Knowing Jesus|More No. 6

KNOWING JESUS|More MAGAZINE 2019

Secret Wisdom

HIS NAME IS WRITTEN UPON OUR SOUL

COUNTERFEIT TREASURE

Discovering DISCOVERING Hidden Treasure HIDDEN TREASURE SECRET WISDOM, WHICH NO EYE HAS SEEN, NOR EAR HAS HEARD, AND YET…

BEHOLD, YOU DELIGHT IN TRUTH IN THE INWARD BEING, AND YOU TEACH ME WISDOM IN THE SECRET HEART. -PSALMS 51:6

It

is too easy to live our lives here on

earth after our own pleasure and our own desires, thinking we know it all. Although we might go to Church and try to live a good life, we will find our lives are not truly satisfying.

The Lord has created us that we might have a hole in our souls that we might seek for something to satisfy. Nevertheless, only One can truly satisfy and we can never truly be satisfied until we find it.

“SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN JEWELS, AND NOTHING YOU DESIRE CAN COMPARE WITH HER.” PROVERBS 3:15

with all of our hearts? It is hidden, that only those who are deliberately seeking in desperation, might find. It is only those who are hungry who can be filled. Our God hides Himself for a reason. He is in control and longs for us to find Him, rather than going to church to ease our conscience, He wants us to know Him intimately.

“TRULY, YOU ARE A GOD WHO HIDES HIMSELF, O GOD OF ISRAEL, THE SAVIOR.” ISAIAH 45:15

There is Someone who is more precious than anything in this world, a treasure which only few find, if they are willing to seek for it, with their whole hearts.

Our Saviour, Father, Creator, Almighty God, hides Himself, that He might see HOW MUCH WE TRULY LONG to FIND Him. Will we give up if we cannot find Him or will we treat Him as though He is precious treasure? Are we seeking Him that much, or do we give up after ten times searching as though He, the Creator of the Universe, was simply a lost coin?

Are we ready to seek for this Hidden Treasure

Will we seek Him in desperation? What are we

doing in the secret moments? Where does our mind go when the pressure is off? What do we think about when we first awake in the morning? Do we find ourselves hungering for the Only One who can truly satisfy? We must be honest. He delights in truth in the inward being, we can confess our apathy towards Him and ask Him to change our hearts. If we are truthful with Him and ourselves, seeking Him in desperation and in truth, we will find He will fulfill His promise. He will teach us wisdom in the secret heart.

If we are His children, His bride, we come into the light, all that has been done, has been done of Him. He is our precious treasure, He is the wisdom which was hidden for long ages past. It has now been revealed to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. He wants us to know Him in our innermost beings, that we might find those rivers of life overflowing from deep within. If we seek the things above, for if we are Christ’s, we have died, our lives are HIDDEN with Him.

He longs for us to 100% sold out for Him alone. He is our bridegroom, do we long to please Him as our First Love?

MY BELOVED SPEAKS AND SAYS TO ME: “ARISE, MY LOVE, MY BEAUTIFUL ONE, AND COME AWAY, FOR BEHOLD, THE WINTER IS PAST; THE RAIN IS OVER AND GONE. THE FLOWERS APPEAR ON THE EARTH, THE TIME OF SINGING HAS COME, AND THE VOICE OF THE TURTLEDOVE IS HEARD IN OUR LAND. SONG OF SOLOMON 2:10-12 The Father must reveal to each of our hearts of His love, He is the One who calls us. He is the One who gives the desire for us to seek Him. He is calling for us to come away, yet are we willing, are we done with our selfish

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revealed TO US THROUGH THE Spir!. FOR THE SPIRIT searches every"ing, EVEN THE dep"s OF GOD. THESE THINGS GOD HAS

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pursuits, done with this world and its pleasures? The things here will never satisfy.

Oh taste and see, the Lord IS good.

MY SON, IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS AND TREASURE UP MY COMMANDMENTS WITH YOU, MAKING YOUR EAR ATTENTIVE TO WISDOM AND INCLINING YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTANDING; YES, IF YOU CALL OUT FOR INSIGHT AND RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR UNDERSTANDING, IF YOU SEEK IT LIKE SILVER AND SEARCH FOR IT AS FOR HIDDEN TREASURES, THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF THE LORD AND FIND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.

FOR THE LORD GIVES WISDOM; FROM HIS MOUTH COME KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING; HE STORES UP SOUND WISDOM FOR THE UPRIGHT; HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE WHO WALK IN INTEGRITY, GUARDING THE PATHS OF JUSTICE AND WATCHING OVER THE WAY OF HIS SAINTS. PROVERBS 2:1-8 If we long for wisdom, if we ask Him and truly believe He will give it to us without doubting, we will receive the pure wisdom from above.

This wisdom allows us to discern with love, to be wise with the Father’s wisdom, rather than worldly wisdom which is self seeking. {Jms.4} The Father reveals true wisdom to those who are hungry, to those who are simple, like little children {Matt. 11:15} He hides Himself from the “wise”, for they think they have all they need. He allows suffering and difficulties that we might reach out and touch Him when we come to the end of ourselves and trying to figure out by our own wisdom and ideas. He will satisfy, He is God, who does not lie.

How can we go on our lives, seeking for that which does not truly satisfy? How can we go on living our lives here, trying to be better than everyone else? God looks at the heart, not at the outward. He desires truth in our innermost being. He desires for us to meet Him there, in secret, storing up treasures with Him, where no one else can see. It is here where we can truly find contentment. In the secret place, hidden with Christ, we will find true joy, we will find rich fellowship with Him despite the storm raging on about us. Knowing Him in every trial, storing up these moments, we will find our heart no longer belongs to this earth. Although we may live in this world, we will find we are hidden in

Christ, we are safe with Him as He reveals His love despite the difficulty and He who gives perfect peace will enable us to look to Him in every storm, to the eternal things rather than the raging waves around us.

We can put on a good image to everyone else around us. Perhaps we seem as those who already “have it all together”, yet deep down we know it is different. Although we can fool others, we cannot fool God. He knows our hearts, He sees where our thoughts go when the pressure is off. He sees our struggles and temptations when no one else is around. If we are living our lives trying to figure them out on our own, without God, nor seeking Him in desperation, how can we truly know Him? He wants us to know Him in every situation. He longs to fill our whole hearts, He doesn’t want

CALL TO ME AND I WILL ANSWER YOU, AND WILL TELL YOU GREAT AND HIDDEN THINGS THAT YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN. JEREMIAH 33:3 to be added to everything else we have in our lives. He is a jealous God, who longs for us to see how deep His love is for us. {Jm 4:1-5} Are we treading our loving Father as our most prized possession? There is nothing else on earth that we can compare, no jewel, no treasure that could ever come close in comparison to Him. He is worthy of it all, yet we often rise each morning with our own agenda, leaving Him for “Devotions�, for a few minutes in the morning or the evening.

Perhaps a few prayers will get in there before meals or when we want Him to fix our problems, but is this really treating Him as our most prized possession? God has given us many precious promises, are we seeing them being fulfilled in our lives? These are areas no one else sees, we must know Him in our innermost being. It is there He has

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promised we can have Rivers of Living Water flowing. Are we experiencing this life?

Even more so, are we seeking our Father to live this kind of life.

Will we seek for Him, this Precious Hidden Treasure, who hides Himself that we might let go of everything we are holding onto in this world that we might find Him, and Him alone? Will we desire to let everything else slip away from our hands that He might become the Only One? To desire only to please Him, living a life which no one else may see, in secret with Him ALONE? Will we long to hear His voice, leading us in the way to go, even thought it seems impossible?

With men, this is impossible. But not with God, for with God all things are possible.

SMILES OF INNOCENCE

Smiles of Innocence

Satan smiles at me with innocence

Like a salesman profession

A mask is the prettiest thing, isn't it?

I don't see death quite so plainly

You never put poison in something

I can't see the skulls peeking out

someone wouldn't eat

From behind those ads of what I could have

You never seem suspicious when you're

And I know I've read the warning signs so

trying to cheat

many times

Satan keeps the magicians code

Yet, I feel tempted to be aimless

And never tells the secrets of deception

Looking at what they warn me of,

But he puts on quite the show

The places seem harmless

And he panders and sells

From a distance they're not charmless,

Do I not smile with innocence?

I dream of satisfaction not imprisonment I see fruit that's desirable

q And today I saw Satan smile at me with innocence I don't know how he did itthe devil that he is But as I look at the warning signs They remind me of all the times Why, they seem to smile at you with

I got lost in the same places

innocence If I were right for once- how good it would be To judge correctly for once,

q To perceive on my own- haven't I've always known That it's in me,

THE PLACES SEEM

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distance THEY’RE NOT CHARMLESS

WHY THEY SEEM TO smile AT YOU WITH Innocence

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BUT THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, “DO NOT LOOK ON HIS

appearance OR ON THE HEIGHT OF HIS STATURE, BECAUSE

I have rejected him.

Lord sees NOT AS MAN SEES: MAN LOOKS on THE o#ward appearance, BUT THE LORD LOOKS ON THE FOR THE

heart.”

I KNOW I STAND IN

DISCERN THE

q And counted the cost for the same embraces Though I've momentarily forgotten what shame is I'm reminded of what his game is I've been given the wisdom to know how he twists Its all in that lip curl, to make a smile of innocence

But I know, I stand in righteousness Stop a moment- not to listen to his talk But to discern the difference Of looking innocent And being sinless

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