Getting there from here

I know the Lord is taking His people to a new place. The only trouble is that we don’t seem to know the way. Many feel that they have been at a dead end. I have felt the same. And so when I am not sure of the next step, the only thing left to do is to stop and offer myself again to the Lord, and invite the Lord to search me and try me and see if there are any hurtful ways in me and then lead me in the way everlasting.

I wrestled all day yesterday trying to write this post. I was restless and frustrated. Then I laid my head down on the pillow it came to me. The way through is to enter His rest and abide in Christ. When I come to a dead end then He must become the door.

Some of the ancient rabbis used to teach that when the High Priest went into the Holy of Holies, he was not able to actually go in unless the Lord reached out and pulled Him through the veil. There was no split in the veil and so the priest would literally be translated through the veil into the Holiest of all. In other words, the only way through the veil was by a supernatural drawing in from the Father. There are some places one cannot "go"; you must be "taken" there.

God is bringing His people to a purer expression of what it means to be His people. But that purer expression is on the other side of the veil of the flesh, of what is possible. It is in the land of the impossible, the realm of the Spirit. It cannot be accessed by striving. We must fall into the kingdom, and be pulled through the veil. There is way through but only in Him.

Even now God’s people are pressing up to the kingdom in an unprecedented way. But there seems to be a delay in going through. We are waiting for the arms of God to reach out and pull us through. We are also waiting for a deeper work of the Spirit to prepare us for the translation. We are going to the place to which there is no natural access. The next stop is the Kingdom and accessing it does not happen in the flesh. “Unless you have been born of water and spirit you cannot enter the Kingdom of God,” Jesus said in John 3.

We are at a dead end but we still have places to go. Much of what the Lord is doing in this hour is preparing a people to receive their inheritance. But that preparation is a heart work, a work of surrender, a fresh circumcision of the heart. “Prepare to come under the knife” the Spirit is saying. And as we do, we will find a deeper place of abiding. That place of deeper abiding is the new place He is taking us.