Radically Happy

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Falling so in love with Jesus
• I rejoice in, rather than resent
• Being crucified for others sake
• (For their sins and mine)

Immanuel Approach Memo

Continued from 3/14 IAM: Path-Crossing

I am… part of the “black gang”
The underground workers who keep the city running

Though our uniforms are spotless
(Perhaps due to our white stone un-name-tags)
It is dirty, grueling work

Not physical labor
Emotional labor

I don’t understand
The machinery looks brand-new
The workers calm, orderly, healthy
Everything seems to run perfectly

Yet somehow
This must be why the city above
Lies in ruins

Something is terribly wrong
Something invisible to my eyes

I look for Jesus.

I see Him whistling
The Song of the Redeemed
But I don’t hear Him

I see the worker I heard before
Whistling the same Song
But something is off

I realize
He heard the Song
Once
But never met the Singer
Or perhaps lost the connection

He heard the Song
Once
But never met the Singer
Or perhaps lost the connection

And so
He sings the same refrain
Over and over again
From memory

He has a very good memory
But
The Song has moved on
Or perhaps
Hasn’t yet caught up

That is why the city is in ruins
It runs on Song(s)

The workers
Are singing their hearts out
The machinery
Is working perfectly
Carrying their singing
Up above

But each of them
Only remembers snatches
Of what they heard

And they are trying so hard
To preserve their fragment
They can’t hear each other
Or remember the Singer

And the people above
Were trying to dance
To the music
But kept crashing into those
Who sang a different part
Of the same Song

The people above
Were trying to dance
To the music
But kept crashing into those
Who sang a different part
Of the same Song

I break down and weep

For even I
Down here in the depths
Can no longer hear the Song
I heard on His Holy Hill

Why have I become
Deaf to Jesus

I cry out to Jesus

A small dove
Appears out of nowhere
And whispers in my ear

“To save these people
You must hear their Song
By letting go
Of The Song”

I fall to my knees.

I shut my eyes and cry out:

Father, no!
Please, take this cup from me
I cannot do this thing
It is too much

I cannot bear the pain of others
Without Your Song to sustain me

When I open my eyes

I see Jesus.

Really see Him
(Even if I can’t hear Him)
Singing His heart out

Into mine

He isn’t silent
Or muted

I am not deaf
Or distracted

He is singing higher
Than I can hear
An ultrasonic UltraSong
That penetrates
To the very depths of my spirit

Filling my heart
With His
To overflowing

And out of that overflow
I open my mouth

And begin to Sing

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Awestruck
• Loved
• Connected
• Heartened

Scripture

“Yes, we will follow your ways, Lord Yahweh, and entwine our hearts with yours, for the fame of your name is all that we desire.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭26‬:‭8‬ ‭TPT‬‬