The Day of New Beginnings

Who Is So Blind But My Servant

 

As God leads us progressively out of what we have called the church age and into the Lordship of His kingdom, one thing is inevitable. At some point God will dry up all that has been sacred and dear in preparation to know Him on a higher level. The realm of spirit becomes totally abstract with no rhyme or reason, totally foreign to the natural senses and soul realm of relating to God. As God takes us deeper into this realm we will increasingly feel a loss of control with no grip on where we are or where God is leading us. It parallels what God told the children of Israel when He was leading them into the Promised Land.

Jos. 2:

2  At the end of three days the officers went through the midst of the camp;

3  and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God with the Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set out from your place and go after it.

4  "However, there shall be between you and it a distance of about 2,000 cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you shall go, for you have not passed this way before."

In days past there was a sense of where God was leading; we had a grip on what was happening spiritually. Progress was measured by looking to the past. We maintained a measure of control over our lives. In this new day God is opening, however, the one axiom is this: If we feel we have our teeth into where He is leading us, if we feel we “have it down”, it’s a sure sign we have fallen back to a lesser realm. Those feelings belong to the realm of soulish control and God is shattering that realm completely.

If this is all so, the questions arise: “What’s the point of it all if we never know exactly what is going on or where He is leading us? How are we supposed to abide and walk with God when we never know what is going on? How are we supposed to minister if all things are being made new and there’s nothing to be confident in? What about the feelings of not being able to really possess anything?

All these are valid questions that I have asked a thousand times myself. But here’s the thing: God’s goal is to bring us into a total dependence upon Himself. This doesn’t happen as long as we have a yardstick by which we can measure things.. Our progress and forward motion is to be what God says it is, not what we ascertain. Those Israelites under Joshua had no way of knowing how much progress they were making or whether they were near or far from their goal. They only knew the Lord’s leading and direction as they followed the Ark.

Isa. 42:

9  Who is blind but My servant, Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me, Or so blind as the servant of the LORD?

This verse reveals to us this level of spirit God is opening. On a mystical plane it points to Christ. Who is the Messenger of the Covenant Malachi 3:1 speaks of? Ultimately, who is the servant of the Lord? We could ask, “But didn’t Christ see and know all things?” No! Let’s read John 5:19:Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” And John 8:28: So Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me.”

In our identification with Christ we too must come to the place where we are blind and deaf except to what we hear and see in God. Jesus walked in perfect dependency upon the Father. Even in the natural He was dependent upon the Father for every need. Remember when it was necessary to pay the poll tax and Jesus instructed Peter to go down to the sea and take the first fish that came up? He did so and found a shekel in the fishes’ mouth to pay the tax. Jesus also testified, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Yes, there are spiritual overtones to that statement, but it was true in the natural as well.

We are to become blind and deaf as to the why’s and where’s of our life. It becomes enough to know He is leading us. That verse in Isaiah said, “Who is so blind as he that is at peace with Me?” True peace only comes from finally trusting the Lord. Those who are at peace have become blind and deaf to the demands of the Adamic nature to know and understand on its own. Our lives become His beyond what we have known and we trust Him on a level beyond what we have known. We stop trying to figure things out. Such is the way of life in the realm of spirit.