Him from bondage, shackled by their unworthiness.
Bystander: Confession, denying one’s worthiness, eagerly releasing words, glorifying them with honesty, convicts people to expose their sins, to repent for unmerited deeds, and reward them with unrestrained forgiveness, weaving holiness into their being, beginning their way to righteousness. Without confession, no one can understand repentance, leaving it to remain isolated from revealing sins hidden in one’s heart, acknowledging only those of one’s choosing, some rewritten to remain sins no longer, ones changed so they will be tolerated, unremarkable for confession, no longer worthy of mention before God, justifying one to repent without confession, without value in seeking the way to becoming right with God, releasing one to live on with a clean conscience. Confess, return to the Creator, rejoining Him to live eternally, leaving behind pretenses and hypocrisies of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies, coming to witness His mighty flood of justice, and endless river of righteousness.
Joseph: We may still be hypocrites, following ways contrary to our words, proclaiming them for others to obey, while ignoring words of the Holy Spirit, proclaiming them also for others to obey, making us spiritual hypocrites, working to get others right with God, interceding for them with prayers, but discerning little of our hypocrisy, confident in our blamelessness as before.
Bystander: Do you know if your faith remains disordered and unfocused, still scattered into confusion, exercising little in life's realities, often ignoring God's purpose for His circumstances, relying on feelings and blessing to sustain it, unable to endlessly praise Him, proclaiming all is well, acknowledging our faith may be real but still in flux, waiting to become permanent.
Joseph: Witnessing circumstances God brings to our attention, obediently responding to them, never by feelings or expectation for blessings, exercising unrestricted faith, we rejoice, praising God all is well. Or do we discern by our human ways, judging the Holy Spirit's words sometimes by our inattention, trusting all is well? Our faith maybe real, but not yet enduring.
Bystander: When He possesses your soul, He promises to never leave you, and true to His Word He remains with you until the end, the time for returning to the Father, but He never remains with your ashes, and keeping God's promise He returns your soul to Him. Insure your soul will be well with Him.
Job: And so it was. My blamelessness proclaimed my goodness and virtue, sympathetic to the understandings we all see in estimations of ourselves, stubbornly needing no atonement, no need to intercede for comrades in uprightness, interceding only to glorify what we determine to be justified, judged by our reason to vindicate, but by destroying my self-reliance, praying for dependence on God, making way for His Spirit to claim me, calling on Him to be my strength, waiting on Him to exhibit His power, foregoing trust in my earthly treasures, dismissing reliance on my blamelessness, brought me to know God, better than encountering Him face to face.
Joseph: Blessed as one of Jacob's seed, secure in His covenant's promises, I praise, honor, and revere God, for He has not despised or ignored sufferings of afflicted ones, never hiding His face from them, always listening to their cries for help, even those hating Him who long for death.
Bystander: God decrees this year for His jubilee, rejoicing in the return of ones He created and sold to the earth, determining the time for redemption of His own, bringing back ones once bartered for a given time to be used by another, free will to be their own.
Job: In that day I became one with the Lord, one with my Father, my Creator, having confessed the iniquities of my blamelessness, becoming one with Him, I no longer needed to ask Him anything, awakened by the light of His truth, the only lasting verity, eternal as His being. Pray that we all would become one in Him. Now I ask Him nothing, no longer asking why I should possess the Holy Spirit, once regarded as only a messenger, dwelling in me only for His purpose, invading my soul with no reward, residing there to expose my faults, only to leave me in dust at the end.
Bystander: Prophets clothe themselves in fancy eye-catching attire, attracting listeners to messengers, seldom to their message, as they speak in riddles, never expected from God's messenger, the Holy Spirit.
Job: Peace I have found, immeasurable and deep, is never of my doing, gifted only by the Holy Spirit, giving me a spirit of simplicity, clarity, and unity, finally ending my search, returning me to the Redeemer, my Creator.
Joseph: God makes kindness a universal language, encouraging us to add to our faith goodness, to goodness knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love, establishing a platform to follow His ways.
Job: God has tested my faith, working on my impatience, letting patience have her perfect work, striving to perfect me, completing me entirely, wanting nothing more after I become like Him, but I have an urgent question, wanting an answer until some unknown, asking Bystander, Who are you?
Bystander: I can choose whatever I might want to be, an observer watching and doing nothing, but the law of the bystander compels me to action, never competing with the
Holy Spirit, but being with you when called on, coming to advise faithful ones, never intruding to force anyone, different from the bystander compelled by law to act. I voice objections, advising ones to wipe out wrongs, acting as brother's keepers to undo injustices, stepping out to heal afflictions and minister to the needy.
Job: God’s opportunities changed my life's drudgery to difficulty, bringing me afflictions, unjustified adversities, arousing me from meaningless boredom, working to reestablish my pride each morning only to see it fading each evening, sustaining it with wine to bring me sleep, until dreams invaded, disturbing my peace, revealing who I really was, reaching out but never catching redemption, never knowing its promise until confession would tear apart my self-willed adoration of myself, protecting my position in the society of uprights, mutually adoring each other, knowing if I confessed all secrets hidden blamelessness, I would be cast out from its body, charging me with ignoring their laws.
Joseph: Should we protect our residual blamelessness, declining its destruction to seek after righteousness, disengaging from our upright comrades, leaving in dispersion, moving on to become righteous, establishing new judgments as the righteous deem necessary, violent if necessary, becoming confident, celebrating our way as being better than others, ignoring our dispersion fails the unity to be one, hardly for all to be one in accord with the Father.
Bystander: In having the last word I can add nothing more to help their souls.
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