It’s been just over nine years since my initial personal encounter with Jesus Christ.
At that time, not only did He give me a revelation of Himself, but He also gave me a revelation of the church which is His body.
Since that time I have been through many different things.
I have experienced both the peace and joy of walking in harmony with Him, and also the pain and suffering of rebelling against Him.
All along the way, He has continued to work all things together for my good, and continued to prove to me that it is his love which draws men to repentance.
When He filled me with His Life, I was as a man raised from the dead.
Life took on new meaning as I saw the world around me with resurrected eyes.
I didn’t look around thinking, “Oh, nothing really matters, it’s all going to burn.”
No, it took me a couple years of exposure to the religious system to acquire such a twisted outlook on life.
Neither did I go around exposing the faults of others, trying to heap condemnation on their heads.
He didn’t send me to condemn.
As a matter of fact, I was so filled with the Love of God, that I had a hard time not spilling it all over those around me.
However, over time, the newness wore off, and the self righteousness set in, right along with the stumbling and falling that succeed a walk of pride.
Finally, after about a five year period of believing that the good Lord was all done with me…just knowing that I had displeased Him to the point of no return…
He proved me wrong.
Again.
Hallelujah!!
It was actually during these five years of almost total darkness that the Lord made it possible for me to get real with Him.
It was during this time that I learned just how superficial my thoughts and prayers to Him were.
During this time of ‘weeping and gnashing of teeth’ I was able to finally come to the beginning of the end of my old man.
Oh no, it’s not that I have already attained to anything. But I am aware of some things that I have gained along the way.
Reverence is one of them.
And adoration is another.
I also know what it means to worship in Spirit and truth.
Just to be clear…
It’s all Him.
Things are beginning to look a lot more like they did during our early days together.
Not to worry. I’m not ‘regressing’.
Actually, the Lord is just bringing me back to His original goal.
Nine years ago, I didn’t realize that someone had coined a term for it, but some people call it the eternal purpose.
Now even that term carries some religious connotations for some people.
Even to me personally, it doesn’t mean the exact same thing as it did just two years ago, but it is still based in the two revelations He gave to me at the beginning.
Christ and the Church.
The Kingdom of God.
The Eternal Purpose.
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