Love Louisa...(29Sep09)

Hi everyone

 

I was contemplating having eyes that can 'see' clearly. I thought of all the wondrous things we are seeing and experiencing, and I was grateful but wondered why we are not seeing more miracles and being more effective as Christians. Suddenly I saw a picture of multitudes of desperate people drowning in a brown smelly dead river. They had their arms out crying out for help. They were looking to leaders-church and government, gurus, experts, bankers and doctors for help. However, the 'leaders' also were up to their necks in water. They looked desperate, helpless, and so very tired too. However, they were trying to help by looking under the water to find help.

 

I wondered what this meant and I felt the Holy Spirit say, "They're looking in the world for worldly solutions and even the Christians are doing this".  I thought about what this meant and what was wrong and I felt that if we want the Kingdom of Heaven to come to earth, and God wants the Kingdom of heaven to come to earth. Then it makes sense that we need to look into heaven to "see' what's there and how heaven works. In order for the Kingdom of heaven to come to earth, we have to be 'spiritual' and heavenly minded.

 

That is why God is opening our eyes to help us 'see'. I believe God wants us all to 'see' what God sees.

 

I was reading the introduction to Zechariah in the Message Bible, because I believe this a prophetic picture of what God is doing now. Prophets Zechariah and Haggai had the task then of pulling God's people out of self-occupation to get them working together as His people. The self-identity of the people of God was in ruins. Their heads were down and they felt helpless and hopeless. They had been kicked around, lied to and abused by their enemies and leaders but Zechariah invigorated the imaginations of the people with his visions and messages. This gave the people insight, energy and hope and gave credibility to the long-term purposes of God being worked out again in their lives. They began to believe God again. They once again lifted up their heads to look into the face of God.

 

I believe God is doing the same thing now, but He is using us all to see.

 

Lots of love
Louisa