The Faithful Witness- Enduring in Testimony
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The Faithful Witness- Enduring in Testimony
The thirty-second saying of the Living Christ:
Do not let your witness become a thundering of hooves that tramples the tender grass. If you kick up the dust of many words, you will choke the silence where wisdom dwells. The one who loves the act of speaking more than the truth of the Word has made an idol of their own tongue.
Woe to the one who loves the sound of their own witness more than the Truth they proclaim. When the act of proclaiming becomes an idol, it obscures the needs of those nearby. The witness stops following after truth and serves the need to testify instead.
Do not seek a better witness lest you blind yourself to the revelation of grace all around you. If you are drawn to the light, dance in its rays. If you stare at the sun to behold the light in all its glory, you will go blind. A good witness seeks wisdom, but does not exhaust itself. The drained well, whose water was spilled on the dry ground, cannot share life with others.
Sustained holy attention shows up whether the world welcomes it or turns its face away. The power of the word is not measured by cheers and praise, nor is it vindicated by the crowd. The fruit of the word is seen through actions that aid all, not through the volume of the speaker. Testimony is given because the word demands to be spoken. Faithfulness to the truth requires both word and deed, salt and light.
Endurance is the grace that heals the heart of its hunger for haste. Do not demand that the world change in a single hour. The Word is a seed; it does not ask the gardener when it should flower, but waits for the Father’s sun. The witness learns to trust the truth and to know its own season. The word is a seed planted that will flower when it is ready. Observing the times and seasons reminds the heart that the desire for a thing to be so does not make it so.
This is the work of the prophets, and you are all prophets. It is not a single proclamation of the word, but the life of faithful witness that returns what is seen and what must be said.
When you bear witness, know the fruit will come in its time.
If you are impatient, demanding the world bow by a word or a command, disappointment awaits. When you learn to rest in the Spirit and wait for the Glory of the Lord, your impatience will be healed. Offer your testimony faithfully without demanding that it is received as quickly as your heart desires.
Your soul is healed when you release the word given to you to the world and trust that faithful seeing and speaking is enough. The world is made new as the testimony of the faithful seeds it with wisdom that grows on its own time. Faithfulness is the water poured in the dark. The true witness is the watchman who speaks to the night, trusting the dawn is coming even when the eye cannot see it.
The faithful witness plants what they may never harvest, and trusts the soil anyway.
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