Action Speaks the Truth to Your Words… No Matter How Loud You Yell!

1 John 1:5-10 This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.

One of my favorite scenes in the Wizard of Oz is Toto (the little dog) pulling down the curtain surrounding the wizard. He wasn’t intimidated by all the bells, whistles, and sirens. The deep voice echoing through the room, did not keep him frozen. Just as Dorothy and her crew were ready to leave in discouragement (they had already fulfilled the wizard’s command to defeat the wicked witch), Toto reveals the wizard is nothing but a small bully with a big microphone.

It seems to me that our world is filling up with a lot of wanna be wizards, who are nothing more than small, hate filled, bullies behind the curtain of “IT IS I, the Greatest Show On Earth!

But, hey, DON’T ask them to perform – JUST BELIEVE!”

Fortunately for us and for the wanna be wizards, it isn’t little Toto who reveals the truth behind their curtains. It is God! Using our own words, along with our actions, He exposes the lies and their bells, whistles, and sirens, we attempt hide the lies behind.

God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all… sometimes, some of us, go to extravagant measures to build impressive machines that will elevate us to the status of God’s Administrative Director. Therefor if you or anyone need to know what God is thinking, planning, and/or doing about things, just consult me. In comparison to God, I am His go to person – I have it on good authority (me) that He counts on me to mold Him into a globally acceptable mini me.

Deuteronomy 6:4 “ Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one!

Lesson number one to wanna be wizards… DO NOT compare God to you but compare you to God. God is the highest and ONLY standard of good, and righteous, and acceptable and perfect. Mankind does not create Him, He creates mankind! We don’t even begin to MEASURE UP! If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth… 

Lesson number two to wanna be wizards… don’t Lie! If you claim to KNOW about God (and we all do, even unbelievers claim an intimate knowledge of who God is – or isn’t) and yet you walk in your own perception of Him, you lie and do not practice the truth.

True fellowship with God will be a heart filled with love!

Deuteronomy 6:5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Not because you were TOLD to love God, but because GOD IS LOVE and true fellowship with Him fills you with HIS LOVE – pressed down, shaken, full and overflowing!

Not only will you love God but you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

There is no other commandment greater (and as powerful) than these.” (Mark 12:31) 

For all of us wizard wanna bees out there… I bow my knees and pray before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant all of us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith; and that we, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:14-19

Lesson number three to wanna be wizards… Don’t deceive yourself! If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.

We are not perfect, and in this world no one will achieve perfection. There is not one of us without sin… as it is written, “ There is none righteous, not even one; (Romans 3:10)

But God…“so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. (John 3:16-17)

Lesson number four to the wanna be wizards… Don’t make God a liar! If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned (and don’t NEED Him), we make Him a liar and His word (Jesus IS His Word!) is not in us.

What are you waiting for little wizard wanna be?

When your curtain of woes is pulled back and it is revealed that you are helpless to clean the inside of your own beautiful bling filled house, with all it’s bells, whistles, and sirens, much less be helpful in helping others clean theirs, who you gonna call? Glenda the good witch?

While you’re tapping your little red shoes saying,”There’s no place like home…” Remember…

Your Father in heaven is waiting… So he (the one tiered of the pigsty) got up and came to his father.

But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.

Just say Jesus, “Come Lord, Come! (Bo Yeshua!)

And our Father will say to His angels, “Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of Mine was dead and has come to life again; HE WAS LOST AND HAS BEEN FOUND.”

And they (all of heaven) will began to celebrate. Luke 15:20,22-24 

No amount of wizard words shouted to the loudest decibels, will ever – ever replace or transcend the TRUTH HAPPENING when a son/daughter comes home to God.

So much for wanting to be and/or trying to be a wizard!

Go for the gold… BE a Child of God!!!!!!

**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible unless otherwise noted.