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70. Let Him Shake You Out 02.17.20

I was praying this morning, mainly because Dusty woke me up at 4am and I can’t fall back asleep. I laid on my face before the Lord pouring out my praise and frustrations. Then I had vision of a field. It was filled with wildflowers. There was a clothesline there. The Lord then showed me that He was there picking up a sheet. It was scrunched into a ball. It was wrinkled as if it has been pushed back into the corner of a closet and left there for years, forgotten. Then he simply picked it up, shook it out with a firm whip like motion, and put it on the line. Then He put it on my heart that we are like those sheets. Some of us feel that we have too many wrinkles or have been pushed into the back of the closet or drawer for too long. We feel that our sins have made us too unpleasing to be used. Everyone will always grab the nicely folded sheets. Not the Lord, He simply shakes you out and puts you on the line. Just as wrinkles in a sheet are not permanent, our sins will never permanently separate us from His glory, unless you turn your back to Him altogether. If you come to Him, He will shake you out. It’s not always a gentle fluff. If the wrinkles are deep, it’s going to be a hard shake. His hands are gentle but firm in the truth. He wants to shake you out and put you in the sun to bask in His glory.
1 Colossians 1:15-23
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— 23 if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

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