The Road to Damascus Journey…Day Two..Perspective

November 4, 2009

The Road to Damascus Journey…Day Two..Perspective

I am having trouble with my vision. While challenging myself to look at this temporary condition on a different level, I think about…

• Keeping the lens clean for optimal vision
• Checking your“equilibrium” (balance) – it will affect your “vision”
• How as Christians we live under a magnifying lens, and people tend look through the lens to assess our walk with God
• By the same token when people look through the lens they ought to see Jesus magnified in us.  Let our desire be “Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Phil. 1:20).

I have been in conversation with God about my present limitations.  He said “Believe my word”.  So this is the perspective I choose – I have an assignment yet to accomplish, so I will overcome this visual acuity test and get one step closer to fulfilling my assignment.

I considered the life of Paul, and what we read in the New Testament letters of his life and many journeys.  I recalled the persecution he suffered, and the infirmities and weaknesses he spoke of in his letters (epistles).  There is great controversy about his “thorn in the flesh”, and I have read multiple opinions and conclusions ranging from eye disease, continual persecution and/or the stoning.  One thing is sure, Paul entrusted “all” to God. Let’s read:

2 Corinthians 12: 8 – 10 (New International Version) – 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

If we read Acts 14 carefully we find that he stayed awhile in Galatia because he was recovering from the stoning, and as a result many came to the Lord.  Genesis 50:20 says it this way:

Genesis 50:20 (New International Version)

²⁰ You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

Genesis 50:20 (King James Version)

²⁰But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

I receive two Words:

• Ani nichna (spelled A’ni  Ni’c'na – Hebrew) meaning “Surrender”
• Ayin – “eye; to see; to understand and obey”

Brethren, let’s not wait to have a “stoning” experience like that in order to share the Word of God or to grow into mature Christians.  What will it take for you to be persuaded?  Paul writes in Romans 8, that he is “persuaded” (Romans 8:35 to 39). “All” that he had faced in his journey’s persuaded him. He surrendered all, and in his afflictions he developed a “spiritual eye.”

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NIV) – “For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”

This brings me back to the beginning again, it is a scripture which set the Kairos Journey in motion in 2006, and subsequently to this Damascus Journey. That verse is:  Habakkuk 2:3 (King James Version) –  3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

Habakkuk was a Watchman and a Prophet.  Ezekiel 33:1-7 speaks of the duties of a “Watchman”. Let’s read (Amplified Bible):

 ¹AND THE word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    ²Son of man, speak to your people [the Israelite captives in Babylon] and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take a man from among them and make him their watchman,

    ³If when he sees the sword coming upon the land, he blows the trumpet and warns the people,

    ⁴Then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

    ⁵He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning shall save his life.

    ⁶But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, he is taken away in and for his perversity and iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

    ⁷So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at My mouth and give them warning from Me

The Watchman works together with the Gatekeeper. The watchman has the ability to watch (see) and (again the Word Ayin – “eye; to see; to understand and obey”), from a distance, enabling him to guard the people of God, and to warn the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper can see and guard the kingdom and the House of God (up close).

1 Chronicles 9:26 -27 reads:  “But the four principal gatekeepers were entrusted with the responsibility for the rooms and treasuries in the house of God. They would spend the night stationed around the house of God, because they had to guard it; and they had charge of the key for opening it each morning.”

Watchmen, Prophets, and Gatekeepers, all have assignments and responsibilities and are authorized by the King in strategic placement. These are exclusive relationships, just as our relationship to Christ is exclusive.

Psalm 84:10 tells us that King David was also a gatekeeper.  Peter in the Bible was and is a Gatekeeper. John was a Watchman who was also a Scribe, giving us the Book of Revelations.

God has enabled us with gifts and tools. Some to be Watchmen, Shofar blowers, Gatekeepers, Prophets,  Psalmists, Writers (Scribes). Whatever our gifts, our enabling, our vessels, must be available for and to God, to be used.

Again I have a Word that is familiar to this blog: (Kerugma October 2008 Journey):

Kerugma means – Greek Word –(Strong’s 2782) – proclamation; message preached

Also, Greek Lexicon – (Bible Crosswalk) Kerugma – that which is proclaimed by a herald or public crier.

“What is to be proclaimed ?”  I ask of God.

I have the Greek Words “Logos” and “Rhema” in my spirit.  One is His written Word (Logos) and the other (Rhema) is God’s spoken Word.  It all points to Jesus, the Word of God. We are watching for the day the Living Word of God returns for his Church.

Grace and Peace..Alma

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