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Greetings,
Today I am in Bellingham after a great time away in Angola Africa and quick stop in Portugal. The church in Angola is growing and the life of God was there in our gatherings together in various congregations. I was also able to do some video recording in Portugal. Yesterday I was blessed to minister at Everyone’s church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Lives have been touched by the word and presence of God. It is a good day. On Thursday I head out again for the Netherlands, Portugal, and the Netherlands in a three-week journey.
God has called us to be people of light. God is light and we are His children. Since we are children of God, we walk in the light as He is in the light. The action is ours in turning towards Him, but the experience is Him in that He is the light and the source of our light in this world. When we turn to the Lord in our hearts, we experience the glory of God from within us.
2 Corinthians 3:16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
The glory of God is the abundance of His life that changes us from within. When we look in a mirror, we see an image of ourselves, and that image is being changed from within our hearts through a constant and increasing encounter with Christ in us. It is little by little, but it is an increasing testimony of glory to glory. Experiencing the glory of God, is to experience His life that transforms us in our hearts from within.
All of creation is a testimony of the Godhead. Something of God can be seen is all that is created. It is like the light of each new day. the sunrise happens when the earth bows in the direction of the sun. The turning is an act of the earth while the sun simply remains constant as the ever-shining light. The prophet Isaiah proclaimed this truth and prophesied of the day when all people could become the light of God in Christ.
Isaiah 60:1-5 “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the LORD will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you. 3 The Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. 4 Lift up your eyes all around, and see: they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side. 5 Then you shall see and become radiant, and your heart shall swell with joy; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.”
Those who were not in covenant with God can come to be in covenant with God when they turn to the Lord in their hearts. We must bow to stand. Just as the earth bows in the direction of the sun to experience the sunrise of a new day, we must bow to the presence of God to experience the ever-increasing light of Christ within us. It is not a far away mystery. God is near to us, but we must turn in His direction to receive the direction of His light for our way. It is not a matter of information. It is a matter of transformation unto increasing life.
We don’t walk by natural sight. We walk by faith (2 Cor. 5:7). That faith comes by hearing God’s voice within our hearts. It inspires us to see what we could not see before, to hear what we could not hear before, and to think what we could not think before. In this, we become what we could not be before. Our natural light has ended, and the Light of Christ is the increasing testimony of our eternal life in Christ. Our natural sun has turned dark, and the life of our flesh has been ended for our light in the darkness. The life of the flesh was in the blood, but the life of the body of Christ is found in the grace of Holy Spirit in our lives. Our sun has turned to darkness and our moon to blood, because we have discovered eternal life in knowing God our Father and Jesus the Son through the fellowship of Holy Spirit. We no longer live for our days, but for the ever-increasing Day of the Lord in all things. The Lord is our light and there is no more need for the light of self that can only repeat the endless cycles of our past.
Isaiah 60:19-22 “The sun shall no longer be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun shall no longer go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.”
To walk in the light, we must turn to the light. Jesus is Lord of our hearts, and He is our everlasting light through our fellowship with His Holy Spirit in our ways. We are children of the light, and we are no longer bound to being children of the night.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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