Walden Pond is frozen over this evening and by tomorrow night it will be covered with more than two feet of snow. We are in for a big one. Weathermen are using the “Blizzard” word. Tomorrow will be a different kind of day than when Henry David Thoreau drifted across Walden’s gentle waters and opined, “Sometimes as I drift idly on Walden Pond, I cease to live and begin to be.”
It is such a satisfying experience to have a mystical moment when we experience knowing that we are not just an entity but part of something much larger and more meaningful than merely our own body. To exit now and become, even for a moment, part of eternity is more pleasurable than a banquet of the finest food.
“It was at this time that He (Jesus) went off to the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.” Luke 6:12. These were not times of going through a prayer list. They were times of being. Such experiences are the rarest of joys we can experience. These are the times when we are lifted out of our human shell and know we are part of something much grander. They are a taste of citizenship in our Father’s Kingdom. They are epiphanies of light, wisdom and rapture.
When we accept Jesus as our Savior and become one with Him we become part of something so much bigger than our worldly achievements. Jesus experienced nothing that is withheld from us. We are co-heirs with Him. (Romans 8) “The glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27. Heaven is not indulgence in things. It is union with glory.
Written by Roger Bothwell on February 8, 2013
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