Tid Bits To Chew On

A few random thoughts I picked out of my journals:

-Marination is the key to a juicy relationship with the Lord.

-When the Spirit plucks at the strings of your heart, the result is a most beautiful melody.

-When you face a stormy sea, remember, the safest place to be is resting at the feet of your Heavenly Daddy.

-Tarry in the presence of the Lord, and the sweet aroma of His glory will linger with you.

-Jesus didn't don human flesh and die a murder's death to make you happy- He did it to make you holy.

-Let His glory shatter your selfish dreams and replace them with visions of His splendor.

-To be humble is to be so filled and consumed with Jesus, that pride has no place to lurk.

-When God said, "Let there be light," He was saying, "Let the brightness of My glory illuminate this process of redemption."

-Knowledge of God and His word may be obtained through stillness; quiet yourselves in His presence and listen.

I Am A New Creation

As the Spirit hovered over the unformed waters of the earth, so the Spirit hovers over me in my broken state, like an expectant mother hen awaiting the emergence of her chicks; brooding over this new creation that I have become; awaiting my emergence into the calling He is preparing for me. Where He hovers, there will I tarry. He energizes this lifeless heap, bringing forth unbelievable life. Into the dusty wasteland of my soul He breathes His life.
Let the pungent, sweet aroma of Your glory linger with me. Energize my inner man that I may come to know the length, height, depth and width of this Love which my abstract mind cannot yet fully comprehend. Fill me and form me according to the perfect model of Christ.

Grasping the Concept of Eternity

Until recently, I had always viewed eternity as an unlimited span of time… Wrong! Eternity has nothing to do with time. Time is for this world that we know, which will eventually cease to exist. Time is a measurement based on the orbit of stars, moons, and planets, changing of seasons, aging of matter, and so on. Eternity, on the other hand, is a habitat (Isaiah 57:15). Time is rigid and linear. At this particular point in time, only one direction can be clearly seen- the past.
The best way I have found to describe eternity is as a faceted realm. From any point in eternity, everything can be seen. God is omnipresent and omniscient. He inhabits eternity and sees everything and knows everything. This puts my mind into a bit of a pretzel! This is why people can be touched when watching, reading, or listening to a powerful teaching or worship service long past- the Holy Spirit knows no bounds. He weaves around and moves throughout our time. God sees our time in entirety, as well as the age to come.
Therefore, we must not think of what God was doing or where He was before Genesis 1:1 as an endless time span of thought or endless nothingness, but rather, think of Him as dwelling in His faceted, glory-filled habitation, surrounding this realm in which we now reside. He has more of a “bird’s eye” perspective, in comparison to our linear, one way perspective.
Well, what did God think before He created? Another wrong thought! A.W. Tozer states in Knowledge of the Holy, “In Him word and idea are indivisible.” God is perfect and without fault. Hence, He has no need to think about or plan out anything, because it will always be perfect! I believe He created the universe in seven literal days and laid out the idea of time for our sake. To Him, all of history is but a flash, quick as a snap of the fingers (2Peter 3:8). The aspect of a time span just shows us how much care He has taken in creating all that we see.

Move With The Cloud

Your body is a temple, a tabernacle for the Lord to dwell in. A temple is a place for worship and sacrifice. Therefore, daily offer your life to the Lord as a sacrifice in worship of His holy name. The Glory Cloud of the Holy One always hovered over the tabernacle. When the Cloud moved, the whole camp moved. It is the Cloud of protection and sanctification. Where the Cloud settled, there the camp settled. When you sense the Holy Spirit moving or leading you in a certain direction, you had better be quick to pick up and move- no questions asked. Why would you want to stay settled when your covering, your protection, your crown of glory is moving elsewhere, urging you to move with it? When you stay and the Spirit moves, you are in danger. That means you are too comfortable with your current surroundings- that’s complacency. Do not be settled in complacency! It is a dangerous place to be!

John 2:19-22
Revelation 21:22-23
1Corinthians 3:16-17
Acts 7:48-50
Revelation 3:16
Zephaniah 1:12