back from visions...

I am sitting at work right now, wondering what the best use of my time is. I got back from visions last night and Mike Fields spent the night over. It was a good time; the guy is so deep and in love with God that he puts us all to shame. He's really seeking God these days. I love hanging out with him because he doesn't expect you to small talk. It's perfectly normal to ask the guy how him and Jesus are, what he's learning from God, or how worship was. His world is defined by his God and I think that singleness of heart is really admirable. God is the only thing that matters, everything else matters in relationship to Him alone.

Visions was good too. It was definitely a mature night, I felt like God was trying to emphasize a spirit of adult intimacy in the crowd. The last couple visions have been really powerfull manifestations of who God is, repentence, and the advancement of God's rule, but last night was more intimacy of a different stripe. It's the diffence between passionate sex and a husband and wife sitting on a couch, listening to each other breathing while they don't do anything really at all. It's the difference between spiritual orgasms and spiritual intimacy. Both are good things made by God but I think God is yearning to listen to our breathing, be in our presence (as we desire His presence), with the only thing we really need to do is be together. God wants us to be with Him because we are in love not because we seek spiritual ecstasies. We think that is what composes God and that is so wrong. God is a person, not a feeling. He loves, woos, romances, gets jealous, and angry but is always right and good and true and liberating. that's a good word, the very air he breathes is liberating!

I think this spiritual metaphor of a husband with his wife is lost on the church today. We say we believe it but we really don't let it sink in. God desires us our spirits to live related to His Spirit as lover's body's live related to each other. Sex is an analogy to how God wants to connect with us. But not just sex, but the life of a married couple, ever drawing closer to each other in the highest ecstasies and the most mundane trenches. God is desirous that we be married to him. I think that is a part of the Kingdom of God. The Great Romance.

Chew on that while I go close the lab
Daniyel