Revelation part 5
Here it is: "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him" (Ephesians 1:17). A Spirit of wisdom and revelation. In the knowledge of Him. We really are kind of like my mom's favorite t-shirt sometimes. It says, "I don't think I have ADD--squirrel!" Like we get so distracted so easily. We give power to things that don't have any. We give power to things that SHOULDN'T have any. Let me say it like this: What you magnify in your life is what will manifest in your life. What you allow is what will continue. What you focus on is what you will experience. That's why it's so important to set your affection. And to set it on things above, not on things on the earth. God has given us what we need. That spirit of wisdom and revelation... in the knowledge of Him. The more we know of Him, the more we know of ourselves. Because as He is, so are we in this world. Because we have been created in His image, and conformed to the image of His Son. The problem man had in the beginning is that we didn't know who we were. Because we didn't know who HE was. Not until He shined the light. So that we could see clearly. We, by the way, ARE that light. He didn't just shine ON us, He shines THROUGH us. God is described as the Father of lights because we are His children and we are the light of the world just as Jesus was (and is) the light of the world. What I'm trying to say today, to end this Rant series, is that the revelation that we need IS the knowledge of Him. When we're talking about Revelation it's not about bugs the size of cars, or whatever else people are able to pull out of the last book in the Bible. It's about Jesus. It's about the cross. It's about love. And that's all it's about. Love is the thing we need to give our power to. Because God is all-powerful, right? Which means love is all-powerful. And that doesn't mean MOST powerful. It means God (LOVE) has ALL of the power. Which means nothing else has any power. No weapon formed against me shall prosper, right? Because they are powerless. So we don't need to fight them. We can just focus on the positive. Focus on loving people and let everything else work itself out. Don't get distracted by every squirrel that runs past. Don't get knocked around by every wind of doctrine. Know what you know and live out of that. And then when you learn more, when you know better, you can do better. But it's the knowledge of God. The knowledge of love. We learn how to love by learning how we are loved. We learn who we are by learning who Jesus is. Who God is. Who love is. And here's the best part: We don't have to "figure it out." We simply have to receive what He is giving us. Because He is constantly and always revealing Himself. To us. And in us. And through us. And as us. He is showing us who we are by showing us who He is. He has given us the spirit of wisdom and relevation. We have that. And it comes from the knowledge--heart knowledge, not head knowledge--experiential knowlege of Him. It comes from Him revealing Himself to us... by loving us!