INTO HIS VISION!

Sunday’s Monday

For the second time in my life, God personalizes Romans 8:18 for me, and both times have been in 2024, the first being January 24:2024 when my dear wife of 25 years was called home to heaven, and my grieving had turned into little more than one of my famous pity parties, sorry for what I’d lost. I made a mistake and fell on my sword when I asked God what I did to deserve this. His answer was swift, stern, and true. “Nothing!” My Son Jesus covered that with His precious blood offering. Then God gave me Romans 8:18 to comfort me and help me understand that this is not about me. My problem is and has been, getting enough of me out of the way that I can start to see into God’s vision for today. Thinking in my mind that I had received an assignment. I started working on it ASAP. This wasn’t correct either as the scripture was presented to me again on June 03, 2024, when I was rushed to Catawba Valley Medical Center more dead than alive, with this diagnosis: Sepsis UTI, Acute on Chronic COPD Exacerbation, Acute on Chronic Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure, HPI. The hospital had my children discussing advanced care and planning my funeral services because my present condition presented little hope for life. “But God” was stirring something inside of me that I shamefully could not comprehend at the time, but I knew without doubt that they would not be the definer of my final moments because that I had reserved for God. Ergo, with the strength from God, I started to push back, and I mean push with a capital P.  The next day, things started to happen, and changes came rapidly, which shut down the platform of skepticism and created an arena for Hope in The Great Physician.

      In talking with Jesus about the second presentation of Romans 8:18, I felt Him pointing out the characteristics of the vision. We are born with double vision in that we have a natural human or flesh vision where we envision the outcome we seek. This always leaves the spiritually impossible (“spiritually impossible”) because it contains no power to change anything in our feeble attempts to fill our agenda. We never catch sight of the whole vision! Because we let what we know contaminate what we’ve yet to learn. I pray this comes across with a sobering reality of how close we must walk with Jesus daily. Here is what I felt Jesus was teaching me in seeing what He saw. For example, the vision within Romans 8:18 (NLT), Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. I feel pulled more into the arena of Jesus’ faith in God than my comfort in fleshly fact. Fact leaves no room for hope, little chance for change, and no reason for the continuance. Perfect example: if you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll continue getting what you’ve always got, so in the absence of no change. Why continue?

      Jesus reminds me that we face this issue every day, and because we’re not in tune with Him, we often drift right by His solution. Then, He reminded me of the confidence that I felt while the storm of “what if” was raging through the heads of all involved. I was at peace to go wherever God desired. If He chose heaven for me, “I win” the ultimate prize, but I had plenty to love and do if He chose to keep me here for a while. But while the doctors were tearing my children apart, He showed me a set of numbers; this set of numbers intrigued me and held my focus with an intense concentration. The numbers preoccupied my mind, so it remained open and focused on Him with the confidence to allow the miracle to continue. I think I'm being groomed to see through the natural and into God's supernatural vision for something soon to take place in my life. Each time He pointed me toward Romans 8:18, I got a slightly different vibration from it, but it was not enough to change the overall vision, which remains vivid, crisp, and inviting.

      Father, I’m sorry for the trouble I've caused you. I have to tell you I certainly enjoy the time we’re spending together, straightening me out. I thank you for loving me enough to teach me your ways. I especially enjoy our long, early morning talks, cries, praise, and worship times. As I learn your meaning of Proverbs 3:6 (NLT). Seek His will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take; I thank you that our relationship has moved to a walk-and-talk, do-life together commitment. Because I am not ready or willing to take you in small doses yet, I need the constant flow of your IV Fluids flowing through my veins. Thank you, God, for the wonderful family you’ve brought me into. Amen

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