2012   A need for Change              30 December 2011    by  Martin Cooke

 I am changing everything. The things that you see may remain the same but you will see them through different eyes, because I am giving you sight. Before this time in many ways you thought you could see but you were blind. You thought you understood the scriptures. You thought you clung to true doctrine. You thought you were right to hold to strongly believed doctrines. But now I want you to let go of all that you have held so strongly so that you may embrace me and my love. How can you love one another if you are so resolute in your differences that you cannot make space for my love. Do I love you my people because you are true to all that you hold dear, or because I recognise you as the children I died for? Recognise each other for what I have made you as brothers and sisters in the Lord. Put apart your differences and cease to try to convert others to your cause. Do not squabble among yourselves, for when your sight is clear you will be able to remove the offending specks in each other's eyes. There is much that needs to be remedied in my Body but it cannot be performed by those with blind eyes and unpractised fingers.

             When you know me, you will know true doctrine. When you follow me you will see others as I see them. When you cease from fighting your wars and defending your ground and you trust in me, I will remedy that which needs to be fulfilled in my Body. For I can make you whole, even as one Body. What is it that causes the spots and the wrinkles, is it not impurities and stress between members? I will reform those who need reforming, but especially those who attempt to reform others but not themselves.