It is 4:33 a.m. It is July 17th. Seventeen is the Hebraic number of Victory.
This journeying to Zion has been stretching long; foamy fraught with emotional violence and spiritual perils. This world’s waves have pushed crashed shattered everything except our ROCK and HIS eternal everlasting Word that HIS LOVE NEVER FAILS.
This morning, also the last few days, when I look up I see a boat in the night surrounded by blowing mists against a starless sky; waves splashing beating creating echoes; rhythms; the soundings of destinies. Just when we thought everything was winding DOWN instead, everything is winding UP. HIS HOLY winds are being sent to carry us into GOD’s DEEP. In our weakness, HIS STRENGTH is made perfect. It was so much more comfortable when I was young and strong. This crushed broken place seems so scary hard.
This morning I hear the word “culmination” remembering the headlights shining against the highway to the hospital the day my son was born. It was a sudden night. For days I had moaned “I am so ready for this baby to be born! I am so ready!” In the backseat of the car that night my tune changed; I cried, “I am not ready for this! I am not ready!” It feels like that again.
My doctor told me when my daughter was born, ” There comes a time in the delivery of a baby that a woman’s body takes over. The more you fight and resist it the longer it will take and the more pain it will create. You have to flow with it; work with it.” It feels like that now.
The other phrase I hear is “locked and loaded” a strange turn of phrase remembering a birthing. However, upon reflection, a full term woman in labor is both-locked and loaded For some reason, it feels like that too.
Since the day I cried out, “LORD I want YOU to love me the way YOU loved David“; ever since that day each time the LORD gives me a page number to search out in my Bible it is always something about David. Yesterday it was about King Josiah, the one prophesied and called by GOD to cleanse the LORD’s House and His people from idolatry.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left. 2 Chronicles 34:2
How David must have loved the LORD. David loved GOD’s HEART.
God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do. Acts 13:22
THIS MORNING when I looked up I heard the LORD say, ” I want you to love ME the way David did “. HIS WORDS pierced my heart. Obedience is the highest form of worship.
This morning my prayer/tune has changed. I am asking the LORD to help me love HIM the way David did; to help me be a woman after GOD’s own heart; to do whatever HE wants me to do.
Heaven’s headlights are shining out against the weary winding tracks of Time; GOD’s HOLY WINDS of destiny are blowing strong. Can we know when we are ready? Are we?
There is a PLUMBLINE descending from heaven upon the hearts of HIS chosen at this time. HIS PLUMBLINE weighs the motive of our hearts; it weighs the way we love.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Matthew 22:35-37
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. John 15:13-14
