Friday, December 15, 2017

The World is (Not) My Oyster

A playground with 2 swings and a bouncy horse

compared to

Disneyland.

So is this world

compared to

the Kingdom of God.

Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Way of Life, 2

As I was sitting, I began to think about how heat can destroy bug infestations, someone could burn their home and be rid of the pests. I then began to think about how people with yards and farmers often burn their yards/fields to start fresh. 

Then the verses that reference how some things are purified by water and other things are purified by fire, came into my mind. It was all so quick and spontaneous. It reminded me of how Mark Virkler speaks about how the Spirit communicates with us through spontaneous thoughts. 

I have often wanted what I have believed others have had in THEIR communications with the Lord - dreams, visions, audible voices - overt, 'can't be denied' communications. The 'still small voice' never seemed to be present with me but I know it has been. I just haven't understood that I needed to acknowledge it. If nothing else, these few years worth of blog posts should confirm Daddy Yah's dealing with me. 

Back to my spontaneous thoughts.

I then began to think about how the bible says that things that can with stand the fire, need the fire to be purified but things not as durable need the water.

I thought, 'hmm, how does this relate to people spiritually?'' I thought about how we are washed by the water of the Word. I thought of how Jesus said, now you are clean through the word I have spoken unto you.

 I  talked with my children and told them what I had been thinking on. 

I pondered with them on what things in a person need the water and what things need the fire.

I came to the conclusion that things pertaining to our character need the fire.

I determined that the fire are our difficult trials, traumas and bad situations and that it takes 'heavy' cleansing to forge characters that will shine like gold and silver, sparkle like rubies and diamonds.

My oldest son said that water can clean smudges off of window and glass. 

The water applied daily through application of the Word is sufficient for daily cleansing, like Jesus telling Peter that whoever has been made clean - and this would appear to be the initial cleansing of sanctification that occurs when we are "in Christ" - only needs his 'feet washed'. 

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

The Way of Life

We want Yah to be a Father to us, so then we must allow Him to  function as that Father.

It is quite easy to to say that every good and perfect gift comes from above from  the Father of Lights in whom is no variableness or shadow of turning, but it is harder to accept that whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges.

But I would believe that this is the more important function of Abba's 'fatherness' --  the rebuking, chastening, the scourging.

We are so wayward and reluctant in our following of the way of righteousness that discipline MUST be a continual and constant companion of those who would see God.

Wise: from an ancient word that means "to see".
Dom: a suffix that can mean "a condition of".
Wisdom - the condition of being able to see.

Wisdom tells us to hearken unto her for she will lead us in right paths. To be wise is to be able to 'see'. See what? See how to 
discern and judge between what is good and right  according to how the FATHER estimates what is good and right.

Once we are able to 'see' what is good and right, and of course,
follow what is good and right, we are on the path of righteousness.

We are not to walk according to our own reasoning or how things seem.

The standard, the plumbline, for determining what the Father sees as good and right is the Word. Immersing ourselves and allowing the Word to saturate our spirit and soul will help our 'seeing'. 

Being attentive on a daily basis of Wisdom's call, with ears pricked up as an alert son, waiting to hear the voice of the Father, will guide us in righteousness' path. 

As we abide in Christ, and our hearts are intertwined with His, as we become One, as we let the Word of God rule in our hearts, we are purged, cleaned, made undefiled. 

And it is those that are undefiled, purged, made clean, that will see God. Our obedience to following the path, taking heed to the Word of instruction, allowing the correction and scourging to have its perfect work, it is that that will make us an abode of the Godhead. They will manifest themselves to us and through us when the temple is clean.

But we must yield ourselves to the corrective hand of the Father.

Father, help me to not only yield to your correction but to desire your correction! I want to be conformed to the image of my elder brother! I want us to be so intertwined as one that I am always seeing through your eyes and hearing through your ears - manifest yourself to me! Clean me through your word.