The Unchanging Move of God

Sitting in a meadow under a vast Colorado sky, I glanced at the clouds, some gray with rain, others of whited fluff and they were swirling in that leisurely way of clouds. I returned to read the book in my lap. In a few minutes I looked again at the sky and it had completely changed. That slow movement was rolling so steadily that it was, in actuality, moving rapidly and transforming constantly. I closed my book as being less interesting than clouds and began to watch this natural phenomenon: a daily wonder we overlook by being people who live under roofs and behind doors.
  
Such, I thought, is the move of God.
He seems to move in our lives slowly
but over time,
over a year,
we see that He was sweeping us along
in His breathless pace . . .
and we end where we did not foresee.
We go where we never expected.
We arrive where we never planned.
We find ourselves moved . . . within the Move of God.
It is the Holy Breath of God who moves
the cloud of God's purpose,
that imperceptible Presence of the Holy Spirit.
He who blows and whispers with gentle power.

The wind blows where it wishes,
and you hear its sound
        So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
 John 3:4 ESV

By this Holy Wind, we are moved into the Great Move.

The wonder of the Holy Spirit is that He is ever
aware of the Father's mind and all He does is
in harmony with what the Father has
in His mind . . . which is the end.
So every stirring breeze of the Spirit is toward
that end.

J. B. Stoney wrote,
"God is in cloudless rest about me,
His boundless thoughts."

God stirs by His marvelous thoughts.
He bursts within the greathearted bounty of His
original ideas.

And our Great Original One is moving toward
His ultimate purpose - for His Son, for US.
He is inexorably, unchangingly, determinedly
Going!

Nothing will stop Him, nothing will thwart Him.

We are meant to be part of it. We each have an
assigned place . . . within the Idea.
But we can join or not. We can go or we can stay.
We can miss it all or we can be caught up in the flow
toward which the Spirit is slowly
but deliberately effecting God's end.

The culmination of God's creation will be the
gathering of all things
into, unto and under . . . His Son!

He planned for the maturity of the times and      
the climax of the ages to unify all things
and head them up and consummate in Christ,
     (both) things in heaven and things on the earth.
Ephesians 1:10 Amp. Bible

For born again believers, our life truly begins only
at the marriage of the Lamb.
This present life, this phase of being, is merely a school,
only a preparation
for what will be . . . the Real Life.

We were created for that time, for that purpose
'Here and now' is just
the testing ground,
the learning place
for the great adventure which
lies entirely ahead.

So we need our eye fixed where God's goal is fixed.
We should live in view of an 'other view.'
We must look toward the culmination of all things
and that honing beam as a compass will
point to our eternal destiny,
color our every perspective and
form our fundamental purpose.

It is not here. All is there. We are living for there
even if we do not recognize the shadow of that Cloud
in which God is moving, the specter of a Tomorrow
where Christ is the Visible ALL.

His boundless thoughts include you to the end of His purpose.

And beyond the Marriage Supper is a long eternity where
our true vocation comes to its fore.
John named it at Patmos.

Despite his chains, John's eye was on the end.

To Him (Jesus Christ) who ever loves us and has once
(for all) loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood,
And formed us into a kingdom (a royal race),
priests to His God and Father,
to Him be the glory and the power and majesty
and the dominion throughout the ages
and forever and ever.  Amen.
Revelation 1:6 Amp. Bible

The present offices of the Church, as wonderful as they are:
"apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher, administrator," and so on
are not mentioned in Revelation.
These gifts and callings will disappear at Christ's return.
They exist and serve only for this life and this time as a
training and school of preparation.

For eternity, the only office of believers will be that of . . . Priest!

So as apostles, we are being trained in that specific for priesthood.
In roles of pastor, we are learning to be priests. In every calling,
in all the roles, through all the gifts, the goal of God is to prepare
a kingdom of PRIESTS for the eternal
unending service and worship
of the Lamb!
  
 

Copyright © 2005 Martha Kilpatrick