No One Came

I have been in Babylon for the last several weeks. My chains and bars are so real I can nearly reach out and touch them. Babylon means chaos and confusion..Oh yes that is all around me. The enemy has been very busy during this time. He whispers to me," you are a failure". He points out to me how everyone around me knows this and conspires against me, seeking to trap me. Watching for me to stumble. Laughing at me in my weakness. "I have been a reproach so why should I try", runs through my thoughts..another lie, another planting of doubt by the enemy. So why do I listen? There has been an act of war against me, God's chosen. And I didn't know what to do, so I began to listen to his words. I began to want to die..for real. I forgot who I was.

I saw myself in a dream, laying in a ditch beside a house. It is the desolate house of the Lord, the abandoned house that rests on the Stone. The Desolate Sanctuary of Daniel 9. I see the Stone there and the paint is still peeling, the green roof has holes and the porch still sags. I had been resting there, waiting for the others to come. I had gotten off the stone, discouraged at the seemingly endless wait and at the chaos and confusion all around. Giving up, I laid down in the ditch nearby, covering my head with my arms. I saw billowing beautiful white satin, like the satin of a wedding dress, a most lovely delicate fabric all around me..it was covering me all around. I could see myself like a bride in the ditch covered like a corpse with the lovely satin fabric of the wedding dress. Then I saw the winds began to blow gently and the sands of time began to cover over the satin with the bride underneath. There was no one to rescue me in my discouragement, I died there allowing the sands to cover me, unmoving and unwilling even to rescue myself. 

I looked around the ditch as if I were somewhere above the scene. There was a lovely piece of land that the abandoned house sat on. This land was full of tangled weeds and overgrowth all over. But its former beauty was still on display when I looked closely. There were fruit trees in desperate need of pruning and grapevines that had grown wild all over the place. Among the weeds peeked beautiful wildflowers and birds still sang there. I asked the Lord, " what is this land here for..nobody seems to care about it. Is it an important part of the abandoned house? He said the abandoned house is My Bride, the true Church and the land is to be married to Me. 

Isaiah 62:4 It will no longer be said to you, "Forsaken," Nor to your land will it any longer be said,"Desolate"; But you will be called, "My delight is in her," and your land, "Married"; for the Lord delights in you, and to Him your land will be married.

So this is why He is so tender towards the land that never got its rest until he drove out all His people who would not obey Him and give the land its sabbath rest. This is why He had to force the rest for the land to which He is to be married. The promised land was more than just a good place to live.. it was His heart..so much so that He cannot be separated from this promised land. He wants us living in the land He is to be married to because it is the place He prepared for His Bride..to reject or not care for the land is to reject and not care for the Lord, our Bridegroom.

 I see the face of My Lord, My Bridegroom, with tears in His lovely eyes, saying," I asked them to come; I asked them many times, ravishing their hearts with My love, but they swatted my words of love away like a fly. They didn't believe I could ever come to them with love in My eyes especially for them. They did not believe they were worthy..they did not believe that I could be talking to them. They thought they were not working hard enough. They thought they were not organized enough. They thought wrong. They made up a lot of rules and regulations, schedules and pictures of what they thought I wanted their lives to look like..but they were wrong. They thought that simply resting on the Stone was silly, a waste of time, so instead, they fill every spare moment with busyness. I have been, in every quiet moment, in the night in their dreams, in passing thoughts, I have been wooing them. But they disregard Me as just a passing wishful thought. So My Bride, my true Bride is slowly and quietly being buried, discouraged and alone". 

Today as His Spirit woos you with His love, pay attention. Know that it really IS Him. Know that He really DOES have His eyes on you. You are made worthy by the cross. The cross WAS enough..you cannot do anything to make Him love you more. Come to Him in your weakness and allow Him to court you. He wants YOU for His Bride. She needs YOU to be a part..She is getting discouraged because YOU are needed to make her complete. She is NOT complete without YOU..yes He wants YOU to make His precious Bride complete.

So help me up..I am His Bride..representing her in all her weakness. I need Him to send more to make me whole. He is looking for a Bride without spot or wrinkle. If we don't have all of us, we are not complete. So come..draw us, Lord..and we will listen for Your voice. We will tune out all the chaos (Babylon) around us, run to the secret place and enjoy you..that is what we didn't realize was ok. that we CAN enjoy you and revel in Your Love. We need each other. We can't be a bride for Him if we are alone. Pick up your brothers and sisters out of the ditch and tell them..tell them He needs every one of us to make us complete. That weakness does not ever disqualify us..we were never qualified in the first place by anything we did or didn't do. Only the sacrifice of the cross qualified us..He alone makes us spotless and wrinkle-free.