Your House Is In Disarray
It has now been almost 3 weeks since i had this VISION and WORD. In this time i have turned the corner and completion is in sight.
Since February our "house" has been a place of slow frustration. Health problems with the urgent need to repair our bathroom and kitchen has led to a slow and unrelenting pressure that pushed me over the proverbial "edge". The aggravation was leading to anger which I knew was wrong.
So I sought direction from THE LORD.
In the middle of the night I found myself once again standing near a stone bench that looked out over THE RIVER OF LIFE. Sitting there was ABBA looking at me and HE LISTENED as I "dumped" everything at HIS feet. After ventilating all my frustrations and aggravations HE SPOKE.
YOUR HOUSE, SON, IS IN DISARRAY. YOU TRY TO SEE THINGS AS THEY SHOULD BE AND BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT YOU FEEL FRUSTRATED. PLANS SEEM TO BE THWARTED, GOALS AND DEADLINES ARE MISSED. THE PROCESS APPEARS TO HAVE
GOTTEN OFF TRACK AND EVERYTHING YOU DO IS HINDERED BY THOSE YOU HAVE HIRED TO DO THE WORK.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME, NOR WILL IT BE THE LAST.
YOUR HOUSE IS IN DISARRAY. NOTHING APPEARS TO BE WHERE IT SHOULD BE.
WHEN ONE ROOM APPEARS TO NEAR COMPLETION, WORK IS STOPPED AND ANOTHER AREA IS BEGUN. INSTEAD OF COMPLETING ONE TASK AT A TIME, YOU SEE NUMEROUS TASKS ALL LACKING AND INCOMPLETE.
DO YOU REMEMBER AFTER THE STORM YOU TRIED TO SAVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. YET YOU COULD NOT COMPETE AGAINST THE INEVITABLE. IN TIME YOU NOT ONLY REPAIRED ALL THAT WAS DAMAGED, REPLACED WHAT WAS RUINED, BUT IMPROVED UPON WHAT HAD BEEN. SO WILL IT BE AGAIN.
DISARRAY IS NOT REALLY DISORDER, SON. YOUR HOUSE IS IN DISARRAY BECAUSE ALL THAT YOU HAVE ACCUMULATED AND ACCOMPLISHED HAD TO BE BOXED AND MOVED. IN YOUR CASE, SON, OVER AND OVER.
At this point HE LAUGHED, and stood up. We began to walk along THE RIVER OF LIFE.
After a short while HE STOPPED and again spoke.
IF YOUR ONLY GOAL WAS TO REPAIR WHAT HAD BEEN BROKEN, TO RESTORE WHAT HAD BEEN DAMAGED BY TIME AND USE, ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED LONG AGO. BUT THE REAL PURPOSE WAS TO IMPROVE UPON WHAT WAS. YOU SON, CAN BE CONTENT WITH VERY LITTLE. BUT YOUR GOAL WAS TO MAKE THE WIFE OF YOUR YOUTH HAPPY. INITIALLY WHEN YOU COUNTED THE COST, IT WAS ACCEPTABLE. BUT THEN CAME THE HIRELINGS.
YOU CAME TO AN AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS WERE ACCEPTABLE. ONLY THE WORD OF THE HIRELINGS HAS PROVEN TO BE LESS THAN HONORABLE. LIKEWISE THE QUALITY OF THEIR WORK BORDERS ON THE UNACCEPTABLE. SO ALL YOU CAN
NOW DO IS TO WAIT AND SEE HOW THE FINAL OUTCOME WILL BE.
YOUR HOUSE IS IN DISARRAY. NOTHING IS WHERE IT SHOULD BE. WHAT MIGHT BE SEEN BY SOME AS CHAOS AND CONFUSION, IS NOT. NOTHING HAS BEEN LOST EXCEPT YOUR PEACE. ALL CAN AND WILL BE RESTORED AND RETURNED TO WHAT AND WHERE IT SHOULD BE.
YOUR HOUSE IS IN DISARRAY. IT IS NOT IN DISORDER.
MY HOUSE IS IN DISORDER. THE HIRELINGS THAT ARE IN MY HOUSE NOT ONLY BRING ERROR AND CONFUSION, BUT ALSO REBELLION. FOR IN WHAT SHOULD BE MY HOUSE THERE IS LAWLESSNESS AND ANARCHY. THERE IS AN UTTER ABSENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS. TRUE GOVERNMENT IS NOT TO BE FOUND. THERE IS NEITHER ORDER NOR PURPOSE IN WHAT IS DONE IN MY NAME. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE.
With that HE TURNED towards me and said: THE LESSON YOU ARE LEARNING IS NOT AN EASY ONE. IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE. EVEN TODAY MY HOUSE, MY KINGDOM SUFFERS FROM THE VIOLENT ONES WHO TAKE WHAT IS REALLY NOT THEIRS.
BUT THE DAY OF RECOMPENSE IS NOT FAR OFF.
With that HE TURNED back towards THE RIVER and I was back in my house.
In the last week more has been completed than in the preceding three months.
I am learning my lesson one day at a time, one step at a time.
Selah
Bob Neumann