"Without Consent"

"Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out."
(Psalms 109:13)

 There is only so much that can be done with this. Is there anything positive to share? Can anything be good? I guess it depends where this is happening and for what. The point to almost every single curse or judgment is that of surrender; if the curse is to be lifted and the judgment is to be removed, then everything needs to be brought under the blood of Christ. These are serious things, the kind of things that take down dynasties and bloodlines. But what does any of that matter if there is not any salvation as a result? The most important thing that can happen in someone's life is to be saved from the fires of hell; nothing in this life matters more than that. Have you ever written anyone a blank check? Has anyone ever given you a blank check? Do you even know what that represents? A blank check is someone giving someone else unlimited access to their account; to trust someone enough to say, 'Here, use as much as you need.' Let me tell how that works in God's economy; an economy where nothing that we own is really ours to begin with. We say, 'God do whatever it takes,' and so it goes! Sometimes the picture is not all that pretty, at least not during the cleansing process. To totally understand the concept of writing a blank check, one must also see that all could be lost. Are you alright with that? Here is the thing about consent, it is an agreement made. Can you see the picture being painted? If you knew beforehand what was at stake, would still have made the agreement? God does not always show us the entire journey, but He does show us the end; and the end is marvelous! There is nothing on this entire earth that compares! Everything here is temporary and is dying. These tents we live in are falling apart; even our homes and our cars loose their luster and decay into dust. I have to be reminded of that man who is hanging onto the root on the face of that cliff; the one who is speaking to God, saying, "Can you save me?" "Will you save me?" "What must I do?" And God speaks loud and clear, "Let go of the root!" When we have such an agreement as that, where is there any room for consent...

"Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining, so he said to them, "Does this offend you? Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again? The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But some of you do not believe me." (For Jesus knew from the beginning which ones didn't believe, and he knew who would betray him.) Then he said, "That is why I said that people can't come to me unless the Father gives them to me."" (John 6:61-65) NLT