Do You See It?

Can you see what I see?

Jesus didn’t want people clinging to His resurrected body. The reason should have been obvious: Cling to Him in your hearts, not in the flesh. The time to cling to Him was after He returned to His Father’s throne. He never intended to be the Messiah most people expected. He was building a kingdom of hearts, something that would transcend this world.

I’m sure we can all agree that the whole world needs our message. But can you see that most of the world is not ready to hear it? Only a few, thinly scattered individuals here and there are primed to react. Chances are, a great many of those are already on their own blessed path to truth from wherever it is they started. They are likely to feel very isolated. We can help them, but only if the Lord brings us into contact with them. Our message has a much greater impact on those who are still wondering about all the things they see, not yet setting foot on the heart-led path. Still, we have to wait for God to catch their attention and bring it to us.

The tribulation we can already see rising isn’t going to help most the people affected. It will only help shake loose a precious few who aren’t already close to the entrance of the path. Up to now, those joining our fellowship have been a rarefied few. That number could soon jump exponentially, but then, that wouldn’t take much, would it? Still, the turmoil will drive a significant number to question what they have believed all along. If we live our lives as people with solid anchors for our souls, other people will start to notice.

This is what I see: Just a few here and there will be primed to hear our message. All the compassion in the world won’t change souls; it requires first a miracle of God to touch them. He hasn’t told me, and I can’t guess what kind of numbers it will be, but that’s the wrong question in the first place. The question is where we are supposed to be, and what we are supposed to do, so that when that encounter takes place, we are allowed to see His miracle hand at work.

We cannot know the reasons for the low numbers. That’s just a part of what makes God inscrutable. Our answers won’t work because we have no idea what’s at stake in the bigger picture. What we can know is that we have the mission to walk in His miracles and be ready to love whomever is moved by seeing it.

Can you see that?