Sooo...it's a holiday and I have been wide awake way before 6 AM! I log into Facebook and was hit by an old memory post I wrote describing a terrible dream I had three years ago and the revelation thereof! Can I just say "WOW?", for this post was heavy then and just as heavy today!! I am going to title this..."Too Heavy for the A.M.: The Inquisition of Blood"!

Too Heavy for the A.M.: The Inquisition of Blood

All of my life I have been a vivid dreamer, wherein the Lord shows me specific things that are both joyful and terrible. I woke up this morning in tears from a dream laced with ancient racism, sexism, war, terror and assault and my heart is so heavy. The terrible things I witnessed from thousands of years ago causes me to wonder why our world still wrestle with these legendary principalities today.  We, as a human body, in all of our pompous technology and knowledge have yet to learn how to defeat the repetition of our history! Instead, we keep passing these poisons from one generation to another and each generation figures out how to make the detrimental uglier! 

We believe we are superior enough to wield our detriment as power on the world's stage, but it only results in mass degrees of tragedy! And it is during these tragedies that I ask, "Lord, Where were you?"! I ask in such accusation as if He is not all knowing and aware of these occurrences! What nerve; for He was neither the initiator nor the blame! We humans boast in our power of free will, but when the error of our poor decision-making reaps into a horrible, but accurate consequence, suddenly we expect for this God to blow the referee's whistle to put an end to our madness. We forget that our cause will always have an effect one way or another! 

I guess my real concern is toward the innocent that always get tagged in the midst of these erratic crossfires. What broke my heart in my dream was that an innocent bystander was made subject to the whims of the wicked. I remember the look in that person's eyes, and as the dreamer, I could not reach in to help them. In my heaviness I asked the Lord why again and He led me to Psalm 9 as a reminder of His judgement. I read it and my heart is back at peace! The thing about us humans is that we want justice and we want justice NOW! There is nothing wrong with that! Sometimes we get it and sometimes it is reserved for a specific time. Sometimes evildoers think they are getting away and sometimes they get tangled up in the very traps they have set out for others. It's a toss up! 

We keep forgetting that our Lord is PROACTIVE and has already set an expected end from the beginning! We must stop thinking that just because the Lord is not REACTIVE to the rampage of injustice that He does not see it! You better believe that He definitley sees it and according to Psalm 9:12, "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble". I love that word "inquisition" for it means judicial investigation! So when the Lord makes His "judicial investigation" for the blood that has been spilled, He will remember. 

The Lord is not slack concerning His promises! Venegence is His!! Now is the time that grace must abound! Though these are dark days, GRACE still abounds! But when that great notable day of the Lord comes...smh...I don't even have the words! In the meantime, let us keep our trust in the Lord--for He is our refuge in the time of trouble!