NO WALLS

     There is a place to be pursued that will utterly transform our encounter and relationship with God the Father. And that place is when we arrive at a position where there are absolutely NO WALLS between us and our Father. However, as with all things kingdom-related, arriving at such a station doesn’t just happen by itself or happenstance. For every reward, there is an asking price — but as with all things heaven-sent and of God, the cost is delightfully always worth it.

     We all know what the saying means to “hit a wall”. And often times, these walls are where we stay - treading water indefinitely. But when it comes to hitting a wall with our relationship of love with God and our neighbour (Matthew 22:37-40), God has called us all to a relationship standard that dynamically and incrementally moves “from glory to glory.” “And we all having been unveiled in face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18). For just like a river finds its way around and through every obstacle, as rivers of the living water of God (John 7:38), we are likewise required to break through every wall. So that the living water may flow from glory to glory.

     This step-shift transformation “from glory to glory” requires us to confront EVERY WALL that stands between us and deeper intimacy and fellowship with God. Much the same way that God confronted the walls of Jericho. So that He may capture the gold and silver within. And just as with Jericho, these walls between us and our Father are walls that will be removed by HIS hands. “The LORD will perfect that which concerns me; Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.”‭ ‭(Psalms‬ ‭138:8‬).

     When God takes us through a wall, we are changed. Like a diamond being purified of all its flaws and blemishes. So that we may reflect His light purely, without flaw, without refraction. Which is a priceless and very rare diamond. And these walls can be our outer circumstances, sin or our inner soul walls that keep us all at arms length from true intimacy and fellowship with God. But for every incremental gain in intimacy, fellowship and communion with our Father, yet another wall is first required to be removed. Which, ultimately, is to arrive at a greater and greater level of brokenness — which effectively speaks of the asking price. For is it not written: “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17). And is it not unto these that the LORD looks? “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to THIS ONE I WILL LOOK, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.” (Isaiah 66:2).

     For the best place any of us can be is when there are absolutely NO WALLS between us and our Father. Which, therefore, speaks of a “COMPLETE BROKENNESS” before the Father. Which is that place that many run from — which is the very end of themselves. But it is at the complete end and extremity of ourselves where we most powerfully encounter the undiluted and overwhelming love of God. And the reward is truly always SO very worth it.

     For with every “ask”, there is a reciprocal “reward”. Where the ask is “total surrender”, the reciprocal reward is “total transformation”. Where the ask is “total abandonment”, the reciprocal reward is “total freedom”. Where the ask is “total dependency”, the reciprocal reward is a “complete Father.” Which is a step-shift transformation from glory to glory that “lives and moves and has it being” in lockstep with our level of brokenness, and with how many walls we allow the gentle hammer of His love to break. “And it will be said, "Build up, build up, prepare the way, Remove EVERY OBSTACLE out of the way of My people." (Isaiah 57:14).

And the only obstacle is ourselves.

     But know this, for every wound that His love may inflict, that on the other side of that broken wall: “The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.” (Isaiah 30:26).

     For ours is truly a Father who forever delights in healing the broken-hearted and binding up their wounds (Psalm 147:3). For He is a Father of the fatherless and a protector of widows, is our wonderful God in His holy habitation (Psalm 68:5).