My beloved is in His garden

Being tied for a long time, wondering here and there without admitting it’s the 3^rd or 4^th year around the same mountain, yet seeing no spark of a way out, is the meaning of being in the wilderness for some years.

Do you have the list of moves you said yes to Jesus? What is happening to all those moves? Have you reached completion for all those? If so, then revisiting those spiral circles won’t bother you much.  

For ease of completion, I divided the spiral stair climbing into a few reachable specific objectives. Completion of those reachable milestones makes one move to a new level that has its new devils to face. Completion of the previous spiral stair taught us something. Being complicit in being there bring new challenges from the next quest. So, we need 2 things. One is proactive and pushing forward, forgetting the previous victory. A kind of victory over Jericho is no guarantee of winning Ai.  Plus, willingness to have a new angle from the 4^th spiral stair and go back to the first to correct the mistakes made there.

This order re-order over and over again will only make us radical disciples and have firm steps for our future journey.

Now the rules of moving forward.

1.       Primarily, what is your method of overcoming any sin you see in yourself? How long are you spending around that mountain, finally doubting whether my old man is dead or am I still carrying a dead body behind my back?

Friend, happy news. Jesus won’t lie. If He includes us in His death and resurrection, we, our old man, are dead. And our new man is resurrected. How much it is a reality for Jesus, that much it is a reality for us 2023 years ago.

Are you begging God to re-do what He already accomplished for us or do you have the too-good-to-be-true news spreading in and true you?

Here comes the first key to open the first quest. We call it Dr. Foo’s prayer edited accordingly for my challenge.

The prayer has few specific teachings in it. Once the holy Spirit enlightens us, we can see how favored we are.

a.       Thank You Father for showing me flesh or old pattern of behaviors.

b.       I chose not to save myself, but I let You take control of my situation.

c.       Count who you are in Christ, your positional righteousness, till it fills you up and flows from the inside out.

Currently, I am suffering from a trigger that pushes me to emotional eating. Even if I hate to be an emotional being, I thank God for the unknown trigger that pushes me and takes control of my actions, and brings me to the point of eating. How should I have to tackle it?

Well, I will thank God each time I eat and tell myself, I am not going to move even my picky to change, situation but going to thank my Saviour who saved me. Foolishness, right? Gospel is foolishness to wise, something that frustrates wise. Rest, you will read from the book The Overcoming Life by Watchman Nee…

Secondly, you know it… if you want to hear from me, wait till I write about it. Let’s sit on His bosom, walk with the Holy Spirit as His love slave, and stand against our fallen enemy, satan. 

My beloved is in His garden. I am His garden. He said that He will never leave me nor forsake me. He is not a son of man to lie. He might have withdrawn from my feelings, so that, I might leave the luxury of staying inside my comfy self-righteous cushion, to make me look for Him again. I might have been beaten up by the watchman of the walls for losing my beloved after knowing Him so intimately. All these drills are just to make us realize that He never left His garden, my heart, but only wanted the love to be awakened for a deeper search for Him.