Jan 28 2008
SNOW . . .God in ALL
Today I awakened to an unusual casting of light in my bedroom which drew me quickly to the windows to open the blinds ~ and there, everywhere, was the most spectacular sight. . .SNOW. This was a rich, heavy snow that, while still falling in large flakes, had flocked my Blue Spruce and Aspen trees so that limbs and boughs were bent beneath its weight.
“Father,” I said, “oh Father, this is just so glorious, for in the exquisite beauty outside I am given to see only You and My Beloved Jesus through Whom all things were made! (Genesis 1 and John 1:1-4) It was Sunday, and I had the luxury of turning on my worhsip music, curling up with my body pillow and gazing out of my windows at this spellbinding scene.
“In this,” I repeated, ” I see only You, Lord. That You, Father could create an unfathomable amount of cystals with no two the same and bring us the luxury of a snowy day like this one. Lord, this speaks to me of Your covering or banner over me ~ as a white crystalline cloak, pure and full of love, and of such a weight that it causes me to bow low and exclaim, ‘My Lord and My God!’” Though my sins be as scarlet, I shall be white as snow (Is. 1:18) because of the covering of Your Righteousness over me!”
I lay there in a blissful peace reflecting on many things of God and how we could see Him and His handiwork in everything through the Mind of Christ within us. I was given the knowing that we could look into the eyes of our spouses and children and children’s children and see Jesus and His Father. And into the eyes of our pets and even wild animals and find Him! And into the eyes of our neighbors and all whom Father chooses to bring to us and see Him. For we who are called and chosen of God have been given the eye of the Spirit which penetrates any darkness to see only LIGHT! “In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it. . .] ” John 1: 4,5
While I lay there reflecting thus, the little birds leaped among the branches as if relishing in this moisture ~ yea, in their Creator. Yes, I had put food out for them and will refill the feeder today as their natural food supplies might be scarce. Yet, does not scripture tell us that Father’s eye is on each little sparrow? (Matthew 10:29) If His eye is on the sparrow, should not our eye, which is rapidly becoming the fullness of His eye looking out through our own, also see the “sparrow?”
By implication the sparrow, being such a plain, abundant, and ordinary little bird represnts the “least of these.”
“And the King will reply to them, Truly I tell you, in so far as you did it for one of the least [in the estimation of men] of these My brethren, you did it for Me.” We all know that this scripture follows Jesus’ lesson regarding the separation of the sheep from the goats.
“Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come you blessed of My Father [you favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation], inherit (receive as your own) the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thristy and you gave Me something to drink. I was a stranger and you brought Me together with yourselves and welcomed and entertained and lodged Me. I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me with help and ministering care, I was in prison and you came to see Me. Then the just and upright will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry and gave You food, or thirsty and gave You something to drink,. . .? ” (Matthew 25: 33-46) The Lord was not simply talking about His followers here; He was referring to ALL men, women, and children whom He called His brethren. Is this not a beautiful scripture implying to the restitution of all things?
Am I able to see the least now? Am I drawn by His Heart throbbing within me to minister unto the least? And do I behold all of His glorious Creation and learn of His ways through it? And do I look into every eye and see Him so that my heart can leap and exclaim, “Behold, the Lamb of God!?”
I do hope so, dear brothers and sisters. And that is my prayer for us today ~ that we can definitely look into the eyes and hearts of one another and out into the world to the “least” and see our Beloved ~ that we might be heavy (even as the boughs covered with the purity of SNOW) with the Love of God ~ yea so heavy and compressed by that love that it would flow out over all that He made as a mighty flood encompassing the worlds without end toward the redemption of ALL through the Way. . .(the Blood of) Jesus. Amen.
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This morning (the following day) there were mighty icicles hanging from my eaves, glistening in the majestic Sun (Son,) and pointing towards the earth. “Heaven is thy home, Sprout, but earth is thy footstool. In heaven we dance, worship, commune, receive instruction, and gather around the fires of Father’s Heart as a Family. Then We go together to bring back the sons of men…We work the Earth.
“One day, Child, ye shall descend to that dark and torturous realm described by Me where men’s suffering seems eternal, but We shall enter with Bold Love and touch them, and they shall fall at Our feet, and they shall weep a new brand of tears. Thus We shall gather them up into Our arms and Our own tears will intermingle with theirs. . .the tears of unspeakable JOY. And this, Daughter, shall be only a small portion of the reward of those who overcome and attain unto the First Resurrection. Hold this vision in thy heart for it shall empower thee to come up hither and surrender ALL to achieve thy Prize. . .even Union with Me, and Oour Love-Force shall sweep the cosmos as a mighty magnet, and We shall hear them cry out, ‘Jesus, Jesus, Yeshua, Yeshua, Son of the Most High God, Thou art truly my Messiah!’
“And then We shall lead them Home through that same narrowing pathway which thou hast chosen to take and ascend. . .Home clean and freed by My Blood into the waiting Arms of Father with His Heart exploding with JOY over His wayward sons’ and daughters’ return.
“Canst thee await this great pleasure, My Sister, My Spouse? Hang on for the Day of its Dawning is as close as a breath or a heartbeat! How I rejoice to behold the ascent of My eagles!” Hallelujah!!
