Beyond Our Comprehension

"God has nowhere forbidden any of His children to see and know the wonders of heaven."

“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.” (1 Corinthians 15:53)

FOR THIS mortal (Greek, liable to die) must put on immortality (deathlessness). When that happens, when our corruptibility is now incorruptible, what God has intended will have reached its complete fulfillment. We see this exemplified in Jesus Christ. He submitted Himself to death in order to make Himself and all who would believe in Him above the order of death. We read of His glorification and miss the application of it to ourselves.

“Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:16)

“And among the lampstands was one who appeared to be human, just like a Son of Man. He was wearing a robe flowing down to his feet and had a golden breastplate on his chest; his hair was brilliant white, like snow, and his eyes shone brightly like a fire. His feet glowed like metal in a furnace, and his voice resounded with energy like a roaring river.” (Revelation 1:13-15, Remedy)

Today, right now, He alone has immortality as a human. He dwells in light no man can approach. He is seen as fire, as metal which glows, resounding with energy. He is King, yes, and He is God. We cannot forget this. But hear the words of Hebrews. “And so he must needs become altogether like his brethren (Hebrews 2:17, Knox).” And also verse 9, “In God’s gracious design he was to taste death (Hebrews 2:9, Knox).” He became part of God’s human design and submitted himself to mortality, SO THAT, Hebrews 3:1 (Knox), we could “share a heavenly calling” with Him.

We know this. Jesus was born of a virgin and grew up in the human world in order to die on the cross for our sins and be Resurrected to give us God’s abundant, eternal life. We gladly accept salvation and know the freedom from sin. We partake of God’s health and healing benefits in this life. But our image of Him “as He is” is not an image of ourselves. We see Him as He is described, clothed in gold with the seven stars in His hand, and we fail to realize He is still human and the human body as God makes it immortal can withstand and walk in things which are beyond our comprehension.

The supernatural is largely beyond our comprehension. We are children dipping our toes in the shallow end of a pool which stretches to an incomprehensible depth. But as my mother says, “Sometimes God be’s big,” and what He has ordained for us to experience in the here and now is far greater than we have sought Him for.

He desires to be sought, not just for our physical needs, but for greater manifestations of His glory in us. These are the two words most people leave out of the equation – IN US. We pray for a greater “move of the Spirit” and to see “signs and wonders” without the realization that that move is IN US and those signs and wonders are IN US. They are the power of God on display in people. We leave to the prophets a higher level of supernatural experience, and there is a gist of this needed, but God has nowhere forbidden any of His children to see and know the wonders of heaven. A popular minister remarked he’d had a vision and belittled it like it was a rare and unusual thing for someone to experience. I could not help but think I have seen and know far, far more than that, and it is far stranger for me to think of being limited to less by my human mind.

Jesus has a human mind, and He stood on the mountain and spoke with two men long dead. He is God, yes, but in that hour, He was entirely human, mortal and facing death. Today, He is above death and has been restored to the glory He had before the foundation of the world. At the same time, He is human and in immortal humanity, a glorified body of flesh and bone (His words), stands in the presence of the Father in the throne room of heaven, upright and without failing. John feared the sight of Him and fell down trembling. Jesus lifted him up and told him to not be afraid. We shouldn’t be afraid. The purpose of the vision was to give us a glimpse of who we will be and who we can be in this hour. It was to tell us of future events only in the sense of ourselves as victors through Him and God’s control of the end. He will consume all death in the presence of His goodness. Instead, we’ve made it creepy and weird with mostly a taste of fear. Fear should only come to those who are outside of God’s grace, who have chosen sin. God’s Word to us should never make us afraid.

READ “Prophecy Perception.”

It is, instead, a world of unfathomable hope. Not only of the future but to be seen and experienced also in the here and now. However, God will not pour out these things upon those who make light of them. If it is foolishness to you, then it will remain foolishness to you. If you seek Him, on the other hand, if you open your heart to all He would have you to know and experience today, then He will reveal Himself. Caution must be made, of course, but most focus on the caution and not on the ability of the Father to protect you from false influences. Along with our expectation of the supernatural, we should seek for (request) having wisdom and revelation with discernment of spiritual things. God is the source of all wisdom, and He knows what we need to be aware of in the environment around us in order to not be taken in by “seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils (1 Timothy 4:1).” In short, if it detours from the known Word of God then don’t listen. If you have doubts about it, then take it to the Father in prayer and ask for revelation.

If we walk in the Spirit, we will not only not fulfill the will of the flesh and fall prey to the deceptions of the mind, but we will see great and wonderful things such as cannot be expressed in words. We are made to sustain far more of God than we have chosen to carry. We make His arm short and His power small when He would pour out His Spirit upon us where our sons and daughters prophesy, our old men see visions, our young men dream dreams. Where we can walk in power like the church at Acts whose apostles were delivered from prison by angels, delivered from snakebite by faith, translated between locations without fear of it, and were so surrendered to the supernatural God within them that people could pass by them and get healed.

The Spirit says: Raise your stakes, O people. Shine your light brighter until the fullness of it erases the darkness it was made to withstand. Let the wisdom of God flow through you, speak from you, and in continued growth expect the stature of the height of Christ to be seen in you and upon you. Was the chapter of Acts but for a time? Or was it but the beginning of all that I sought to display? How big is the power of Him who died for you, within you? How strong the Spirit upon you who raised Him from the dead? Am not I enough in this day, among all people? Or is your existence meant as merely a dot on the map? If you do not know the answer to this question, then you have not heard me speaking at all. Lift your eyes to the hills from whence cometh your help and expect a flood to carry you forward and not merely pale footsteps scratched in the dust.

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:” (Acts 2:17-18)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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