I am reminded today of the word that I had for this year, "Be here now." I have since learned that the Hebrew language doesn't even have a word for the past. So when the believers had Passover, they literally went through the experience again as if it was just happening, as if the lamb's blood has just been shed and put on the doorpost. I think that is what He meant by "Be here now." That the lamb's blood is fresh daily. Many things happened to them on their journey, but ultimately they just saw the shadow of evil as it it passed over, and held each other close.
I think that this is the way that we live from "glory to glory." There are two realities going on at once. One reality are the actual things that we experience around us that go from past to present in a heartbeat, all the tribulations both worldwide and personally.The other reality is His Glory.The thinking that we get stuck in, the constant circling from past to present, can drag our view of the future into that mix and cause our reality to become bleak. That is what fear does, it distorts our view of our future. When this becomes our reality, we are stuck in the middle of a fear-storm. Like the disciples who were sitting next to Jesus in the boat, and yet they cried out, "Lord save us!", we also cry out in our storms, even though Jesus lives IN us .Now since the Lord lives from "Glory to glory", He just tells us to "Peace be still." That changes OUR reality to HIS reality and peace ensues.
His Word is one of the ways he reminds us that we can change our reality. Peace is a promise in His Word. It is, in fact, our inheritance upon His death. He bequeathed peace to His disciples (us) before He died :
"Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." John 14:27
Notice that 'peace' is in the present tence. It is our inheiritence for this moment. Of all of the things that he could of left us, He deemed peace as the most valuable. Probably because He lived here and knew that we would need it! So the storm that the world dishes out, has nothing on us. We have a past that is under His blood, a future because of His blood, and a place imbetween that we can "Be here Now" in His Glory. That is why the best moment is NOW.
