Dec 6
The First Deep Mystery
I am smiling as I write this because so many of your responses have a breath of humor that sometimes catches me off guard. On a personal note, over the months many of you have been asking if I will write a book on these posts concerning Transition and the Tabernacle? The answer is - it is in the works right now. Yes, it will be easier to read and digest that way, but for those of you who want RAW insights right now – keep reading this blog.
PREPARATION FOR THE DEEPER MYSTERY
In many ways walking into these two rooms, which actually look like one room to those on the outside, is in itself a mystery. These dark, covered rooms that are filled with ethereal elements and strange furniture present an imposing structure to the spiritual neophyte. It is in these dark rooms that the Dark Night of the Soul is exacerbated and it is Divinely meant to be this way.
You are not without hope, it is the Dark Night of the Soul and the discomfort of this era of your life that is preparing you for the extraordinary mystery you are entering - and you thought this was about obedience and discipline. Well, it is, but it is the depth of those two spiritual disciplines that is sensitizing you sufficiently enough to take advantage of the deeper mysteries you will soon experience.
SPIRITUAL REALITIES
It is the flight from discomfort to comfort that keeps you pressing toward the next room. Without the deeper spirituality gained from the confines of this room you will have no place to lodge the source from which all the coming mysteries flow. Without this added sensitivity, the life changing events that will soon rush your way will remain inexperienced and you will remain oblivious to spiritual realities you more than likely have already encountered.
These spiritual realities will reshape your marriage, your parenting, your family, and your view of God, but only if you apply them and to apply them you will have to know their reality. I know it seems like a cycle that leads to a cycle, the question then becomes, how do you get in the cycle? You get in through the sensitivity you are gaining from the discomfort of your current moment. This is called brokenness and contrition and God promises to be close to those who have it (Psalms 38:14; Isa 66:2).
THE SPIRITUAL OPENING
One key to keep in mind is that the opening to get into this vortex of spirituality is very small and each piece of furniture you are going toward holds a key. Each one will tell you how to prepare yourself for what is about to happen. Even now, the Holy Spirit is giving you the sensitivity you need to navigate this room – you just are not sensitive enough to feel that yet – but you will.
However, before you can go much further, you need to know the reality of the deeper mystery of the rooms you have just entered. To fully immerse yourself in this deeper mystery you will need to visualize what some might think are three parallel universes – the Tabernacle, the Throne Room of Heaven, and the Garden of Eden.
THE EARTH, YOU, AND THE THRONE ROOM
When you study the design of these three you find some amazing parallels. Without going into detail the Garden of Eden was designed to parallel the design of Heaven itself (Gen. 2; Rev. 4, 21-22). God made the Garden to look like Heaven in order to remind man of that which would become His eventual home. As Adam subdued the Earth the wildness of the untamed Earth would begin to look like the Garden. At some point then the entire Earth would then look like the Garden of Eden.
In the same way we are to subdue the Earth, or said another way, advance the Kingdom. In doing this we prepare the Earth for God’s eventual rule as the Kingdoms of this Earth become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.
Taken on step further, what we are to do to the Earth is exactly what God is doing in us – preparing His dwelling place.
I’ll write more on the First Deep Mystery, including the three parallel universes, in my next post.
Blessings,
John Paul
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Going deeper, to go higher - yes, that makes sense…
Thank You, John Paul…
God Bless!
This comment is to Janey from the last blog…I”m walking right where you are and wondering the exact same thing. I’ve left a non-denominational church to come back into a Baptist church. They do no operate in the gifts but the love seems much stronger than in the other church. But, it’s like a form of religion without power and it’s very frustrating when I offer anything that’s different from their way of thinking. I too am trying to decide why I’m back in this church. Maybe, it’s to bring me in submission to authority that does not agree with me. All I know, it’s a very hard place to be. My children and grandchildren are in this church.
I’ve only just caught up on the last four posts, and am kicking myself that I didn’t read them sooner. I didn’t think I had an “agenda’ but a “vision” from God, and then got a nasty shock last week when God told me to let go of my vision and hand it to my church to be turned into a ministry by others in the church - not me. Melodramatic perhaps, but I felt like Hannah giving away Samuel, although without the prior agreement to do so. Cried for a few days, and am still feeling quite empty inside because I now don’t know what I’m meant to be doing with my life. But am doing my best to trust God that He can fill me up again. And I’m relieved to know that I’ve possibly avoided having an Ishmael.
For RD and Janey, what you write about churches is so interesting. I felt God had told me to leave my church and go elsewhere. Then a few days after having told my pastors I was leaving God told me to turn around and go back to the church I had just left (and hand my vision over to them). In that short period when I was cutting ties to my old church, though, I realised that I had stopped following God and had started following people. Also that I’d got too comfortable where I was and felt I could just tolerate the personal baggage I still had rather than let God deal with it. Fortunately my pastors have happily received me back after my 3-day side-trip, but I felt like a bit of a fool. Oh well, happy to be a fool for God. Just want to keep on growing, and keep trusting Him that it will all make sense one day (even if it seems utterly confusing right now!).
God’s richest blessings to you all!
“To fully immerse yourself in this deeper mystery you will need to visualize what some might think are three parallel universes – the Tabernacle, the Throne Room of Heaven, and the Garden of Eden.”
Another thought provoking insight I had never before considered, thank you once again.
Z
Does anyone besides me feel angry about being in this place? I am really struggling with wanting to quit and run and have been for several years. It is getting increasingly difficult to stay. Is this part of the process? I feel like everything in my life is out of whack. I can’t seem to get anything under control, especially my emotions. I cry half the time all the way home from church. Sometimes I just want to go to sleep and not wake up.
Desparate.
It’s amazing how much I just got out of your recent blog, dated Dec 6th. This past year has been a mystery of the deep. I prayed last year around the beginning of the year to love God no matter my circumstances. Last May, I had to go out of state to help my family take care of my step father who raised me but also molested me. I felt the need to show my dad before he passed, the love I wanted from him by serving him while he was with us. I also got the chance to ask him about his relationship with God. Although he didn’t allow me to pray with him, he assured me that his hospice paster prayed the sinner’s prayer with him. None the less, I still prayed for him while being near him.
Afer my dad passes in June, my husband and family and I decided it was time to head back to our home state. My grandparents’ both lived with my parents to help my mom take care of my father while she was at work. It was hard on my kids’ my grandparents’ never interacted with my children, and tension was high while my family and I stayed in a small bedroom. We came back and nothing has transpired as we hoped. My husband was suppose to get rehired with his job; we got here and the company had a hiring freeze, and it’s still frozen, it you will. I got laid off with my job, and have a complaint against my company with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision that’s still pending. We have struggled with more tension while trying to get set up, we lost much from the move. Many hungry days and nights.
My mom has asked us to move back to live with her while I go back to school to get a degree in Nursing. We hope to use the time to pay off debt, and save money, and MOST importantly, get closer to God, and try to win my unsaved family members to the Lord. My mom is a buddhist, my oldest brother is in eckenkar and is gay, my middle brother is gay, and I would like to show them all God’s love through our daily lives.
Thank you for the blog, it helped encourage me to keep pressing forward and know that it’s all in God’s hands.
Hi John Paul … on your comments of having all this down on a book in the future … Would you have it done in spanish too as where I live the spanish speaking folk would love it!! Am grateful for everything you’re teaching and sharing with us.
Thanks and blessings
I know the feeling about being angry half the time and wanting to cry the other half. I was really ticked about the agenda part in the last blog so after a while I sought out God about it. Through this teaching I learned the difference between service, grace and mercy. We are priests and so should minister to God which is to serve his hearts desire and not may own. That is not to say my hearts desire was in and of itself wrong…its just that what I thought was important and immediate wasn’t what God was after in me. Sigh, I thought I was much further along than I am. This is especially galling because it feels like I’ve been here for my whole life. But I am better today than I was yesterday. This understanding brings me a great measure of peace that I did not have before.
I saw a jewish comedian on tv this week end. He told a joke that basically said we Christians said to ourselves, (willy nilly I might add), hey, lets make the Old Testament better by adding the New Testament to it and call it the Bible He went on to say, the God of the Old Testament is still the same and adding the NT is not going to change things. Although he missed the point of Jesus he did help me to understand and remember God’s nature. He really is still the same God of the Old Testament. Now when I think of the Tabernacle I remember the trepidation of the priests with the cord on their ankles about to enter the Holy of Holies. I understand God’s love better because I can better appreciate what Jesus Christ did on our behalf. I anticipate being closer to God because of it.
I feel like you have been speaking to me directly through your last two posts. I am now finding myself fighting my soul’s pet peeves, angry that I even have them but didn’t know it, but determined to have them crushed. It did take me a few days of grumpiness to come to that conclusion though. Thanks John Paul, for helping us to go deeper.
Agur the son of Jakeh knew a secret to holiness, he knew he couldn’t handle life so he requested of God neither falsehood, poverty or riches. Then he maintain his life in order. (Pro 30:7-9)
So often we want to be holy, yet we are in the ‘wrong place’ and sin lies at our doorstep, i find a good solution is to be at work. Perhaps others have different places but the underlying motive is to be prudent and avoid the pit ahead.
Even the Lord Jesus had to be tempted in the wilderness, temple and mountain where the conditions were most conducive for sin. How much better would it be to just spend a day at the mall reading the bible (without burnout) etc… This is the highway of holiness.
Amazing, Amazing! It never gets old! Deeper mysteries and greater insights through revelation only leads to the greater glory. The Glory of the latter house shall be greater then the former house!
Blessings!
Shirley C.
I am in search of help, as far back as I can remember I have seen things,written proems, and heard voices spiritually, felt other peoples emotions, it has never left me, but gotten stronger when God verbally spoke to me and brought me back, to His will and way.
I am not going to say that life is easier, but at times interesting on how God lets you look at things, it’s not as you once looked at life, but how you look at life and situations through different eyes, it’s almost like seeing things through 2 sets of eyes, 1 for the natural, and 2 through the spiritual.
I am not asking if God called me, but I am trying to find out what gift God has given me.
It hurts when you have written a proem ( poetry in story form), story, or poetry that was given to you to write, you show it to people they read it say that’s nice hand it back to you. A feeling of flustration comes over you, you feel like what was written just went over their heads and you just want to sit and cry.
It makes perfect sense to you, but to others they see but don’t see.
How do you find out what your calling or gift is, and where can you get training to feed it, nuture it, and use it the way God intended it to be used.
To further understand what I am talking about I leave this with you.
This happend 9-2-08
(It was raining with some wind nothing to be concerned about.
All of a sudden I heard a voice telling me the storm is coming, and it’s going to be a bad one.
While I am hearing the voice, I am also seeing a storm in mind.
There will be 2 waves of it, the first wave is to prepare us for the second wave to come.
We need to be prepared spiritually, mentally, Bibically and any other ways as well.
It will be a time when you find out what you are made of, you will either make it spiritually or you won’t.
God’s wrath is close at hand anger from many generations.
We will pray for peace, but peace will not come.
There seems no end in sight, even though we know there will be, the Bible tells us so.
I see a man pacing back and forth shaking his head while saying that the truth is not in them.
I see God looking down on us just waiting for us to repent, and change our ways, He looks longingly at His creation.
God knows that once He says something, it is so no changing, or going back.
That doesn’t diminish His love for His people, it saddens God how we hurt each other.
We are as naughty children that don’t seem to know how far we have gotten out of hand, but God knows.
It is time to put into action what we have learned, it’s not a time to sit idly by, because if you do you may get left behind.)
Please explain what is going on. Please help answer 2 questions I have asked most of my life.
Who am I? and why am I here?
I know God has a purpose for me in my life, but I am so afraid of letting Him down and that brings tears to my eyes.
May God Bless you and keep you always.
Hi John Paul,
I would like to echo Susan M’s request for a Spanish translation of your future book, and perhaps some of your previous ones. I spoke to Zach Mapes a while back and mentioned this to him, but he thought not much material had been translated into Spanish. I particularly think it would be a tremendous blessing to have your DVD material translated. I am Spanish but live in the UK, and cannot begin to tell you what a blessing your insights have been in my life. If ever your teachings are recorded in Spanish, please do let me know, so that I can start sharing them with my fellow Spaniards.
Also, may I just suggest to the person identified as “Anonymous” who left a comment before me, to please read my last post entitled “Stop Press! This will blow your mind”. The videos contained in that post will give you reassurance that God is holding your every circumstance and emotion in the palm of his hand. He knows about your every need and he will NEVER let go of you. Please watch those videos in my post and take stock of how small we are and how huge God is, and delight in the knowledge that despite His awesomeness, He cares SO MUCH for each and everyone of us. I wish you all the best and have no doubt that you will get through those desperate times you are living in at the moment.
Thank you John Paul for another wonderfully encouraging post.
God bless you.
ransom33 @ http://www.ransom33.wordpress.com
Thanks MG for your comments to Janey and myself - it was a reminder to me that I had my focus in the wrong place. I know I’m in this church for a reason but I sure miss the strong praise and worship that was in the other. I needed that reminder to keep my eyes on my Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit instead of man.
God Bless and thanks John Paul for this interesting blog.
Yeah,
All Romans 6 stuff:
4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
All of this ties in with the John 12:23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
In the Dark you have to die in order to get into the Light.
Peace,
-Shaun
Man, this like a bite of the best tasting food then that’s all—- no more bites for a while- or like a mystery on tv that you have to wait for the next week for more clues…. God is a mystery and boy it is fun and adventure to find Him out- the orginal Guy who started hide and seek. Thank you and thank you for doing this JP. Keep them coming and thank you for putting this in book form too. Blessings
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God you will not despise.
Psalm 51:17
Sing to the Lord, you saints of his; praise his Holy name
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.
Psalm 30:11-12
Blessings
Anonymous,
I know what it is like to feel angry about being in a dark night. In the last couple of years I’ve lost my promotion without justification, my investments, most of my savings, my job, a ton of pride, and my daughter’s life (in the sense of her future). Meanwhile I’ve been bombarded with financial hardships.
I feel to some degree that I have a right to be angry. However, I looked into anger and discovered at its roots is selfishness. I want my promotion. I want my job. I want my daughter to laugh, play, walk, run, jump, talk, and go to school. I want my savings. I want, I want, I want! I did not get what I wanted so I’m angry.
It is normal to battle this. It is normal to jump back and forth through the steps of grief when there is loss. What has helped me is gaining an eternal perspective. This life isn’t even as big as grain of sand in the universe compared to the length of eternity. I look forward to my eternal reward and the reward my daughter will have in heaven. After all, is my daughter really ‘mine?’ Is my money, job, material possessions really ‘mine?’ Or, are they God’s? What right do I really have to be angry?
I jump around through emotions but I always try to bring myself back on level ground with the understanding that God is good. God loves me. God has good things for me. God wants to bless me. When I let go of what I want and look for what He is setting up so that I might be blessed I lose some of the heaviness my situation has brought. Look at Joseph…what did he say in the end? “God meant it for good.”
When I’m down I try to remember that God is weaving something beautiful in my life…FOR GOOD!
(sorry for the length…tried to be concise)
Anonymous,
I forgot to tie everything together by mentioning that letting go of our agenda’s help us deal with the anger and depressive emotions. Not getting our way and feeling that things will never be better are a recipe for disaster.
When I let go of my desires for the way I wanted my life to play out I was able to ‘get over’ what has been happening to me. Now, I focus my attention on “Lord, what do you want me to do now.” I need a new agenda…Gods. I also keep in mind regularly what is good about my day and how God desires good things for me. It has been life changing.
How can a place be so dark to our natural eyes, yet be so full of light to our spiritual eyes?
Here in this place we become aware of our other senses as they try to compensate for our lack of vision or sight. Hearing, smell, taste, and touch or feeling.
In being drawn closer we find our inner man being filled with anticipation while our outer man is filled with the thought of loss.
Strange that we can be both excited and terrified at what we might hear as we go deeper into the hidden places.
As we experience His love, we understand that we do not need to be terrified at what He might say, even if it touches the most sensitive and dark areas within us.
(Son 2:4) He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
Blessings,
David
This is in response to ‘The Perfect Storm’ prophetic word, on CNN today:
“Our focus is oil, but the critical need for water is going to make water the most significant natural resource that we’re going to have to worry about in the future,” says Larry Fillmer, executive director of the Natural Resources Management & Development Institute at Auburn University in Alabama.”
See at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/11/drought.problem/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
John Paul,
You are right , we need to master how to subdue our heart and will to become His dwelling place. In so doing, we subdue the earth and advance His Kingdom. We live from the inside out through Christ which strengthens us.
Oyinda
John Paul,
Thanks For the insight on The Dark Night Of The Soul. Its Good to know whats going on and that there is hope around the corner. Man I m stripped (i think). My only agenda is — Get God or DIE. I have nothing left but a heart full of hunger and desperation. I want Him and only Him, just to be an objest of His Love. I want to commune with the lover of my soul! I am usless without him.
Thanks John Paul For the insight.
Daniel
With regards to the cost of water: Some sources state utilities water is $1.50 for 1000 gallons. That is about a penny, or (1.5) pennies per gallon. Oil is sold by the barrel which is about 35 gallon drums. The current price for crude (the main price people look at) according to http://www.oil-price.net is about $46 dollars. This is about $1.28 per gallon for oil.
Now if you consider certain brand name waters, they cost about $1.28 for only 20 oz.! So “technically” that prophecy has come to pass. BUT considering the “tone” and “spirit” of the message John Paul gave about the Perfect Storm he is refering to the utilities waters which are currently about 1 penny per gallon.
Either oil is gonna get -real- cheap (no) or water is going to get -real- expensive (yes). This would be due to drought which we in Georgia have experienced quite a bit these last few years.
Several months ago I woke up quietly in bed hearing about 3 to 5 disembodies voices singing in my room about the “fires” and the “floods” and the “winds” and the “rains” all comming together in one place. (I think they mentioned something else but I didn’t write it down) Something about a small town outside of Texas was mentioned too.
So two things you can get from my comment: Bottled water is expensive, and Mr. Jackson is right; a storm is comming.
-Shaunboy
Dearest brother and father in the faith,
I wanted to let you know that during worship today, my spirit worshipped in a way that I had never worshipped before. I can’t remember what song we were singing but every line and every word that I sang was like singing out all the posts that you have written about the tabernacle so far. I can’t wait til you complete these posts and most especially your book. You have truly blessed me and my relationship with Jesus through these posts.
In awe of His goodness,
Angela
What has rocked my world in this place is that I’ve been asked if I would be willing to let go of my family members, even my husband, if it was required to fulfill the calling on my life. I’ve asked myself a hundred times if I’ve gone off the deep end! It defies all the importance placed on earthly relationships that I see other Christians enjoying. My children are grown, transition time in nurturing. But being willing to go on without husband, if he so chooses to remain in self, is reaching to my very depths. Of course, I choose God, but oh the heart-ache!
Thank you for your opening up understanding of this most holy and sacred place, John Paul. Brings comfort in knowing I am not alone.
Blessings.
Who can fathom the mercy of the uncreated God for making it this way?
It keeps me humble to know I would not have chosen this way, but it is His great grace that has ordained it for me.
Thanks for your insights. They point me again to the love of the Father.
Tanya
Hi John Paul - everyone just wanted to share this !!
Does might make right ?
The conundrum I beleive he showed me last night is the true nature of WILL - and the meaning and place of WILL. In this place our will is the issue as it relates to things like predesitnation - again a seeming contradiction. The resolusion comes when we realize that we have misperceived will as might or strength. So then our will must become an alignment - an issue of trust.
When will is might or an issue of strength the lion cannot lay down with the lamb - we cannot reconcile with our brother.
When we correctly percieve will as trust our differences are no longer separations but become the true power to change things becasue we no longer see our brother as a combatant - someone to we have to excerise might over.
WILL is turned to MIGHT by envy.
John Paul:
I have been a catholic christian all of my life. And still am when it comes to attending Holy Communion on a regular basis and going to confession as often as i can for spiritual growth and guidance as well as accountability. I also read the word and teach from it on the internet and in prayer groups.
In the midst of my hair raising childhood, I had several encounters with the Lord when times were pretty dark. I believe the Lord showed himself to me through these experience because He wanted to give me hope that one day I will be serving Him wholeheartedly. Some of these experiences/encounter related to the sacrament of Holy Communion, prayer, praise and worship and confession.
These encounters often resulted in a hidden desire to want more of the Lord and to be a seeker of His face all the days of my life as well as a worker in the vineyard in the middle of life “distractions” from members of the family that I was raised in and from people that I chose to associate myself with in the different phases of my life regarding believers and non-believers alike.
Once I understood my pattern of behavior in my past circumstances in regards to the reasons why I chose certain people, places and things over and above God’s choices in my life. I began blaming other’s less for my spiritual condition and I started taking greater responsibility for my own “sin behavior” and further more for my own spiritual development by the grace of God. That is why the Lord has been drawing me to this blog.
Yes, the Catholic Church of the past has been known to minimize the spiritual development of the laity and accentuate the spiritual development of leadership to a degree but after John Paul ll came on the scene, there was a major house cleaning, a reformation of the church through Vatican ll. You can find this in an article called “Lumen Gentium” The people of Light….This article written by Pope John Paul ll discusses the church as made up of lay people with an apostolic calling to fulfill the “Great Commission” in the priesthood of the layiety which they acknowledge is the ministry of Priest, Prophet and King, over and above the ordained Priesthood that is characteristic of the Sacrament of Holy Orders.
Now back to making the choice to taking responsibility before God and man regarding our own spiritual development.
Simply put what the church states and what God expects and challenges us in our everyday life is to take full responsibility and to submit and participate in the inner transformation process through Jesus and in the fellowship and union with the Holy Spirit so that we can be the best that God calls us to be.
John Paul, the reason that I come to this Blog is that much of what you teach is in line with what many of the Catholic and Orthodox theologians and Father’s of the faith have taught, and it is easily digestible for believers who do not have an affinity for exhaustive and extensive research in regards to topics related to inner transformation as it relates to the Dark Night of the Soul.
Another reason why it is well received here on this blog is because you have lived through most if not all that you teach. And so this makes your approach to this topic real and genuine. Thank-you for being you. Keep up the good work, in Yeshua’s Name,
I Remain Hopeful & Blessed,
Shirley C
Thank you John Paul. I have been in this place for quite some time.The loneliness has been so intense in the past days I haven’t known if I could bear it. One day my own thoughts frightened me as they seemed so disjointed. This was relieved after really pressing in prayer. I realized that I was being tested on my declaration that He is enough for me. I had to answer whether that is true even when I could not sense His presence. Silence is one thing, but feeling as if He is not with you is another.
It has been approximately 20 hours since I made an attempt to post to this blog. About an hour ago “I had a near brush with death. I don’t say these things lightly. I definitely know that my life is for a reason and God has some things in store that I have not encountered in my time here on the earth. I was about ready to pick my husband up from work and it had been snowing all day here in New England, in fact it is still snowing with another storm tomorrow as I write. Well anyway, this afternoon, I had to park my 12 passenger, school bus van in a safe location in back of the church according to my Pastor, who is also the landlord, so the plows can do their thing. I had parked on an incline and had to apply the emergency brake along with the parking brakes. Later on in the evening, I was getting ready to pick my husband up from work, I went to clean off the vehicle after starting it and then proceeded to take the van out of park and into reverse and was wondering why i wasn’t moving and realized that I had to find the lever to disengage the emergency brake, it was dark and I stepped out of the vehicle and found the lever and then I disengaged it and all of sudden, I had a runaway vehicle that I could not control..and so I am at this point running with the vehicle in a snowy parking lot wondering how the experience was going to end and looking desparately for any cars or people ..thank God nothing was in sight except a snow bank and so the vehicle gracefully ran into a snow bank…and I never tripped from the momentum..I had my eye on where the vehicle was going and was steering the wheel at the same time..running with it..I couldn’t even think about stopping because if I did…the vehicle would have pulled me under as I would have slipped on the icy parking lot…all of sudden I have a clearer under standing of a destiny applied to a life. All of sudden, the misperceived defeats between me and my daughter looks sweet and I can laugh at the victory that awaits her after she recovers from her illusions…All of a sudden life challenges seem like stepping stones to the next victory…All of a sudden I can see more clearly than I ever have about many things. But why does it have to take these kinds of things to drive the point home? Why can’t we just simply trust God for His plans and purposes to be fulfilled in our lives without questioning His motives? It’s great to be alive and doing God’s will here upon the earth in this day and age. May I continue to press into the things that God has for my life in especially in being a co-laborer with Him in bringing the Kingdom of God to the earth.
Thank-you again for this blog..I think I am going to read some more of St. John of The Cross (lol)…Life is an adventure waiting to be lived.
Still Recovering!
Shirley C.
God is God — beautifully written, I am happy!
Dear Brethren,
Thank you for your prayers. Our Dad sent us the visit we needed. As usual, in Awe of our King Jesus. Much love, Holly