Servant walked into the house of God, took a seat and waited. Soon someone said the Lord had been invited to come and all could seek him...face to face. Wow...Moses did that! Servant had been there many times before, and had been seeking another encounter. Somehow today seemed like the right day...and then, it started to rain...it rained buckets full, drenching the ground and forming huge puddles that more resembled small rivers. All the servants had gathered to see the Lord and were faced first with proceeding through the downpour from heaven to find him. That's OK. Many servants before had faced far greater perils. It wasn't the Red Sea, and it wasn't a flood. However, servant reflected how many often let the rain keep them from meeting with the Lord. Servant had even been tempted a time or too, truth be known, to just stay in and dry and never mind. The Lord would be there again...he always was. He even made house calls, but he was so much happier when servants sought him out, for it showed that they were willing servants not fearful slaves.
Soon there was music and the sound of many voices praising God. Although familiar, something was a little different. Then servant realized it was that awesome "presence" of the Lord's spirit...it was pouring out all over the servants, not unlike the drenching rain outside. Why, it was that Pentecost feeling that comes when the servants hearts have opened fully to the Lord. Nothing has ever matched that feeling or ever will, this side of heaven. This is when the Lord brings his gifts and hands them out...a vision here, and an answer there, some encouragement for the sick and sorrowful, and most exciting of all...joy & peace...unspeakable joy & peace! Servants were seen with huge tears of thankfulness running across their faces. For joy & peace were sometimes difficult to find on the journey they were on. It was only ultimately found there...with the Father.
Servant looked at an image in the front that was just blue color but the Lord gently seemed to form it into the picture of a baby growing in the mother's womb. "Wow", servant thought. "That's like all of us. We are all growing deeper in relationship with the Father, just as a baby grows closer to it's mother." It was then that servant glanced at the cross that stood before the group. It seemed to have fine diagonal lines running behind it. "That's odd" the servant pondered. "What does it mean I wonder? Does anyone else see it?" Swiftly the answer came...straight out of heaven it seemed. "Those are the paths of my children, criss-crossing all over the world. Some of them are a bit closer to me than others, some drift off, but they are all trying their best to do what I have asked of them."
"What do you want of me right now?" servant asked. When the answer came servant was surprised because it seemed too easy. It was simple..."rest, reflect, and rejoice." The Lord said that was sometimes as important as doing much. A lady named Martha had once learned that. While all this was going on many others were having some face to face encounters themselves. The songs had faded into quietness and were now resuming, first quietly and then so much more enthusiastically. As always, as people lifted their hands to God, clapped, and even began to dance like David and jump a bit like there was a King in the room (there was, and he was their Daddy)servant smiled and reflected..."this is what heaven will be like...we will skip along the golden road to meet our Lord, every day, all day. Those sports enthusiasts here on earth are getting all warmed up for the end of the journey. I hope they all meet Father before it is too late."
As servant went out of the house of the Lord there was a freshness in the air, like often there is after a soaking rain. There was also a freshness in servant's spirit from the soaking rain inside...the rain of the spirit. As the spirit of the Lord lingered, servant wished it to never leave or be far away. We were in a sun-parched land and he brought us living water. Servant went home with a song in the heart and that feeling that only comes when you have been face to face with a King.
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