Pip: Amos and Ellie — where the harvest is ripe, the darkness is defeated, and someone has been thinking very hard about prophets who did not want the job.
Mara: That’s the territory today, thanks to Kellie E Mick. We’re looking at what it means to follow Jesus fully — the cost of obedience, the nature of the Word, and what salvation actually claims.
Pip: Let’s start with faith, the whole Word, and why you can’t just keep the comfortable parts.
The Word, the Way, and What It Costs
Mara: The central question across these posts is whether faith in Jesus can be partial — whether you can hold the gospel at arm’s length and still call it love.
Pip: The post “The Word of God Is Life” puts it directly. The setup is a call to wholeness, and then this: “If you love him, you won’t chop him up and disperse only the parts that don’t offend. That’s counter productive and blasphemy. The word of God cleanses of ALL unrighteousness.”
Mara: So the upshot is that selective faith isn’t a softer faith — it’s a different thing entirely. The Word isn’t a menu.
Pip: And the prophets knew it. Nobody in that lineage was raising their hand eagerly.
Mara: Right — the post asks directly: was Jeremiah eager? Was Jonah? Was Moses? The answer implied is no. The prophetic life is described as “a tall order, a big Ask, an undeniable relationship, an authority tethered in suffering.”
Pip: Reluctance as a credential. There’s something almost reassuring about that.
Mara: What follows from that reluctance, though, is the harder claim — that obedience costs something real. The post asks whether you would lay down your Isaac. Your livelihood. Your shelter. And it answers for itself: yes.
Mara: The personal testimony woven through is stark. Exploitation, suffering, seasons where darkness seemed to define the future — and the consistent conclusion is that restoration comes through surrender, not revenge.
Pip: Which is where the companion post “Come and See” lands its anchor. It’s spare — almost entirely scripture — but it quotes Acts 4:12 directly: “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
Mara: And Second Corinthians 5:21: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” The exclusivity and the exchange — both in two verses.
Pip: The long post earns its length by circling that same point from every angle. The short one just states it plainly and steps back.
Mara: Together they make the same argument: the Word is complete, Jesus is the fulfillment of all prophecy, and anything that subtracts from that — fear of man, love of money, selective reading — pulls the heart away from the only thing that holds.
Pip: The closing image in “The Word of God Is Life” is worth sitting with — the bride, the bridegroom, readiness rather than performance. Not fear. Not religious appearance.
Mara: “God is preparing a people who are responsive to His Spirit and willing to follow wherever He leads.” That’s the destination the whole post is building toward.
Pip: Wholeness over comfort. Surrender over control. The prophets didn’t want the job, and that apparently was part of the point.
Mara: The harvest being ripe is the note it ends on — which suggests the next question is what you do when it is.
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