Revelation!!
It is so relaxing here on the patio in the backyard. Clear sky, moon shining brightly. Everything shut off. No TV, no radio. Just the oil lamp, the word and me.
It is times like this that I can relax. Sit back and enjoy the end of the day or it might be the early morning hours waiting for the sun to rise.
As I sat here this evening I began to take pictures of the oil lamp, of the word and the Lord showed me how the lamp, the oil, the Holy Spirit illuminates the word. That in the darkness I cannot read but when the lamp is lit, the word is revealed and it begins to come to life as it is written on our hearts and in our minds, becoming part of us and we are given an understanding of it.
Often times for me it is the simplicity of what it says. As I read the Psalms I can identify with the things that King David reveals all through the Psalms. That at one moment he is on the mountain top and in the next chapter he is in the valley. Kind of sounds like us doesn’t it?
I know that is why we can identify with him. He is real, he is sharing his heart. Though he is going through the battles, he never gives up.
He always looks to the Father, even when he doesn’t understand the why of things. I think that He came to a place of not trying to figure things out but rather came to a place of just wanting to know the Lord.
I know many years ago the Lord spoke to my heart to stop trying to figure things out and seek to know Him. That at His feet I would find the way, that in His word I would get to know Him.
I can say that the Lord has and is bringing me to a place of knowing Him, not just about Him. That He reveals Himself in life, in the things that we go through, as we walk with Him, He reveals Himself, if we let Him.
We serve a God who loves us more than we could ever realize and we get stronger and closer as we walk daily with Him.
Let us take the things that we have and are going through and give them to the Lord , to give thanks and praise to the most High, knowing that He is creating in us the image of His son, that we are to reflect the Lord.
He has not abandon us, nor forsaken us. Rather He is giving us the strength to walk the path that we are on and as we allow the light of the lamp, of the Holy Spirit to shine, His word and His presence will be revealed and we will stand in the finished work of the Cross!!
Till later,
Paul