Radically Happy

Look for reasons
to celebrate My presence
rather than critique My absence

Jesus

Question 38: WW-BASM-FYOM

“What wrong beliefs are separating me from You, others, myself?”

• Fear of unconditional acceptance (unforgiveness)
• Believing I am alone (self-pity)
• Unwillingness to seek God’s voice (trauma)

Identity Exchange Memo

Concluding from Peacemaker

I am… stunned.

The throne of God
Which had descended directly from heaven
And gave us the Lamb
Has been shattered

What went wrong?
What did I do wrong?
How will we know
Where to worship
And seek Your face?

Then a miracle occurs.

The Lamb that was slain
Whose blood set us free
To be people of God
When we feasted on His body

Returns
In all His scarred glory

He chides me:

“Do you not know?
Have you not seen?

“The throne did not bring me
I used the throne
To focus your eyes
So you could see Me
In the form of a lamb

“Every good and perfect gift
Must die
Lest it become an idol
And so it can be born again
Each time the Kingdom of God
Is made new”

I am struck low
I fall on my face

I worship the Giver.

“Lord forgive me
For trusting in the forms
That first led me to You
Rather than in You
And Your eternal reality”

The Lamb licks my lips.

It feels like a burning coal
Yet more cathartic than painful
Like a bandaid being removed
From a fully healed wound

Which rips out the hairs
That grew during the process
To reveal the naked glory
Of my own matching scars

The Lamb sends me.

I take the pieces of His throne
And place them in the homes
Of twelve new elders

Who must learn to lead
Without the old elders
Or me

So that
They can learn
To recognize the Lamb
Until it is their turn
To become lambs

I turn to the Lamb.

“Lord
If it is necessary for them
That I leave
Where shall I go?
What of all the work
I have left undone?
Why am I still a ram
When others have become lambs?”

The Lamb smiles on me.

“Leave the dead
To bury their dead
As for you
Follow me
And I will make you
Fishers of lambs!”

I don’t understand.

But I trust anyway

So I bow my head
And trot behind Him
Following
In the footsteps of my Master…

Wherever He chooses to go.

The End (of Part I?)

Reflection

I feel…

• Humbled
• Rebuked
• Foolish
• Bereft
• Called
• Unforesaken
• Reminded
• Restored
• Appointed
• Led

Scripture

“Yahweh didn’t break a single promise that he made to the people of Israel. He faithfully kept every promise he made to them.”‭‭

Joshua‬ ‭21‬:‭45‬ ‭TPT‬‬