“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!”
We sense being in a time where God invites and desires for us to share His emotions not in Luke warm lack of sensitivity but in fully on passion.
For us to repent of where we have compromised by not attuning to what is of importance to Him.
When we feel His heartbreak and anger and recalibrate our hearts to His we receive fresh revelation and a right perspective. We recognise how out of cinque we may be.
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.”
We recognise the gap between what we long and hope for and the common identity in God’s heart.
Tears are not a sign of weakness but of a powerful liquid language in the spirit.
God redefines comfort. It is not just to make us feel better in difficulty but in training to expand our capacity in oneness with Him and Christ so that we can bear and attune with His heart. Be on the same frequency, wave length and emotionally in cinque.
“that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,”
Our revelation from entering in that space is our greater understanding and comfort gained from abiding in that desolation and thus making it a victory and gain. Our experience of this enables and becomes powerful then for others.
Lamenting is not complaining. We sit and recognise loss and accept it as there is loss of good alongside loss of bad in moving on to new. That is just the reality of the situation.
Our tendency is to look for safety in our saviour. For true fellowship we have to share in His suffering in our own suffering and corporately as living stones fitted together and not by seeing it as abandonment but greater closeness.
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,”
We are privileged that God shares His heart with us in lament. That we can then carry His light forward from that place of unity.
His love is steadfast.
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
The illustration shows God holding us up close in the spirit to share His heart and emotions to recalibrate and extend our heart’s capacity in suffering and to carry and emanate light forth to push back the darkness.
Five Scriptures that come to mind:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!” Isaiah 5:20-21 ESV
““Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.” Joel 2:12-13 ESV
“that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,” Philippians 3:10 ESV
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,”James 1:2 ESV
“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
The song So Will I. Benjamin Hastings
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