YOU ARE TO REMAIN GOOD ENOUGH

There comes a point when a man can no longer live by what the world has taught him to excuse. Lust is called freedom. Greed becomes ambition. Vanity becomes confidence. Vengeance becomes justice. Intoxication becomes escape. Idleness becomes comfort. Deceit becomes survival. Self-interest becomes virtue. Bitterness is carried for years as though it were strength.

A Godsman does not remain governed by any of it. He stands apart from what diminishes him, even when the world around him has made it ordinary. He is neither half-committed nor merely watching from the edge. He stands.

To stand, he enters a process of formation: discipline before authority, obedience before rank, service before recognition. He need not arrive whole, strong or ordered. He may arrive carrying habits, wounds, appetites and ways of thinking acquired long before he understood them. GOD can begin with a man in whatever condition He finds him, provided that man is willing to have what is false stripped away, what is weak strengthened, and what is disordered brought back into order.

All are welcome. None are exempt from the changes required — and none are beyond the changes possible.

FFortitude is where that preparation begins.

Where there is light, walk on. Where darkness remains, bring it before GOD. Obedience will see you supported through the Gate