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It was in summer, later in the afternoon, as I was lying on my hotel bed. Not on my back, but on my side and my head was resting on my left arm. That way I was looking out of the window to the mountain top vis-à-vis for a very long time. The bottom of the mountain shone forth summer-green which was a pleasure to the eyes of the beholder. Above the gray and rugged peak a deep blue sky without any clouds spanned the earth.
The more I watched this mountain, the quieter I became. I felt that my heart beat would get slower and slower. Finally, it was so still in my heart and mind as it had never been before. Praying without words and feeling completely one with God and everything else, I kept looking at the mountain. No desire or anything that could have disturbed my mind while tasting eternity.
Suddenly there was a kind of fog that gradually ascended from the grass-green area until it had reached the cloudless, clear blue sky directly above the mountain top. Not much wind, that day. Watching that shapeless and transparent fog slowly molding into a certain frame, I needed quite some time until I started to wonder what had been happening directly before my eyes…..
As my stunned mind began to grasp what my eyes had already seen, I leaped from my bed, ran to the window, and was gazing perplexed at the final shape of this lonely cloud. Now there was NO wind at all, the picture stood still and, holding my breath, I was able to explore every detail of that cloudy creation. Nonetheless, I almost couldn’t believe what I saw: In fact, there was a three-dimensional “Susanne” as a cloud in the sky, lying on her hotel bed (I saw it like a pic in the mirror) and her head with her long hair was resting on her arm!!!
Honestly, I was really undone afterwards. Last year I shared that revelation in a chat and saved it for a probable later blog post. Here’s what the one with who I chatted said afterwards,
“Susanne, it was Him showing you how much He loves HIS wife as the Divine artist He is! Artists all paint pictures of the one they love.”
These words really hit me as a confirmation of what only my heart had known before. Indeed, that experience was one of several awesome revelations – which I hope to be able to share on here with you in the days ahead – that were forerunners of what happened immediately afterwards. If you like, you could read about some of those after-revelation-experiences in my article “The Temptation of Spiritual Gurudom”, see https://enteringthepromisedland.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/the-temptation-of-spiritual-gurudom/.
Michael said:
Susanne, you have painted such a beautiful picture of our Father’s love with your words, just as He painted that portrait of you with the clouds on the sky that day. What a great and loving Father we have! I wonder how often he has done that for each of us in one way or another and we have been too caught up with our own thoughts and pains to notice. I am glad that he sends people like you into our lives to us to remind us of His love and point us back to Him.
I am so blessed,
Michael ❤
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Dear Michael,
Indeed, I am the one who has been blessed by your wonderful comment above. 🙂
It seems to me that we who by grace may call us His children are not only fellow heirs if we suffer with Christ so that we can be glorified (cf. Rom 8:16-21). Actually, we also become fellow creators/artists through the love and inspiration that spring from being indwelt by His Holy Spirit.
All glory to Him who is the Creator of everything!!
I am so blessed, too.
Susanne ❤
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Michael said:
Susanne, I am glad that you linked to this former article by you. This story truly touches my heart every time I read it. You are right in that as we yield to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to move us and move through us with His power we take part in the glory of His Son by glorifying Him. When we yield to the Father and surrender our souls to Him, He creates the most wonderful picture of Jesus with each of the members of Christ’s body becoming part of a Divine mosaic bringing forth the beauty and love that He is. It is such a blessing to in this mosaic of His love with you.
Your brother and friend forever,
Michael ❤
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
I am glad to hear that rereading this story of mine touched your heart once again, Michael. 🙂 Thank you very much for your encouraging words, my dear brother. ❤
Your sister and friend always,
Susanne 🐱
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ServingJesusHere said:
Wonderful. What a beautiful picture you painted. I find myself longing to be there in the mountains right now. Lord knows I need to be alone with Him and His untainted creation, so much right now ☺
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Thank you so much for the encouragement, dear Ngozi! 🙂
I will be praying that He’ll give you the rest you need as soon as possible. Indeed, I have been struggling until last Sunday to enter His rest before He enabled me to withdraw more and more from what I thought I had to do, both here in Germany and on the net. From day to day the awareness of peace and quietness in my heart deepened and I hope and pray I will be able to draw the muc needed boundaries in the days ahead, too. Not everything I thought I should do was really God’s will for my life. He truly wants to see us RESTED. Difficult to believe at times, I admit, but true as my recent experience confirms.
Love you, my sister in Him! ❤
Susanne xx
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ServingJesusHere said:
Dear Susanne, I agree with you. I, too, have been realising that this is simply what our Father wants for our hearts- to rest.
I, also, have started going back tot he basics. We often want to “do”. I know I do. I am learning.
I believe He is bringing His children al to the point of rest in Him.
We give Him the praise
Love you too sister and thanks for your prayers xx
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
You just “interrupted” me while writing a comment on your latest blog post, Ngozi …. 🙂
Thanks so much for another lovely response, my dear. You are in my heart and prayers, always!
Love you,
Susanne xoxo
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Pat Orr said:
What a joyful, yet sober challenge to read your words. I am rereading George Davis’s and Michael Clark’s book INTO ALL TRUTH. Oh how dependent we are on the Lord to walk in truth – and not error. Truly, without Jesus we can do nothing.
Love in Him,
Pat Orr
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Michael said:
Yes, Pat, so true! Glad you are being blessed by our book. Jesus IS our Truth, the truest life ever lived before men, showing them what REAL truth looks like. It is HIS life of Truth that our Father has called us to walk in, too. “Behold what manner of love the Father as given unto us, that we should be called the sons (and daughters) of God.” Be encouraged, dear sister! You are definitely one of His!
Michael
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Thank you, my dear sister! 🙂
Indeed, Pat, we are completely dependent on His will to reveal anything to us. It always happens so unexpectedly when revelations really occur. Whenever I thought something ought to happen, NOTHING came to pass. And when I had stopped to hope for anything good, the Lord came on the scene right out of the blue. We can’t figure Him out, can we…
Love in Him ❤
Susanne
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Kennth Dawson said:
What a sensational showing that our loving Papa showed you and we are so thankful for you describing it to us…your posts are always such a blessing–thanks.
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Dear Kenneth,
You may know that you really made my day with your lovely words!!! 🙂
Love you in Christ, my brother, ❤
Susanne
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Michael said:
For me the one that explains my crucified life is, “In Him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Amen, Michael!
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Michael said:
In the Old Covenant it was about law, I, me and my and God as your two quotes from Psalms point out. But in the NEW Covenant, it is no longer about us, but Christ and THAT is the work of the cross in us. IN HIM we live.. “It is no longer I, but Christ who lives in me.” THIS is a very important difference!
Love you all IN His love,
Michael
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
So true, Michael!!
It is THE difference that “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Rom 10:4 ESV).
Therefore our old self must die so that our lovely Lord may reign in our hearts and minds and we only do the works we see Him doing.
Much love to you, my brother
Susanne
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Michael said:
Yes, dear sister!!! Christ is the END of the law and HE is our righteousness ONLY as much as we are IN HIM (i.e., everyone who REALLY believes and has ceased from his own labors and is resting IN CHRIST). As long as we are maintaining our individuality (“if you eat of this tree you will be like God knowing…”) we are still in rebellion against Christ no matter how hard we try to be God like. BUT to finally yield up our members unto Him as HIS instruments of righteousness whom HE directs by His Spirit, is to enter into HIS unity with the Father and truly become effective members of HIS body, enveloped in HIS LIFE and HIS LOVE. It is HERE that we truly become members of one another as well and enter into that circle of love between, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit… truly becoming ONE with them and with those who have found what this means, “IN HIM we live and move and have our being” for CHRIST IS our BEING. This is not Buddhism where we enter into the collective soul, “the oversoul” in Nirvana. NO! THIS is the BODY of Christ that has structure and individual members with a particular function to do as each one answers to the Head in unity and love for Him and one another. OH what a GREAT salvation we have been given!!
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Awesome comment, Michael!! A great exposition, indeed! Why not writing another blog post on THIS? 😉
Holy Hugs,
Susanne
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
I like it, Wayne. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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Michael said:
Susanne, as John wrote, “God is love and he who loves is born of God.” It is not us but God in us who loves and HE then fulfills the whole law in and through us as instruments of His love.
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
@ Michael
I could not agree more with you, my brother.
Love you in Him ❤
Susanne
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Thanks so much for your awesome and edifying response, dear Skylla. 🙂
No, you are not coming late to the party. Indeed, my spiritual chat blogs, i.e. EPL and SSP (“Entering the Promised Land” and “Susanne Schuberth’s Poetry”) are always open as long as I am able to comment. You can join a thread of comments any time. In fact, it would not be the first time that an “older” blog article got revived after a certain time by a new comment to which others responded again. I do hope you keep commenting, my sister, because I so appreciate your spiritual contribution.
Just had to look up where your quote came from and saw it was Michael who posted it. 😉 I assume he will read your comment too and enjoy it as much as I did. I so love what you wrote here,
“We can know nothing aside from light. At first, it is very perplexing, confusing and downright upsetting. The religious/spiritual construct begins to disintegrate and it was extremely unsettling. But as in the pearl of great price, I knew that anything given up was nothing compared to the riches, the glory, the eternal value of seeing Him more and more.”
Wonderful truth in only four sentences!! I know you could not have been able to express such deep truth without having experienced His light inside you beforehand.
And yes, Song of Songs, what a mysterious book that has so often been neglected by left-brained theology. But only the heart can grasp the deeper things of God…
I am happy you like my blog, or rather our blog, since I am just the blog authoress and all commenters are like me contributing to build up the Body of Christ in love….here….in our cyber church where everybody is welcome – Christians and non-Christians, all who seek and all who have found, or rather have been found in Him.
I am so glad to have met you, dear Skylla!
Much love to you ❤ ❤ ❤
Susanne xoxo
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Michael said:
Dear Skylla,
We have communicated over the last 15 plus years since we met out here in a state park in Idaho. I have watched you struggle with many things but this is a NEW you! What a blessing to see you coming alive in this fresh revelation IN Christ in your heart. I am so glad you wrote on Susanne’s blog. She is so gracious a person and I and many others have been blessed by the Spirit and love Christ has formed in her.
I know that anything in any of us that has come out shining and giving light to others is only because God has taken us and broken us and poured us out as HE wills and not by any credit to us. Along with Susanne, I hope to see more of you on here in the days ahead,
Your back woods brother,
Michael
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Susanne Schuberth (Germany) said:
Back woods brother
🙂
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