"The heart is deceitful beyond measure, and desperately dark beyond understanding. Greed make the prophet mad and in turn make merchandise with fraudulent words of unsuspecting victims. Trust in humans, the flesh and our strength are man's way.Your fathers have forsaken Me, says the Lord, and walked after other gods, served them, worshipped them, forsaken Me, and not kept My Torah; But you have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, you walk every one after the imagination of his or her evil heart, that none hearken to Me. (Jeremiah 16:11-12)
Outliers and scattering immigrants remember our present time on earth is in transit (in the cosmos but not of the cosmos), rendering to Caesar what belong to Caesar and to God what belong to God. We live in between times looking back to the future with the Spirit of holiness guiding our way home in the last days.
This book lay a foundation of discipleship for practitioners in dark places: commending us to God through the lógos of His grace to face the darkness inside our own heart, doublemindedness within our own community, and a disordering world in penultimate reality as each make disciples of the same as outliers.
The 30 devotions is a transliteration of the koine Greek.