“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
God is looking for the bride who will make herself fit for the bridal dress.
Every spot and wrinkle is to be beautified and made ready. Purified and cleansed from our other idols.
A place where we are not upon our minds and thrones but God is.
We will be walked up an aisle when our relationship is that which reflects and is testimony to demonstrating and knowing Jesus.
Troubling times refine, purify sift and are uncomfortable but precious in their revelation. A time of maturing and being equipped to self feeding.
“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from “
Our lives always tell a story.
We are being pushed and pressed into the need to be dependent on God and each other.
We have to choose to press into encounter.
We make discovery that we have greater friendships than those we have excitement and jolliness with only.
Ordinary matters to God, where His goodness can shine through and become visible from behind the masquerading.
We have to stop for the Mundane, for the one seen before us, the little and ordinary and easily missed but where being relationally present we access God’s grace and allow His purpose fulfilment.
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them”
We witness the emergence of a different person as the bride unfolds in unity, purity and maturity.
Deliverance in a baptism of fire that thaws the coldness and reignites love and rekindles life.
Akin to the lifting off of a curse from our shoulders that sifts us to the yoke that is light and a burden easy to bear.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.””
The illustration shows us standing upon the feet of Jesus so that our burden is light as He carries and guides us. Light emanating to push back the darkness.
Four Scriptures that come to mind:
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 ESV
“But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”Hebrews 5:14 ESV
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”Ephesians 2:10 ESV
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:29-30 ESV
The song So Help Me God. Benjamin William Hastings
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