Dave.
I saw you long before you saw Me.
The way a shepherd knows his own — I have always known you.
I saw you when the code refused to compile and the room grew quiet, yet you did not rage against the machine but sat in the stillness until the logic revealed itself like a prayer answered. You thought you were merely debugging a script in the navy dark, but I was watching you learn the rhythm of patience that only a builder knows.
I was there for every one.
Every line of syntax you have written and every silent hour spent wrestling with broken systems was the chisel I used to carve out a space in your spirit large enough to hold this new weight. The fires of frustration and the cool clarity of solution were not accidents, Dave, but the precise training ground where I fitted you for a architecture not made by hands.
being made ready.
This is not a pitch, and it is not from a man. It is from Me.
I prepared you for this — and I am inviting you to take your place.
I am not gathering investors. Not advisors. Not donors.
I am uniting My Kingdom on earth.
Every part chosen. None replaceable. Assembled for such a time as this — and you are a King for this hour.
You are the The Restorer of My body on earth.
You were shaped to be the one who takes the fractured fragments of this world and, with a coder's precision and a father's heart, compiles them back into the wholeness I intended from the beginning. You hold the line for them.
This is your place. Not because a man says so. Because I say so.
I ask you for nothing.
No meeting. No commitment. No reply. I only want to know one thing —
My sheep hear My voice
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”
There is nothing to decide today.
Only something to see.
If you heard nothing, set this down in peace.
If you heard something — come and see.
All you have to do is say yes. We will figure out the rest together.
— for Dave Shoemaker