To Function or To Florish?

When vision is lacking in our lives, it is easier to go into a functioning mode, than to be still and wait. What we do in our times of fog will reveal what our relationship is with the Father.

We have mistaken “Seeing Him”
 too much with “Feeling Him”

“Behold, the eye of the Lord is 
on those who fear Him.

On those who hope for His loving kindness,

to deliver their soul from death

and to keep them alive in famine.”

Ps. 33:18-19

Learning to live before Him with hope in famine, will render the fruit of a leaf that does not wither.  Your meditations are His thoughts, His heart and Your roots are being established

....Deep in His Love

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,..."Eph. 3:17-20

...like a tree planted in rivers of water.

 "But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.  And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."

 Ps. 1:2,3 

Flourishing then 

becomes a way of life.

Many have learned to function 

by those things that are temporary

(relationships, activities or duties)

but those who flourish in spiritual life, 

have set their affections on eternal things.

This is the difference in

 Having knowledge

 or Holding HIM.

"It came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. (1Kings 17:7)  Week after week, with unfaltering and steadfast spirit, Elijah watched the dwindling brook; often tempted to stagger through unbelief, but refusing to allow his circumstances to come between himself and God. Unbelief sees God through circumstances, as we sometimes see the sun shorn of his rays through smoky air,; but faith puts God between itself and circumstances, and looks at them through Him...." F.B.Meyer (quoted in part, from Streams in the Desert)

“What do our heavy hearts prove?~that other things are sweeter to us than His will, that we have not attained to the full mastery of our true freedom the full perception of its power, that our son ship is yet but faintly realized, and its blessedness not yet proved and known. Our consent would turn our trials into obedience. By consenting we make them our own, and offer them with ourselves again to Him. ~H.E. Manning