Open-mouthed

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I wasn't even looking for you. I didn't know you existed. I am beginning a new prophetic banner for Song 1:3 that will include 18 of the Godhead's most commonly known names and was doing research to anchor my design in reality and deliver it from romanticism when, suddenly, there you were challenging my culturally inherited concepts of Scripture's overall design and structure and at the same time rewarding my sense (always!) that there "has to be more" than even Bible College taught me.

I don't believe for one moment that any one (hu)man's mind can comprehend or explain all that can be known about a subject as fathomless as the Word of God anymore than I can believe that any one man can comprehensively explain even one doctrine, one aspect of God, or the theology of even one whole book of canon, and even if I am completely wrong, I know "genosko"ly that these tasks cannot be credibly achieved without the direction of the Holy SPirit. I don't believe any one (hu)man was even intended to do so, with the exception of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and we're about 2,000 years too late to ask the expert.

As open-minded as my suspicious character compels me to be, however, I am also just as suspicious when I find someone unexpectedly publishing something I've never heard before, for false prophets are everywhere. Enter the Holy Spirit, who promised to "teach us all things," but on a personal level, an immediate level, a realistically useful level...

I will admit that the "suddenly" of discovering your website works in your favor, for I know God to be a God of "suddenlies" and Scripture is replete with story after story wherein He "suddenly" did numerous works with no apparent angst over man's resultant, overwhelmed faculties. Having counted one vote in your favor, I was then bold enough to just do the obvious and pray, for my God always tells me the truth. Always. Without exception. He may not always tell me everything there is to know about a subject, but what He does tell me is always the truth, no matter how many doubts that truth raises in my peers and no matter how much flak rains my way for refusing to capitulate on what I believe is my new knowledge. So I did pray. The Holy Spirit has confirmed your work in my own spirit.

Enough said.

You could not have realized this level of visionary truth unless the same Spirit revealed it to you; I'm just writing to say thank you for being another one of those seekers for whom man's boundaries on his cumulative contribution to the body of scholarly theological knowledge is just as immaterial - not to what is, for what is certainly has credible foundations for the most part - but, to what will be... If what can be known will only be known fully in heaven, then it begs admission that we're not through with the task of knowledge down here on earth.

To use a favorite metaphor: I believe that spiritual life is a personal scavenger hunt of sorts and all sorts of theological treasures have been buried by God for each and every one of us somewhere along the many paths and detours we are each called to follow as we each climb, if we elect to do so, our own Mt. Zion in our uniquely individualized pursuit of God. Rhema words comprise some of those treasures. Visions do, too. Specific injunctions from God to test our obedience are also included as no-pass-otherwise thresholds from one altitude and terrain to the next. Deliverances of all kinds and degrees are on the list as well as gift after gift of the Spirit. Life lessons, rewards, answered prayer, needy sojourners, faith fertilizers, traumatic injuries/illnesses, catastrophic occurrences and at times, mysteriously arranged grains of corn found along the way to make sure we continue to find our way also act as clues on our Great Race to the Finish Line at the summit of the mountain.

Once in a while, however, God just grins and says, "Here's a freebie. Enjoy!" By the time you have, you notice the terrain has changed and you are miles further up the mountain than you were before God grinned and the suddenly happened.

Thank you for a temporarily turbo-charged ascent. Even more exciting than stumbling into your mental/spiritual oasis? The realization that God always is a builder... more is coming, for not even you got the whole and only picture. Hope to meet you in heaven one day, but I couldn't tell you what I'll look like. Don't get complacent before then...

Marian

[Rose]

Hi Marian,

Welcome to our Forum....

Thank you for sharing your experience of "discovery" on finding the Bible Wheel. I can assure you there will be many more such "suddenlies" in your climb to the summit....as God's treasures are endless.

Each time I discover a new treasure my joy is just as fresh as the first time, it is like picking a fresh piece of fruit, it tastes just as delicious each time it's eaten....and God's living Word just keeps producing fruit.

I hope you sign up here and continue to share your experiences with our Forum Family.

Rose