What revelation are you ready for?

     Jesus famously asks Nicodemus this question in the format of "if you can't understand things that I tell you which are of this earth, how do you expect to understand the things of Heaven, which have nothing like there is on earth?" Now Nicodemus was a teacher of teachers. It's likely that if he had an office given by Jesus then it would have been teacher as his main job was to educate others. Yet here he was, without understanding or even a thought close to being heavenly. Later what he did may be considered heavenly by others, by gifting the body of Jesus a great wreath, I have a hard time believing that what he did was anything but for the sake covering his own salvation in the only way he knew how, but he did it in such a way that he didn't bother asking the God whom he claimed to serve for advice on how to do that. Even though it was to THIS MAN that John 3:16 was delivered to, he still couldn't come to grips with the fact that all he would have to do is believe on Jesus.

    Whether the sacrifice is a statement of faith, lest Nicodemus actually learned something from Jesus, I don't have an answer with any sort of permanence. The problem that I'm trying to pose is this: we don't even know half of the things about Heaven that Jesus wants to tell us about because we don't have any sort of intimacy with the God we claim to worship. What if God told you that you are the queen of heaven? Would you be able to point to scripture and confirm that not only does God speak, but actually told you of a being mentioned in Jeremiah with a negative context, in a positive context? Not only did he tell you about her, but He told that you ARE her? How likely would you be to receive such a word? What if God said that you are designed to think with your feet? "What does that even mean?" You might ask, well if you were intimate with God you would probably already have something to refer to with that. 

    We must be intimate with God IN spirit. We often think of intimacy in a fleshly manner, but all three are available, and we've hardly touched the soul level of intimacy, let alone the spirit level. God is capable of all three, but He is asking us to come up to His level of intimacy. One of the posts I made a while ago talks about meeting God where He's at. 

    I feel strongly that this is still the call, and what the season is about for the church. But I'm afraid that hardly anyone is willing to accept such a teaching, and such a big responsibility.