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. Ephesians 1:18.

On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and that you are in Me and I am in you. John 14:20 NCV.

I have recently finished reading The Shack by Wm. Paul Young, and am reading The Shack Revisited by C. Baxter Kruger, who explains the theology behind The Shack. In both books, I love the understanding that all of creation is a burning bush declaring the love of Creator God – Father, Son, Spirit. That even the sorrows we experience are a part of that because they are a part of our life here in this broken world; and nothing will be wasted in God’s redeeming love. How can we blame God for the woes we ourselves bring on when He is the One helping us through them? Do you need a bridge? Stop believing the lie that Creator God is distant and uncaring, or that He only cares for the very few. Look at all He has created! And remember that as you read about these ancient people who did not know God and struggled as a result of their believing the lies that God is far away and our lives are our own. Do we see that same attitude today? Yes. And in our chapter, Micah 3, God speaks through Micah to the leaders and prophets who did not know God. Then I said, “Listen, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel. Should you not embrace justice, you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones; who eat My people’s flesh, strip off their skin and break their bones in pieces; who chop them up like meat for the pan, like flesh for the pot?” Then they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done. v. 1-4. Hating good and loving evil is our downfall and God feels deeply the pain and hurt that brings. This is what the Lord says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, they proclaim ‘peace’ if they they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them”…Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right; who build Zion with bloodshed, and Jerusalem with wickedness. Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.” Therefore because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, the temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets. v. 5, 9-12. All of that happened. So did the silence from the prophets of Creator God for 400 years…“Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them. The seers will be ashamed and the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces because there is no answer from God.” v. 6-7. But Micah…But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, to Israel his sin. v. 8. The starting point we all need before we can step onto that bridge is how lost we all are in our sins against Creator God and one another. It’s not our place to conquer. Our place is to realize what we are without God and to turn to Him for the help only He can provide. To surrender our ideas of what is good and evil, of what justice is. All of human history testifies to our ideas of good and evil and they testify still today. I am so thankful for Scripture, for understanding from men and women who love God and share their understanding about God that God Himself provides richly when we open our hearts to Him. “All of creation is a burning bush of Creator God’s love” is a gift of understanding that is a bridge for us. And when we embrace the truth of the incredible love of Creator God…we begin a journey of trust. How else could we begin to see what John, the disciple turned Apostle, said that Jesus explained to them before His journey to the Cross for all of creation…On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and that you are in Me and I am in you. How can we grasp something so wonderful and amazing without Creator God? In this world filled with the uncertainty brought on by believing all the lies, there is a Truth. All of creation, including us, is a burning bush showing us Creator God who created. We just have to open our eyes and our hearts and our spirits to Him…and let Him lead us because He is our Truth…wonderful and amazing!