You’re standing on a mountaintop over-looking the ocean, the breeze cooling off your face. You look up at the clouds to enjoy this beautiful day, this beautiful view. Wait a minute! You’ve seen that cloud before, was it the last time you were here; or in a dream maybe? You know this feeling, it’s deja-vu.
My squad mate Lauren Elizabeth decided that deja-vu is simply your mind creating a place that it wants to exist and God making it happen for his child. The Holy Spirit that is inside of you puts the thought into your mind and that same Holy Spirit that made the world puts you into your thought. It is simply the act of the Holy Spirit inside of you recognizing the Holy Spirit in the world. Pretty amazing, right?
The most deja-vu I have experienced lately has been with meeting people. You know those people who within five minutes of meeting you feel like you’ve know them your whole life? Not that kind that spill all their guts right away but the kind that you are convinced you’ve met them before but you just can’t place where or when. I have decided that deja-vu in this instance is also the holy spirit. The reason certain people seem so familiar to you is because they are filled with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit in you recognizes the Holy Spirit in them. Kindred spirits, soul mates, whatever you want to call it, it’s Jesus.
You are drawn to people because of the Jesus that is in them. You are drawn to people because of the Jesus that is overflowing from them. You are drawn to people because you want to be more like the Jesus that you see in them. But you are also drawn to people because you have the same Jesus inside of you already.
It’s beautiful that God loves us enough to give the same parts of himself to us as He gives to other people in our lives. People who are meant to be our friends, our mentors, our family; God believes in soul mates because He made us to work together. We were designed to build each other up, not tear each other down. To love our neighbors as we love ourselves (even if we love the parts of them that are just like us). God gave us each other to encourage, love, and call higher. Our soul mates are scattered along our path of life and are nothing greater than a gift from God.
Praise the Lord for multiple soul mates!
I am thankful for you.
-C