Have you
found Him?
10 Aug 18
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye
shall search for
me with all your heart Jer 29v13
Primarily believers “find” God for real,
beyond mental ascent or token acceptance, in two different ways. Firstly, and
usually, by traumatic crisis, an event beyond our control occurs and it presses
us to our knees seeking His deliverance because no earthly help avails. Secondly,
and usually, once we have found this God of miraculous deliverance, we begin to
seek His lovely face through obedience and adoration. Once connected to Him its
almost as if a God addiction develops and through love and a desperate longing in
our soul we thirst for solace of the presence of the living God. The Psalmist
wrote
I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or
slumber to mine eyelids,
Until
I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob
Psalm 132:4,5
Have you experienced that place yet? As
mentioned, many of those that have discovered this Pearl of Great price,
birthed that desperation for Him by discovering His closeness in crisis.
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble Psalm 46:1
Strangely and wonderfully, in the agony of our
pressing necessity … and if we are sincere! It somehow dawns that the cost of
our urgent relief is to be found in the absolute yielding of our hearts, in a
full and total surrender to Him … and that without any conditions. What we
usually, do not at realise, that it is in fact His dear Holy Spirit already
communing with us, whispering His unchanging terms of engagement to our souls.
As the last remnants of self will dissolve away
before Him and with all other agendas laid down, it is here, at this exact
point, in that involuntary come voluntary, not my will but your will personal
Gethsemane moment, that our souls discern Him. He causes us to discover Him,
which He is here already. Not only our peace IN the immediate storm, not just
our deliverer OUT of the storm. No, more than that, far much more than that, Indeed,
if we will hear it, He reveals Himself as the
very purpose of our being – The storm almost becomes incidental in the
light of the far greater truth, which is that in fact, we exist, by Him,
through Him and for Him … What a frightening, amazing and wonderful revelation
that is. What glorious truth we would never have seen, neither would our souls have
been set free … had we not first been
driven in desperation to His pierced feet.
In having found Him this way, an encounter
with the Ancient of Days Himself it produces a sure and certain knowing that it
is only He alone that can quench the deep longings of our soul…
Whether by crisis or intense devotion we have
experienced the wonder of His presence, the indescribable refuge that the
shadow of His wings affords, the stunning stillness of His secret place. ….
Then and only then will His peace pass understanding and we glimpse the heart
of the Eternal God.
O
what sweet communion
O
what blessed union
Yeshua
is a friend of mine
Now
His grace has found me
And His love surrounds me
It
will last forever
Yeshua
is a friend to me
With such bright light comes sad shades of
grey in the realisation that “Christianity” as we know it, what it has become,
is very different to the Holy, lovely and most awful God that you are now
beholding.
Such encounters raise the reach of the soul
to a far higher appreciation, thus rendering our present day “believerism” as a
less comfortable fit. Time in His unapproachable light changes how we think,
how we talk and live and it transforms our very being in the innermost recesses
of our soul. Even the best of earthly fellowship may seem crude by comparison.
Such change does not go unnoticed among
either our peers or the demonic realm. The discovery that previous friendships
may not react as favorably as expected to our new and deeper love of Christ is
sad to say the least. I have mourned the loss of many precious fellowships that
much preferred the old me to the new me. I wrote about that in the article “The
Forks in the Paths of our Fellowships”. It’s Not that you become an exacting
holier than thou, but, more that you become a bright light in a dark place and
your sensitivity to God and things eternal proves trying to those who prefer a lesser
level of light and lighter conversation.
Interestingly, eagles fly in circuits with
thermals and altitudes that their level of maturity can manage. We should not
therefore be too surprised to find ourselves ready to forsake former norms and aspiring
to soar higher, seeking the companionship of those who already set themselves
to seek things above and have little time for things below.
One thing is certain, whatever the reason for
your desperate necessity to find His beautiful face and to seek moment by
moment to abide and bask in the rays of His glorious presence, that certain
thing is change – Everything will change and change will be on going - Transformation
from glory into glory even into the image of His Son.
Your walk with Him will become less talk
about Him and more about actual delivering power from Him. This will probably
prove a stark divide among the many believers that you know.
For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power – 1 Cor 4:21
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