Today on my way to a consultation with an orthopaedician in jabalpur we walked into an assembly of God church for the morning service and a preacher originally from Congo but based in UK had this revelation for me from the word of God.
'Jacob I have loved ,Esau I have hated'.
The children of Isaac and Rebecca were born due to earnest pleading by Isaac to the Lord and it happened after twenty five years of their marriage.Isaac was a man with whom God himself had covenant and so it was to happen sooner or later.
Rebecca conceives,right from the womb there is a struggle between the two children.
And yet as the children grow up it is Rebecca who turns out to be a woman of revelation and not Isaac who is actually the man with the covenant with God.
'Jacob I have loved and Esau I have hated...'thus says the Lord God.
It was Rebecca who loved after the manner of God and not Isaac who actually went after his feelings and flesh.
If what Isaac willed would have happened perhaps the history of the world would have been different but Rebekka the womaan of revelation had the heart of God and was instrumental in the plan of God to bring redemption to man-kind.
How important it is for us to be men and women of revelation,people who understand the heart of God and move accordingly in all areas of life.
There is nothing more scarier than a heart that has hardened .I was talking to Mary the other day,infact weeping with her There is a deep restlessnessness inside.Thank God for it becuase it shows that I have not resigned myself to the way things are.I was telling her I miss the deep experience of seeing the image of Christ and the compassion of the Holy spirit which just used to overwhelm my heart when I saw the image of Christ in people ,situation and the creation. What is the image of Christ?It is a body marred and maimed to bear the sin of the world.it is a voice that did not speak in protest against God the father,who actually planned it all before the creation of the world,not against the people who maimed Him ,flogged Him,drove the nails into His hands and feet to satisfy their sinful nature.The image of Christ is a body broken to the utmost yet given to feed the very same people .It is a love that did not count the cost. I am a person who does not put too much v...
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