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Beloved, can’t you see this? Why have you gone aside after others? Can’t you see you are so hungry and so thirsty? You know your thirst, but you know not what will quench. You are filled with hunger, but you know not what will fulfill.
“For my people have committed two evils; they have for*saken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” —Jeremiah 2:13
Beloved, why have you run off to another besides Me? Why do you walk according to the flesh, and trust only the sight of your eyes? Rather, walk in the Spirit, and look according to faith. Dear one, do you not know that you are choosing out for yourself broken cisterns? The flesh is a leaky cup. If it came to pass that you had all that you ever desired and longed for in the flesh, yet without My Spirit, without Me, it would not satisfy. I alone am the real joy-giver.
“[T]he fruit of the Spirit is . . . joy,” —Galatians 5:22
Beloved, I am using the things of this world to teach you of Myself. It all comes back to Me in the end—have I not created all things for My pleasure? Though I may teach you of My wonderful love through others, know that it is only a shadow of My own love. They only show the shape, but it is not the very image of My glory. It is a mere outline, a silhouette.
I would have you to not only learn of Me, but to know Me. Beloved, how I am full of heaviness when I say: be not content with shadows. Why have your inward desires been cooled? Is it not because your heart is carnal, that you would be content with this world’s passing delights? Is it not because your heart is darkened, that you would be content with shadows? Truly, they are reflections of good things, very good things, divine things—yet they are but reflections. They are not the very image of My glory. When will you turn to behold Me? When will you stir yourself up to seek Me?
My little one, look at how I have shaped you: can you not see it? Poor child, how sin has darkened and blinded you, that you cannot so much as see the shape of your own heart! You cannot see the fashion of your soul. Beloved, I will have mercy, and I will tell you: you need Me. Trust Me when I say this: I have made all things, you do not need another thing. You need your Creator. You need Me.
Let Me live in you, and do not obstruct My love. I long to manifest and shine My loving-kindness in your heart. I will move you, and animate this glove of your soul. Let Me into your beautiful and special places, and I will stretch forth My hand, and exercise in this glove every finger, and move every part, and corner of your soul. Let Me move you, for all of these places that are within you are made for My own self: this is how I have designed you. Be not afraid, for we are a perfect fit.
“For my people have committed two evils; they have for*saken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” —Jeremiah 2:13
Beloved, why have you run off to another besides Me? Why do you walk according to the flesh, and trust only the sight of your eyes? Rather, walk in the Spirit, and look according to faith. Dear one, do you not know that you are choosing out for yourself broken cisterns? The flesh is a leaky cup. If it came to pass that you had all that you ever desired and longed for in the flesh, yet without My Spirit, without Me, it would not satisfy. I alone am the real joy-giver.
“[T]he fruit of the Spirit is . . . joy,” —Galatians 5:22
Beloved, I am using the things of this world to teach you of Myself. It all comes back to Me in the end—have I not created all things for My pleasure? Though I may teach you of My wonderful love through others, know that it is only a shadow of My own love. They only show the shape, but it is not the very image of My glory. It is a mere outline, a silhouette.
I would have you to not only learn of Me, but to know Me. Beloved, how I am full of heaviness when I say: be not content with shadows. Why have your inward desires been cooled? Is it not because your heart is carnal, that you would be content with this world’s passing delights? Is it not because your heart is darkened, that you would be content with shadows? Truly, they are reflections of good things, very good things, divine things—yet they are but reflections. They are not the very image of My glory. When will you turn to behold Me? When will you stir yourself up to seek Me?
My little one, look at how I have shaped you: can you not see it? Poor child, how sin has darkened and blinded you, that you cannot so much as see the shape of your own heart! You cannot see the fashion of your soul. Beloved, I will have mercy, and I will tell you: you need Me. Trust Me when I say this: I have made all things, you do not need another thing. You need your Creator. You need Me.
Let Me live in you, and do not obstruct My love. I long to manifest and shine My loving-kindness in your heart. I will move you, and animate this glove of your soul. Let Me into your beautiful and special places, and I will stretch forth My hand, and exercise in this glove every finger, and move every part, and corner of your soul. Let Me move you, for all of these places that are within you are made for My own self: this is how I have designed you. Be not afraid, for we are a perfect fit.