Two Paths of the Christian Walk

There are two paths for the Christian walk, the first path is called supernatural intervention. These interventions come in the form of miracles, sweet reoccuring messages from the Lord, Abba hugs, and many more diverse ways the Lord woos us to love Him, and trust Him. We all have many examples of these interventions, for many of us even the initial coming to the Lord is supernatural. We come to salvation and give our lives to Jesus through these loving interventions. He then begins to take us to greater and greater faith experiences through these interventions. My own story of having the Lord intervene in my natural world with messages of numbers, specifically 12/21, which happens to be my birthday. One year weeks before my birthday he bombarded me with messages of these numbers 12/21. These numbers appeared randomly sometimes hundreds of times in one day!! The Lord lavishes His love on us through these interventions and through this message to me which said, "I destined you to be born on this day before the foundations of the world, so I have a plan and purpose for your life, which I will fulfill." These types of interventions build faith markers in your life so the Lord can take you up the mountain of holiness.

The second path is called the Calvery road. The supernatural intervention path brings us the place of willingly wanting to change. We have come to the place of making the Holy Spirit our best friend. On this Calvery road, the Holy Spirit reveals the stronghold of lies that gained authority by us partnering with them. These strongholds traffic in blame and shame and leave broken relationships in its quake.

Blame robs me of my choices, and especially of my responsibility. Blame forces me to submit over and over to the wound and places my identity in the hands of those who have wounded me. Forgiveness restores what was lost, returns to me my choices and my responsibility. I chose to forgive and take responsibility for my reactions to the wounding. If I continue to blame another for my wound, I will never receive healing. I have essentlially abdicated my responsibility by choosing to blame. I choose to forgive and bless the person who the Lord created for a purpose and destiny. I take hold of my responsibility to honor that created being and choose to heal that broken relationship. My reactions to wounding of blame and resentment give a false sense of power over the one who has wounded us. I can't change a person and believe me when I say I have lived a lifetime of trying to point out the necessity of change. I can honestly say none of my efforts produced fruit. The grace in that experience of total frustration revealed the true condition of my heart. The word of the Lord convicts us as it did me; 1John 2:9 "He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now." This chapter in in 1John is telling us, by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. If you say that you know Him and you do not keep His commandments then you are a liar, and the truth is not in you. I am pretty sure that hatred, resentment and blame are expressions of darkness which violates the commandments. Forgiveness doesn't say the actions of the one wounding us are ok. But it does say my reactions to the wounding are my responsibility, therefore, not my will but your will Lord, which is the foundation of the New Covenant. Our healing only comes when we chose to lay down our will, our self pity, our need to be right, our self-preservation to the selfless loving actions of Jesus as He in purity of motive submitted to the Father's will at the cross. My healing does not bypass the cross.