Here is the revelation that is shaping my life today – If only you could recognize the visitation of God, the presence of God, then the devastation that life lived on my terms, in my ways, through my navigation, could be avoided. Heaven is always within my reach.
Luke 19:41-42,44
[41] When Jesus caught sight of the city, he burst into tears with uncontrollable weeping over Jerusalem, saying, “If only you could recognize that this day peace is within your reach! But you cannot see it. ….. 44 Since you would not recognize God’s day of visitation, your day of devastation is coming!”
Observation
How many tears must heaven shed over what is available to me, that I do not access, If only l could recognise it?” How often do I miss the presence, the promises, the truth, the “visitation” of God in my life and end up in devastating circumstances? Devastating to me, devastating to Heaven. Heaven cries when I miss all that Heaven could be to me, through me, for me. It’s not hidden, in this story, Jesus rides into Jerusalem with the whole city declaring praises, he was not hidden, but unrecognised. For the city yells in a few days “Crucify him.” The kingdom of heaven is hidden in plain sight all around my life, it’s within reach if only I would become aware of Heavens visiting me. There is not a circumstance in my life where Heaven is not visiting me, desperately inviting my awareness and choice.
I think we can miss the passion of Heaven for us, the “tears with uncontrollable weeping,” because I do not recognise Heaven’s presence. God doesn’t want me to be aware and follow him for his end, it’s for my end. His visitation is that I may avoid my devastation. We often think God is a ruler with harsh judgements, when she is a loving mother with passion for her children’s best. She weeps when they go astray from all the blessings she hands them. It’s not harsh judgement, anger and rebuke, it’s loving parents’ uncontrollable weeping. God knows what is possible for my life in Him, and he weeps at my failure to recognise and choose his visitation, his peace, and his life in me.
How much of what I release in my life, through my life, upon others around my life, could be avoided if I was still enough to know that God is visiting me? How transformed would I be if, in my awareness and attention to his visitation, I saw me, the true me, the “made in his image” me, and responded from that me, and not the ego-created me, that seems to have the capacity to release devastation? Can I live in his continued visitation and be shaped by the intimacy of him, rather than the unconsidered responses of me? I don’t set out to release devastation, but it is only in visitation awareness do I often have the capacity to navigate away from the devastation that can naturally follow the footsteps of my brokenness.
Application
Be aware that Heaven is always visiting, always present. Have ears to hear the tears of Heaven as they weep in uncontrolled passion over the devastation that my decisions and ignorance are releasing upon my life and the world I inhabit. Yield to the entering humble King who waits for my stillness before revealing his already present glory available to me.
Response
Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your passionate love, that desires my best in all things. To be loved like this is where life begins. Thank you that you can show me how to be me, the true me, if only I would be aware. There is no force or manipulation to you, only a loving presence. What a life you offer me!
Meditation
Meditate – Since you would not recognize God’s day of visitation, your day of devastation is coming!
Consider-
If life is “devastating” at the moment, how are you navigating your way out? What are you visiting that is enabling your healing and freedom?
Do you know the uncontrollable tears of Heaven over your life?
JOURNEY DEEPER
