Greetings Dear Reader,
“You know the Queen of
Hearts is always your best bet.”
This may be hard to hear.
It is very hard to think sometimes.
Even I, when confronted with some situations will demand justice or
honor without love. It is always the losing
bet. Bet on others to give justice and
honor when they do not feel loved and you will almost always lose. Apply justice or any other noble thing
without love and it eventually becomes poisoned.
It is love that is Queen.
It is in her embrace that we have so much to gain and so little to
lose. I am going to do something I do
not do often and give you an example from the Bible. Those who read this blog or my books
regularly know that I believe the Bible.
I try not to use it as a weapon but it is the filter for my faith and
practice. Walk with me for a moment in
this ancient book filled with relative present truth.
In his letter to the people in Ephesus, Paul writes about
putting on the armor of God. I have
written about this at length in the past.
What I wish to focus on is a part of it that I have neglected and many
do not include when putting forth the admonition to use this armor. We find that missing piece in the Old
Testament book of Isiah:
Isiah 59:17 (AMP) For He [the Lord] put on righteousness like a coat of armor, and salvation like a helmet on His head; He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and covered Himself with zeal [and great love for His people] as a cloak.
The Queen of Hearts desires that we live out righteousness,
holiness, justice, goodness, faith, and hope.
She demands that we do it all cloaked in love. Since we no longer wear cloaks (unless you are
like me, a nerdy gamer who likes fantasy as much as he likes reality) you may
not get the full import of this. Cloaks
have many vital and useful purposes.
They provide warmth.
The cover and protect our armor from the elements. The right cloak can help us move with more
stealth when necessary. The right cloak
can shelter others even whilst we wear it if necessary. I own and sometimes wear a real cloak. I have used it for all of these purposes.
We are to cloak everything about who we are as Christ followers
in love. The Queen of Hearts is our best
bet because she will cover everything.
She will neglect nothing if we allow her to embrace us.
When we harden our hearts and resist giving or receiving
love, we do great damage. We apply good
things without their protective coating and they become bitter and foul. Justice without love is harsh and
merciless. Mercy without love is
unjust. You cannot be righteous without
love because the greatest commandment is to love.
When we seek to be a Desperado, Dear Reader, we shake off
the cloak that the Queen of Hearts offers and become hard and heartless. We are never truly lacking heart but we lock
our hearts away behind a prison of injustice and merciless righteousness. To reject the Queen of Hearts is to ultimately
reject the Father. She is his true envoy
to draw us all to him.
If you are going to survive you must bet everything on the
Queen of Hearts. I must go all in with
all that have to love no matter what the cost to me personally. I cannot hold forth any of the protections or
weapons God gives us without love. They
just will not work. The Queen of Hearts
is not only our best bet; she is the only bet that is guaranteed to pay
off. She will pay off in spades Dear
Reader. All bets in?
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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