I wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you for your warm congrats and thoughts. It has been quite the journey so far these past six years and the journey is far from over. Reaching the halfway point has set me into reflection mode.

Thank you also for all your support, I know it’s hard to be out of touch and sometimes that feels impossible to me to know that each of you is just a phone call away but I must honor as best I can what God has asked of me. Far from perfect I still am.

Thank you all for your financial support as well that has meant and encouraged me so much these past years and months.

My overwhelming thoughts on this journey has been a single verse which I’d like to share here:

²⁶ Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. ²⁷ But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. ²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, ²⁹ so that no one may boast before him. ³⁰ It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. ³¹ Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”^[a] – 1 Corinthians 1:26-31

I am so humbled that God chose me for this calling. I have only grown weaker as I have walked this journey with Him… but perhaps it’s not that I’m weaker but I am more aware of both my sin and my desperate need for a savior.

We so often incorrectly think that somehow sanctification makes us “more perfect” and somehow “more resilient in this world”. I certainly thought so. I thought that I would become more and more “perfect” as I walked with God in this world… but quite the opposite has happened.

It’s like this… the close to God I have walked… the more of His brilliant light and holiness has shined in my life and in my heart. This light is like a spotlight that illuminates all the dark parts of my heart.

I am more keenly aware of my need for the saving grace of the cross of Jesus Christ than ever before. This is what sanctification does to us, what it does in us. It gives us a heart of flesh, a heart to fear the Lord. We become acutely aware of our sinful nature… of our pride… of our rebellion.. of our carnal mind that sets itself always against God as this verse says:

“the mind of the flesh [with its sinful pursuits] is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,” – Romans 8:7

It is in all this that we discover that we CANNOT live without God. He does not strengthen us to a point that we can walk without Him… He shows us our weakness so that we cling to Him with all we are and find our strength not in ourselves apart from Him but in and through Him.

God asked me to walk with Him. It has cost me everything in this world. I obeyed. The treasures I am discovering in Solitude and in Obscurity are beyond anything I could have ever dreamed possible for me.

People have asked me so many times… “How do you know what to write?” My answer now is this, “I don’t. I listen and God writes the books. I have no thoughts when I sit to write, no plan, no outline, nothing… I simply pray: “God, as I open my mouth to write these books you’ve asked me to write fill my mouth with Your Words.” And He does.”

Again… my heart is with you all. One day we will all be together again forever and ever for all the eternities of the eternities.

Consider supporting the remainder of this journey financially as that is always such a great blessing to me. 50 books to go!

Until that day, Benjamin Kareth, The Seven Named Prophet.