It’s interesting to take a few minutes to watch a non-believing church service. (For example, an atheistic church service: They can be found on YouTube.) Watching it with eyes wide open avails us to something that looks like ‘rightness’ and the same-same patterns of church while (simultaneously) highlighting the absence of the person of Yeshua.
Most of the time we don’t realise how much our lives have been patterned according to the thinking and systems of this world until we see someone else (or a group of someones) mimicking our own formulas. Copying our own speak. Dressing the same as us. And then in that space our eyes begin to search for the authentic which cannot be found or manufactured.
Fancy lights can ever only ‘impersonate’ true light. They do not carry its heat. Its power. Its intensity. They simply carry a formula brought about by intellectualism or a desire for notoriety, self-reprieve or peace, whereas the true light of the world is ‘other level’ and He cannot ever be overtaken by darkness (John 1).
Do we seek the real, authentic presence and person of Yeshua, or the ‘familiar’ patterns of performance and ritual towards Him? Are we Moses on the mountain meeting with Him, or are we people at the bottom of the mountain moulding a golden calf in the image of a foreign, distant god… an imposter?
It took an act of love far greater than the reach of the law—and of space and time—to set us completely free. Will we walk in the freedom and reality of that great love, or will we reach for ‘the old’ and ‘what was’?
What might begin to shift and change upon the earth if sons and daughters came awake to the fact that the completed work of Yeshua indwells them right here and right now with every ‘t’ crossed and every ‘i’ dotted? What might that look like?
What would it look like if we inhabited the full revelation that the same Spirit who raised Yeshua from the dead indwells us right here and right now? No imitations. No limitations.
What would it look like if we understood that the ruach (breath) of God inhabits our lungs and that the fullness and evidence of His rhema (spoken word) is all around us—His rhema which holds even the cells of our bodies together. (He spoke and it was.)
“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes” (Romans 12:2).
Imagine…
Because Souls Are Like Gardens 