My hands in His, we began to
move into a glade. I could feel the warm
and radiant sun move over my face as we moved out from under the tree cover. He told me open my eyes. What I saw next was so unimaginable that I am
struggling to put it into words…
The image was almost
holographic. It was a moment of time,
snatched right out of the past. I saw
myself as a young woman. It was the day
I gave my heart to the Lord. It was
being played out before me, but not from a bystanders perspective. It was the way God, the Father saw it! I will refer to my (holographic) self as “the
woman” because it won’t make any sense otherwise. I concentrated intently on the woman and I
noticed that she was looking right at ME! (or rather, right at the Father) But not with her eyes exactly. I can’t find the words to explain it. I could see more than just the outward
appearance of the woman. I could see another
dimension of her. I could see her soul
and I watched as she willed it to open. Her
soul was so intricately connected to her body that somehow her eyes were like
windows to her soul. When it began
opening, it created an inward draft of sorts.
And coming on the tail end of the draft was Jesus Himself. As He drew nearer to her, he drew in a deep
breath and breathed on her. In his
breath was a beautiful and bright life form.
As it entered her, it illuminated her soul and her eyes lit up. I must have stopped breathing as I took in
this scene because I suddenly gasped for air.
I realized that this was the moment she opened her heart to the Lord. Jesus came and filled her with His Holy
Spirit! It was like witnessing a new
birth. A third dimension came to life in
her for the very first time. The Spirit
filled her and she began to weep and to praise the Father. Jesus stood before her and put a seal on her,
a permanent seal, marking her for Himself for all eternity. He turned and looked right at me with such a
look of pleasure that I can’t stop smiling about it. (I remembered once again that He was actually
looking at His Father.) It was the look
of a very happy groom shooting a glance to his father after he kissed his
bride! He was celebrating in the moment,
taking everything in as if to really remember the sounds, the sights, the
smells of this beautiful moment in time.
He was taking a memory snapshot. He
was beginning a new life with me, His bride.
Concept taken from:
1 Peter 1:3 Praise be to the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that
can never perish, spoil or fade.
Eph 1:13b-14 When you
believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is
a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are
God's possession--to the praise of his glory.
Rev 19:7 Let us rejoice and
be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride
has made herself ready.
