A Message from Miki Earle
From Miki Earle:
On Monday I woke up with this question reverberating in my mind..."Can you learn to breath under water?" Needless to say I pondered on that for most of the morning. Later that day as I was driving to Windham, with no fore thought, these words came to my heart form the Lord,
As I let that settle in my mind I got a steady stream of thought about this statement. The Bible,both Old and New Testament is full of imagery of water. Revelation tells us there is a river that flows from the throne of God, a crystal clear river of life. I now believe that in the kingdom reality of this life that there is an actual river that flows to us directly from the seat of all authority.
It is as "un-natural " for us to love first, especially when we feel defenseless or wronged, as it is to breathe under water. To take that first breath when all of our senses are telling us we will die seems impossible to my natural mind. And yet, that is what we are being asked to do in the scripture...to love...to forgive.. to lay down our lives..to take up a cross..to share in the death of Christ and the fellowship of His suffering and to live from our spirit, that part that has been made alive in Christ. We are being asked to do that which is impossible from the natural man...but possible IN Christ, and that is to love and to love more with each day. Why else did Christ say that we would be known as His children by the way we love one another.
Surely this love He spoke of is not a natural love, because there is nothing unusual or distinct about the normal love between people. But to love supernaturally, even when our normal defenses would cry out for protection and withdrawal...now there is a love that would mark us as a people set apart.
Many of you do not know me well, but my entire life has been marked by leadership and respectability. I have drawn the confidence of people since very young, and now I find myself so desperate for the constant presence of God that acceptability is falling to a much lesser place in my mind. Never will I be satisfied by hype or emotional fervor, but I will not tell my beloved Lord how He must be for me to hear Him. He speaks. I listen. Surely I can know Him well enough to know what is Him!
We are approaching a crossroads in the church. Will we continue as we have come, speaking the Word of God but living from the natural... or will we learn to breathe under water?
On Monday I woke up with this question reverberating in my mind..."Can you learn to breath under water?" Needless to say I pondered on that for most of the morning. Later that day as I was driving to Windham, with no fore thought, these words came to my heart form the Lord,
"Learning to live FROM the love of God is like learning to breathe under water."
As I let that settle in my mind I got a steady stream of thought about this statement. The Bible,both Old and New Testament is full of imagery of water. Revelation tells us there is a river that flows from the throne of God, a crystal clear river of life. I now believe that in the kingdom reality of this life that there is an actual river that flows to us directly from the seat of all authority.
It is as "un-natural " for us to love first, especially when we feel defenseless or wronged, as it is to breathe under water. To take that first breath when all of our senses are telling us we will die seems impossible to my natural mind. And yet, that is what we are being asked to do in the scripture...to love...to forgive.. to lay down our lives..to take up a cross..to share in the death of Christ and the fellowship of His suffering and to live from our spirit, that part that has been made alive in Christ. We are being asked to do that which is impossible from the natural man...but possible IN Christ, and that is to love and to love more with each day. Why else did Christ say that we would be known as His children by the way we love one another.
Surely this love He spoke of is not a natural love, because there is nothing unusual or distinct about the normal love between people. But to love supernaturally, even when our normal defenses would cry out for protection and withdrawal...now there is a love that would mark us as a people set apart.
Many of you do not know me well, but my entire life has been marked by leadership and respectability. I have drawn the confidence of people since very young, and now I find myself so desperate for the constant presence of God that acceptability is falling to a much lesser place in my mind. Never will I be satisfied by hype or emotional fervor, but I will not tell my beloved Lord how He must be for me to hear Him. He speaks. I listen. Surely I can know Him well enough to know what is Him!
We are approaching a crossroads in the church. Will we continue as we have come, speaking the Word of God but living from the natural... or will we learn to breathe under water?
posted by JD Whyte @ 2:46 PM
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