God engages our lives in whatever state we are in. The lie of this age is that we can somehow improve ourselves into people of perfect character. We adopt slogans. We sing the latest praise songs. We dress a certain way, speak a certain way, act a certain way, thinking that this makes us spiritual.
True spirituality comes when we are just ourselves with the Lord. That's when we allow God to do His work in our lives.
Do you feel disturbed that you are no longer the agent of change in your life? Maybe that's why your Christian walk has a hollow ring to it. Do you find yourself driven to be better, and then judging others around you to also better?
So what's true spirituality? It's simply being you and looking at Jesus. He changes us and our situations.
God's name is YHVH. The Hand (Yud) - Behold (Hei)- The nail (Vav) – Behold (Hei). His name tells us to what to behold. Not our failures. Not our weaknesses.
Hei represents the breath of God. Hei is the fifth letter in the Hebrew alphabet. Five is the number of Grace. Hei is also a pictogram of a window in Hebrew. Jewish Rabbinical scholars tell us that Hei represents light, and the ruach or breath of God. Hence it represents the Spirit of God that causes us to ‘Behold’.
The Hei represents the agency whereby which the hand and the nail are revealed.
He is the Holy Spirit: the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation--the Spirit of Grace. God's name is a picture, a picture of love, a picture of grace, and only the humble can accept this grace. For they that are strong in themselves cannot receive this grace.
We have heard many people say that if we want the help of God, then we should at least do something. But the Bible tells us that His strength is made perfect--or reaches its full effect--in our weakness. Actually God's strength is ineffectual when we are strong in ourselves.
For those who receive this grace, the grace given by what Jesus purchased for us on the cross, the Spirit of Revelation, the Hei, begins to reveal the hand and the nail and all it purchased for us. That's salvation and all it's benefits--that includes healing, deliverance, righteousness, answered prayer.
But the Hei is also the Spirit of Wisdom. The Holy Spirit will daily guide us how to appropriate the benefits of what Jesus has purchased for us! The Holy Spirit dispenses both Revelation AND Wisdom!
Together they shine the light of the Lord in our hearts!
15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,
16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father,
may give you the Spirit[a] of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.
Eph 1: 15 -23 (NIV)
So begin walking in the light of the Lord. Begin walking in the revelation of what Jesus has purchased for you on the cross. Do you only see your challenges? Don't walk in darkness. See also what the hand and the nail has purchased for you. Listen to the voice of the Lord in your heart and the wisdom he whispers to you.
