Description:This article concerns a dream/vision I experienced and my thoughts concerning it. I am not a religious organisation, just a Christian.
I was asleep at the computer today - I often get very dozy because of only short sleeps at night.
Of a sudden I saw a wreath of thorns, a bit like the one they... moreThis article concerns a dream/vision I experienced and my thoughts concerning it. I am not a religious organisation, just a Christian.
I was asleep at the computer today - I often get very dozy because of only short sleeps at night.
Of a sudden I saw a wreath of thorns, a bit like the one they put on Jesus’ head. I think it was a wreath, or just many thorns on branches with a blue sky background.
Immediately I began to speak in tongues – without having decided to or even thought of it.
My first reaction is that we need our mental process very clean as there are lots of thorns to sort through yet. COVID is not over yet, neither are the attacks on our way of life such as the lies that are promoted as real
Lies are as promiscuous in our culture as those hundreds of thorns I saw in the picture. Christians need to be very intimate with scripture if they are not to be taken in by them. We need to study and know scripture very well, and also ask the Lord for the rarely spoken of gift of discernment.
I think that is a gift of the watchmen on the wall who will feel a little uncomfortable with some-thing that looks good or fine on the face of things. Christians want to think well of everybody, and indeed we do love them. However this does not mean we are to absorb all their attitudes and mannerisms on automatic, or agree with everything they say. We need to agree full time with our Father, way over and above the thoughts of men.
The gift of discernment is not often discussed. We do need to discern the spirit behind everything that is said or done. Hebrews 5:14 declares “ But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” (The old example: how do you train a banker to recognise a false banknote? By having him handle individual, legitimate banknotes by the thousand. When he comes to the false note he will quickly discern a discrepancy with truth/reality. So we need to be in the same way very intimate with scripture).
What is discernment? It is the ability to judge well. We are to make judgements about the people with whom we interact and we are to recognize moral and practical consequences of our decisions. It is needed in order to know whether or not something is truly from God or in accordance with righteousness.
But the world shouts at us that we are judgemental and not to judge our fellow man. Even scripture tells us we should not judge. (That means we do not reject, assign to prison (isolation) or death (refusal to associate). We buy into this and keep quiet when often we need to speak up. They do not want us “judging” (which really means discerning) their activities and suggesting they are wrong and need to be changed.
Biblically there was a whole army that kept quiet until a little shepherd boy, who spent his days on the hills around Bethlehem in worship and playing songs of his creator, and Israel’s history, came and spoke up loud and clear, telling a certain loud-mouthed Goliath what God had planned for the one who ignorantly abuses and defies the armies of the living God. The armies were in shock. Specifically David’s brother told him to be quiet and go back home. What did he, a kid, know about army business?
But that boy was so full of the Spirit of the living God and of truth that he went right on ahead and killed that giant before their very eyes.
With current media we certainly have an army telling us to remain silent and in fact trying to gag Christians. Not only the media, but our online communications systems are heading in that direction as well with Google, Twitter and Facebook deciding what we can write on their accounts and what we cannot. The giants are real today.
But greater by far than any loud-mouth, belly aching giant is the Holy Spirit with His gift of discernment. Fear is not our motivator, but the Spirit of Truth definitely is.
Who is trying to shut you up lately? Is it your family? Your boss? The media? Your friends?
Sometimes they do it with great panache. I once went to the funeral of a dear Christian lady whose “very nice” family had left the faith. Their summary was that she was a wonderful Christian example without speaking – because they had shut her up. Where was the respect in such a statement. They honour her but will not listen to her? Yes, there is a biblical mention of a hope of converting pagan husbands by service rather than by preaching or teaching the Word. We have bought into that as if it were the Lord’s last commandment.
What was the LORD’S LAST COMMANDMENT? Go ye into all the world. Preach the Gospel. In other words silence is of little value to Father. Our voices are given to us to speak the truth, the Word of the Lord, at every opportunity.
Brothers and sisters, how about we do that? How about we stand up and acknowledge the God whom we serve relentlessly and without fear. How shall anybody come... less
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