Nurtured by Heaven’s Embrace
Indulge your ‘inner person’ for a moment of reflection and hopeful fresh revelation. We are so quick to ‘indulge’ our ‘outer person’. You know that extra brownie, and five more minutes under the warm covers on a cold winter’s morn I’m referring to? Christmas is the continuous, eternal, sweet, warm embrace of Heaven! Soak in Heaven’s monumental pronouncement!
Can you imagine the excitement, the anticipation of the Hosts of Heaven? Knowing all the prophetic announcements of eons past; they were finally going to have the privilege of accompanying the gift of all gifts, the hope of Heaven’s heart, The Messiah of Israel, the Savior of all mankind, Father’s only beloved and begotten Son, given as the ‘Elder’ Brother to lead all who would to come into the bosom of Father’s eternal family; baptizing all who came into Holy Spirit and the passionate fire of Heaven! Can you imagine how pregnant they were with joyful delight?
Heaven bursts into the reality of earth’s dismal fallen state, with the hope and promise of a New Heaven and a New Earth! And with the “summon bonum” of Father’s excited paternal heart…”Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing;” “Oh come let us adore Him, Christ the Lord!”
“At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God’s praises: Glory to God in the heavenly heights. Peace to all men and women on earth who please Him!” Luke 2:13-14 (The Message)
Put yourself in the heart and mind of the coming Babe, the Breath of Heaven, light of your darkness. Can you flow with the sweet breath of heaven? Each breath getting more excited as the moment all the Hosts of Heaven have anticipated for all eternity was to come forth in a humble birth. Little, humble, baby Jesus; finally coming to ease His Father’s aching heart with the birth, life, death, burial and resurrection of His sacrificial life. Son of God; becoming for the exact moment in time, Son of Man, to ransom countless sons and daughters of God from the awful, fearful grip of Satan’s illusions, lies, and hellish future!
Oh Jesus, You are so worthy, You are Holy; King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s, we worship you with the indulgence and focus of our humble, broken hearts to become your incredible dwelling place! Live through us; beat with the passion of Heaven’s embrace through our broken lives. You provide the fire; we will provide the daily, moment by moment sacrifice! Oh love of all loves, tell the amazing story of Father’s heart through our simple, offered lives. Be birthed into the reality of all we are and will become in you!
“If you miss everything in His coming, but one thing, don’t miss this: My Son ‘wished forward’. Seven times in Luke alone, He prayed, using the word ‘proseuchomai’; which means to ‘wish forward’. That is the core of human maturity in this life. My Son had no greater desire than to carry out His part in My plan” (Larry Crabb).
Heaven’s Christmas embrace calls us to ‘wish forward’. “That is the center of spiritual formation, not more energy, not feeling more upbeat, but a clear awareness of the deepest truly human desire, a desire that releases resolve, an unflinching determination to follow the lead of My Son in bringing heaven’s kingdom to earth. And a longing to love with His love, having received his continuous loving embrace as the daily gift of heaven on earth!
In the grip of Heavens embrace, Ron Ross
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