Heart Of The Eagle

Micah 5:7

“Then the remnant of Jacob

Will be among many people

Like dew from the Lord.”

Now and “Then”

Micah, speaking some 700 years before Jesus came, is describing the future of the people of God. The word “then” is often spoken of as “in that day”- a phrase that Jesus also used. It was the looking forward to the ultimate bringing to pass of the will of God for mankind when God the Son joined forever to our humanity making us His kinfolk and assuming responsibility for our sins and death.

“Then” refers to the finale when He shall rise from the dead and we in union with Him;  the day when we in Him are brought out of death and carried with Him into the heart of God the Father and given the Spirit who in this here and now makes that union functional reality. The Body of Christ in the world but not of it is the remnant Micah speaks of. The word remnant means those joined to Jesus by the Spirit are His Body in the earth now. This ancient Scripture describes you in this world.

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We are described as the dew from the Lord. I never thought too much about dew until I came to live in Texas and came to realize that the dew is one of the most precious gifts of God to mankind that quietly is given again and again almost without notice. It is known by its absence more than its presence.

The dew is God’s method of daily reviving and renewing his creation in the midst of death. It is the hope of survival of the plant world though another day of blistering death dealing heat. In Israel – and in places like Texas – everything would whither under the sun’s rays but for the dew that quietly drenches everything with enough water of life before the sunrise. Read the blessings that God gave to His people regarding their physical existence and they always contained the promise of the dew. When Ahab rejected God from his life and his kingdom he came under the curse of not only no rain but no dew – the land could survive without rain but not without dew. The dew is the mysterious act of God’s love to the creation. It arrives quietly with no announcement, so gently that it is only after it has arrived that one becomes aware of being soaked.

Other forms of life giving water come with announcements ahead of time. The black cloud signals rain; thunder storms come with their marching band and light show and some have so much importance that they are given a name and the nation focuses attention on their arrival…And the Creator determined that the dew would not merely water the plants and soak the ground but do so with breathtaking beauty. Dew beautifies all that it touches and turns the most ordinary into a sight of glory. I have gone to our very ordinary pasture in the early morning and stood in wonder before a field of diamonds. A spider’s web has become a jewel no artist could replicate even with the finest of precious stones.

And He declares that His purpose in the New Creation, you and I, is that we become as dew in a world of death. You and I are God’s mystery in the midst of the world: we are God-dew for the thirsty hearts of mankind. He is the Dew…too!

But in Hosea 14:5 God declares that He is the dew: “I will be like the dew to Israel.” We are those who have been united by God’s love initiative to the Son in the Lord Jesus: we are adopted into the family of God and called His children… He is present to His world, not as a vague ethereal presence, but in and by us. The blessing spoken of in the Old Testament is declared in the New Testament to be the Spirit who now dwells in us. We are not only blessed by the refreshing dew of the Spirit but we are the vehicle of the Spirit in the world in this here and now. Jesus described this relationship as the life of the believer: “Abide in Me and I abide in you.” John described the Christian life in terms of He living as us in our daily lives: “As He is, so are we in this world.” Paul understood his life to actually be the life and living of Christ wherever he was; “For me to live is Christ.” “I live, yet not I but Christ who lives in me.” The Scripture that leaves us speechless is “He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.” ( Editor’s note: I believe that when Paul said “yet not I but Christ who lives in me,” he had probably died to himself. . .This is our GOAL…ds)

Jesus Christ is present to his world in and through you and me! We are Christ in our unique human disguise. And He is this without fanfare or marching band: no marching band, no advertising – just ourselves going to the office with God wrapped up in us through the Spirit to be life giving love in the most ordinary of interactions and most mundane happenings. This is so not by some great work that you accomplish but by what God accomplished in Jesus Christ. It is for us to realize and rest into that reality as we go naturally into our world day by day to soak it with His love.

You and I . . . are the hope bringers, the centers of divine love, life, healing, wholeness. We are the lifter of heads bowed in depression; we are the helpers of faith and the source of divine joy. The home, office, classroom, factory floor, customer awaiting service – does not realize that the presence of God-love and life is living and working alongside them and serving them.

And this here and now is wherever you happen to find yourself, not in some fantasy ideal ministry situation. The dew is dew wherever it is – whether on prize roses or a spider’s web it does its work of life and beautifying. We are the divine dew by our attitude and service to the person in front of us. It is the way we cook, clean, mow the lawn and do our daily work. This is not mugging everyone we meet with the facts of the Gospel but being and living the energy of God-love that in Christ we have been joined into. God-dew is being present to this moment here and now, the Spirit giving and serving in and through you.

This is who you are by sheer gift through Jesus Christ. Do not get out of bed in the morning without knowing who you are and living from the Spirit who makes real this salvation in your here- and – now- life.

by Malcom Smith

Many thanks to Joanne Anstine at http://mercy-loveisnow.blogspot.com/ who sent me this beautiful article that I could not resist passing on to you…Love, diana

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