I have just looked out, at 6.30am at the sky and saw a lovely blue. Then I realized it was just a very small bit of a mostly grey sky. Its the blue sky I focus on.
The Price of Vision
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. Isiah 6:1.
Our soul`s history with God is frequently the history of the passing of the hero.` Over and over again God has to remove our friends in order to bring Himself in their place, and that is where we faint and fail and get discouraged. Take it personally: In the year that the one who stood to me for all God was, died-I gave up everything? I became ill? I got disheartened? or-I saw the Lord?
My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say "I saw also the Lord," there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification.
It must be God first, God second, and God third, until the life is faced steadily with God and no one else is of any account whatever. "In all the world there is none but thee, my God, there is none but thee."
Keep paying the price. Let God see that you are willing to live up to the vision.
The above was painted yesterday and its up to you which way you want to look at it. I signed it in the bottom left of where it appears above!
"Our Lord told us to pray in secret - that means in your heart - and he instructed us to "shut the door." What is the door he says we must shut, if not the mouth?
For we are the temple in which Christ dwells. for as the Apostle said:
"You are the temple of the Lord."
And the Lord enters into your inner self
into this house,
To cleanse it from everything that is unclean,
but only while the door-that is, your mouth-
is closed shut."
-Aphrahat the Persian
Fare well you all today and be blessed and bless.
Your brother Peter.
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