And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and
we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace
and truth. --John 1:14
On a particular night a pastor gave me complete
freedom to speak, and I will always remember it. The topic I chose was an
attribute of God I appreciate so much: faithfulness. We have
failed, but He is faithful and does not keep lists of wrongs, is not provoked,
and is steadfast when we are faithless. The congregation was receptive,
and I believe that God revealed a new aspect of who He is to many. The pastor
took the stage and began to pray and weep. As one the group prayed for God to
reveal that He is a loving Father. All month I had been practicing
allowing my soul to feed on His wisdom,
His will, and His peace that are in me.
I must admit that my soul was very full.When we began to sing "Hold me
now and let your love surround me," I was expecting just that, but love did not
merely surround me! My soul was so full of His love that it began to flow out of
me to others. I wanted to run and hug everyone, to pray for the sick, and to
pray for those in distress, though not me, but Him in me. The overflow of
my soul was of Him, and I could see that His love in me wanted to take the form
of flesh and blood to minister in a concrete way. I was not just
preaching about love but demonstrating it! I could see how the Word became
flesh; the soul of Jesus was so completely full of God that a human body
could not hold it all, so it spilled out to others. "And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us." Jesus can manifest Himself through us, and we
receive the awareness that there is nothing that faith in Him cannot do, nothing
that Jesus cannot do. I see that I cannot schedule God, but as my soul is
fed, I also see how I could pray for healing and another would receive it, for
the Spirit is scheduling me. Christ is in us! Christ knows who needs what,
and He can move through us to heal or help. On this day I watched God
move from head to heart. We are vehicles for the living Word to take
form. We are not Jesus, or God, or special, but we have been
crucified with Christ, and it is no longer we who live but Christ that lives in
us (as in Galatians 2:20).
He is faithful! Amen. Michael takes us to a realm
of glory…God’s glory…that comes when we “work” at allowing our soul to feed on
His wisdom, His will, His peace, that is in us. Then Michael shares how his
soul became so full that it overflowed…and THAT overflowing WAS Christ. And at
that moment, CHRIST became flesh to minister through Michael.
I wonder how many Christians have celebrated for
years the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ in the sense of thinking about His
being born as a baby in the manger in Bethlehem, and have experienced the birth
of the Lord Jesus Christ in the sense of thinking about His being born as a
Spirit in their very being…BUT, have not experienced or celebrated His “coming
in the flesh” in the sense of overflowing one’s soul and seeing Christ’s love
“take the form of flesh and blood to minister in a concrete way”?
I wonder if there would be any shouting, “Glory!
Glory! Glory to God in the highest…”?
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