The weather is becoming nice, at least where I live, the flowers will be blooming soon. I am starting to wake up from a long winter’s nap and it was really long this year. Soon we will start to plant flowers, fix up yards and will give the homes we live in the once over. We will be checking the foundations of our homes to make sure they are good. It is what we do every year at this time….It’s just us. While doing so this year, why not include yourself in that? I mean actually give yourself a foundational checkup…a good once over. Think you’re up to it?
Several years ago, the Holy Spirit showed me a vision. I was asleep, or so I thought. Then all of a sudden, I was taken up into my kitchen. There was a table full of people and they were talking about someone. (I recall wondering who it could possibly be about. It was as if I was standing there spying on these people talking about someone else.) They specifically said, “There is a crack in the foundation.”
I woke up the next morning and didn’t really recall the dream for a little while. Then all of a sudden, it hit me. Someone had a crack in their foundation. What foundation? What crack? Who? Then I got this really nauseating feeling inside. I knew it was me they had been talking about. But how could that be? I had been in the word of God day and night, night and day. I had been trying so hard to walk with Jesus and strived to do His will, not my own. I spent time fellowshipping with Him in order to attempt to absorb everything He put on my heart and in my path. I spent time watching endless Christian TV, studying and forsaking ALL for the sake of the CALL. How could it possibly be ME of all people?
I was crushed. But I knew it was me they were talking about, whoever “they” were. Even though I had tried so hard to walk the walk, talk the talk…I had failed. Now what? I asked, “So where is the crack?” All I could see in my mind was a building that was already standing. The foundation is at the very bottom. In order to get to that foundation, I have to go through a lot of bricks and mortar. But how can I get through all of that stuff without tearing the whole thing apart? I don’t know. So what do I have to do? I mean, I thought I was a spiritual giant. It really crushed me to realize there was more I needed to do. After all, you mean that kneeling before the cross is just the beginning? Nobody told me that turning to Jesus was going to be so hard. Could it be that it is hard because I don’t want to comply with the Holy Spirit?
So I began. The foundation evidently was Jesus Christ himself. I had missed it. I needed to get back to my “first love”… Jesus. I needed to turn off Christian TV, stop trying to run the church by myself and get back to just Jesus and the word of God. I was full of good works but I had missed Jesus while doing, doing, doing and watching, watching, watching. TV Evangelisim is good, don’t get me wrong. Thank God for it. There have been many times when I needed to hear exactly what was being said in order to enhance my walk with Christ but it cannot replace the living God. Do not forsake your Father in Heaven for a TV program. There is nothing like spending time with the Father. NOTHING replaces it. NOTHING.
This spring let the Holy Spirit help give you a foundational check up. That is His job. That is what HE wants to do. He is here to :
Train You
Enable You to do God’s will
= *TEACH
Assure You that everything is going to be alright
Comfort You when you need it.
Help You with anything in rebuilding your life.
God promises, that as His children you will hear a voice behind you saying, “Go to the right or to the left.” Do you feel like your walk with Christ is missing something? Do you feel like you need a once over to make sure everything is as it should be? Let the Holy Spirit give you a foundational checkup this spring. Maybe you too, need some repair work before entering the months ahead. Don’t be just a white washed tomb that looks pretty and gives lip service. Really spring forward this year into what God wants for you….from the inside out.
Molly
*Courtney McBath
2008, Molly Painter Ministries, Inc.