My spirit has been bursting forth with the reality of the unseen future. Not
just in the easy and obvious, but in the impossible and seemingly foolish. Where death stares at me, I see life.
Where pain pricks me, I feel joy. Where it would appear no hope can reside, a tenacity has risen up within that cannot
be quenched.
I cannot fully understand or explain it, but where weariness pulled on me and hope
had grown thin, a strength and vision has taken ahold of me and won't let go. Somehow, although the physical landscape
around me has not changed and the circumstances still appear grim, my spirit has begun to soar.
Today as I was writing in my journal, on a completely different topic, a
sentence burst into my mind: Love sees with the end in focus. How am I able to see beyond the flat surface
in front of me to an end that I cannot even understand?
I believe it all boils down to one thing: My Father has once
again deepened the knowledge and experience of His love for me and in me.
There are thresholds which we step over in the spirit and are very aware of.
And then there are the times when we are just walking or crawling through a dark corridor, our faith and love driving us forward, when
suddenly we find ourselves in a totally new dimension. Without even knowing the precise moment it happened
or what exactly brought the breakthrough, we glance up and catch our breath; and we know anew the depths and riches
of His love and faithfulness.
Amazingly, every time we go deeper in the knowledge and experience of God's love
for us, we open up new treasuries of His wisdom. Suddenly we step into new arenas of being able to birth of
the Spirit, not just of the physical. (John 3:6)
What exactly does this look like? Well, there are as many facets and possibilities
as grains of sand in all the universe, but here is a glimpse.
I have been in groups of passionate people, all talking about God's word
and what's happening in their lives, but not all that is spoken is equal. The words of one causes my spirit to
rise and soar, while another's seem to bring me back down to earth. Why? The wisdom of God resonates with
the breath of God, putting wind under our wings, while the wisdom of man is simply the breath of man. One builds
the Kingdom of God, while the other promotes a limited agenda.
The wisdom of God brings forth life and freedom, not suffocating boundaries and
heavy yokes. It speaks forth heaven-born possibilities, not focusing on the enemy's limited tactics. It looks
upon a broken, empty shell of a person, lost and hungry, and sees a strong tower pulsating with destiny and purpose.
This is the complicated, many-sided wisdom of God: to see the unseen,
to believe the illogical, to love the unworthy, to speak the impossible, to be carriers of His grace and peace, to walk
without wavering, to desire just one thing - His satisfaction. When we find ourselves doing this, we have touched
the edge of the mind of God and are vessels available for His glory.
"What we are setting forth is a wisdom of God once hidden [from the human understanding]
and now revealed to us by God - [that wisdom] which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification [to lift
us into the glory of His presence].
None of the rulers of this age or world perceived and recognized and understood
this, for if they had, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
But, on the contrary, as the Scripture says, What eye has not seen and ear has
not heard and has not entered into the heart of man, [all that] God has prepared (made and keeps ready) for those who love
Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, promptly obeying Him and gratefully recognizing the benefits He has bestowed].
Yet to us God has unveiled and revealed them by and through His Spirit, for
the [Holy} Spirit searches diligently, exploring and examining everything, even sounding the profound and bottomless things
of God [the divine counsels and things hidden and beyond man's scrutiny].
For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man's
thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts
of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have not received the spirit [that belongs to] the world, but the [Holy}
Spirit Who is from God, [given to us] that we might realize and comprehend and appreciate the gifts [of divine favor and blessings
so freely and lavishly] bestowed on us by God.
And we are setting these truths forth in words not taught by human wisdom but
taught by the [Holy] Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual truths with spiritual language [to those who possess the
Holy Spirit]."
(I Cor. 2:7-13 AMP)
