The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me. Psalm 16:6.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
A heart attuned to Me gives Me glory wherever you may be. It makes wherever you are a beautiful place of praise. It will change anywhere you go as you walk with Me.
“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, and it will be a memorial to the LORD, for an everlasting sign which will not be cut off.” Isaiah 55:13.
The Way. Jesus is the Way and He came to show you the way as your good Shepherd and great High Priest.
You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. Exodus 28:2.
Aaron as High Priest was a sign of the true One to come. And the same was true of his sons.
“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty. Exodus 28:40.
Those who were close to Me and ministered unto to Me had to be clothed in glory and beauty. And that is being clothed in Christ.
For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, “I will proclaim Your name to My brethren, in the midst of the congregation I will sing Your praise.” And again, “I will put My trust in Him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God has given Me.” Hebrews 2:11-13.
You walk the Way clothed in Christ. And He, who loves you, has released you from your sins by His blood and made you a kingdom, priests unto Me, My royal priesthood, a people set apart clothed in glory and beauty.
I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, so the Lord (Adonai) LORD (Yahavah) will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. Isaiah 61:10-11.
Jesus is beautiful. Good news of Salvation is beautiful indeed. The Way is beautiful. The Kingdom of Heaven is beautiful. Jesus makes you and your life beautiful now and forever. How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring the good news, glad tidings of Salvation!
In Him, you are again clothed in glory and majesty. In Him you are rescued from the power of darkness and clothed in My armor of light. In My light you see light. Beautiful indeed is your inheritance. You are joint heirs with Jesus and all I have is His. He has already died and I raised Him up and claimed His inheritance. And I raised you as one in Him. You have already received your beautiful inheritance and can enjoy the first fruits of it even now, I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in Heaven. Ephesians 1:3. It has pleased Me to give you, the little flock of Jesus, the Kingdom, because I have already given it to your good Shepherd and in Him equipped you with everything you need for a beautiful life inside and out. What is Mine is His and what is His is yours so you are with Me always in Him and all I have is thus yours. As He is so are you in this world. And He is an overcomer and so are you.
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33.
Jesus came to make your life beautiful. To make your life B.I.G., beautiful in God. So think B.I.G.
If you want a beautiful life, it starts with beautiful thoughts.
Lift your mind above where Jesus is seated at My right hand. And I have seated you there in Him. So lift your thoughts to where you are and stop looking back below into the dirt of idle, evil, earthly, devilish ways. Get rid of all malice, bitterness, grumbling, complaining, fearful, foolish, jealous, depressed, dark thoughts, and bring them all into the Light where they will change (metamorphosis) to Light. Light produces all goodness and beauty. I am Light. I am Love. Put your thoughts in My realm and be a citizen of My Kingdom, which is a Kingdom of righteousness (which produces right thoughts), peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
You may be asking how you can change your thoughts. Always look for your answers in My Word. I have given you the answer already: Philippians 4:6-8. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.”
In EVERYTHING hand it over to Me with THANKSGIVING (not grumbling) and then think about whatever is TRUE, HONORABLE, LOVELY, ANYTHING PRAISEWORTHY.
Come up Higher and I can talk with you and tell you of the things to come. Revelation 4:1.
Elevation leads to impartation.
Raise your thoughts to Me and I can communicate revelation to you.
Jesus (Yeshuah) is the Highest manifestation of My love. All creation speaks of My love and goodness—the heavens are telling of My glory—but Jesus (Salvation) is the beauty of My Holiness, My Love, My Goodness, My Presence and My Power.
I am Holy. And when you lift your mind to Me I make you holy. When you touch the Holy and the Holy One touches you, then you become holy. Cleansed by the Blood of My Son.
No one had ever seen Me but My Son revealed Me. He is in My bosom. In seeing Jesus, you see My heart. You know My purpose, My plans. You see Love in action.
No one knows Me but the Son and anyone to whom He reveals Me.
And no one knows the Son but Me and anyone to whom I reveal Him.
But I have revealed Him to all. I have bared My holy arm to all the nations and sown My Salvation to the ends of the earth.
I draw all men to My Son. And My Son reveals Me.
Remember when Judas (not Iscariot) said to Jesus, “Lord, what then has happened that You are going to disclose Yourself to us and not to the world?” Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.” John 14:23.
To know Me you must come to Me. And you only come to Me by lifting your thoughts to Me. It is only then I can speak with you.
I told Abraham to lift his eyes. Get your attention off just the earthly concerns for a while and lift them up to heavenly realities. The temporal will pass but the eternal NEVER changes. I have no shifting shadows in Me. I am Light.
But I hide Myself from those who have no desire for Me. I know your hearts. I tell you this. “Now when Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.” John 2:23-25. He knew their hearts were hardened against Him.
You cannot have fellowship with someone who has no interest in hearing what you have to say. You cannot have fellowship with someone who has hardened their heart to you. You cannot have fellowship with someone who is jealous of you or angry with you or fears you. Jesus told the disciples to leave a place like that and shake its dust from their feet. Do not yoke yourself with an unbeliever. You have really no ground for fellowship. Please read again 1 John 1 and I think you will understand. It is there John describes true fellowship with Me and one another. And the latter depends on the former. You can only have true fellowship with those who are in fellowship with Me.
Let Me first give you the Word itself and then talk with you about it:
“What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess (homologia in Greek) our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”
First, John gives testimony that he and his fellow apostles had actually seen with their eyes and touched with their hands the Word of Life. That the Word was manifested to them. In the Gospel of John, John, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, writes: “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14. So the believers who saw Him in the flesh are proclaiming to you the life eternal which was with Me and was manifested to you. And what they had seen and heard they have proclaimed to you so that you also may have fellowship with them and other believers. And if you recall Jesus the night before He died for you prayed to Me the following: “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:21-22. Being one is perfect fellowship.
John then explains that believers fellowship with the Father and with the Son, Jesus Christ, and these things he writes to you that his joy may be full. It is a joy to be able to share your fellowship with Me with others so that they too fellowship with Me and you in true unity. The first community of believers were so one that they sold all they had, donated it to the community to share, and lived in unity of purpose, prayer, and praise.
And then he tells you that I am light. There is no darkness in Me. He later tells you that I am love, which is in the light, love has no hate or evil in it.
Do you understand what comes next? You cannot have true fellowship with Me if you walk in darkness. Which has to do with your thoughts and what is in your heart. Do you see, you cannot walk in darkness, that is, mean thoughts and bitterness, and have fellowship with Me. If you do dwell on those things, we are not in the same realm. I cannot get through to reveal things to you then.
But if you walk in the LIGHT you have fellowship with ONE ANOTHER and the Blood of My Son Jesus cleanses you from every sin. Light produces every kind of goodness.
If you want a beautiful life, think beautiful thoughts.
However, if you do begin to dwell on the mean and idle thoughts that will present themselves in your mind throughout your present life do not say that you have no sin, that you are justified in thinking the evil against others and hating them because you see that they have caused you trials or abused you. If you do, then you are deceiving yourself and the truth is not in not in you. But if you will acknowledge that your thoughts are in darkness and are not right and agree (the word used here which is translated as “confess” has more meaning in the original inspired language of Greek, the word in Greek is “homologia” which means to speak the same, to agree) with Me that these thoughts are not righteous and are wrong according to My law of love, then I am faithful and righteous to forgive your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. I already imputed those thoughts, words and actions of yours that are sinful and unrighteous to Jesus and punished them in full so you are forgiven, but when you acknowledge these faults and deviations from the Truth (My Word) and agree with Me that you are wrong in them, then I can give you the grace to have the victory over these. One step towards Me in humility will give you grace upon grace without measure. I can pour My love into your heart and give you light to walk in truth. I can free you from those thoughts, but you must deny yourself and take up your cross every day in this to do so.
Please understand this—even though all your sins are already imputed to Christ and have been punished in full and forgiven forever, to walk in fellowship with Me, when you do wrong in thought, word or deed by not following My Word, acknowledge it, agree with Me. And do not deny it and say you did no wrong because you are righteous in Christ. Agree with Me that you did not walk in love, that your thoughts were wrong and your actions contrary to My Word and then I can cleanse you of it and help you to walk in love. I can give you grace when you humble yourself and are honest before Me about your innermost ways. And My grace is sufficient for you to give you victory in Christ Jesus. But I resist the proud.
And that is how you walk in truth and how the truth stays in you. That is how We stay in continuous fellowship.
And when you have harmed another by your words or actions, confess to him that you have wronged him and be reconciled, but only confess your thoughts to Me. Other people do not need to hear that you had a bad thought about them.
And you know the best way to train your thoughts? Think about what I have done for you in Jesus and proclaim it. Say that He is your healer, your provider, your righteousness and your good Shepherd. And declare yourself forgiven and beloved and under unclouded favor. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your mind above where I have blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies. And declare it.
I will never leave you or forsake you no matter what, but you will enjoy life so much more if you spend it in fellowship with Me. And I delight in having fellowship with you.
I love you and want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived, but you need to help Me in this. Do not let your hearts be troubled, malicious, or afraid. I have given you peace. And I have given you love. Rejoice and be thankful. And hand everything over to Me with thanksgiving and let it go. Even your bad, mean and ugly thoughts. Offer Me the beautiful thoughts of Jesus in place of your bad ones and ask Me to give you My thoughts. You will enjoy My thoughts. They are beautiful about you.
Let Me conclude with Colossians chapter 3 and I know you will understand:
Therefore, if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
Therefore, consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.
So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.