"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?" Psalm 42:1-2
There is no higher calling. No greater reward than the reward of His presence.
What is heaven?
Heaven or the new Jerusalem is not glorious because of the streets of Gold. It is not peaceful because there is no more sorrow or pain there. It is not heaven because it is free of the devil. (Indeed the adversary once had access into the courts of God!). Heaven is heaven because the Lord of love, light and life dwells there. It is heaven because there he reigns. So heaven is not just a place, it is a person.
Our greatest reward is not a place, it is a person.
True intimacy with the Lord is the place called home.
"And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." Revelation 21:3
I once withdrew from writing or posting anything prophetic because it wore me. It is great hearing and writing true words from the Lord but I knew the Lord's aims were something far greater but i wasn't sure anyone ws getting the point. The people wanted the latest but were missing the reason for sharing his words. Jesus' words were not to be delivered just for information. Or to conform to what is known as productivity or success. His words were life to draw us into a oneness with his mind by sharing his plans.
The word is a living individual. He wanted intimacy. His revelation and knowledge were never to give us 'wow' goosebump moments or just to inspire our spirits with zeal and ability. Yes it does do that, but the word of God is a person. He is the voice that walked and fellowship with Adam and his wife daily in the garden of Eden. Genesis 3:8) He came and comes to be known. He comes to reveal his secrets so we can be participatory in the divine oneness.
We are so fixated on success, but what is success? I know success. I always did. Success is a place.
It is the connection, a 'fusion into a place' in a person. A fusion of hearts.
No this place is not just sentiments, or emotion; it is a place of completeness. It is a place where you want nothing because all you need is flowing in you by virtue of your plug into a person. (John15:4)
This place is peace. It is safety. It is abundance. It is a person called Jesus.
He is rest. He is peace.
He is heaven.
Heaven is a place: a place in the man called Jesus.
Jesus did not die to start a religion or business.The Father's sent him to draw humans into the divine relationship. His death, resurrection and ascension was the culmination of a plan for man to be welcomed into the divine communion.
It was an invitation into divinity.
Why else would Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth engage in conversations like this with a finite, fallible, puny human like Abraham our ancestor?
"Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.” Genesis 18:18
The Lord wanted Abraham to know his plans because he was God's vital partner in raising more humans for his kingdom family- ultimately a kingdom of divinely intertwined sons and daughters of Yahweh.
"If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise." Galatians 3:29
It is not really about targets, publicity, "success", influence or all our earthly parameters or ministry measurements. Though useful, it is about Jesus.
It is about our deep oneness and appreciation of the communion we have been given access to: the communion of God the Father, his Holy spirit and his Word named Jesus.
Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing is higher, or greater than this place.
Herein is life.
Here is our greatest fulfilment.
Here is our reward.. Jesus Christ, our heaven.
This is what to aim for.
Aim to be found total, content and complete in him....Everything else is secondary- but a shadow.
John 14:19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you.
John 17:20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."
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