1 John 4:4 "You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."
Heard this story from a friend, who heard it from a friend..... It seems fitting to share it now.
I asked Jesus to take me to the Father (no, I never saw His face).
The Father took me out in a boat. He was behind the wheel. In the middle of a large lake (the ocean
would probably be a better description), He shut the boat off. He jumped into the water - I figured I’d
better follow - so I jumped in also.
There wasn't any land to be seen anywhere.
He asked me what I saw. I said, “Nothing.” He asked me again what I saw. He took the blinds off my eyes and I could
see dolphins in the distance. They were
jumping and playing. Underneath us,
piranhas were swimming. The Father
picked one up, and it was calm - like it didn't care (I think it actually liked
being held). A big whale came over and I
looked it in the eye and could “hear” it sort of thanking me in a language that
only the three of us could understand.
The dolphins came over and the Father and I each jumped up onto a separate dolphin.
We went for a really wild ride - it was so fun. We were playing together.
Then the dolphins went away, and we were just in the
water again. The Father said to me,
“Come.” I knew He was about to get
serious, that kind of scared me - but I knew inside that I didn't really need
to fear.
I went over to Him, and He held me in His arms. He brought me to His chest, close to His
heart. Instead of hearing the normal
rhythm of a heartbeat, I heard, “I love you” over and over. I fought it at first (I struggled to get out
of His grasp, but He held me tight). The
truth won out and I relaxed in His embrace - allowing His love to cover me - to
flow in and around me. I asked Him to
forgive me for being angry at Him. He
said that the anger was just there to cover up what He saw as a small, hurt,
and frightened child. The Father said,
“ I've always been with you.” Then we
looked around, and He said, “I created all of this.”
Then, we were in space. We were looking down on the earth. About the earth - He said, “That’s just a
little speck of dust, but I know everything that goes on down there.” Then He said that if he just turned the wrong
way, the breeze from Him would knock the earth out of orbit. He started to grow.
He grew, and grew, and grew, and grew. I kept looking higher and higher up until I
told me to stop before He bumped into Venus.
But, I just kept looking, and He just kept growing until all I could see
was His leg - no higher. He bent down -
and I looked into His eye - it was very large.
Actually, it was only His pupil - it was all blackness, but it wasn't dark. It was all love, joy, peace coming
from Him.
He carefully scooped me into His Hand (which was so
big I couldn't see the end). It was like
standing in the middle of a desert - the grooves of His hand were dunes and
there was no end in sight. It was THAT big! He lifted me
up to His chest. I stood in totally awe,
because I could see the universe. He
raised me higher still and I saw the galaxy - the colors were awesome. The Father said, “From up here, everything
looks and is so small.”
Then He brought
me back to the universe, then space, and said, “What you see and how you see it
all depends on where you stand.” When
I’m with Him anything could look so small - it all depends on how much of
Himself I want Him to be (or in this case, how big). He will reveal Himself to the extent that we
let Him be Himself.
He set me down on the “ground” (it would've been the
ground if we weren't still in space). Satan appeared before Him. He said, “This one is mine”.
The Father replied, “That’s a lie, because Jesus
purchased her.”
Satan said, “But this one was given to me from birth, You
have no right to keep her.”
The Father became angry - I went and hid behind
Jesus. Sort of in the folds of His
garment.
The devil was actually whimpering and whining and
pleading to get me back, but the Father was giving him a tongue-lashing.
Finally, Satan said, “This one is just one soul of many -
this one won’t be missed.”
The Father became really angry, fire came from His
eyes, and He said, “Be gone.” Satan quickly left.
He was trembling in fear.
Then the Father, my Father turned around, looked at
me and in total love said, “You’re My very own.”
Then we were back in the boat, heading towards
shore.
When my foot touched the shore, I was back on 'earth'. I went to bed because I was exhausted. Father wants to hold me in His arms tonight - and let me
fall asleep to His Heartbeat. I'm okay with that.
