It was New Jerusalem class these past two weeks and I was terrified.
So scared that I would miss something. Miss out on receiving some revelation from the Lord…
My heart raced at the beginning of every class and I prayed desperately for the Lord to have mercy on me. To keep me in my spirit. I really wanted to see!
Then I remembered something: the Triune God really wants to be intimately seen by me too.
Thankfully, our trainer LOVES to ask us questions. My personal favorite being, “ARE YOU FOLLOWING ME?!” — It became my class trigger. Every time he asked this (which was quite a lot in each class), I would turn again. Pray— Lord, I turn back to my spirit RIGHT NOW. Give me wisdom and revelation. Show me what You want me to see.
This saved me.
A little side track, but I want to make mention of it cause it’s funny how I’ve been dealing with the Lord regarding this matter over the past weeks, maybe even the past couple months, every slightly increasingly — i feel lonely.
I keep telling the Lord how much it bothers me that in a place where I am constantly surrounded by people that I do love, and knowing I am also loved by them… still there is this little hole within. Like one of those small little openings of a well that actually measures deeeep within ya know…? I’m really so happy but i also still feel lonely.
Not like a deep depressing overwhelming all consuming kind of loneliness lol. No, NOT THAT. Just a little ache within. A deep desire to be FULLY known and to fully know someone.
lol. I told the Lord, I’m a bit sad that no one knows my Subway order. No one really just knows how I like my coffee or when do I fake smile or laugh and why… haha I know You do Lord, but like in a sense, what are You gonna do about it? Plus, I really want to know these things about someone else too! And I don’t even know if You “drink coffee” so…
These days, I think to be loved is to be known and to love is to know. To really see a person. To know the deep longing and yearning of their heart. The reason and thought behind their every little word and action. Not merely the things advertised aloud.
Well, did you know that God wants this love too?
These past couple weeks I saw a glimpse of something within God’s heart.
Do you see that God has a dream?
From eternity past He planned it and He has been working tirelessly for three dispensations already to make this dream come true. Everything He has done and is doing is to fulfill this yearning deep within.
God’s dream is the New Jerusalem.
This may surprise you but it’s NOT “heaven”.
It’s not a physical “city” or place at all!
I could tell y’all all about the incredible interpretations and significances of the base, the gates, the golden street, the wall… but actually above all… this was my personal golden nugget:
In a sense, the New Jerusalem is just a loving couple for eternity.
We’ve all heard the cliche of wanting to grow old with that special someone… in a way, our God is the same! Except in Him is no oldness or death at all. Still, the deepest longing within His heart, is to have that special Someone.
He too, longs to spend all of time and eternity future— in love.
The *New Jerusalem is Christ’s deep longing
And His good pleasure too.
His every word and action is made with her in view.
His heart’s love is established
Nought can Him deter
Before the earth’s foundation
His thoughts were filled with her.
Oh, who could ever match God in such a way? Who could be His beloved bride and counterpart?? — The New Jerusalem.
Rev. 21:9-10 … Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb. And he carried me away in spirit… and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
Rev. 21:2 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
The New Jerusalem is the consummation of God’s counterpart. The aggregate of all His redeemed and perfected people.
It’s not heaven, not a place where we go when we die, it’s not even exclusively for the next age! We, the church, are becoming the New Jerusalem today.
The New Jerusalem is a composition of overcomers — living persons who are constituted with the Triune God!
Gah. I was so exposed this week. I am so self-centered. How much do I live with this realization and vision that God has a need!
His need is threefold: Expression, Rest (Dwelling Place) and Satisfaction (Counterpart).
Only the New Jerusalem FULLY meets this need!
Oh how my heart ached. I want Him to finally be fully happy and at rest! I want Him to finally have His heart’s deep longing.
Do we realize how LONG He has been working???
In the dispensation of the patriarchs, from the time of Adam to Moses, God gained ones like Adam, Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob…
In the dispensation of the law, from Moses to Christ coming the first time, God gained even more: Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Caleb, David, all the prophets…
And now we are in the age of grace, from the time of Christ’s resurrection to His second coming.
Now it’s our turn.
God is working on us! He wants to gain US as a result of this age!
Are you willing? Are you open? Are you cooperating?
He wants to gain us as overcomers!
Ah. Even in the coming age of righteousness, the millennial kingdom which will be from Christ’s second coming to the end of the 1000 years kingdom reward…
God is STILL working!!!
Working on the Jews that acknowledge Him just before “the clock strikes midnight” and the immature believers throughout the centuries.
And thus His will was established
His counterpart to gain
This blessed firm intention,
Eternally the same.
Though sin should even beguile man
Then mock his helpless state,
He never could forsake her
His yearning never abate.
Oh my.
The New Jerusalem is the aggregate, the result, the final bringing together — of all the thousands of years of His work of the new creation — on the man of the old creation. In FOUR dispensations.
The ultimate manifestation of the Triune God for His expression (in the regenerated, transformed, and glorified humanity) in eternity. What a masterpiece of God this will be!!!
Thus with such a view, my prayers are beginning to deepen.
Oh. Lord. Jesus.
Oh - for turning and opening.
Lord - to enthrone Him in the center of my being.
Jesus - asking and receiving His bountiful supply.
That whatever He needs to do or gain in me - do it Lord. In this age. For Your own sake. For the New Jerusalem. I warmly welcome You in.
Set up Your throne in the center of my being. In the center of my marriage life, family life, church life, service life… anything and all - things life!
That all things would be
Out from Him and through Him and to Him. To Him be the glory forever.
Amen.
Dasha
LOTS OF PICTURES YAY! pls enjoy these snippets of our days under the divine (and human) dispensing 🤗
And now in resurrection
To her He draws most near,
And with untold affection
In glory does appear.
As she beholds her Bridegroom,
His glory floods her heart
‘Til she, His Bride, is raptured,
His longed-for counterpart.