So, I recently messaged a friend (although I would’ve preferred to email and sort and distill my thoughts better), and tried to encourage him. There are a lot of creatives right now who want to be creative and aren’t able to produce work like they used to. Myself included. But something is shifting. I burned out on making my comics. But I’m sensing new life, which I can only attribute to the Holy Spirit working on the heart of a sinner who trusts in Christ.
I’ve felt Him before. But I can feel, at times, like the Glory is filling the temple, like the Spirit is brooding over the waters. Something is coming. For the world, it will be bad. It will be so bad it will be beyond description. That’s why I’m begging and pleading with you all to come to Christ! Time is short. So I have to refocus my works in a new direction. I intend to share the Gospel and spiritual truth more and more as time slips through the glass.
But I had a talk with a family member who is going through a really tough time. And she is enduring. And she is reading the Bible. She is loving the stories of God’s people in the Old Testament. I couldn’t be happier. I’m almost in tears as I write this. God is moving. And people are starting to respond. I don’t know if it will be an Awakening, or a tiny moment of Awareness, small sparks of Revival.
This Book, the Bible, has been the standard which I have measured life (and the measure of which I see my own chasm of failure and need for Jesus to Cross the gap between me and God). It is the most beautiful, holy, Thing, I have ever encountered physically. Now, I did have a vision of Jesus once when I was sick, which is a story for another time if needed.
God’s people have warts, from Abraham to Jacob to David to Simon Peter to the Church today. But.. there is something about the Church. And if she misses the mark, God’s redemptive plan will come through Israel. In fact, it shall come through Israel. For that little nation is a miracle that draws breath every day. And it is the only one that God redeems ultimately. God’s story is the redemption of mankind, but it’s also the exaltation of Israel through Jesus Christ, the Messiah. I’ve wanted to say this for a long time, but I feel it’s arrogant of me. “God keeps His promises.” And God will keep His promises to Israel. Jacob will have trouble, but he will be delivered through it, to the glory of God, as Israel under Immanuel, who is forever blessed.
It may be too late for me to draw (and I do not say create) like I used to. But if it’s not, I pray that I’m useful. I’m not the smartest, nor the most talented. In fact, mentally I have traits that are lacking. But I know a good story when I read one. And perhaps I shall scrawl in the sand a little longer.
But most importantly. Come to Jesus! Please! He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him. Mohammad is dead. Buddha is dead. But Jesus is alive. And we shall see Him sooner than we think, or guess, or imagine. —Trem