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****** There was a great light and a sudden numbness, then everything went dark and silent. The light reappeared in the distance of the darkness, looking like a pin head, but approaching rapidly. And then I was there, and I was being judged on my actions, and in actions as well as my intentions. Where I had done well and God was pleased , I was commended for being a good and faithful servant, where I fell short of God's glory, I was given grace by that precious blood which made me clean. I went to my place prepared for me and it was as I always imagined it : immense and opulent. Large enough to have all of Heaven's occupants inside with plenty of room for comfort. It was a castle, it was a citadel, it was shining and beautiful. There were many levels and floors, lofts, split plans and ballrooms. Staircases so wide you could drive horses eight abreast up the marble steps. Columns everywhere of all kinds in perfect harmony in the environment, and vaulted, spacious ceilings that outdid any cathedral ever made by human hands, but that they definitely had aspired to. The grounds to the citadel were like a country there was so much land, very green and manicured to perfection, with whimsy such as trees sculpted into fine images, and a hedge maze with a beautiful courtyard and villa in the middle of it. There were fountains of enormous size everywhere, some so deep and wide you could swim in them and dive down to great depths and view the coral reefs and their inhabitants within them. The citadel was on The Lord's Holy Hill and one side overlooked the ocean and terraced down towards it in seven large levels of three stories each. Large as it is, it is not empty, no, this place I live in is filled with my friends and family from ages and ages past and we talk through many afternoons of things that were on earth before I was. There are a multitude of servants who prepare the meals and handle the household chores, and they are all residents of this magnificent place. One day I am talking with our savior, and as I thank Him for all of this and give glory to God, He reminds me there is more than this to what has been inherited. All things were created for Him and by Him, and He gave all authority in Heaven and Earth to me. He reminds me that the angels themselves cannot tell us apart because we now are so similar they cannot discern us, we are One, He in me, I in Him. He reminds me that I am made in God's image, His very likeness. And Christ is the exact representation of the Father. I give glory to God Almighty and ask that we retreat to a quiet place, and because Heaven is so full of people and so full of praise, we go someplace I do not know, were it is dark, and yet I am unafraid because he is with me. And He creates the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth is formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And then I hear Him say it :Let there be light ! So He shows me all of creation, the way he made the everything we ever knew as well as all we didn't know. From the placing of the microns in atoms to the setting of the stars and planets in the universe. From molecules to mega-stars. I cannot help but praise Him. I remember His words that He does and says what He sees and hears the Father do and say. And before I know what I have done really, or how I have done it I find the Spirit of God hovering over the waters again of a formless and empty planet. One I have created as I copy my Lord. And through out time and history, I am there with Him and He is there with me and through Him I know everything from each person ever born to the last piece of dust in the universe. So to understand more I visit through time and I can feel what He feels, and I know His thoughts, for as it is written, I have the mind of Christ. I have found that when we cried, He cried. When we laughed, He smiled. When we were evil, He was calling to us to come back that we would not hurt ourselves. I lived His life with Him, and I hung on that cross and bled and died with Him. I was resurrected into glory with Him, even now we sit at the right hand of the Father together. In Heaven I terraform worlds and create angels, I gather dust and make man, and woman out of man. And give blessings of prosperity to increase and multiply and be fruitful. All for the glory of my Maker. Of this creation I have made and control, I give to Him. For He alone is God. And I repeat to Him what He said at the beginning of creation when He gave everything to man : All of this is for YOU. And now I understand Him, and in knowing Him, I can know you. |
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