Sorry for the hiatus for the month of January and most of February. This is all really dated and late. I just found this old blog that I wrote a while ago.
So, here we are in Puerto Cabeza in Nicaragua, about to begin our 9th month of the race, in our 9th country and God is just shaking me and showing me all of this stuff. And I guess what it boils down to, is this: the veil is torn, the curtain has been removed, yet why do we choose religion over relationship. Do you know what I’m talking about? I’m saying that He has given us this invitation, like we are being welcomed and invited to come into the cloud, to come into His presence, just like the Israelites were, but we back away, like they did, and say, “No, pastor, preacher, Moses, -whatever holy, godly person it is for you-, YOU go.” And we walk away from THE ultimate invitation. An invitation into the Most Holy Place, where you personally can talk to God. Yes you talking to God, not through some rituals that we do or some uber spiritual people we know. I don’t know how to articulate whats on my heart…but I just feel it, see it in my life, in the life of so many believers that we exchange a living, talking, listening, love relationship with the Creator for things we can do, say, talk about, etc. And so, the Lord has been repeating over and over in me, to me, “The curtain has been torn, Jane.” So what keeps us from entering completely? Religion is safe. It is controlled. A relationship with Jesus, with unveiled faces is consuming. He is a consuming fire. It is out of our control, it for sure is the furthest thing from safe. Many of us have entered into the throne room, into the presence of God, but the next thing you know, you’re grabbing for the veil to hide yourself. You feel like its too much, too crazy, too whatever, but its the way its supposed to be and the way I think we all long for it to be.
“And so dear brothers and sisters, we can BOLDLY enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By His death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place. And since we have a great High Priest who rules over God’s house, let us go right into the presence of God with sincere hearts fully trusting Him.” Heb 10: 19-22
