Grandma knew that the best cakes took time. It’s not supposed to happen fast >> because if it happens fast, it will not last. >> Come on. >> Embrace the process. Not resent it. Not feel betrayed or denied because it didn’t happen as quick as the person next to you because you are not comparing yourself with the person next to you.
You are not running against them. you’re running against the hope of your calling. And so it was amazing for me that the in the same year, the first time I made my first trip to the motherland, to the land of my ancestors, when I first got off the plane to hear the gentleman say in a deep African accent, “Welcome home. was absolutely staggering.
And it was amazing because in that same year I made my first trip to my spiritual ancestry to Jerusalem. It was the first time these old West Virginia feet had walked down cobblestone streets and smelt bread baking early in the morning and watched Jerusalem open up and come to life much as it would in the days of Christ time.
And I searched it through. I went everywhere I could go. I went down to where the pool of Bethesda is thought to have been. I went down to the Sea of Galilee. I set my feet in the waters of the Jordan. And I went to a place called Mega where Armageddon is supposed to be. Leaped out of the car over in Jordan and ran out in the mud to stand and look around at the amphitheater, a natural amphitheater of mountains all around just to see what was going on.
I went in the Temple Mount, which is now controlled not by the Jews, but the Muslims. And they told me to take off my shoes as I went in there. And I went inside the Temple Mount and had the experience of walking up into what would have been the Holies of Holies only to find Abraham’s Rock, the place where he would offer up Isaac.
