Originally posted on Facebook on Friday, September 12, 2025.

When I look at our world in flames, I see me. This is the result of my hellish nature in aggregate.

"And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell."
– James 3:6

What the world needs is not more hellish fire, but healing waters.

Healing waters only come from Jesus—the only representation of righteousness.

But the tragedy is we each think that we are righteous, that our positions are justified, that our way is good. We insert our own image as the representation of righteousness and even blasphemously do it in Jesus' name!

Unless we look like the Man hanging on a cross—innocent, blameless, with no hand in our hurt, yet is full of love, giving everything He is and has to save us from the harm we caused (to ourselves and each other) to the extent of being abused and killed as a sacrifice that we may be one and have life together with Him in God—unless we look like that, we do not represent Christ.

Christ is not on either of our sides. Both sides are evil and corrupt, even if one side is quoting scripture. What Jesus calls us to is another dimension altogether—from sides to a sphere that has no sides, from division to wholeness in God. God is one.

Marriage teaches me this: when we can't come together, it’s because of something we're holding. To reconcile and come together we must forsake all and follow Jesus.

So too with the ministry of reconciliation: we must lay it all down—racial centering, gender superiority, our identity, our power, our position, our possessions, our philosophies—everything that does not serve communion: oneness in God through Christ.

Therefore I look to Christ and resist my flesh. I seek to come as the Lamb, declaring God's love for you—my love for you, I lay down arms and pick up my cross believing that Jesus shows us how to win.

Every other way leads to a hell of our own making.

Jesus saves.

#FromHellToHealing #perfectourlove