Take a new view

I remember about a year ago, visiting a local church situated on a hill near the sea. I was kindly invited to look inside, as I had been walking around admiring the grounds and the outside of the building. The inside was attractive, with lovely stained glass windows, most impressive.

I walked outside to jump back in my car, and immediately became aware that it was as though my sense of sight was heightened, everything looked better! As I drove down the road the surroundings and the sea in the distance took on a beautiful quality. I arrived home and walked inside, my house looked better the view of my garden looked wonderful. I didn’t want this to wear off. I knew the still small voice inside  was highlighting something to me. it was about changing my perspective, to see things as He sees things, always seeing the beauty in things, it is where we choose to put our focus, that determines our joy & happiness. I believe also that He was showing me that he doesn’t just reside in beautiful buildings, but His presence can be found anywhere. This is a lesson that he continues to repeat to me in different ways just recently I heard him speak to me of it again. let me encourage you  to shift your focus, dwell on the positive, the uplifting, allow Him to give you His perspective - a new perspective! Don’t settle for anything less.

Beautiful Inside and out

At my last ikebana lesson,we had demonstrated to us,how to highlight the inside of a lily,peel back the petals and inside is a whole new vision,the stamens are revealed,and they make their own artistic impression.

the inside of the lily is just as beautiful as the outside.what do you think a lesson for us?what lies hidden is equally as fascinating,and worth taking the time to know.we could apply that to people we know or ourselves,the wisdom within.lets turn our hearts to the world,that have been caressed by love,so they will catch a glimpse and be equally as fascinated.

Gerrie

The Building

The Lord showed me a building. The building was still under construction.
He showed me that the when he cleared the land for the building, so that the building would be build on solid ground, he found that the ground had been corrupted and was unstable. So he poured out onto the ground, like concrete, his love. His love bound together and cleansed the land of corruption. Thus the Lord prepared the ground and made it level so that the building could be built.
He then placed the core foundation stones of Faith, Hope, Righteousness, Peace, Humility etc. (There are more than I can name.) Each of the foundation stones where huge and beautifully made. They were then cemented together with the mortar of love. Thus a firm foundation was laid and the building would be very strong.
Then the Lord showed me that the building was His church. The Lord continued to build the church. Each of the stones was a living stone. Each of the stones like the foundation stones was cemented together with love. The building was very strong and very beautiful. Then the Lord showed me the church after a period of time passed by. The mortar of love had been corrupted with selfishness. The stones were no longer bound together. Each of the stones was jostling one another. Some of the larger stones had moved out of the place that they had been put into and were sitting on top of the smaller stones. They said that they deserved greater prominence and had moved to the higher places within the building. Though they did not realise it, they were crushing the smaller stones beneath them. Some of stones that were being crushed and would never reach their potential, while others were severely stunted in the growth. Every so often one of the large stones would become unstable and it would fall to the ground. As time went on the stones jostled one another more and more as each of the stones tried to get to the top of the building. Soon, the entire building was shaking and then it fell with a great crash.
The stones that made up the building ended up in heaps all over the place. Even after the building had fallen. The stones were still jostling one another, trying to reach the top of the heap. They did not realise that the building had fallen and that they were no longer in the walls of the building. The dust and grit of their lives had blinded them.
After a period of time the silt and dust and the cares of this world buried the true foundations of the church. The mortar that held the church together had long since left and the church was in a mess.
Then the Lord showed me that he was coming, and that he was going to sweep clean the area that once the church was built upon. (This I interpreted as a shaking and the removing of the former things that made up the church. This I see is a warning to all who make up the church, that trials will come upon the people of God, so that the church will be clean and ready for rebuilding.) He showed me that He was going to raise up the foundation stones of walls and that he was going to restore them to their former places. That he would mix up the mortar of Love and join them back together. He then showed me that the Lord was going to go to the heaps of rubble to gather together the stones. He will choose where each of the stones will be placed in the building and that the stones will no longer jostle one another. Each of the stones will be joined to the other stones in love.
Only works that are measured by love will stand the fire of the Lord. All other works will fall. The Lord’s people will not be known by their works alone, but works that have been done in love. (1 John 4:7 NIV) Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.