Come again...?

My view of the second coming is different.
Jesus returns every day. If God dwells outside of time, why do we wait and look forward to heaven and peace someday? We’re told to be prepared for his return, and it says he comes like a thief in the night. To what degree do you prepare? Are you vigilant? Are you watching? If our walk is an inward thing that  manifests itself in our actions and we find that ‘Woah! He has been watering the seed!’ why do we wait for this event…this someday…when God is a present God? And if God’s present now, and we experience the holy spirit, where do you think Jesus is? His actual body? His meaty flesh? Above the clouds? As we grow into God, via Christ (the measuring of the effective depth and degree of our redemption), we become more like Him – Him who believes and acts in time and season, Him who is spirit, and we put off this flesh as we identify with it less and less. We stop operating as first man, then in-God, but we are in God perpetually, and the change here is a spiritual matter that affects the physical world.
We grow into God; we grow into Heaven.
We become the bride as we see and receive Christ. Do we wait until 2025 for him to show up and say ‘Honey, I’m home!’? To put ‘the end’ out there at some indefinite time, to wait for the King, is to be the same as the Jews who still don’t believe he’s already done / doing / does his work.          
Boom.
We say Jesus lives in us, but we don’t understand it and don’t recognize that means he’s close – that we dwell with him, that Emmanuel. This messes with our fundamentals, I understand. I’ve been there.That's kind of the point.

You love Revelation: “The power and glory of God that is displayed is awe-strikingly inspiring. It’s such a beautiful thing.” It’s called the Revelation of Jesus Christ … and again, if God’s at getting our hearts, how is Jesus revealed? When we walk into a new spiritual space and understanding it’s called a revelation. Try seeing the ENTIRE BIBLE in spiritual terms, directly applied to you, your heart and motive, and then find out why it’s the perfect book. Don’t accept that's so because you were told it is – that’s real faith, but we don't act that way yet - grow in understanding. If you can witness the bible's effectual work and that the call for Abraham to offer Isaac is the thing we are called to every day, then the book opens up to you because it’s not just stories with morals, it’s not ‘yes tongues, no prophets; not today’,  it’s  your heart on paper.  People don’t understand that to get into it you have to stop interpreting and just receive like a child. To be with those who have God and hear under them in submission; questioning, yes, for clarity, but unquestioning the way a child receives. When kids ask questions it’s not usually from a ‘you don’t know what you’re talking about’ perspective, but that’s what we do, and God doesn’t honour that because a heart that isn't humbled cannot receive. (It's impossible.) So we get what we want::: we can’t hear them because we’re not listening for the response, and we walk away thinking we have more than they do, even though we’re the one who’s not changing.

My heart just cried out for the weight on your shoulders, that you carry your life and everything it entails on yourself. It’s a lie. The voice that makes us second-guess and fear and worry is untrue. When God saw Adam was covered and said ‘what’s up?’ and Adam said ‘I’m nekkid!’, God’s response was ‘Who told you?’

Who told you?

Who told you you had to have it all together, that everything you desire or do has to be good for you? Certainly not God. He made you and knows exactly what He made you for. He demands NOTHING of you; He's just love. He offers a way when we can see no way, but he doesn’t shove it on us – we have to be children coming to a father to receive his ease and eyesight, his freedom.  He hopes we choose what’s profitable for us – the easier road, the narrower road, the one that puts the soul under the spirit and back in order. It’s not harder, we’re just unpracticed. Satan’s the one who says ‘Perform! If the good fruit isn’t in your life you’re not doing it right or well enough!’
It’s a question of which father we receive.
It only takes a perception to change from one side to the other: freedom to bondage. A single sentence will send one person into euphoria and another into fiery condemnation. What’s the difference? The voice the person relates to/is hearing. If your father demands of you, he will strike and yell and manipulate and convince. If your father loves you he will teach you, show you how – but you must draw close to him. Sometimes just that act of drawing close feels impossible, but it’s because we, again, are trying to perform something and get hindered by the past, sin,  and how we always fail. (1. God's present and doesn't dwell on the past, 2. our sins? those times we forgot who He is and that we're loved? Forgotten, 3. He knows our identity and rests [GOD RESTS!] in faith that his faith begets faith in His children.) We're justified whatever we do (thanks, Jesus), but mucking about in pity and self-loathing and accusation is a major waste of the day.

Satan’s a pass/ fail do-better-next-time kind of father.  But God's easy. He laments for us when we cannot let go of this something-low identity but still holds us, stills calls every morning to check in.

An Irishman told me yesterday ‘Man makes plans and God laughs.’

Pre-destination is one of those things that has arisen out of a need for clarity and been twisted into a carnal minded concept. God doesn’t think like that. He dwells outside of time. You make a choice, there are consequences. You make a choice in faith, there are consequences. The seed begets the end. We are free, and we will remain free.

I find that my behaviour better reflects Jesus the less I think of myself and the more I think of Him. When I see Him I will be like Him. If you invest in watching for him, considering how God serves man, has served me, how can you not be humbled? How can you justify sadness or self-pity? How can you think you are worthless or how can you blame anybody for any single thing? We are not our actions, we are the state of our hearts – people just don’t know it. Oy. We try to take on Jesus and in the same breath say it can’t be done. People want to be justified in trying and falling because they cannot comprehend that a life lived IN Jesus is clean and clear and bountiful, full of order, peace, prosperity, real love…and freedom. But, as you and I both know, we like putting our hands to things to feel successful, to feel like we’re DOING something, like we’re MOVING toward an end of our own choice and so getting there under our own power. Saying we try to be like Jesus but are 'only human’ lets us do the work, slogging like a good Christian through the fiery darts of the enemy, without ever expecting the end. If we were in business I would fire an employee like that. Your works are your reward, Christianity! How about a life of faith? Yes, please.

Saying you get what you deserve is Justice (aka God). If you identify with the low things, you get the low things because that’s what you have faith for. I began to move in faith for bigger things, beginning to take on Jesus and the role of a Son, and so I began deserving higher things. How do you see yourself? What do you deserve? We choose our happiness and satisfaction: if you’re unhappy, find out why. Find faith to become happy where you're at, and the moment you find the light God'll move you into something your truly desire.
All things have a time and season - an order.

The idea of living in community is for protection. Having elders around so you don’t make rash decisions - they provide a perspective that helps keep you free, and God fiercely guards your freedom.  The choice is yours, but when everything you do and fear and love and think and feel is submitted unto the throne, before men, in God, then everything is blessed because the chaff is separated from the wheat, and the harvest is good for everyone.  You go free in your heart, your next step is laid out before you, you’ve found the faith to move in it, and your circumstances grow … less circumstantial and debilitating.

“Holding onto sins is something so human.”

What you hear from God and what you believe become your everything. But here’s a new understanding:  you are not your own and there is no middle ground. Either you are in God or you are in Satan. If every moment's thought is on God, or increasingly on Him, then you find yourself with Him. But even in that increasing, those moments without him are moments under Satan. We think we can stand between them on any issue or for life, but we are made by one and duped by another; we try not to take sides on a thing and are in satan’s court, because to be in God is to find out what HE thinks and become that, every moment moving toward the light. It’s nothing to perform, but if I have faith that I'm not worthless, then I won't be.

You can see that living a life of intent with others who are intent brings heaven down because we take back stolen land hand over fist. Everything here is edible, food for growth, and nothing is left out.

My placement at the moment is kind of a wreck. What I want is usually pretty clear to me: spiritual growth. Knowing that, I should get to Alaska in a flash. (*note the should -  God doesn’t should. He says things like ‘it’d be a good idea if…’ and then I can either do it (because GOD SAID IT WAS A GOOD IDEA) or be condemned by not wanting to do it, and so not do it, and so not reap the reward that’s there for me. Doing the hard thing (what I don’t want to do) is always liberating because it puts the soul (the mannish, fleshy, emotionally-ruled side of things) back into its proper place: under the spirit. I’ve been led by a spirit, not the spirit, into my lusty desires and into the independence of young manhood: a dangerous place. But it’s not a problem.  My heart is still for the Father, and my soul is just being proven as a wild animal to me: insatiable and fickle. I still grow, it’s just slower, and it feels like it costs a lot more because it takes longer: the surgery is with a rusty blade because I resist the clean and neat, painless efficiency of the father’s heart-circumcision surgery.  But the power is in your hands to book yourself for surgery.But all things in season, and nothing happens before its time.

Bahahaha. You said ‘look how sorted he is with God.’ I’ve just spent more time with Him than most and know that I’m better for it.

What are you looking for? All your plans have been your focus, but this new eyesight has struck a note in your spirit that will change your priorities. If God is number One, the plans come out of that.  Be intentional. Find the things that MAKE you grow, and then seek them out, dig in deeper, until you only vaguely recognize who you used to be. BUT DON’T JUDGE YOURSELF. God’s the judge, and he’s judged you Righteous, so success or failure, loss, increase, salvation, fame, love, a following, all arel evidence of the seeds growing in you. Neither good nor bad, but some preferable. ALL THINGS WORK FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM because it’s all meat for consumption.  Christians would say ‘you had an affair?! Go be penitent, do some community service, and flog yourself before your husband for the rest of your life’. But God doesn't need you to do anything to let go of guilt and come back to him - if it's in your heart to receive again, you're already with him. At that point he just says ‘Why'd you do that? That’s not you at all!’ and then you recognize that it really isn’t you (because we are not what we do, but in God, so spirit, and so different than we have thought.) When we believe we are something outside of him He cocks his head to the side and says ‘Huh? Who told you that?’    

I can’t go into the male/female thing right now, but age cannot be questioned. If you were a minute older than me you’d be my elder. For me to recognize and maintain this is to keep things holy in my life. I could equalize us, but that just raises me up. Whatever knowledge I have you can absolutely glean from, but if I think for a second I have more than you I am becoming like God because somebody needs me wants me and I’m suddenly justified by the goods on earth…identifying with all the stuff that I got from other people.

I only have any real idea of who I am when I am looking into God. Everything else is just distraction. I am less me, less human, when I am moving in God because I don’t have to do good or bad or right by anyone – I’m  not impressive because God’s impressed with me and I don’t need love because I’m filthy with it. I’m lighter and brighter because the earth has less hold on me: I’m not a victim of circumstance, but served by it. This is how miracles happen – my ideas of earthly limits begin falling away and I see God for who He is: consistent, pure love and rectification. That’s me. That’s you.

 

rewston