The Shepherd’s Crook:God’s Gentle Guidance, Rescue, and Loving Care for His People Pt 3

The Shepherd’s Crook:God’s Gentle Guidance, Rescue, and Loving Care for His People Pt 3

There are many books that carry beautiful messages, and at times, within certain pages, words and passages seem to bring forward what Father Almighty wished to highlight and share.
Among these books are Courage Under Fire by Wiley Sword, and Strong’s Concise Concordance and Vine’s Dictionary of the Bible, published by Thomas Nelson. Within these pages, certain words, passages, and paragraphs were highlighted as part of what Father Almighty brought to my attention for this writing.

But the message does not remain only within the written word. Sometimes, a testimony becomes another way of witnessing what God can do in the lives of others. For this reason, I have included a testimony within this writing—not to impose an interpretation upon anyone, but simply to share an experience that may encourage, touch, or help someone who reads it.
This writing also includes a letter from Heaven, presented in both Spanish and English, for those who wish to read and reflect upon them. Each person may receive the words differently. My hope is simply that what has been highlighted, experienced, and shared may become a small light for someone else along the way.

Reason, Conscience, Courage, and the Call to Love One Another

Mankind’s ability to reason, shaped by education, logic, common sense, knowledge, and experience, is one of the foremost forces in determining the management of our future and the quality of our existence. The decisions we make today influence not only our own lives, but also the circumstances in which others—and generations yet to come—will live.

Reason allows us to examine circumstances, learn from experience, recognize consequences, and distinguish between what may be beneficial and what may cause harm. Yet knowledge alone does not necessarily tell us how that knowledge should be used. Wisdom is needed to understand what ought to be done, and conscience helps us consider why.

Throughout history, meaningful progress has often required courage. Change can challenge what is familiar, expose weaknesses, and require people to move beyond established ways of thinking. Fundamental change is frequently pursued with the hope of achieving greater justice, opportunity, dignity, security, and mutual well-being.
But courage, by itself, is morally ambiguous. The fact that someone possesses courage does not necessarily mean that the purpose for which that courage is exercised is right. Courage can be used to protect and build, but it can also be used to destroy, dominate, or impose one’s will upon others.
Therefore, change does not automatically mean progress, and courage does not automatically mean wisdom. History teaches us that there can be a very fine line between courage and recklessness, conviction and stubbornness, wisdom and foolishness.

The wiser question is not simply, “Do we have the courage to act?” but also, “Should we act, why should we act, whom will our actions affect, and what consequences may follow?”

This is where human consciousness becomes essential.

Our consciousness gives us the ability to observe, question, reason, discern, and make judgments about fairness and what we believe to be right or wrong. Yet our understanding of fairness is often a matter of interpretation. Individual judgment is influenced by education, culture, beliefs, experiences, circumstances, and the way each person understands the world.

Differences of opinion are therefore a natural part of human existence. Diverse societies will inevitably contain different perspectives. What appears reasonable to one person may appear incomplete or unacceptable to another. Recognizing this does not mean that every interpretation is equally correct; rather, it reminds us of the importance of humility, continued learning, and thoughtful consideration before reaching judgment.
And yet, beneath many of our differences exists something remarkably consistent: the fundamental value of human life and the desire to live in peace and security.

Across cultures and generations, people have sought to protect their families, preserve their communities, find meaning, and live without unnecessary violence or suffering. Even in a world where acts of terrorism and violence demonstrate a disregard for human life, such actions do not represent the desires of humanity as a whole. The vast majority of people seek the ability to live, work, love, worship, raise families, and coexist in peace.

This is where the biblical command becomes profoundly relevant:

“Love one another.”

Jesus did not present love merely as a feeling. He presented it as a way of living and relating to others. In John 13:34–35and John 15:12, the command to love one another becomes a defining principle of how human beings are called to treat each other.
Applied to society, this principle does not require that everyone think alike. Love does not require uniformity. We can have different cultures, beliefs, experiences, opinions, and convictions while still recognizing the dignity of the person who stands before us.
To love one another means that our freedom cannot be separated entirely from responsibility. We are free to make choices, but our choices can affect the lives, freedoms, security, and dignity of others. Freedom therefore finds its balance not in the elimination of freedom, but in the recognition that we live among other human beings whose lives matter as well.

This is often where conflict begins. When one person’s freedom becomes disregard for another person’s dignity, or when one group’s convictions are imposed without regard for the humanity of others, disagreement can become division, disorder, and sometimes violence.

The deeper difficulty may not always be that humanity has abandoned its fundamental values, but that our interpretations of those values can become distorted by ambition, fear, ideology, programming, personal interests, or the desire for control.
Even the simplest command—love one another—can be distorted when love is replaced by hatred, when conviction becomes intolerance, or when a perceived higher purpose is used to justify harm.

Therefore, our consciousness must remain active. We must continually examine not only what we believe, but how our beliefs are expressed through our actions.

Reason asks us to understand.
Conscience asks us to discern.
Wisdom asks us to consider the consequences.
Love asks us to remember the humanity of others.
And courage gives us the strength to act.

Together, these qualities provide a more complete foundation for responsible human action.

Indeed, bravery was and remains a necessary virtue. There are moments when it takes courage to speak, to stand against injustice, to protect another person, to seek peace, to admit when we are wrong, or to refuse to participate in hatred.
But perhaps the greatest form of courage is not simply the willingness to confront others. Sometimes it is the courage to confront ourselves—to question our assumptions, reconsider our judgments, listen to another perspective, and change our course when knowledge and conscience reveal that we have been mistaken.
True courage does not require the abandonment of love. It requires the strength to act while preserving the dignity of others.

Humanity may never reach complete agreement about what is best for one and for all. Our interpretations will continue to differ. But perhaps we do not need complete agreement in order to pursue coexistence.

We need a shared recognition that human life has value, that freedom carries responsibility, that differences do not make another person less human, and that our actions should be measured not only by what they accomplish, but also by what they do to those who must live with their consequences.

In this sense, the future of humanity will not be shaped by courage alone, nor by reason alone, nor by change alone. It will be shaped by how we bring them together—with knowledge to understand, reason to examine, conscience to discern, wisdom to guide, courage to act, and love to remind us that the future we are creating belongs not only to ourselves, but to one another.

And perhaps that is where the simple biblical command remains timeless:
Love one another.
Not because we will always agree, but because we will always share the responsibility of being human.

Glory be to the Father, Glory be to the Son and Glory be to the Holy Spirit.- In this beautiful day of grace, where many doors are remaining open and where other are gold and waiting. There is so much Glory in this time, yes it is heavy and it’s weight is consuming for some and for others it might be of much gain. There is much to process, to kneel and come upon my table. You see my table is served and is waiting for you, it has many but many fruits of all colors and food to satiate hunger, water to drink. This you will not find anywehere else but in my table says the Lord of the Heights. It is here where I am listening to you in true silence, where the wrong shall be made right, where all your testimonies and your heart shall be written in my book of life.

Glory be to the Highest in heaven, Glory be to Jesus Christ an to the Holy Sprit, you have experienced recently what it is to receive my Spirit says Jesus Christ, it is the most beautiful love you may feel, a burning sensation in the profound of your heart, body and soul. You have received such a beautiful gift, a vision and many dreams so you may be able to see the earth and it’s works. Yes, yes you see my child, every single person has the ability to see. However, you chose not to see, you choose to have a cup of coffee and just look through those immense windows in the kitchen and sit at your white table in those chairs. I have opened the opportunity for you to go out and enjoy. Here is the main point, you have been given gardens of love child of mine. those beautiful flowers, even the harvest of some fruits and vegetables. Wake up, be grateful and enjoy the walk through those gates, see what you have sowed, look beyond the borders and limitations and jump over, ask me and shall provide, oh my for you my soul, the immensity of those of those trees and the smell of the moist in the grass, “the dew (liquid condensation) or fog / shallow ground fog if hovering slightly above” youwhile a powdery white coating on the grass blades themselves. Your nose buds are completely open and at time you walk out with your big cup of coffee, I see you, it is here that you are in full rendering in my presence. Yes, yes this for all my souls, a full fire in your feet like when I walked in humbleness,it makes you whole says Jesus Christ in this day. To you the one with the view, you the one that come out of the house that looks like a cabin made of logs says the Lord, with your heavy jacket at times and the minute you walk out you see the immensity of the mountains. But this not only about the view outside. I come to speak to every one, to you who I open your eyes and let you see the beauty of your family coming together and sitting in that precious table with the kids enjoying a laughter, even the hick ups. Or you when you drive them to school singing that song in the car, treasured by your son and daughter my child. The beauty of admiring his eyes and the love it emanes from his heart says Jesus Christ. It is a special fire that glows that makes everybody whole and complete, a glow he or she carries around knowing nobody can touch them as they had a drink from cup of living waters, a drinking vessel between them and I. There is this special supernatural power that rises up in each one of them. Oh yes , yes for you and the teenager one that contradicts everything, the one whose no is bigger than everythinbg else, just dont worry I am working on him and for you mom, the one with the daughter, I am working on her. Your voices and your prayers are being lifted up and that list that you have in your mind and others in a notebook, they have been picked up by my angels and listed in my scroll. But today, it is about the children and their brightness, about transparency, about making sure they see it and be able to share it. My dear you are ssuch a light giver, have you seen how a diamond is formed, starting form the charcoal process to becoming this beautiful piece. That is you, you are not done, because there is a whole spiritual university to master.

For all, light lives in each of your hearts, do not trip or hide but be proud of your changes. Many can come and say not nice things and even start to measure and judge and create many stories, but I tell you I am proud of you and I will weed out everything and everybody from what is in your way and that is for sure. The cup of blessing and the cup od salvation is coming, so keep on proclaiming, declaring, annoucing, pointing out what is righteous and showing forward. I come to speak not for one but everybody, the time has come to be dare, to show , be evidence of the goodness in this place, a evident token. You more than everybody knows it, you have been made new, and for others I have renewed. There is light being shined on deeds or acts, changes that have been noted on Human Beings, actions that are different.

For you, yes you, you have everything to complete the project, it means denotes doing, wrapping and finishing the transactions of shich is looked up upon as still incomplete and in progress. today my son I tell you, you have everything in your hands of what you have placed in prayer, you have had several people pray and praise for this point. “The ethical sense of human action is the capacity to evaluate, intend, and execute behavior as right or wrong, anchored in intellect (knowledge), free will (voluntariness), and a biological/cultural moral sense” especially for a certain point to help others. Today this is the point to love one another no matter the hate, no matter the contradictions but in depth and in height love and go over the dimensions for you have complied with the sphere of activities that i have placed on your plate and there is still more to come.

2 Corinthians 8:10-21KJV

10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

There is so much wisdom and knowledge that has been provided in this time says the Lord and the time has come, to send all negativity to the depth in the natural sense of the sea says the Lord of the Heights in this day that i have had grace for all parties. To speak injuriously, oppoosition, injuring and defaming, that will soon have an “apologia” as the things that have been promised will take a promised fluition, I am not Father that lies nor hides but it all will come to fruition. There is a time to render, a time for delay, a time to delay and a time to throw up your hands, a time to rejoice, to delight in the smile and laughter of others and delight in yourself inwardly because it all will be delivered. What has stopped the process will be broken and the rest will take place and delivered. It is a time to set up, and place order in three and some other places that you and I know says Jesus Christ in this day, a time to bring action because there are some nations and people that cannot do it alone and need to have a push. People have forgotten what it means to be free, to have liberty, the action by which something is to get going or activated. The time to rebuild certain nations has come, the time to bring hope in the midst of heaviness so they can determine, resolve and place a decree, to be able to set a boundary and they may see the horizon which is blury and blameful to others and marks out what is not reality. There is a forordained pathway, declared, settled, mark out the difference and the opportunity.

Luke 6:48-49 MSG
48-49 “If you work the words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who dug deep and laid the foundation of his house on bedrock. When the river burst its banks and crashed against the house, nothing could shake it; it was built to last. But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a dumb carpenter who built a house but skipped the foundation. When the swollen river came crashing in, it collapsed like a house of cards. It was a total loss

Glory be to the Son of the Highest in Heaven, today there is a time to separate any strong feelings, bring a passion that is fully alive, a purpose to disperse and to disolve, be able to scatter foreigners abroad who may dispense benefits, to give out, distribute, or manage portions of something to a group or individual, so it can be sown. An ordinance firstly seeking to speak, to bring together different reasons Economical, financials, to calculate, estimate, or conclude based on an opinion or facts.

Yet, there is so many changes that are coming forward, many meetings are taken place, many are stigmatizing negativity more than positivity. I have been observing and watching. I have named you a watchman of light to help others overcome, it is the possibilty to have an individual overcome a sickness, overcome a person who mistreats, it is about being able to supersede and event and not place a stigma with a name. I was crucified says the Lord, my hands were nailed to the cross and my blood was given to forgive your sins. The learning from this was the pain and death to bring life, so your sins be forgiven. The beauty of being crucified was a positive outcome to save humanity. It is time, to silence and train the mind, change the outcome sicknesses that tear you apart, to dive in, in creating spaces where your mind can administrate and be useful, be creative make your dream, your goal come to pass. People have lost their way and have no belief, they have nothing to believe in, set free their faith, with that their hope and seek nothing but what is in the world. I tell you, you may go to church, meditate, pray or do much more but the most important is to dwell, inhabit in the light. Fight the fight that deserves fighting and leave the rest behind. I am here, find a church, find the go to person and fill yourself with my Spirit, edify yourself with love. Jeremiah 29: 11-13 “11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”

Do you not see, have you not heard, i am everywhere, in every nation, I am touching and changing souls and today they have found happiness, they today, understand what it is to live simple, not complicated, to deposit and surrender it all in my hands. I am where you least imagine, I am in where presidents are, where congress meets, where judges makes decisions, I am in imperial courts, in remote zones where there is war, i am in schools, in teachers, in hospitals, with doctors and nurses, in the airlines, pilots and those who serve. I AM WHO I AM and I am everywhere that is praying, meditating, administration, in the youth, in the young adults, at home, in every house, church, priest, pastors you have Me always with you. Yet, all you have to do is seek me and I will provide you with all that you need if you faith, and let your hope shine, you will find peace singing and living with me in your inward. You have a word and healing for every circumstance and I will edify you in love, for what you received and what you did not. No dispute whatsoever just you and me and my angels who have been dispersed for you.

1 Peter 1:18-21 MSG
18-21 Your life is a journey you must travel with a deep consciousness of God. It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in. He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb. And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately—at the end of the ages—become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you. It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God.
Oh my children, oh my children the evidence is visual, it is clear, it is open and public for those who wish to read. Today is a day to exalt, to bring honor, provide a different status to others. to lift up, I am an Eternal Father, that provides favor, goodwill, acceptance, blessings, a voluntary decision, grace, kindness, freely bestowed and you will stand in awe, the flight of fearfulness will disappear, I will form, hold you. I am the potter and you are the clay, i will be at work with you. This is my creative activity, craftman, my handiwork and you will be changed not externally but your heart internally, expressing the change in character and conduct that correspong to your inner you.
Glory be to God, Glory be to Jesus Christ and Glory be to the Holy Spirit to mold, to shape, yes mold you, I will never forsake you , nor leave you behind. i am your foundation, and I will for the one that seeks me bring the good works to you. Things are changing at this moment it is not only that I indwelling in the pleces before, but if you wish to have changes, let changes be in unity but you in education see it different, it differs and education is something that should mantain a good standard, ‘logic, common sense, knowledge, and experience, is one of the foremost forces in determining the management of our future and the quality of our existence. The decisions we make today influence not only our own lives, but also the circumstances in which others—and generations yet to come—will live.” Which is truly important a spring of water, an indwelling of the Spirit in each one of them, a changed behavior and a future blessing.

It is to render a complete frame together coming as one, proving freedom, no restraints or obligations but love in change, if you, and only you change the rest will follow. Is it not that the children mimic you and that influence is bigger than everything. It means to be fruitful, bear fruit. The trees will bear fruit and the field of earth will produce by inherent energy of a living organism. They will learn from what they learn “from experience, recognize consequences, and distinguish between what may be beneficial and what may cause harm. Yet knowledge alone does not necessarily tell us how that knowledge should be used. Wisdom is needed to understand what ought to be done, and conscience helps us consider why.” Matthew 7:17 states: “Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit” (NIV).

Oh children of mine, there is such expression of power in the works of deeds that come your heart, being visible, bringing change, asking for what is needed for the future of my children. There is so much beauty in working in our children inwardly and invisibility, the character of the fruit being the evidence of character of the power producing it. “This is what it means to be fruitful—to bear fruit. What is planted within us eventually becomes visible through our lives and can be carried into the lives of others. A tree does not need to be forced to produce its fruit; when it is rooted, nourished, and alive, it bears according to what has been placed within it.”

The same can be seen in the field of the earth. A seed is planted, the soil receives it, and through the inherent energy and processes of a living organism, growth begins. What is living within the seed eventually comes forth as something that can be seen, touched, and shared.

So, too, with you. What you cultivate within yourselves—love, patience, kindness, wisdom, faith, and the way we treat others—can become the fruit that others experience. And sometimes, the greatest testimony is not what we say, but what another person begins to reproduce because they have witnessed it in us. Our lives are seeds as well. What we carry, cultivate, and give can continue to grow beyond us, bearing fruit in others and becoming part of a harvest we may never fully see.

This word, I bring you so you may breath out, give as a gift, a beautiful gift of grace as God is the donor in this free gift bestowed to you. Endowments upon my believers operated by my Spirit. Such gracious deliverance granted answer to many prayers. For my prayers tighten you girdles, it is this time of around and about that I calling you to come to pray, it iss in these month so necessary to unite and pray, for the men the same hold tight your belt in firmness and compromise and pray in delight and for favor, there are for many situations that will come to solve, a moral accomplishment, it is a time of divine blessing but i want to hear you and it will be fulfilled and satisfied with favorable circumstances. Make it a beautiful and cheerful, you have done well child of mine. The process in reaching completion. I am taken away hardness, steadfast love, grace, mercy and remember, who are you to place a stigma on anybody, who are you to humiliate for one thinks you have it all and in a snap of my finger I can take it all away. So your reflexion for today is to give back, to render, to bring ammend where it is needed, to completely fulfill peace and in a peacebly manner. Complete and perfect it, learn how to keep it and hold a secret, so it may be announced in a assembled public place, people at large, to perceive what was understood, to gain full knowledge and become fully acquainted and refreshed by others. The seal, the vast expanse of open water, the sea as contrasted with the land. A seal, an emblem of ownership and security here combined with that destination. 2 Timothy 1:9-10 MSG “8-10 So don’t be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, his prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God, who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus.”

For you my children who are waiting for the winds, the drafts and nature in it process, it is that time to prepare what you have longed for, your studies applied, the charts that have been a refreshing a new standard, so you may be able to examine and closely inquire carefully, a season , a time and a period. A time Top open new exploration doors, Japan, Greenland, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. A time to share learning and create a more by seeing, hands on a choice to discover, an opoortunity to revisit where land is being displaced, and the tore is opening more and more. It is a intellectual seeing and growth to discern. This period of time is your time, for storm will differ, not everything will be the same, there is changes once again in the inner fire of this place that you call home. A sense of living and saving has been placed in your hands. Seeing the light is living life. The experience once again being open for all of you, the winds, the water, the displacement of tectonic plates the three zone junctures all of them. Let those maginified glasses see more than what you have already seen and read, but apply what is necessary. This love for each one of you in lyric that green in hope and pink for my myteries in Jesus Christ’s name amen amen

From BibleGateway

1 Thessalonians 2:9-12
9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our toil and hardship; we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to anyone while we preached the gospel of God to you. 10 You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless we were among you who believed. 11 For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children,12 encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

Stand Firm
13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits[b] to be savedthrough the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings[c] we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved usand by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
For the Church
The Seal: An emblem of Ownership
Security combined with destination
A date that perhaps you understand better than I do
October 18th and the message: set up the tent outside
Fill the tables
The Firm Foundation of God
A Season, A Time, A period

To refine gracious benefit to testify. The believer can take comfort in the word of God, which alone on earth is tried and purifies and by which it can be purified. Psalm 119:140 “Your promises have been thoroughly tested,
    and your servant loves them.”

Psalm 18:30 NIV
30 
As for God, his way is perfect:
    The Lord’s word is flawless;
    he shields all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 30:5 NIV
5 
For his anger lasts only a moment,
    but his favor lasts a lifetime;
weeping may stay for the night,
    but rejoicing comes in the morning.

Ref

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Courage Under Fire by Wiley Sword, Strong’s Concise Concordance and Vine’s Dictionary of the Bible, published by Thomas Nelson

Author’s Note: This piece was written by Arlette Marin. AI assistance was used for grammar correction, language refinement, and stylistic editing while preserving the author’s original thoughts, experiences, and message.