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Summer in the Mountains (Wallpaper)
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/.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Painting with words. What a rare gift He has given you Susanne. Word pictures to share with and encourage others with a desire to go a little deeper. He loves His Bride with a passion unmatched in the human realm and lavishes His love on her in delightful and unexpected ways.
“My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.” Song of Solomon: 10-14
I don’t think we’re supposed to figure Him out 🙂
Love in Jesus,
Scarlett
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Mmmhhh……..
Now I have almost no words, dear Scarlett, since God spoke directly through your comment to my heart.
I wish I could hug you right now, my dear. If you just saw how that particular part of Scripture touched in my heart and made it flutter in anticipation… oh oh 😉
Love you in Jesus ❤
Susanne
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Susanne, the picture you chose for this post reminds me of the Alps of Italy where the Waldenses (Valdesi) hid in safety from their persecutors. I like it very much because of this.
For me, I don’t want revelations other than His Word, and His Holy Spirit making His Word more clear to me. For we walk by faith not by sight. We don’t walk by beautiful visions, though some are granted, along with dreams, as Joel and Acts tells us. However, it is safe, truly safe, to abide in God’s Word alone – as the Waldenses knew in hiding, and the Reformed Christians relearned and gave to the world.
In His love,
Maria
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Dear Maria,
Yes, I liked the pic very much, too, at first sight. 🙂
I agree wholeheartedly with you that “it is safe, truly safe, to abide in God’s Word alone” for it is written,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (Jn 1:1-5 ESV)
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (Jn 15:4-7 ESV)
Indeed, as we learn to abide in the Word, that is, in Christ Himself, His words abide in us as well. Apart from Christ and His Spirit indwelling us, we cannot understand the mysterious depth of Scripture. As wonderful as it is to have the Bible, which I truly love, we know that the first Christians had no Bible and were often illiterate at that. However, they had the Holy Spirit to guide them into ALL the truth which Jesus promised to them and to us before (cf. Jn 16:13).
Incidentally, I wrote a few hours ago a comment on another blog as for my take on dreams and visions which were a divine help for me, esp. to point to some future incidents (Jn 16:13: “[…] and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” ) so that I knew later as they happened that they had been part of God’s plan. For instance, I saw certain people I did not know at that time, yet they were Christians who I met later. Also, I came to know through visions and dreams that I would give birth to our daughter, Sarah (now 17), and later that I would get pregnant again and that David would die. If you’re interested, here’s the link to that comment in which I shared my thoughts on dreams and visions https://servinggjesushere.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/alert-page-shutdown/comment-page-1/#comment-330.
By the way, my experience in this article was not a vision. Indeed, I saw it all for real. Visions can only be seen in the invisible realm as soon as the eyes of our hearts have been enlighted by God and we can see the kingdom of God. Without being born again, that is not possible. Nonetheless, meanwhile God took all such spiritual gifts away from me so that I learned to walk through pain and suffering by mere faith. Actually, I do not miss them at all since as long as I have Him by my side, I don’t need anything else.
Thanks so much for your thought-provoking comment, Maria!
In His Love ❤
Susanne
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Susanne, your response is interesting. I want to share a little and also take the link you gave me. But also I need to correct two statements you made.
Yes, before the Lord drew me to Himself, and gave me new life by His imperishable Word, I couldn’t see the Kingdom of God – true righteousness and sinners lost all around me. And I didn’t call Him Lord either, and resented those who did, probably because using this term shows that there is a right relationship with Him.
About early Christians not having the Bible, they did. They had both the Jewish Bible the Tanakh (and the Greek translation of it) and the letters of the apostles, and at last Jesus’ Revelation given to John. The Holy Spirit led them into all truth, meaning that He recalled to them all that Jesus had told them and showed them the future of the Church in this world. These men were called unlearned by the rulers of the Jews, but they were learned in the Scriptures as part of their growing up in the Jewish faith, so it isn’t really correct to call them illiterate.
I used to be a Roman Catholic, who was involved in mysticism, and then came to the Lord, and then for a while was charismatic. The latter didn’t bring me peace. Only a relationship to Jesus through His Word brings peace.
Like you I have had dreams – two as a baby Christian just showing me that I was in Christ, the place of bearing fruit. Now when I have a dream that seems to be from God – it must be tested by His Word – it is symbolic and corrects me about something.
Thank you for a good conversation. It is painful to learn to walk by faith, but it His will. I’m sorry for your suffering! We both have suffered, I believe.
Maria
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Thank you for sharing more about your experiences with God, dear Maria! ❤
It is always easier to communicate if we know more about one another. Indeed, we have a similar religious background and thus I do understand why you rely on the written word.
As for the first Christians, I only meant those directly after Pentecost who heard the Apostles and got one or two letters later from them. And yes, you are completely right as to your exposition on the early Christians, of course.
So sorry to hear that you have suffered, too, my sister in Jesus. 😦
Virtual hugs,
Susanne xx
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I HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE TO LIVE IN THE ROCKIES WHERE THERE ARE 2 SCENES THAT PERHAPS ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF ALL. I HAVE A PICTURE OF THE ONE HERE IN COLORADO, USA. THE MOUNTAINS ARE IN THE BACKGROUND, COLORFUL YELLOW ASPEN IN THE MIDDLE & A LAKE IN THE FOREGROUND. I HAVE THE PHOTO ABOVE MY BED SO I CAN ENJOY IT ANY TIME I WANT IS 14″ 16″.I HAVE Psalms 125 vs 1-2: THOSE WHO TRUST THE LORD ARE LIKE MT. ZION.. WHICH CANNOT BE MOVED, BUT ABIDES FOREVER. AS THE MOUNTAINS AROUND JERUSALEM SO, THE LORD SURROUNDS HIS PEOPLE FOR THIS TIME
FORTH AND FOREVER.
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Hey, Bernie, you make me envious! 😉 And I would really love to see the photo you described so colorfully in your comment above.
Also, great Scripture again. Timely for me today, my brother. Thank you so much for sharing!!
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I want you to know that the only reason i know these scriptures is that they are in a song. so, I thank God for every song writer who puts these into music!
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Amen, Bernie. Let’s thank God for every song writer who put Scripture in a song!
I bet you know countless hymns and through them the whole Bible, right?
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Lest you might think that all my life is a constant “MOUNTAIN TOP EXPERIENCE.”
Lately, I have had “low” times. So,I have to wait until a song comes to me. With one time I finally had a song.: “JESUS TOOK MY BURDEN AWAY, Another: LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.” I am not sure how I can put it to work in my life! I daily sing songs about the blood of Jesus & the cross. I just have to hope I am getting thru,also, I have good & bad dreams. Bad ones I cannot stop. Fortunately, upon awaking, I get another song.. One time I began to suffer, I read Ist Peter 4, verse 15; suffer because I may be “MEDDLING IN OTHER PEOPLES MATTERS. LATER, I REALIZED THAT MY SUFFERING WAS UNCALLED FOR WHY.? MICHAEL SENT ME AN ENCOURAGING E-MAIL!
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Dear Bernie,
I didn’t think that your life was a constant mountain top experience. Knowing bipolar disease myself, I remember those many ups AND downs, often in quick succession.
Yes, waiting on the Lord is crucial and so difficult at times, isn’t it…? I will keep you in my heart and prayers, dear brother, and I believe God will carry you through your current “Low” so that you can experience joy in Him again.
I can relate to what you said about bad dreams; they can even follow you some time through the day and you cannot get rid of them until the Lord intervenes. Nevertheless, Jesus promised us His peace and His peace just as His joy will increase the deeper we have been sanctified by His Spirit.
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (Jn 14:27 ESV)
“If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.” (Jn 15:11-12 ESV)
It seems to me that the more we abide in His love and in our love to one another that comes from His Spirit, the more of the fruit of the Spirit we will experience (cf. Gal 5:22-23).
Furthermore, I was glad to read that Michael had sent you an encouraging email! 🙂 Yes, I know from my own experience that Michael indeed is a great encourager with a big heart for those who are suffering!
Love you in Him ❤
Susanne
PS
Just one more thought. You mentioned not being sure about how to lay your burden down at the foot of the cross…..I was just reminded of the Scripture that tells you (and all of us) to cast “all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.” (1 Pt 5:7 ESV).
My mother who turns 80 next year always says that she tosses her “soccer balls” filled with problems she cannot get rid of to God again and again (often times) until she finally feels freed. Can be a looong process, indeed. But the Lord is our Helper and who asks also receives in the end.
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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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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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I just discovered a scripture that explains our spiritual lives!: Ps 94 vs 12-13; “BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM YOU INSTRUCT, O LORD AND TEACH OUT YOUR LAW. THAT YOU MAY GIVE HIM RELIEF FROM THE DAYS OF ADVERSITY.”
Thanks, for your comments.
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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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Amen, Michael!
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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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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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I like your comment, Michael – yes, Christ in us, a wonderful glorious thing! But, you know, from the very first, from the garden, it was always about His grace!
Hope I haven’t come into a discussion without knowing all of the elements, it’s just that grace and faith were always hugely there.
In His love,
Maria
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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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Awesome comment, Michael!! A great exposition, indeed! Why not writing another blog post on THIS? 😉
Holy Hugs,
Susanne
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Maria, you got me thinking about it being grace from the very beginning and it is true, God created man at the end of the sixth day and He rested. Man was planted into a creation that was totally good where he was to enjoy God’s rest… a perpetual Sabbath’s rest – seventh day with God. When Adam and Eve decided to not rest, but to do “if you eat of this tree you will be like God, knowing…” That was where the resting in His grace ended. Man ceased to do the will of the Father and started his religious pursuits, covering himself with his fig leave clothing. But even then God went looking for them. What anguish in His voice when HE cried, “Where are you Adam?” “Who told you you were naked?” You see religion, covering our nakedness and hiding, all are symptoms of the same thing, falling from His grace and rest, and choosing rather to cover ourselves with our own works.
“Not every one that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? and in your name have cast out demons? and in your name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.”
(Matthew 7:21-23 KJ2000)
Thanks for your comment, dear sister,
Michael
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worship song: “For HIS NAME IS EXALTED. HIS GLORY: ABOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH; HOLY IS THE LORD GOD ALL MIGHTY, WHO SITTETH ON THE THRONE AND LIVES FOR EVER MORE!”
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There are at least four different Scriptures, Bernie, which point to the Law which is truly spiritual. I chose this one.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.” (Hebr 8:10 ESV)
Christ’s Law is LOVE. He who has captured our very hearts and pours His love into them (Rom 5:5) makes us fulfill the law through His spiritual power, as it is written,
“Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.” (Rom 13:10 ESV)
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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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@ Michael
I could not agree more with you, my brother.
Love you in Him ❤
Susanne
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The scripture is Revelations 4 vs 8-9.
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Thanks, Bernie.
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Bernie Orr ~ psalm 32:7 You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
your brother Wayne
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I like it, Wayne. Thank you for sharing! 🙂
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To Wayne: a chorus of a hymn that I worship with: “THERE IS NEVER A DAY SO DREARY: NEVER A NIGHT SO LONG: BUT THE SOUL THAT IS TRUSTING JESUS WILL SOME WHERE FIND A SONG:’WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL JESUS IN THE HEART HE IMPLANTETH A SONG: A SONG OF DELIVERANCE, OF COURAGE, OF STRENGTH. IN THE HEART HE IMPLANTETH A SONG.
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What an incredible, spirit filled convo. Guess I’m coming late to the party. 😉 Just so many BAM!! kind of truths shared in this thread! One in particular Susanne
“we are still in rebellion against Christ no matter how hard we try to be God like.”
This speaks to one huge thing that is responsible, no responsible isn’t the right word, but ok to start there…..one thing…..it’s the “mechanics” if you will from trying hard to be God like. You see, we have been claiming God through our natural selves which won’t work. Adam cannot find God, cannot connect with God, has no senses to feel Him in fact he is completely at odds with God and hates everything about Him. But he talks a great religious game and builds mighty edifices and towers claiming to worship God, all the while this frenzy of activity enhances self – I know b/c I thought for so long that I was having a relationship with God and it was merely my own construct of that relationship. Our own ideas about God is not acceptable to God. “We” as we are naturally….. are unable to be restored, renewed, remade in any way….only Christ is Life. But we strive to reach Him through our own understanding (did not God say that doing what is right in our own eyes is an abomination unto Him?) and I was building my own understanding for alot of years. I was under the vise of man’s teachings….pressing me down more towards earth and the kingdom of man until finally by grace through suffering over time I began to listen, to hear Him and turn to Him and then Light began to cause me to be able to see. 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. I don’t know how deep the rabbit hole goes, no idea. But finding other “pearl hunters” gives me much hope and joy. Thank you for your blog Susanne, for who you are in Him and for such rich sharing. The scripture posted here from Scarlett, just had to post it again.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.” Song of Solomon: 10-14
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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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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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Back woods brother
🙂
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