Seeing God Afresh
“And when I saw Him,
I fell at His feet as dead…”
Revelation 1:17
No individual can rightly present the Living Christ without a “seeing” of Him. There is often something artificial, contrived, and shallow that flows from a life void of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ. Christ alone is the fountain from which the fresh, pure waters of grace flow.
“…for God resisteth the proud,
and giveth grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5
Pride is the consequence of spiritual blindness. When people measure their standing in God by their contemporaries, their self-assessment is skewed. Self-importance grows, the light of God dims, and the inevitable fall from grace is set in motion.
Pride is the cause of stagnation. It insidiously places self at the center; it declares God must first move me to serve Him. Love moves the humble to serve and honour Him always. The proud are unable to be moved by the simplicity of love. There is, within its own delusion of grandeur, an inability to reach out into the world around it. Pride fears vulnerability.
Purity of heart is the lens through which we see God. The base motives of fallen nature will corrupt even the best virtues into the vilest forms of treachery and perversion. We can take pride in our humility. We can become arrogant about our service. We can become conceited in our own estimation of worth. The Knowledge of God can inflate our self-worth, while the Love of Him will impel us to edify and exhort others.
“Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth”
1 Corinthians 8:1
The phantom of pride’s greatest delusion is that it becomes unaware of itself. Our supreme need in this life is to have continuous encounters with the living Christ. In seeing Him, we see ourselves.
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Isaiah 6:5
Related Post: Humility and His Presence
Seeing God Afresh
“He that is down, needs fear no fall;
He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.”
– John Bunyan
Brian Troxel
Dream About The Dangers Of Deception
I had a dream/night vision 06/20/2015. In the dream a saw a slow-moving river. The river was called deception and there is significance to the fact that it was slow-moving as deception is patient and slow-moving. I saw an open Bible and it was floating on this river and moving along with the current. The Bible is the Word of God and contains no deception. In the dream I saw people standing on the Bible. You can stand on the Word of God. The river’s name as I said above was deception. Just as the water that destroyed mankind in Noah’s day gave the ark buoyancy so the ark in my dream, the Word of God was floating . One thing about this river is that it looked like raw sewage. I saw a person jump off and, unlike the Word of God, didn’t float but sank. People can usually float in water. I’ve done it myself, however, this was not ordinary water. One can’t float on this water. The person who jumped into the water had to be rescued by someone in the Word. One thing I noticed is that the people on the Word were standing in the middle of it and the one needing rescued had been standing on the edge before jumping and most likely staring at the water. Again, from what I saw, the water looked like raw sewage. One would most definitely have to be deceived to want to jump into such filth.
When such a one is rescued they are rescuing him/her from the filth of deception; stink and all. Those needing rescued will not be coming out smelling like roses.
The take away from this is to stay in the Ark which in this case the Word of God. Secondly one must gather with other believers of like mind who speak the same thing. And lastly have compassion on those who have chosen deception. In order to rescue such a one means standing in the place where they wilfully jumped off. In the above dream the person that jumped off was at the edge of the Word staring at the river called deception
Amen! “Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.”
Blessings,
BT
There is that self evaluation that gives permission in the grey areas, like you said measuring oneself by another person.
Our true measure is Christ. And when we “see”Jesus for ourselves, nothing else will do. The pricks that follow must remind us that he is the measure, there are no grey areas in him.
Blessings
Amen – so appreciate the comments and hope all is well with your family!
BT
We are, my grandkids are getting big, and they’re healthy.
Hope you are feeling well. Blessings brother.