Recently, at my work place, I was trying to write standard operating procedures for a particular job activity, which, after many rewrites, became so difficult that I left work very frustrated and ended up dreaming about it! However, in the dream, everything was crystal clear and I knew, without any effort, what to do. It only lasted a minute but the feeling was so wonderfully profound!! I didn't have to think about it, study it, research it, or struggle for the answers. The answer was just there...with the greatest of ease.
As I pondered on the dream later, I knew God was allowing me to experience what He was like for the briefest of moments. Though we know that nothing is impossible for God (Luke 1:37), I got to feel what that was like to God! It caused me to remember a song from the 1930s that I hadn't heard since I was a young girl, "The Flying Trapeze." A line of that song goes, "He floats through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the flying trapeze."
Sometimes we face what looks like impossible situations in our lives. We struggle to find answers, do research, gather advice from experts, look at all the options, and still fret over which to choose. We may pray for days and even fast. But to God, the answers are there "with the greatest of ease."
I wondered why it is that we have to work so hard to find an answer. Why are answers not clearer? Some situations are not clearly defined in the Bible and even when we go to the Word and pray--which we should do--not all Christians make the same decision or interpret the Bible the same way.
The Lord took me back to the Garden of Eden when, before sin, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God in the Garden, when He probably poured into them His knowledge about many things. But when Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin marred and clouded that perfect communication with God. Now, toil and effort were required. The ease of understanding was lost. Was a "veil" of sorts dropped over us that will not be completely removed till heaven? (Consider Isaiah 25:7.)
Praise God that when the Holy Spirit was given to us after Jesus's resurrection, we were given the "mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16). Shouldn't it then be possible to find an answer "with the greatest of ease"? Yet, Paul tells us that as long as we are on earth, "we know in part" and "see in a mirror dimly" (1 Corinthians 13:9-12).
About a month after I had this dream experience, my pastor had a similar experience, when for a moment, God was known as He is. Are these brief visions a foretaste of a greater clarity that will come to us when God pours out His Spirit on all mankind (Joel 2:28)? Oh, I pray so!
As I pondered on the dream later, I knew God was allowing me to experience what He was like for the briefest of moments. Though we know that nothing is impossible for God (Luke 1:37), I got to feel what that was like to God! It caused me to remember a song from the 1930s that I hadn't heard since I was a young girl, "The Flying Trapeze." A line of that song goes, "He floats through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the flying trapeze."
Sometimes we face what looks like impossible situations in our lives. We struggle to find answers, do research, gather advice from experts, look at all the options, and still fret over which to choose. We may pray for days and even fast. But to God, the answers are there "with the greatest of ease."
I wondered why it is that we have to work so hard to find an answer. Why are answers not clearer? Some situations are not clearly defined in the Bible and even when we go to the Word and pray--which we should do--not all Christians make the same decision or interpret the Bible the same way.
The Lord took me back to the Garden of Eden when, before sin, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God in the Garden, when He probably poured into them His knowledge about many things. But when Adam and Eve ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, sin marred and clouded that perfect communication with God. Now, toil and effort were required. The ease of understanding was lost. Was a "veil" of sorts dropped over us that will not be completely removed till heaven? (Consider Isaiah 25:7.)
Praise God that when the Holy Spirit was given to us after Jesus's resurrection, we were given the "mind of Christ" (1 Corinthians 2:16). Shouldn't it then be possible to find an answer "with the greatest of ease"? Yet, Paul tells us that as long as we are on earth, "we know in part" and "see in a mirror dimly" (1 Corinthians 13:9-12).
About a month after I had this dream experience, my pastor had a similar experience, when for a moment, God was known as He is. Are these brief visions a foretaste of a greater clarity that will come to us when God pours out His Spirit on all mankind (Joel 2:28)? Oh, I pray so!