Moses the Master and the Manchild by Kelley Varner

Author:Kelley Varner [Varner, Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:58:54+00:00

Chapter Five

Sing, O Barren

Is. 54:1, KJV

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child...

Every 2,000 years, God has a "son."

Each is God's chosen deliverer. Each is challenged by God's chosen adversary. Each experiences the Passover, God's chosen season. Each receives God's chosen transfer of health, wealth, and favored blessings.

Moreover, each "son" is birthed out of barrenness.

Moses appeared after four barren centuries of captivity and slavery. Jesus was generated from the epitome of a barren womb—the virgin womb of Mary! The Manchild, the mature Church, is about to be manifested out from many empty, frustrating years of seeming barrenness.

Before there can be a birth, of necessity there must be a union. Then out of that spiritual union will come forth the son of promise. The corporate man will come forth amidst great pain and suffering. But out of that suffering a song is created whose melody will fill the earth.

Secrets of Union1

Union with God is not a philosophic theory or a pursuit of religious experiences. It is nothing less than the union of man's spirit with the God of the Universe.

The spiritual experiences of man are only the "raw material" that awakens a love and a longing for Him. Man is easily mesmerized with these encounters, and the temptation is to camp around these spiritual sightings.

Union is that perfect and self-forgetting harmony of the regenerate will of man with his God. It makes the soul of man become to the Eternal God what the hand is to the body. Inflamed by a childlike, fiery love, we no longer are concerned with our own selfish interests. We seek solely the honor and glory of our Father. Union with God means that all of the stirrings of the heart are beating in a synchronous movement with the rhythm of the divine.

The supreme summit of this union is not an achieved condition of stillness, nor a blank absorption in the absolute. Rather it is a life so rich and so abundant that it requires for its expression the extremes of activity and rest, pouring itself out in generous acts of charity to all and yet inwardly abiding in unbroken rest. This union can only be discovered in the third room of the House of God, the Most Holy Place, the loving room.

You will ask, then—how, since His track is traceless, can I know that He is present? The answer is that He is living and full of energy, and as soon as He has entered me, He quickens my sleeping soul. He begins to pluck up and destroy, plant and build, to water the dry places, light up the dark places, throw open what was shut, inflame with warmth what was cold, straighten the crooked path, and make rough places smooth. I can feel His movements within me calling me towards a holy marriage where my life is consumed in Him.

In the reformation and renewal of the spirit of my mind—that is, my inward man—I have seen something of the loveliness of His beauty.

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