This comes - or came - as a kind of follow on last saturday night. I was laying in bed thinking about how I would 'explain' the 'message' I got for someone at church, a little further - about being weighed and measured. I had said to her that the harvest time is near....
Then the image or idea popped into my head as follows.
Imagine - that the people of the church - are each, a field of wheat ( as opposed to being a stalk and the church being the field). We weren't all sown on the same day or week....so the heads of wheat in each field are maturing according to when they were sown. We were sown by hand - not by machine - which explains why the fields weren't all sown at the same time. And I guess ( though I know nothing of farming and crops etc) - each field gets a different level of water - one may slope this way and another that way - one may be inbetween two sloping fields etc - so you get my drift. The lay of the land isn't the same for each field.
God is doing an old fashioned farmer thing. He's walking through his fields and stopping - lifting up the heads of the wheat in each field - seeing how far that f ield is from being harvested. That way - he can decide - which order to harvest the fields. Some fields may even mature faster than the other.
So - we have to all grow just as hard as we can - so we can be harvested and put to use just like God intended.
Then I had the thought that the church isn't a field of wheat - it's a sheep-fold - and we're scattered sheep. And we all need to come back to the 'fold - to be counted ( which I presume is what a shepherd does) - and where we can be protected from the wolves, thieves and the weather etc.
I've put it in here because as I said - I don't know if it was ME or if it was God....
Then yesterday - I was asleep and Hubby was making his lunch in the kitchen and someone - without knocking or ringing the door bell dropped a video off on the door step: Maharaji - A lasting Strength Intended for people who have received Knowledge, and for aspirants - a 19 minute film done in 1999.
I tried to watch it last night before dinner - but I had Elijah with me and he was just yabbering and getting into mischief all the time the video was on - so will watch it again. I believe it's christian - but I kind of - from what I did manage to hear - don't 'get' the 'intended for people who have received knowledge' reference.
I'm presuming as well - that it was the person for which I had the message - since there was no note left - and will phone her later today to check. If it wasn't her it would be the pastor - or even the baptisee.