To have resurrectionary vision – a function resurrection brings into life in eyes which have only seen the former things, but are looking for the things to come, eyes which are looking to see the word of life come alive to them – to see the life in it, the future in it, to see God in it – to see God in his word – to see the Father in Jesus – is to see through the eyes of resurrection – seeing as one who resurrection has touched and declared new life to by its eternal power –
And now to be of one living and seeing as resurrection, as it overshadows the past and enters the present to reveal to it its future, so it will lay down its life out of love for the resurrection and where it will leads to, and what it will reveal, because it gives to us resurrectionary vision to see what the full function and purpose and life of resurrection is – and it takes us in its full power to where it is going so we can see what it sees as it displays itself to us in all of its eternal forms – and that is to see it from every angle and to know of each angles purpose, and how God moves in all ways to bring every angle to its meeting point.
It is to have the vision which is the effect of resurrection, and its power and its nature - to have resurrection vision – not our own vision resurrected but to have new vision - to have the seeing, the view, the angle, the eyes, the interpretation, the foreknowledge which is like no other – and given to no other by the Lord except those in the likeness of full resurrection who have given up their way of seeing things, their way of looking at God – who have given up their eyes which cannot see or recognise the resurrection, so they can have the eyes of resurrection so it will never go unseen or unrecognised again –
For only the eyes of R/resurrection can recognise the R/resurrection seeing and holding it without it disappearing from sight – for it will be seen by eyes which are clear and without any dimness – eyes of vision power – it is not God’s visions or dreams - it is seeing power – to see into what cannot normally be seen - so that what we have been kept from recognising can now be seen clearly by us through a sight and understanding which cannot be separated from what gives it life and what drives it – and can only be generated by the process of continued resurrection, for with resurrection comes the newness of God – the new future as seen from eyes which know no restriction because resurrection is without bounds and always seeing new life in its true form of unlimited abundance – for resurrection does not see anything but the great unlimited abundance of God for that is what it is – it is the great unlimited abundance of God which is multiplying unto itself as it takes of its dwelling within the temples of God – for it can only live God – it can only resurrect of God, for it kills anything else which stands in the way of God taking precedence in his manifestation -
and the properties of God’s seeing vision can only be brought into life when resurrection is at work – for what can take of its death in Christ and not have pouring into that void all of which is Christ himself –for our creator is a continued renewal of life and gave to us of its nature when resurrection came to live amongst us, and to give us full preparation so it could begin its eternal work in us – for God multiplied that which he had –and he had life but it cannot reach its full potential until the old order of things pass away and resurrection takes hold of it and brings it into the life of the resurrectionary God – for God is of resurrection – he is of all things continually made new and he sustains all life with the power of his word to resurrect – his written word – his word of flesh – all of its forms are of resurrection – and he brought together all forms of his word in Jesus – there for us to see, but we did not see it - but we will when we are ready to see the all of it – in all of its forms in all of its degrees – in all of its angles and in all of its complex revelation – for our eyes have to be able to take in all at once what is on display to us - it is his word in its opened form – it opens its voice to us – its eyes to us – its hearing to us – for it is alive and will arise to us in the fullness of resurrection - for it is the depth and width and height of it which we will see as resurrectionary vision encompasses all of which is of the resurrection process - which now is all things of God - for the process itself opens up and is for our eyes to take in the full spectrum of it – to take in what is like a thousand years which have been laid out before us minute by minute second by second – and multiply that a thousand times upon a thousand times - but with seeing vision of the magnitude of the Lord himself - of the magnitude of the resurrection himself – to see with the eyes of life will allow us to take it in as if it was of a spectrum of a single day - for so powerful is resurrectionary vision and the comprehension it gives that we can see a thousand years as we would see a day laid out before us in all of its seconds and minutes and hours - as our eyes scan into its depth and width and height and absorb all of everything of it -
Just as the thousand years which the Lord will reign will be a thousand years laid back to back – but with the life of the resurrection it will be seen as only a single day -
For with resurrectionary vision the farthest outreaches to the north and south and east and west are brought into their nearness when we are able to see and comprehend into the farthest of corners because nothing is out of our view - and a thousand years when seen clearly as a single day, will be lived as we see it – just as for those to whom a thousand years reaches out into the distance of which their eyes cannot see – then they will live in length, breadth, width and height of a thousand years back to back – for they too will live it as they see it.
But it is that we can love resurrection but will not necessarily be of its same vision – not necessarily having its eyes - for we can love resurrection for many reasons, but we are given resurrectionary vision for only one reason – to see into the fullness of its life - which is God’s life - for it is not a life for the fainthearted – for it its to be living as one constantly in all places at once – all hearts at once – all minds at once - and to be of the all knowing and the all powerful and the all present is a hard life to live consistently, even for God – and so when he gives us resurrection sight he only gives it to us when every fibre of our being is focused on a life of eternal resurrection to full - and that itself is for the sole purpose of living for God - being his constant and continued confidante – to move into a constant state of aloneness with him which can be mastered even when we are in the midst of total activity with him - to be consistently knowing what he is doing and what he is hearing and what he is saying – knowing always what he is going through and being constantly at his side - it is truly a way of life that never ends – but to live this way has to be a longing of our heart – it has to be the life resurrection breathed into us – for we cannot manufacture a desire for this – it has to who we are - just as it is who God is – and this is when resurrection has moved us first into the fullness of it, and then into the intenseness of it - giving us its eyes to see into all of its depth - all of its width – all of its height – to see the life God always lives – to see and feel the heat, the full heat of the eternal flame of the Lord – so our relationship with him can be complete – can be sealed and seared with the heat of an eternal flame for jealous unyielding love burns like a blazing fire - its flame being the very flame of the Lord – and many waters cannot not quench it – and floods will not drown it and if a man offered all the wealth of his house for it - it would be utterly despised and scorned -
Resurrection and its vision in its most intense form is to see what is of the exclusive – to see every detail that goes to make up our Father so we can express to him what has been set apart in our hearts just for him because of the resurrection in us – and if we do not see him out of the eyes of the resurrection eyes we can never see the most minute things which have still gone untouched in him – unsaid to him – unfulfilled in him – we will never ever be able to see it because it is where eyes which are not ablaze can never enter – for to enter is to be one who is, not one who will be – but one who already is the fulfilment and the eternity of all of which in God has gone untouched and unsaid and undone – and he will not reveal it to anyone but one who is already the fulfilment of this exclusiveness - one already the fulfilment of the purpose of resurrection .
Resurrection vision takes us further into the Lord’s way of life and we bring it into the now because of resurrection in us – resurrection which is of the eternal nature and stretches far into eternity, comes into the present to bring all of the present into eternity with it – and eternity became manifest in the flesh of Jesus Christ shown to us in a spectrum visible to the mortal eyes because its was reduced in its magnitude so as it be brought into the physical form of Jesus – to show us in a way we could see, what in its fullness and truth of form we could never see - but Jesus did come so we may understand and come into seeing the depth of that which looked of no deepness –
to see the true width of that which seemed to be only the width of a mere man - to see the true height of that which appeared to us to have a risen stature common to all men of the world.
Resurrection now shows us that what appeared to us – what looked like to us – what seemed to us – is not what it appeared, looked and seemed like – it makes us ready to see its workings, its power, its life, its motives, its solitude, its degrees, its measures, its truths, its permanency and its eternal repercussions – for what is out of our depth and width and height the Lord gives to us in its reduced form, so we can have enough understanding to move us to what is to come next – to move us to seeing it in its form as given by the word – to see it in its form in God’s territory - to see Jesus the beholder of all things in all of his glorious depth and width and height - to see what it is we are given resurrectionary vision for - for what else is there to be seen outside of the Lord – there is no vision outside of him – there is no seeing power outside of Christ resurrected - for all that is to be of the resurrection is held in the word, and outside of its infinite forms is what is of no life for it is outside of Resurrection and outside of Life -
For it is life resurrection life resurrection life resurrection life a continuous process - which makes life eternal - so that we may come to know the one and only true God and Jesus Christ whom he sent - sent to brings us with him into a territory only reserved for God - only reserved for Father Son and Holy Spirit – and we are brought into his territory through the powerful word of resurrection - for in that word lays the greatness of God, and as that word opens into his newness – as we are given the open word of which holds resurrection in the full – which holds life in the full – we come to know of our full dimension of our full person, for as our God is of the personage of four so too are we - as we are in his image of which has taken of resurrection and so we are now revealing our true person in all of its facets – the Father in us – the Son in us – the Holy Spirit in us – and the new life of God in us as seen through a son and as seen through a daughter – for the son and daughter will separately reveal what is held in the oneness of Jesus – for in the oneness of Jesus is the all of God ~and the all of God is of four persons but held in the Trinity of three ~
And as the resurrection takes us through truth after truth as we see the new life resurrection presents to God, we come to have a new knowledge of his love - for it is a love that sees – a love of visionary properties - a love that resurrects – his love puts into action resurrection and the action reveals the truth of it - for truth is of the abundance and without limit – without limit to where it can take us and where it can take God for he created his word to take him into all the hidden recesses of its abundance – to take him into the farthest of escapes – to take him into his future with those who come into the truth of the word – for he made the truth of himself in a vastness of forms – for word is of every form and every nature and every degree and angle – the vastness of it is his entry into all places at all times with full power – his word sustains all things and can move into and penetrate all and everything for it is of the unseen and seen - of the unheard and heard - of the unknown and known- and God is everywhere at all times, and everywhere at all times his divine and pure love releases through the truth of who he is, unlimited ways by which he draws men to Jesus Christ - for God is of no limit and of no bounds and there is no way that salvation can be stopped –
For the word of salvation had to be announced and written and put into action so it could be overwritten with the announcement and the word and the event of resurrection - God is our salvation and now he is our resurrection – who could stop our Saviour from coming to bring salvation to the world and who can stop the Resurrection and the Life bringing that world into eternal resurrection - the ways of God and his word are unstoppable and unmatchable – who can match the love he has for our souls - for in his love is the victory which cannot be matched – in his love is the victory, and unholy men will never get near enough to it to make the victory their own for it is in a fortress which is indestructible – for his love holds the victory of men resurrecting into the likeness of Jesus Christ – the victory of sons and daughters living the depth width and height of his standards – For God’s standard stands so straight and tall and regal and dignified and bring into existence oceans of interconnecting ways to bring men first to Jesus, and then into the full stature of his standards – all made alive in its resurrected glory in men and women who once could not even find their way from the beginning to the end – for the oceans of God’s mind drowns us when we do not know the one who is the beginning and the end – for his ways are as countless and as never ending as his capabilities and his power to bring all back to the Father and into their righteous measure of eternity according to God’s righteous and true judgments -
And he is desiring to bring his countless oceans of capabilities and power into their new resurrected forms, as we open wide our eyes to see the reserve which we never knew we had, to open it wide as the Lord opens his word wide and so enables us to step through the gates of his mind and the ocean of his thoughts and do make our attempt to stay afloat to learn the new advanced way of getting to the other side – the quicker way of getting to the other side – the instant way of getting to the other side – the way of seeing the beginning to the end in one look, in one glance - for one glance with the new eyes of resurrection takes in what is of the eternal - for it is the word in us which keeps us buoyant and always above the water - and always heading in the right direction – high above the oceans of mediocrity, for the word in us is the word of God’s eternity which is above and beyond all else, for it brings us out of the creation which was made from the word and the ways of God, and into the word and the ways of God – and the way of God was to put into us the art of creating – he alone brought forth the eternal everlasting word of truth and we take of his word and create into it our desired choices as the word manifests those choices if they are compatible with the word of perfection, and so we take the art of creation and step into it and out it as God did – he stepped into his creation into the flesh to save and restore it and bring it to its death and to introduce it to the Resurrection and the Life - and then he removed the flesh out of it - and stepped into it in Spirit to resurrect it and to bring resurrection and life into its eternal fullness – to bring it into where he is in his fullness - and then he removes his Spirit so the glorified flesh can return to it, to bring it into its eternity of resurrection which is continuous and does not stop even when at its full measure – for there is no full measure in God for he is without measure - and without measure is his word to create for we step out of this world and into our eternity which is of our own making – and into New Jerusalem which holds all of which was created when our hearts and minds and thoughts and desires and motives moved to join with the Lord in resurrection - for we had our attention on the creative word and not on the creation, for the creative word already holds in it truth which is yet to manifest, for the truth and the power of it is already in the word and the manifestation of it is only another dimension of what already is – for God’s word holds everything and so all things already are alive as his word is - but the manifestation of the greater things of its truths cannot be made manifest by anyone except those who have the mind of the word of God – who know it and its future and its power of resurrection into and through life as we now live it, and through into life as we do not yet know it – ones who see its form and know of its plan as it did know of God’s plan to bring manifested existence to what is known as creation – and God’s word which held creation gave it its visible form, and we live in it and we learn by it as the purpose for which it was created is fulfilled –
And Jesus came to bring to us the knowledge of the purpose of its creation –and he died to bring fulfilment to the purpose of God’s creation by bringing it into resurrection with him – and some things he would do in secret and some he would do in public – for it was in secret that Jesus was raised to life by the Holy Spirit – for he had already spoken out that he would be raised from the dead on the third day, but the act was in secret and not to be seen by men who had so little regard for the ways of God – and when he left the place of resurrection he began his new life –and as he continued his walk back to join the Father he displayed the manifestation of what was done in secret - but what was displayed was only a fragment of the magnitude of what was left undisplayed – for what manifested to men was not of the same depth of what was left unmanifested to their sight – for the depth of what is done in secret will never be displayed in all of its fullness while on this unresurrected earth, but remains to take of its fullness when it joins with the resurrection of all things – but Jesus revealed what needed to be revealed for that is what prepared us for the entrance of the Holy Spirit -
For Jesus does not leave us behind when we are following close on his heels and when his word never leaves us, and when we refuse to stay in a boat which is going nowhere but would rather step out and drown in our effort to follow him when we see him pass by – for he wants us to follow even if it means that we will drown in our attempt, for it does not matter if we drown it’s the attempt that counts - for then he will come and walk with us and take us to the place at which we are to be –
And as he ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father it is such for us to follow to the parallel on earth - and heaven on earth is when we are faithfully following Jesus no matter if we die in our attempt – for it is the listening and the following and the believing of him who is the Resurrection and the Life which even though we die we will live, and if we live and believe we will never die – so of what use it is for us to hang on to our life rather than to die in our attempt to follow him to wherever he goes – for when we step out and attempt it we have already died, for resurrection has then come to live in us -
And as we move into the resurrection process and see what resurrection has in store for us - we see what it brings – what its effect is – and its eternal effect is to bring to the Father sons and daughters – but there are many level of sons and daughters as there is many different levels of resurrection – for resurrection is to never stop, just as our reading of his word never stops, as our listening to him never stops, as our practise and our zeal for his honour never stops – for the continuing of life in resurrection brings to the Father sons and daughters of the millennium who walk in full resurrection which has not ceased for our Lord is of no end - and there is no end in our knowing of him, and no end to how enriched our relationship with him can be - for Jesus was no ordinary Son and we are to be no ordinary sons or daughters who only just make it home to our Father by the grace and mercy of God – for to come to a level in the Lord where we are - for us to just make it home would be if we took what we now have without even taking into account all which is coming – to take what we have at this point, and to not make the advancement to the next level, and the next and the next as the Father increases our growth as our resurrection continues - for the stages and levels are continuous even while we are on this earth - for there are so many to advance to, even before we take our life into where we join with the Lord in the eternities -
For when we return to our Father it will be in victory and it will not be a homecoming for us that will be our hearts plan - but it will be a coming home for our Father as he walks into the home of word which now lays open in our hearts for we have taken our journey with a serious intent to take it to its ultimate limit in Christ as presented to us while on this earth, and to always be in search of what we may not be seeing - until we can see with the eyes of eternal resurrection, so our Father can have his homecoming to his family - as we are to him the presentation of his eternal word in full and overflowing resurrection, as we become for him the resting place of his head and his heart – as we line the entrance hall and open the door for him, as he makes his royal and much awaited entrance to the new song of sons and daughters of the resurrection – for the new song is now one made two as they separate to become the song of the sons of God and the song of the daughters of God - new and distinct as two, and arising and having its life out of the resurrection of Jesus Christ as it took of its oneness with the glory of the resurrection which merged with the resurrection of the opera of the resurrection which joined in holiness with the resurrection of the life of the resurrection - two distinct songs one for the sons one for the daughters of the most high God – two held in the oneness of his opera - for they have aimed for, and brought into accomplishment the giving of glory to God in the most high way, as they open the door of his eternity – an eternity which has now been made new for him – as they give entrance to the Father of all things – the Father of all word – the Father of the Resurrection and the Father of the Life – as all sons and daughters stand in their fullness of stature as a testimony to his greatness and his goodness, standing with their brother and their Lord who made all things possible, as they stand ready to now take on the roles they have been prepared for - that they have longed for, yearned for, and pined for and died for and the roles they have been resurrected for – the roles we were given life for - allowing for our Father’s heart to swell with pride, with love, with contentment and with unspeakable joy as the power of full and eternal resurrection takes of its testimony as all of God’s word is proven true and all men are proven liars to the glory of God the Father …and to the praise and uplifted voice of cheer and thanksgiving from sons and daughters who have endured to the end – and have practised and obeyed and remained faithful to the word of God to prove every man a liar and that it is only God who is proven true-
And that is what we are given resurrection for – and to use it for anything less is a misuse of the Lord Himself.
And we do not want to misuse the Lord by being ones who have taken freely from him but end up being ones who only just make it home by the grace of God for we have seen the resurrection and now we are to be looking out from resurrection as one working towards its full manifestation in us, as we begin to see the knowledge of its purposes - as we make ready to start seeing where we now go and to be now ready to begin this life – for life changes all the time and the more we see it, and know it, and want the more of it, the more it will open itself to us and the more it will open our eyes to it - to see where it does go before and during and after we have attained fullness of resurrection of the stature of sons and daughters in Christ Jesus - for it is then to move to the to next step for Jesus did not stop after full resurrection – he continues to bring us to his perfect fullness of stature, for then our life as a son or daughter has just begun – our life in the full, with a God of the fullness of life, has only just begun -
For that is where Jesus wants us to follow him and it is worth getting out of the boat to get there – for to die for it is an honour and a privilege – for he is taking us to a point of unequalled quality and of an unmatched standard - for it is a quality and a standard of the age to come which we are to manifest now – for the standard and quality which men offer to God is but a filthy rag in his sight - it is but a tarnished walk that they offer to him – a pitiful relationship they hand out to him – it comes no where near to what resurrection offers to God – nowhere near being able to lead what is the ultimate of glorified existences with God Almighty – and if men think what they are offering to him is what is going to give them access to what is of the purest of places in all of its majestic holiness and radiance and lustre, then they do not see in the mirror what they are still covered with and what they are really offering out to God to take into his eternity with him –
We do not even come close, until we can see what resurrection will only permit us to see - and when we do we will be overwhelmed with shame and repentance - and from this vision of truth will we then be fit to come into true resurrectionary vision – for only then will our eyes have the circumcision needed to see into what would have remained unseen by us, as long as we could not see what we were offering to the Lord of ourselves – of his word that was in us – of our minds, of our thoughts, of our hearts our actions our decisions – every little detail of us now is an offering before God, and will be what we have put forward will go towards what will be our eternity and his eternity - we have to understand that the all of what we say before the Lord will come under great scrutiny by him – for our words will have to meet up with our actions and thoughts and wishes and desires so as to be proven true before God –
For as we step into our resurrection and abide in it and it in us, we have then our movement into what can be without limit for the Lord and for us as we step into our resurrection and take of it, and pursue it, and reach out to every corner of it - for it is only in our resurrection that we can step anywhere near where resurrected life is standing for what it is out to us is of the eternal heart and soul of our God -
For draped down over its arms is the lamb of the sacrifice which has been put to death, and the blood of which is in continuous flow - and because of the blood of the sacrificial lamb we are able to stand in full resurrection before the God of all things – and when we see this before us, when we see with full knowledge what had to be, before we could come to be standing in the presence of the Resurrection and the Life – then we see that without the Resurrection we are of no standard that can match that sacrificial lamb – we are not worthy of the greatest of sacrifices until we see with new eyes the standard and quality of the sacrifice, and know we can never rise to its standard unless and until we receive of and participate with and be a part of the intenseness of resurrection fullness - for that is what the sacrifice was for, and nothing less does our God deserve – and as he will get less than he deserves from the many, it will have to be the few who will have to have the zeal and determination and the love and endurance and the faithfulness and the yearning all without limit in its richness of quality to be of the measure of the many, who will offer the lesser to the Lord - so the Lord will never miss out on what he deserves, even if one or the few have to have the standard and quality of the all of which has been given life by our Lord - Whatever it takes, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit will not miss out on what they deserve – and it is ones of the full resurrection who will able to do what seems to be impossible for men - but possible for ones who are of the life of the resurrection of the resurrection – and it is our reason for living life to bring to the Father the all of which the sacrificial lamb was sacrificed for – so not one thing he gave out to us does not go unreturned to him in a manner and dignity befitting his majesty – befitting his gracious generosity to us – befitting his new eternity for that is what he will carry with him forever – for all which is given to him out of the resurrection he will carry with him for eternity -
And we need resurrection and the vision it gives us to see what we are giving out to our Lord and God, and to know it will never die but remain forever - so it has to be of the finest of quality and the highest of standards, for nothing less do we desire for him to take into his eternity with him – for he sent to us the finest of quality and the highest of standard when he gave us Jesus and when we do not know what we already have and misuse it - that is when it is only by the grace and mercy of God that we are brought into eternity at all – for we were worthy of eternal death, but have been given eternal life and the full extremes of what it brings through the resurrection of Jesus Christ - and to not take it to its ultimate victory is to not want to see the ultimate victory from the eyes of resurrection – For when we do want to see it - then we will see the Lord’s walk of victory as he left the seclusion of the tomb - for everywhere Jesus went victory was declared – for so powerful was it that he walked in and out of our vision because we did not have the eyes of the resurrection nor did we have the heart of the resurrection and so we could not see where it was going, or where it did come from but now we are to be ready to see past what is dead - to see what is alive -
And victory is alive and moves us into its path each time we struggle persistently with verse and scripture - each time we will not let them go and leave us behind –
For Jesus was preparing us to see what only the eyes of resurrection can see, and only what a heart of resurrection can love – so we can see and recognise and love what he is about to show us without it disappearing from our sight - unlimited truths – for we are seeing into where continued resurrection takes us – not just resurrection to stay alive and to be of the eternal - it is where resurrection does not just do the work in us and we take of its life and live through it – this is where we have all of our motivation and all of our love and all of our energies and all of our uncontainable curiosity and beautiful zest for life, and our jealousy for God’s eternity driving our resurrection to reach for its full measure of truth- and then to move into its never ceasing existence so we walk continually in the victory of God’s word –
So we can be with the Father in the way full resurrection is meant to take us –
For life in the full is not just life in eternity where time does not run out - life in the full is life at its maximum width and depth and height - it is a fullness we think we may have had or touched on, or know about – but we have not even see it yet – we cannot even see it yet in all of its forms –
Jesus came to bring us life in the full – and compared to the fullness of all of life - life is still as a seed in us, but it is when that seed is the full grown tree of life straining forth in us – then it is – feeling the fullness of the weight of our breath just as if we are breathing the breath of all life – it is the awareness of the deep capacities of our minds as we have thoughts which do not remain in our minds but move forth to search out what we are thinking of – it is to feel our heart beat as if it is beating for all of life in the heavens and universes and all the eternities - to have every word in its universal truth a part of us - and to see into all of it without anything going unnoticed or unseen or unheard – to see all of every speck of all of which is in existence and to know what its purpose is and to know the very moment it came forth – it is the knowledge of God being breathed out with every breathe - and to hear every word spoken and aware of every movement of all which has been given life - and to see it and to love it as God sees and loves it - for his love is a love that moves heaven and earth –
A love that wipes away what is, to make room for what is to come – to make way for the full life of resurrection to bring all things into eternity with it – not one thing is left behind, for when he removes the heavens and earth from their place, resurrection brings forth the new and all things are given through resurrection everlasting life - and everlasting life is when every word from us every movement, every thought, every breath, every adventure experienced is life expressing its powerful presence in us and around us – as it expresses and shows its power for all to see - it is life in its full power in ones who are in their full power of life as our God is –
Life in the full is not necessarily experienced when we reach our eternity – for it has to be acquired and desired in the full truth of its context now - for life in the full is life in the fullness of what God experiences – of how he lives and what he lives - and life in the full manifests differently to different hearts and minds – it is how open his word has become to us - but where we stop at is also where our fullness of life will stop –
For Resurrection will resurrect us to where we want to be in Christ not to where Christ wants us to be in him – for his word is of countless levels and degrees and angles and depths – and the deepness of the angle and the depth of the truth and the level of degrees of which we desire it is what drives resurrection – for resurrection takes us out into the open where there is no more hiding – it take us out into the open where God exists for all to know him and for all to see him - in open word - in open territory but it is within his openness that is also held his separateness, his aloneness, his unseen qualities and his unknown thoughts -
For they are what is hidden in the territory which is only abided in when we are of the resurrection which is now overflowing to the fullness of the eternities of Christ -
For when we venture into his open word we are stepping in where what we do in secret will take of its subsequent manifestation and we will be walking in the open as Jesus was – for he could not remain hidden for long and so God Almighty can not remain hidden any longer - for the eyes of men may not want to see him – the ears of men may not want to hear him – and the heart of men may not want to be changed – but resurrection has come – and it is without measure and without end, so who of men can prevail against God’s eternal will – they will fight and blaspheme and deny that they will ever comply to the will of God – but they will be brought into the new earth – and their incompatibility with God and his nature will place them where their words have decreed their life to be – away from God’s sight – graciously saved and given a form of life – but as they have wished far away from God and his word –
Resurrection has surely come - and all of God’s word is manifesting its resurrection as it moves from the old into the new – we know it – we see it – we hear it - we speak it – all is in its movement as it raises to new life within the secrecy of just one or a few - but it will then go out and be seen among the unresurrected world and that is what brings the chaos - for the resurrected and the unresurrected cannot be in the presence of one another for one is of the age to come and its presence in the age of old brings disruption as it shakes it and begins to unravel the age of the old until both are brought into the age to come – till all are brought to resurrection –
Jesus had to return to the Father after he was in is resurrected form – for he could no longer walk the earth of which was still in its unresurrected form until the time again was right for him to make his entrance again in his body of glorified flesh – when resurrection again moves all into their final places for all things to be made new - and for all to be brought into its resurrection because of the love God has for all things of which he has made - He may not like all of which it has become but he loves all of which it is – and it is life and he loves life.
Getting close to the Lord is the greatest experience we can undergo – to know what he does and what he sees and what he feels and what he wants – to sit and listen to him talk about his life and what it has been like for him and what he wants from it now – hearing it first hand with all of its depth and width and height still in its untouched form is surely what we are given resurrection for – surely what we are given eternal life for –
For God put to death his dreams and hopes and visions when resurrection came marching home – for it was bringing with it what now would never be taken away from him again - it was bringing home the eternal victory.
And that is what will be true music in our hearts given to us by God to bring us into a life of resurrection – for God is opera and has been taken into full resurrection so we may know him through the sound of him – it is not whimsical and without purpose for it is the opening into what is yet to be explored by our hearing - for in the hearing of it will come what we could not bear to hear – all of which we could not bear to hear comes from every avenue of God and is not limited to spoken word –but comes through all of his nature and all of his ways of reaching out to us –
For he teaches us through every part of him how to respond - for we can respond to a touch, to a look, to a word, to a tear, to a smile - and music is the melody of our responsiveness back to God - it unlocks us and unfolds us and when we have shut down our emotions it can penetrate into our deep pain and give comfort for the sound of him woos us to open our hearts one more time so he can pour his love into and through us again – so he can pour his song through us – his song of victory – and as we start to see with the eyes of Resurrection we will see into song and recognise that the Father was singing about our full resurrection the very moment we were born – the moment creation was born was the moment resurrection was sung, and when we take up that new song of the daughter and the new song of the son we are singing back to God his opera of the resurrection of the resurrection, and placing it as a seal over his heart – to give him the deposit guaranteeing that we are men and women who are true to our word for our word is God’s word - for we know no other word for the old died when word resurrected became alive in us – alive in us so we can say what has to be said and do what has to be done to bring to our God all of which he deserves – presented to him in its finest of quality and its highest of standards - for we will be the few if that is what it takes – the few who will have the zeal and determination and the love and patient endurance and the faithfulness and the flame of the Lord burning intensely in us - all in its richness of quality and in the highest of standards so as to be of the fullness of the measure of the many, who will offer the lesser to the Lord – for even if we have to rise to a standard and quality which will take in the all of which has been given life by our Lord then surely we can do it if we live the resurrection and walk in the victory of it - for when we walk in the victory of the intenseness of a full and overflowing resurrection, then we have walked in the victory of God – and have seen our victorious God in full resurrection – because we got out of a boat that was going nowhere and chose to die, so we could live and go everywhere - and that is our victory – that we can go all places and know all things and be all powerful when we live it as we see it - for we have seen it and now we live it – we have seen the R/resurrection and now we are to live our victorious God in His full eternal resurrection ~ FOR VICTORY BELONGS ETERNALLY TO THE LORD OUR GOD - AMEN