My encounters with God have become increasingly more strange. God's leading me to swing sets, distant paths, and marshy swamp fields and I'm following and therefore growing more and more in love with His vast mystery. A recent burning has been in my heart to revert to the Jemima of my childhood. The child who's innocent imaginative mind discerned the ways of the Spirit routinely and with passionate curiosity. Where did that Jemima go? I habitually cry out to God to show me more, to speak more, I want to see the demons and the angels I saw when I was young. I want to feel God's presence like an arm around my shoulders like I did when I was young. I want to see all that I saw back then.
Where is the innocent imaginative mind I once had?
It's tainted with the rebellion of my past, the interest in the things of this world and with it; a fog has come over the things in the Spiritual realm.
Tonight as I stood freezing in the middle of a swamp at roughly 9:45 PM (like I said..... strange) God so clearly said. "Yeah, your feet get numb the longer you stand in the cold." Now, I realize that reading that hardly gives the stern tone that I received it in. God oftentimes speaks to me in His tough correcting Father voice, this was one of those times. Boom. With a blaring echo the words reverberated around my head. I'm numb. What was uncomfortable has become comfortable. I am desensitized. If I'm living in the world, how do I expect to also live in the Spirit? How can I discern the ways of the enemy when all that's around me is of him. Now, don't misunderstand me. I do hear from God, I see Him everyday. But there is a haze over all that I could see. I am getting only a taste of what God has for me. I am not of this world; I cannot become acclimatized to how it operates. It is a dying lost world out there and I will have no part of it. "For our citizenship is in Heaven" Philippians 3:20. 1 Peter 2:11 says, "Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul." If you stand in the cold long enough, you get numb and you can't feel anything.
Get out.
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Wow! Good stuff, and I believe it is right on with the direction the Lord is leading His faithful at this time. We had our youth Pastor speak a incredibly powerful message along those lines Sunday in church, and everywhere I turn the Lord is seeming to put this message of living differently than you have to be filled with more grae as you trust in Him more and more until you are transformed and no longer held by the bonds of this world.
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