Word from within you. Store up for yourself heavenly riches, not earthly riches which can and will be destroyed. Enter into life. The cares of this world are temporary. The Creators are eternal, the beginning and the end. Who can escape him? No one. Who is created by him, awesomely and wonderfully made by him? Everyone. He is our rock and our fortress, he will deliver us when we call upon him in the day of trouble, and he will be our refuge. May the Creators [continue to] bless you all.
*edit (as of 31 March 2023): I have edited out references to terms such as "g*d", "j*sus", "l*rd" (mostly, except for where it talks about the adversary being no "lord"), "s*tan", "b*ble", and "*lpha"/"om*ga", etc.*
