Dust of His Feet
"Behold, He is coming with clouds..." Revelation 1:7
"In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3) They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds - He does not come in clear-shining brightness.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child - a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows. Until other people become shadows to us, clouds and darkness will be ours every once in a while. Is our relationship with God becoming more simple than it has ever been?
There is a connection between the strange providential circumstances allowed by God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Until we can come face to face with the deepest, darkest fact of life without damaging our view of God's character, we do not yet know Him.
'they were fearful as the entered the cloud' Luke 9:34. Is there anyone except Jesus in your cloud? If so, it will only get darker until you get to the place where there is "no one anymore, but only Jesus..." Mark 9:8; "
I wish I could say I wrote that, but we all know I'd be lying. That's a page from my favorite book "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. This is one of my favorite devotions from the book. I shared this with you today, because when I was at Capernwray, each morning after breaky, we would have "storytime with Oswald" where I would read my roommates and adopted roommates the page from this book.
Right now, school isn't all the fun and giggles everyone makes college out to be and so I'm just really missing Capernwray right now. When no matter how you felt, when you were forced to get up and eat the same nasty bread at 8:00am, you knew there was someone that wanted to hug you for a random reason when you got there. I miss the cozy world.
"In the Bible clouds are always associated with God. Clouds are the sorrows, sufferings, or providential circumstances, within or without our personal lives, which actually seem to contradict the sovereignty of God. Yet it is through these very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were never any clouds in our lives, we would have no faith. "The clouds are the dust of His feet" (Nahum 1:3) They are a sign that God is there. What a revelation it is to know that sorrow, bereavement, and suffering are actually the clouds that come along with God! God cannot come near us without clouds - He does not come in clear-shining brightness.
It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something. His purpose in using the cloud is to simplify our beliefs until our relationship with Him is exactly like that of a child - a relationship simply between God and our own souls, and where other people are but shadows. Until other people become shadows to us, clouds and darkness will be ours every once in a while. Is our relationship with God becoming more simple than it has ever been?
There is a connection between the strange providential circumstances allowed by God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in the light of our knowledge of God. Until we can come face to face with the deepest, darkest fact of life without damaging our view of God's character, we do not yet know Him.
'they were fearful as the entered the cloud' Luke 9:34. Is there anyone except Jesus in your cloud? If so, it will only get darker until you get to the place where there is "no one anymore, but only Jesus..." Mark 9:8; "
I wish I could say I wrote that, but we all know I'd be lying. That's a page from my favorite book "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. This is one of my favorite devotions from the book. I shared this with you today, because when I was at Capernwray, each morning after breaky, we would have "storytime with Oswald" where I would read my roommates and adopted roommates the page from this book.
Right now, school isn't all the fun and giggles everyone makes college out to be and so I'm just really missing Capernwray right now. When no matter how you felt, when you were forced to get up and eat the same nasty bread at 8:00am, you knew there was someone that wanted to hug you for a random reason when you got there. I miss the cozy world.
posted by Megan at 10:16 PM
3 Comments:
I was thinking, "Megan... this is profound! I've never heard it said like this before... it is all so clear." BUT thanks for your honesty. The passage gives a whole new meaning to "head in the clouds" though doesn't it?
I actually may use part of this in my sermon this week. The "simplify" part.
I hope today that you'll remember that what your clouds are to Him!
TTYL
Haha, yeah, I know it's profound! That's why it couldn't have come from me. Glad it could be of some inspiration though.
Harold Jamus?! Who the heck are you? And how did you find my blog?
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