February 19, 2008

February 19, 2008

It is snowing this morning in Tennessee! I know this because I was in a deep, tranquil sleep when my wonderful, amazing, thoughtful and considerate wife opened the blinds and brought the reality of the day to me in a white blaze of light! At that moment I received my first paradox of the day; opening the blinds actually blinded me! That process has been happening a lot to me lately.

It initially seems overwhelming when you receive a blast of light after a prolonged period of darkness. Why does that happen? Because your senses have not been acclimated to the rapid change you are experiencing. Isn’t it odd that we pray for revelation, a revealing of what we have not seen or known, and then shy away from the action of receiving it because we don’t want to change? Jesus makes a statement to the same effect in John 11:10, “But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.” If you only see what you know, you have received no revelation!

The revelations I am receiving from God over the past few weeks have caused me to become aware of how blind I can become to what really exists in the Spirit world. The Scripture makes this concept plain in these terms, “we love darkness because our deeds are evil.” (John 3:19) What I hear when I read those words is this, “our actions have dictated our environment.” Our challenge today is to embrace 1 John 1:7, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Today we must examine and evaluate what our actions are producing. Luke 11:34 gives us this formula for self-evaluation, “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.” Singleness of vision, or purpose, is vitally important to maintain a constant flow of daily revelation. It is when our vision is divided that we experience division. It is actually the impossible attempt to pursue two opposing life purposes; God’s will or your will.
Matthew 18:9 strongly suggests that we deal with personal division, “And if your eye offends you, pluck it out, and cast it from you: it is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” Notice the writing only uses “eyes”, or the ability to see more than one vision, when it references outer darkness or hell. The context is this, “whatever is causing you to be divided in your personal vision needs to be separated from you at even the most drastic of costs.

Hey! Wake up out of your sleep and open the blinds! There is a beautiful revelation of God’s purpose for your life radiating out of the bright change happening right before your closed eyes. To see it, all you have to do is open your eyes, accept the change, and embrace the beauty.