SNATCHED TO HEAVEN: UNION WITH GOD
I would like to share with you about
uncommon Christianity. What I am going to share is available to you
if you will pay the price. What I am about to share is about the
place of dwelling He designed for us from the beginning.
I love to go for walks in nature near a
stream, or by the ocean, or in a park where there is a lake. About
twenty years ago, I was walking down a path with my secretary and
friend. I used to take her out for walks probably five days a week. I
would tell her, “You choose whatever Scripture or Scriptures you
want to discuss, and we will discuss those Scriptures throughout our
walk.” We would do this for about two hours daily. There were times
when I would be walking with her, and the Lord would, by His Spirit,
take my spirit up to Him in the throne room or wherever He wanted to
take me, and there He would speak to me.
One particular time, while on one of
our walks, He suddenly swept through me with a burst of explosive
joy. It was so explosive that my spirit immediately left my body. If
the Lord takes your spirit in this way, your soul can still conduct
business on this earth, and Jesus also sends a heavenly guard to make
sure you are kept safe until your spirit is returned. It is a unique
experience in which the Lord makes provision to enable you to
essentially function in two places at once. My friend was able to
hear only my side of the conversation during this time when Jesus
took me to His throne. My spirit was in heaven while my soul was here
on the earth. My body was obviously responding tremendously to what
was happening to me in heaven. The reason I am telling you this has
to do with His purpose for taking me to heaven before His throne. He
wanted us to know how much it means to Him to bring His loved ones
into a union.
As I stood before Him, He began asking
me questions about creation while at the same time flooding me with
light. He asked me simple questions such as, “Why do you think I
created this?” I replied, “I don't know, Lord.” I have learned
that when He asks you a question, He is not really attempting to
determine how much you know. He already knows what you know. What He
is trying to do at that moment is to help you understand what you
don't know. Isn't that sweet? Thus, He engages us while He heightens
our desire for more of Him!
So He began, “Nita, do you know why I
made the sun, the moon, and the stars?” I replied, “No, Lord.
Why?” He responded, “So I could make the earth.” Then He asked,
“Do you know why I made the earth?” I replied, “No, Lord. I
don't know why.” (Even now as I share this I can feel His Spirit
again exploding in my heart with the very same love I felt that day.)
What a wonderful Lord! Back to the visit! He said, “So that I could
make the trees and all the plant life.” Then He asked, “Do you
know why I made the plant life?” I replied, “No, Lord. Why did
you make the plant life?” He said, “I wanted to create the ocean,
fish of the sea and all of the animal kingdom. Do you know why?”
All I could say was, “No, Lord. I don't know why.” He said, “So
that I could create the garden—so beautiful, so exquisite, and so
fair.” Although this may not precisely relate His exact line of
questions, I have given you a summary account of very close
approximation.
While He was speaking to me, remember,
He was washing me with a cascade of liquid light, filled with healing
love. It flowed down directly from Him, repeatedly washing over me.
It was not exactly like standing inside a waterfall as the cascade
was inconstant. Instead of a constant rate of flow, these waters of
liquid light and love cascaded down upon me like waves moving across
the sea. What an experience it was!
He then tenderly asked, “Nita, do you
know why I wanted to create the garden?” I replied, “No, Lord. I
don't know why.” He said, “So I could create man.” Painful
thoughts raced through my mind. Thoughts, such as, “Why? Why would
you want to create the man who has given You so much trouble? There
has been so much pain on this earth, and since You carry all that
pain within You, why would You want to engage?” I wrestled with
such unanswered questions at that time in my Christian walk. If I
could only receive answers from My Father, it seemed they would heal
the deep hurt I felt over what we as humans have done.
He heard my thoughts before they even
entered my mind. He answered gently, “I knew before I created man
what would happen. I knew I would have to send My Son to redeem man
from sin. I knew! However, there was an aching and a longing so deep
in My heart that only this one dream could satisfy. This dream was
the hope of the day when a vast community of believers would come to
love Me enough to give up everything to have Me living inside them in
such a capacity as union with Me can give. And Nita, you don't know
passion such as Your God feels when He feels passion.” While He
said this, the liquid light and love continued to flow over me. I
felt completely overwhelmed.
He said, “I'm going to let you feel
just one teardrop of My passion.” Think of how minuscule is the
size of a single teardrop. He let the teardrop fall upon me. The
amount of His passion for us contained in that single teardrop was so
enormous, so magnanimous, and so forceful, that it felt like He had
poured into me the whole of heaven itself. The love and passion
contained therein caused my heart to hurt so much that I thought I
was going to die. It was, however, a wonderful hurt that carried with
it a divine longing and full expectation of the longing’s being
met. It was not a longing that ached from a lack of satisfaction, but
one which He fully intended to satisfy. So although my heart ached
with such intense pain, the pain was also filled with divine love and
expectation. His longing was coming from the fact that He missed
having a people of such caliber who would pursue Him above all else.
It could be likened to the intense natural longing that forms in a
mother while she is carrying a baby in her womb. She yearns for the
baby to go from the womb into her arms so that she can embrace and
love her child. In that same way, He just wanted to hold us. He
intensely desired to be in us, not just in our spirit but on the
throne of our soul in union with us. He longed for that link and
connection. He was so hungry for each and every one. He longs for you
with an unquenchable yearning that only union can satisfy. God knows
and understands passion like no human being can experience. He wants
you. The bottom line is that He brought into existence all of
creation so that He could have union with us. Isn't that amazing?
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