Hello dear LORD,
It has been a long time since I last wrote. I still feel bad about it, but, on the other hand, I understand that You keep leading me down other paths, doing other things, ministering in different ways. I shall do, oh LORD, according to Your will, not according to my own selfish preferences.
Thank you so much, loving God, for giving me access to Your word the Bible. Thank You for this supernatural book of transcendent truths and knowledge, which only those of us who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit can see and discern.
As much of You that is revealed in Scripture, there is so much more that is visible only to the eyes of Your chosen ones, the children in whom You dwell, the ones You have turned from dead spirits into eternally living creations. There is so much the world does not see in us because their are blind. To the eyes of the world, we are actually comtemptible because we submit to a God that can not be seen, heard, smelled or touched. The world mocks us because we proclaim a relationship with You by means of someone the world thinks of as a good teacher, an ethical man, a champion of social justice, but certainly not as God incarnate, the Ancient of days, the Holy one of Israel, King of kings and Lord of lords. The world laughs at us because we believe that You are with us and in us here and now, and all the world sees in us are humans who look just like them, sound like them, get sick and have disabilities like them, so they ask with sarcasm: “If you say that God lives in you, how come you are disabled? How come you are ill?
Indeed, gracious LORD, Your ways are so subtle and so powerful. There is much power in the Bible, evidenced by the fact that the wicked react so violently when we declare what You, oh God, have said is sin and an abomination to You. There is power in the proclamation of the message of the cross that we take with us and share, because You use our message to touch the hearts of the hearers or readers You choose for Yourself. And yes, there is power in Your promises, in all the things that are unseen, because they are as real as this solid planet we live in. You are real, the Holy Spirit is real, eternal life in heaven is very real. Oh LORD, grant to each and every one of my brothers and sisters in all the Earth the same intensity and clarity that You have given me in seeing You, in perceiving You, in touching You. LORD Almighty, grant each and every one of my brothers and sisters the same fierce possession of You that You have given me.
At this moment, my awesome God, I want to share with my brethren the words that You gave us concerning the things not seen, the things invisible except to spiritual eyes. Grant that my brethren, in the following passages, may see You and our eternal home, the eternal things, as clearly as I do, as solidly as I do. Grant that these Your beautiful words be of encouragement to my brethren, so that they may gain strength in our journey to our celestial home, lest their vision becomes cloudy and they loose sight of the things eternal, the things not seen, the things so precious and so real to us and to You, hidden from the dead eyes of the world, revealed to those whom You have chosen from the foundation of the world.
The following passages are taken from the Young’s Literal Translation of the Bible. In this translation, the phrase, “age during,” means eternal:
2Corinthians 4:16 wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;
17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us—
18 we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things not seen are age-during.
2Corinthians 5:1 For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands—age-during—in the heavens,
2 for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,
3 if so be that, having clothed ourselves, we shall not be found naked,
4 for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.
5 And He who did work us to this self-same thing is God, who also did give to us the earnest of the Spirit;
6 having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord,—
7 for through faith we walk, not through sight—
8 we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.
9 Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,
Do you see in these passages, brothers and sisters, how our tribulations are brief? Do you see how, as compared to our lifespan here on this Earth, eternity is a very long, long time? Do you see how, once being given the Holy Spirit of God, as time goes by and we continue to walk in Christ, we become more and more like Him? Oh, sweet LORD, I can see a divine light inside us believers growing brighter and brighter as our sanctification continues, as we grow, as You shape us into what You will ultimately transform us into on the last day. What glorious knowledge. What awesome truths. Grant that my brothers and sisters continue to remember the cross, the death and resurrection of the Christ our Savior and Lord, the first fruits of the eternal sons and daughters of God.
In adoration,
Zoraida
So beautifully expressed. Thank you, Zoraida.
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