Are these not the last days? Acts 2:17-22

Last night I was more restless than usual. What does Papa have in store? There is too much I could focus on. What books to read first? What direction to move towards? Oikos to invest in? 

Many opportunities are available in my time on earth...well with the time that is left anyways. Tomorrow we are not even guaranteed a breath! 

Each day is a blessing from above.

Each day an opportunity to praise Him.

Each breath a gift from the Father.

📜 Psalm 118:24 ESV

 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

📜 Lamentations 3:22-23

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

📜 Job 12:10 

In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

📜 James 4:13-17 ESV

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

🤔 How to hear? How to listen?

📜 Joel 2:28

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions."

👉 Each night too is an opportunity given to me thought I am just a stick figure drawn in the sands of time.

📜 Job 33:14-15

"For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds."

🧠 I seek His will. It is the still and quiet voice. For me it seems often in the night. My mind is so active and distracted in the day.

📜 1 Kings 19:11-12:

“And he said, ‘Go out and stand on the mount before the Lord.’ And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. And after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.”

🙏 I had prayed that the Lord provide direction. Or affirmation. Or encouragement. What to focus on, to read or reflect upon.

So I awoke like I have before in the night to strong words and with words of conviction reverberating: "It all points to Jesus! Read the book of Craig."  (The Book of Craig: A Man Who Has Spent Two Years Continually with the Lord Jesus Christ, and His Visible Presence, from 2002 to 2004)

🤔 His writings seem to point to Jesus? Certainly not the typical library book. Something I purchased impulsively at the nudging of the Holy Spirit. How did I stumble across it? The tingling blanket enveloped me as it read me? Like when you caught a sideways glance as you walk away from a mirror. Something there but not all clear. Several months ago now; October 6th 2024. The excerpt I read mirrored my own experiences... Will more of what this man experienced will resonate? I have hesitanted because I do not know it the writings are biblical or heretic... I need discernment in the truth. 

But to discern anything at all - I must read it. 

The dream that followed my awakening in the night:

I was up in the boundary waters or a similar landscape. Lakes connecting one another. I traveled between them. Crystal clear and still water - I could see the fish in the moonlight and the green aquatic landscape filled with life all around under the waters surface. Each night, I would spend underwater: in a marvelous watercraft with all the bells and whistles. Black interior. A big clear bubble sub with a recliner and 360 degree view all around; seeing above and below. "camping underwater" in the safety of this craft; a safer alternative to camping on land. An aquatic version of a tent and a place to spend the night. 

In the day I referenced maps of the lakes spread on a table and studied them but not for long. No particular destination? Hard to tell. It was a family trip. This I could tell - I had some sort of company during the day but solitude at night.

Time and place jump. I dound myself to be filling up a glass of milk. Meandered past the coming and going of people while in the camps building. Moved past the hallway where the Park Ranger sat at the desk before night fell again.

💤 

As newborn babes:

📜 1 Peter 2:1-3 NASB2020

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 

🤔 So I will drink that cold glass of milk. Tastes best before bed. It is a stand alone kind of snack.

"Important to support the dairy farmers!" as Dad always says. Love you Dad. I feel so blessed to be your son... one of the best things that's happened to ME.