Devotionals
The Sound of God!
A move of God is always precipitated by a sound in the spirit world. If I had to explain this to someone, I do not think I would even have the words. Words cannot adequately express what it is that I feel. I know that change has come. I must make a move. The instructions must come from the Lord, and He will provide them at just the right time and in just the right manner. Children of the King cannot be sedentary. We cannot allow our muscles to grow soft from lack of kinetics. God is the Lord, and He is constantly moving to a beat that all of creation sings. He that has ears to hear, let him hear (Matt 11:15). Let Him hear the sound. The trumpet has blown.
Today I listened to an old song by Stephanie Mills called “Home”. Every single word, every single note, every single chord is how I feel when I think of leaving this earth and going home to my Father. My real home. I have never in my life felt for anyplace that I have lived as home. Today I feel in my spirit that I am getting closer to the day, when I am carried away. Whether I am asleep in my grave or alive and well, I am hardly stand to think of the complete joy and unspeakable joy I will experience when I finally see Him. I don’t want to seem morbid. I know that life is good and there are blessings that we ignore. Things like good health, eyes that see, ears that hear, walking, talking, thinking, breathing, being clothed in our right minds (on some days I have questioned this!) In the soul of my soul, I know that heaven is the place I began and heaven will be the place that I end up again.
I remember when I was about fifteen years old. I was in a room that I shared with my brother. I was terribly upset about something. You would think that if I was that upset, then surely I will remember the anguish was regarding. But I do not. But I do remember the first time I felt Him put His arms around me. I felt His heavenly being encompass me in an embrace so divine that it brings tears to my eyes when I envision it again in the lens of my mind. Trapped in iridescent splendor, if you will, on the pigment of my soul….the very imprint made in my heart that will last more than my lifetime. I allowed myself to release and feel His love. I was so enraptured and so enamored that I cried a cry from deep within. I asked Him to make me a promise. I asked Him to promise me that, no matter what, regardless as to where my life led me that I would return to Him, that I would be able to make it back Home. I didn’t know if it was against the rules; I didn’t even know if there were rules, and if there were what those rules consisted of: I didn’t care. He was and is the Savior, after all. He can do as He pleased. But that pact is something that I go back to time and time again. It hangs on the fringes of my mind and sometimes walks gingerly on its tippy toes into my consciousness and I am right back there again! That wide-eyed innocence of a child on her brink of womanhood who was frightened at the specter of living in this great big world where seemingly there was void of love, security and safety. I do not think that these things exist outside of God! Something in my spirit must have felt the winds of change. There were then, as there are now, questions that I do not have answers to. But one thing that I am of which I am sure: He’s got me.
For the first time in my life, I understand when it the scriptures it states that it pleased God to bruise Him (Isaiah 53:10). I used to think, why would God want to harm Jesus? His only begotten Son. It wasn’t about the beating, the scourging, the crushing, the stripes and whips all over His body. It was the blood. The precious blood that was required to atone for the sins of the world. It was necessary and Jesus was the only one who could do it. No other blood would be sacred, no animal nor another human being. It needed to be done for prophecy, for love for all of us – so that we can go Home. I can relate to the humanness in Jesus when He was in the garden of Gethsemane. When Jesus cried blood and implored the Father to let this cup pass. But when He left the garden, His mind was right! He was fixed! There was no going back. He submitted to the Father’s will; for which He was born. He was born to die. For such a great sacrifice, He asks only one thing of us. That we live our lives for Him.
And just as the Master suffered immeasurable sorrows, so must we, as servants first; then as sons must be subjected to the same. We are not greater than our Master. In the crushing we think: “surely this will kill me!” It is not so. I, too, have looked under and over, behind curtains and under rocks – everywhere. I asked “Lord, where are you? Are you there? Remember me? Show me your face. You see what has happened. Don’t you care?” Through this crushing and pressing, we are perfected. We are made ready for the purpose of God. There is no life in the flesh to save. It is dead, and in a perpetual state of death – like the heralded rabbit in Alice in Wonderland. Hurrying fast toward its destiny in the grave. But thanks be to God who gave us victory. Jesus conquered the grave! It could not keep Him. Nor shall it hold us in its icy clutches. As the Savior rose again, so shall we.
And the sounds shall precede the move. A cry from heaven, the voice of an archangel, and the trumpet of God shall make a noise! (I Thessalonians 4:16)
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