Ron, my good friend continues here from last week in Part Two. If you missed last week’s post you can read it HERE.
“Lord, You have been our DWELLING PLACE in all generations..” quite phenomenal insight for his day. “Before the mountains were brought forth or You ever gave birth to the earth and the world …from everlasting to everlasting, YOU ARE GOD.” Ps 90:1-2
I can see this revelation unfolding in the tent of ‘intimacy’. The depth of this cannot be underestimated! We all know this as a biblical fact. However, I am seeing this in the context of another pathway conversation that opened up on our arrival in Tauranga. A centrepoint in the powerful prophetic writing of Isaiah as he considers the vision of Cyrus instrumental in Israels return to Jerusalem.
“I AM the Lord, and there is NO OTHER; There is NO GOD besides Me. I WILL GIRD YOU…” Is 45:5
I am deeply aware that this imprint on the heart is substantial! Beyond understanding. Unfolding in the realm of birthing. The word GIRD is to embrace and equip …. I note that this is not related to task! It is a Kingdom principle of walking together with a growing awareness of being ONE!
My focus in the psalm slips down the page to “Oh, satisfy us in the morning with your love ..” Ps 90:14 here we are hearts wide open with an echo in the heavens of “Come up here … and I will show you..”
EVERYTHING STARTS HERE
In the tent of intimacy! … heart to Heart … a moment in time …a moment in … well, it really is hard to describe. There are some things within these moments that can only be known when you are there.
A ‘hedged in’ moment … a moment of transformation and transition in beautiful layers with horizons yet to be reached!
In that unfolding and seeing, I see Moses reach out in response. Not as before with debate and denial, or frustration but responsive in recognition!
“Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children.” Ps 90:16
FRESH TERRITORY
Now this is fresh territory for me! How is it that I didn’t see this all those years ago? Timing, I expect? Can I now carry this unfolding?
Let YOUR WORK … YOUR PURPOSE .. YOUR HEART VISION appear …be REVEALED! In the seeing, his heart explodes, and from his lips pours a response of recognition! Let YOUR GLORY … the very ESSENCE of who You are be revealed to the children! Wow! I will leave that thought with you because its outcome has significant variety.
In that transcendent heart to heart moment, Moses continues to empty his heart with emotive response.
“Let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us..” Ps 90:17
This is likely to be what he was experiencing in those intimate moments in the tent. I reflect on what I have read of Paul as he writes “The things that God has prepared for those who love Him. … God has revealed them to us through His Spirit …” 1 Cor 3:9-10 and continues with “…and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.” 2 Cor 2:14
The sense of Moses’ writing is the fragrant beauty of the Lord, diffused through His people! The image of the Father reflecting a life changing burst of heaven upon earth!
A REVELATORY OUTCOME
How amazing to stand in Grace where time meets eternity! When Heaven is on earth! Where in that moment nothing else matters. Moses has this realization …”establish the work of our hands..” Ps 90:17 establish the work and purpose revealed in intimacy … a tone and theme that echoes through all of time …
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fulness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth – in Him” Eph 1:7-10
Father in Heaven, how glorious is Your name!
Let Your Kingdom come with all the radiant and fragrant beauty of Your will being done in our world as it is in heaven.