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One of the directives to the church is to be clean without spot. Jesus said that when he returned to the earth that he would be coming to a bride that is worthy of him.
What does this mean? What is being clean without spots?
During one of my alone times, as I sat pondering… The spirit began to tell me a few things that I would like to share here. First, I was told to draw a circle around myself. I was told that this was my inner circle. It was in this space where I, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus could dwell together. And in that circle, I was to use these criteria: To not let anything in that circle that would offend and chase off the holy Spirit.
My mind immediately went to that old saying of the three monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil…. But it was more than that.
What movies did I have in my movie collection that, when played, would cause the holy spirit to leave my circle? When I turned on the radio, would the music that was playing chase the holy spirit away? And what about all my video games? What about the things that would come up in my Google searches while I was on the internet?
So, my mind began realizing that there were a lot of things in this world that would chase out the spirit of God, and that I had many of them in my possession. It reminded me of when the Apostles said; Lord, who then will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, seeing that it was more difficult than they had originally expected? And the Lord’s answer was stern and yet simple. “Straight is the gate and narrow is the way and few there be that find it.”
“Remember our circle,” I was told. You see, it was “our” Circle.
The devil has had so much influence on everything in this world. No wonder that all this is difficult. Satan wants us walking in all the mud that he has available so that we are always dirty, bringing dirt into our homes when we walk in the door.
And so, I began to clean out my inner circle. My music went from a large collection to a very small one, but I didn’t find that I missed anything, besides, I would rather listen to sounds that would soothe the soul and hear preachers that spoke the word which brought a fresh drink to my spirit. Over time, the hearing of the word and feeling the spirit became more valuable than all the things that used to occupy my time.
I also believe that our soul wants to feel the spirit constantly, and when we get a little bit of it, we just want to stay and bask in that light.
Sometime afterwards, having kept my circle clean and free of all the old debris that used to be there, I felt the presence of someone enter my room. I couldn’t see them, but oh, boy, someone had just entered. I immediately looked up and said Father, I don’t know who is here, but someone is… and then they gave me a big hug.
Has there ever been a time when you found yourself in one of your favorite places, where it’s just you and no one else, and you just feel at peace? Happy and content, where you just want that feeling to stick around forever? Now take that and times it by a million, and then you will begin to catch what I am trying to describe here.
It lasted for some time.
I wanted God to know that I recognized this wonderful spirit, and although I didn’t know who was there, I was more at peace than at any time in my life up to that point. And if I sit and ponder on it, I can still bring up that feeling again. I cannot describe it accurately…
Sometime after that, I was visiting with a good friend of our family who has a spiritual gift where she can sense things about people. Out of nowhere, she came out and said, “You got a hug from Jesus.” Now I had not said anything to anyone up to that point about my experience, but the declaration touched me.
Why would Jesus come into my room and hug me? I am certainly no one special, and I don’t claim any special privileges, but I believe what she said was true, and if Jesus can come into my room in the quiet times of the day and hug me, then he can come into your room and hug you too. And you’ll want one. There is nothing that I can say to describe it.