Honey part 5
Revelation is so vitally important to this "Christian" life. This walk--this life--of faith. Because you can't believe in something that you don't know. And that's what revelation is: Its knowing the truth. Look at Revelation 1:1, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John." And, really, I want to end this Rant series by focusing on that phrase "the revelation of Jesus Christ." Because that's what we're talking about. Jesus. God in the flesh. Love in a body. God in your flesh. Love in your body. LOVE. So look at what the word "revelation" means. It is number 602 in Strong's Greek Concordance and it means, "disclosure: - appearing, coming, lighten, manifestation, to be revealed, revelation." When we eat the honey that flows from the Promised Land, we are, in a sense, eating Jesus. Feasting on love. Which is what communion is all about--the bread and the wine that represents the body and the blood of Christ. Letting ourselves be transformed into what we've been transformed into by consuming it. By letting Jesus come to us and appear to us and reveal Himself to us (and in us, and through us, and as us). Our eyes are enlightened when the light of the world shines. And WE are the same light of the world that HE is. There's only one light. The light of love that shines into the darkness and makes the darkness flee. So we don't war against the darkness. We simply shine our light and let light do what it naturally does. I'm telling you, this shift in mindset from fighting AGAINST things... to standing FOR things means everything. Because if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. But if you stand on the Rock... if you stand for love... you will not (cannot) be shaken. So this revelation of Jesus is a revelation of love. A disclosure of love. God is love, and He loves you. An appearing of love. A coming of love. Love lighting the way. Love manifesting in our lives. That's what it means for the Word to become flesh--the love inside us coming out of us. Charity. Love in action. So when we eat the honey we can't think its going to make things look the way WE want them to look. We have to understand that the light of the world shows things how they really are. It shows them to be in Divine Order. Which SHOULD be how we want them to look, but sometimes (most of the time) its hard for people to see past themselves. That's why we're constantly trying to be someone we're not in order to get something we think we haven't got. We feel like we're missing something and we're desperate enough to do whatever it takes to get it. We'll believe the lie that says we have to do in order to be. We'll believe the lie that says we have to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. But that's folly. Because works and labor don't work. You can't earn a gift. Especially one that has already been freely given. So stop trying to earn and simply receive. Receive and release. Receive BY releasing. Give what you've got. Release by receiving. Fill yourself to overflowing with what you've already been filled with. Let what's inside come out, naturally, by knowing and believing its in there. Let God reveal it--Himself, love--to you, and in you, and through you. Drink the milk, eat the honey, and live in the Promised Land by letting it flow out of you!