"Flip the Script" - 2

 "And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;" (Ecclesiastes 12:4 KJV)

  ""In a little while you won't see me anymore. But a little while after that, you will see me again." Some of the disciples asked each other, "What does he mean when he says, 'In a little while you won't see me, but then you will see me' and 'I am going to the Father'? And what does he mean by 'a little while'? We don't understand." Jesus realized they wanted to ask him about it, so he said, "Are you asking yourselves what I meant? I said in a little while you won't see me, but a little while after that you will see me again. I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn over what is going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy. It will be like a woman suffering the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because she has brought a new baby into the world. So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again; then you will rejoice, and no one can rob you of that joy."" (John 16:16-22 NLT)

 To be honest, sometimes I really have no clue where this is going, but that doesn't stop me from digging; the deeper I dig, the more I find buried treasure. Which, without too much effort, God is more than kind enough to help! Jesus said, "You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! Yet you refuse to come to me to receive this life." (John 5:39-40 NLT)

 I make every effort to find a message of the cross in just about every portion of Scripture; that doesn't work out all the time, but it doesn't always need to, because what I don't discover on my own, God will allow me to find it through someone else. 

 Oddly enough, it happens when I hear something that gets left out; then my senses come to life, and I somehow see something I had not seen before. You might not understand what I mean, but it really isn't that hard to figure out. If you were naming out your family members and left one out, then you would realize what you did, and naturally focus upon the one that you forgot. 

 There is something I have shared before, about 2 Kings 6:1-7. There was this moment when I was praying about a Psalm that was going to share on in the morning; as I was meditating on the Psalm, I saw a vision of an ax head floating up through the water. 

 I was staying at a friend's house, preparing for the Men's Conference the next morning, and I grabbed a cigar and decided to go for a walk. On my way out, I knocked on my friend's office door, as he was preparing his Sunday sermon, and said, "Tim, what did it mean when Elisha made that ax head float?" Tim replied, "Elisha made the ax head float!" "Oh, Okay," I said. And then went for an hour walk.

 Sometimes we just need to practice putting the cross of Christ into the picture, and then we can see the one thing we are missing...

"The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God." (1 Corinthians 1:18 NLT)