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Time is Short

There is a word that has been coming forth by the Spirit lately which is, "Time is short." I believe that the following article relates to this word. I believe that for certain disciples today the last leg of their race has come, and that these must now run (press for the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus) with everything that they've got. -- D

It seems to me that the Church of today has for so long walked in step with the world while holding it at arm's length that it does not much realize the damage that has been done to it. Though most Christians today will not yet admit it, the world has set the standard for the Church more than the Church has set the standard for the world, and because of this "disciples" of today little resemble what true disciples of Christ are supposed to be.

I'm afraid, beloved, that many of us have for so long tossed and toyed with terms like "utterness" and "sacrifice" and "wholly" that we seem to have lost the true significance of these things. But God hasn't. He must have for Himself a people who wholly follow after Him as sacrifices and who trust Him in utterness, and He will have for Himself just such a people.

Beloved, though you may not want to hear this, utter trust in God and the ability to wholly follow after Him is most always birthed out from great anguish and suffering, perplexity, and pain. This is saying that there is a glory that is to be revealed IN US that can come in no other way than by our suffering with Him, suffering all the way to the utter end of ourselves.

Now, I'm obviously not talking about some form of religious masochism here, but I am rather exhorting us all to take on a whole new understanding of "they loved not their lives unto death" so that we might know WHAT TRUE LIFE IS! The enthronement of Christ in our hearts is not the hit-or-miss, take-what-you-can-get affair that Christianity has made it out to be. This is not about adding Christ to our life. This is about the ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGN TAKEOVER of all that we think and do! This is about the putting down in us of all rule, authority and power to the extent that even every thought of ours bows and submits unreservedly to Christ.

Beloved, such a message as this must be as the sound of an alarm to at least God's end-time remnant today, if not also to all the nations of professed Christendom. Most of us ("Christians") for long have spoken of the things of true discipleship, but the truth is that we have not been living as true disciples. We've really been kidding ourselves in many ways, believing what we want to believe.

My personal experience these days is that God seems to be pulling out all stops in order to make me into someone who truly counts not his life his own, to make me into someone who counts Christ's life of uttermost importance and who thereby lives (or dies) for Him. Honestly, through the trials and the afflictions that have come upon me in the last couple of years I feel that God is RUINING ME to the extent that whatever strength I have is His. I have none of my own anymore. Along these lines, I, Like Paul, can say that I somehow even find glory in infirmities knowing that the power of Christ may rest upon me in my weakness.

Taking pleasure (finding glory) in infirmities? Really? Yes. This is about sowing or being sown of the Lord - yielding ourselves up to God so extensively that we no longer take unto ourselves any selfish thoughts or concerns. Beloved, the life that must be given up in order for us to KNOW LIFE will not be wrenched from God's First-fruits. No. It must be given as a FREEWILL OFFERING to our Father, something that is a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice unto Him.

Beloved, though many of us have been taught a whole lot about Tabernacles and Sonship, the truth is that almost none of us are walking in what we've been taught. Tabernacles is not knowing about utterness, it is about living in utterness. Tabernacles is not knowing about sacrificial living, it is about living as sacrifices. Tabernacles is not about talking and sharing and teaching about death to self, it is about death to all self-initiative and independent thinking that we might live the LIFE OF GOD in Christ Jesus. Tabernacles is about a place in God where we draw no lines over which we will not cross in our following of the Lamb, beloved ones. It is not just about knowing that we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has ordained that we should walk in them. It's about actually walking in those things.

Bless you.

D