Hidden in Skin ~ In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word became flesh… John 1
Oh! The Word became FLESH.
My eyes devour the Scripture and my soul stirs within me. It burns, it moves and it breathes as it delights in the fragrance of TRUTH. With my own eyes I look and I see, but in my soul I feel Him stirring and inhaling. He is ingesting the TREASURE, the GIFT that He gave to us (His children) so that we could survive in this dying world. He breathed into our atmosphere and He loves the TRUTH that was released from the center of His own heart.
I think about Jesus. He is the Word in flesh. In the fibers of His skin the Scripture was woven. It held Him together and it led Him in perfect TRUTH. I can see the Spirit of God hovering over Jesus with adoration and fascination as He watches the WORD breathe and move with authority to exact justice on the Earth. No longer was the Word bound within a scroll, or gripped in the hand of a priest, but it was walking and breathing. It was moving and healing. It was looking and smelling.
The WORD was ALIVE. Skin contained the fullness of God and the fullness of His message. He walked among people and looked them in the eye. He explored the death and the limitations that were binding His creation. He understood pain and defied the lusts that opened the doors to destruction.
Jesus, the LIVING WORD, what majestic power and grace.
Obsession for the Son lived in the Heart of God because He contained the Fullness of God’s Message, and He lived it. HE walked it out. Justice flowed from His heart and left His mouth causing demons to flee and death to lose its grip. The Law arrived and destroyed religion. A plumb line fell into the Earth. He was a LIGHT in the darkness and the darkness could not comprehend Him (John 1:5). Opening blind eyes, He shut the ones that said they could see. He flipped our expectations for punishment and gave us GRACE.
God walked around the Earth, hiding inside of skin and He touched His children. He cried out from His hiding place and exposed the intentions of His heart…
“How often I have longed to gather you together as a hen protects her chicks but you wouldn’t let me!” Matthew 23:37.
The TRUTH, the WORD, the MESSAGE, the full character of the Living God was imbedded in the skin of a man and it LIVED. It spoke, it cried and it reached out to grab the lost and forgotten. The One who uses the Earth as a footstool entered into a cloak of skin and looked through eyes like windows. He listened and answered questions. He hid in the crowds and cried out, “All who have ears let him hear!”
If we would just look at this sweet Jesus, we would see who it is that longs to hold us. We would see the answer to our faults as we realize that He was killed for defending prostitutes– He was killed because He admitted He was God and then He forgave sins. We would see that His anger was spilled from His heart in the Temple as He rebuked the chains of religion. We would see that He didn’t own anything because He was so obsessed with collecting the lost, the ugliest, the dirtiest… His inheritance.
Jesus, is the WORD. God hovered over Him in fascination as He watched His own heart and mind expressed with absolute purity. Not a single fault polluted this Man as His OBEDIENCE opened a door to funnel ALL of what God wanted to say.
Finally the Word of God walked the Earth and corrected every misunderstanding. Jesus… GOD in flesh.
Now as I sit in my mind I feel obsession groaning in my soul as it craves this WORD. It is the fullness of Jesus that speaks to me as I read. I see the heart of God and I love His language. I feel Him breathing inside of me as I hold my breath in fascination.
Let these WORDS decorate my life like diamonds and gold. Only He can satisfy! I will eat these Words. Let me disappear as they overlay me with TRUTH.
I will be plowed under by His glory as the simplicity of His love shatters my mind. Hold me God. Enter my mind and think on my behalf. Jesus look through my eyes. See through me and speak to the ones that You are reaching for. I will hide under Your wing and testify of the living God.
Now, we have the SPIRIT OF GOD living in ALL who would BELIEVE. Jesus, thank you for leaving this Earth to sit in authority next to the FATHER. Thank you for sending Your endless SPIRIT. Let it take up residence in my skin. Let it have full reign and absolute ACCESS. Let OBEDIENCE enter my life and open a DOOR for You to be RELEASED. RETRIEVE YOUR BELOVED through my broken heart. SPEAK! Speak through me. Let these WORDS fill my mind and repeat like an old song. ARISE O GOD and SHINE. Arise and so will I.
Let us obsess over JESUS, for HE is truly beautiful as HE is the expression of the Father’s heart.
(shred of my journal)
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