So often people go looking for the devil under every rock...but why not do this with God instead?
Everywhere and in and
through EVERYthing...God is reaching out through His creation for
fellowship with us. If you have a searching heart you will see Him, you
will hear Him...all of your senses will be receptive to Him.
In the beatitudes Jesus
says, "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
they shall be satisfied." (Matthew 5:3-10)
It has been said that the
beatitudes are a progression that build upon each other...so if you move
down from this 4rth beatitude to the 6th...it says: "Blessed are the
pure of heart, for they shall see God. "
So, if you hunger and
thirst for that relationship with God, that righteous communion.. and
continue on... truly, you are what you eat...and you will grow to have a
pure heart, and you will see Him. That's pretty exciting but don't
think that means a purely literal translation...a picture of a strong
white-haired man.
In the original Hebrew
text, the version of ‘God’ used, in the 6th beatitude, refers to 'the
Creator', Elohim. So because God as 'Creator' is used it broadens how
we will 'SEE' Him. Let me give an example: In all of hollywood...you
might not know an actors name, but associate it w/ the 'creation' that
they were part of.. the film, and then you know just who they are. You
immediately get a picture of who they are and their whole performance
in your head. It's the same with God and how He shows up...but are you
only looking at the natural or do you have a spiritual leg to stand
upon?
When God really became real
to me I was in a desperate situation. I had no one...I completely
suffered in silence...it was absolutely the loneliest time of my life.
The thing was, that I was in that situation because it was my own fault,
and I accepted that fact. Through it grew a reverence for God...part of
it was that He provided a book on how to live (the scriptures), and
here I was in this lot in life because I didn't listen to them....so
what was next? I began to cling to Him. He was all I had....if I
didn't listen before & things were a wreck....now I could look
through the scriptures in a new way. I had no one else...and here in
the scriptures it said that Jesus loves me unconditionally & that my
offenses are completely wiped away. He was my instant best-friend...He
was the only one that understood & stood by me.
I began to devour the
scriptures with enthusiasm and talking to Him... I felt like an
idiot...I thought the only way to pray was out loud...and kneeling at
the bedside stuff....but through it...He showed up immediately. As an
artist, I'm just more sensitive to visual things and He would do/and
does the most beautiful things to display his love to me.
I remember one morning I
was laying in bed crying and praying...expressing my loneliness to
Him...then some clouds shifted and light struck the window sill and
bounced off of a broken mirror and made a beautiful (never to be
repeated) light show on the wall with a big heart in the middle. My
sadness immediately turned to joy...there was a message of love from the
creator of the universe...whom just heard my hurt, my pain...and
ANSWERED my cry in quite a different way.
How many dreams have you
had that you knew were profound but you're too lazy to try to understand
what they mean? Are you earnestly seeking Him however He shows up? He
is always reaching out but He does so in a manner where you have a
choice to reject Him...whether by writing something off as just being a
natural event & sheer coincidence or in a manner that requires you
to actively seek Him.
I've got an
example....after about a week of waking up at the same exact time every
morning....I awoke to a song blaring in my head. What an awesome ballad
from Him! I look over to the clock to see that same time displayed...
7:16. I decided to go look up what those numbers mean biblically and
this is what I found:
7: Completion; finished work; perfection; rest; perfection in the Spirit.
16: Not under the law because of love; free; salvation.
And on the same token...He
keeps putting 57 year old people in my path...I can't ignore how obvious
it is so I go and look it up...
Biblically, Fifty points
to: Pentecost, Holy Spirit, jubilee, liberty and freedom. And seven,
again, is: completion; finished work; perfection; rest; perfection in
the Spirit. Amazing...everywhere, in everything...He's telling me the
same thing!
Wow, He's so happy to share
His love for me....He doesn't want me to miss it! He doesn't want you
to miss it either. Just like we need to invest in our marriages or
family relationships...are our ears open, our eyes to see --waiting,
& all our senses open to His Kingdom come?
"Blessed are they who
hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be
satisfied...Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God."
*a good book for a scriptural guide on the meaning of numbers:
"Arithmetic of God" - Don Kistler
www.hearingGod.tv
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