Come Together

Revelation 22:17
And the Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

That's what I hear right now. "Come!" Somewhere in me, I want to say it. Somewhere deep, my spirit is begging my flesh to say it, but I cannot. I've heard it said that the word "send" is the most destructive word of the 21st century, that one little word and click having delivered letters of things that should have not been said in the first place, but I tell you the truth, to a man of flesh, there is no word quite so destructive as the word "Come!"

It doesn't matter who says it. We ask the Spirit, "Come! Have your way!", and He ruins our plans. Jesus says, "Come! Take up your cross!", and we die. We ask Jesus, "Come! Return to your people!", and we are found in our rebellion and in our subversion. The Father says, "Come! I have waited for you to return home!", and our old ways must go. It doesn't matter who says it, when we hear or use that little 4-letter word, towers fall and we are found as nothing without Christ.

One thing I've learned, and glory goes to Jesus for teaching stubborn me at least one thing, is that I may not hold to the things that I do in this world and at the say time say to the Lord, "Come!" I can not. I haven't. I won't. I want to be a part of a movement (that is, the coming tide) that helps to render the Bride ready and prepared to say, "Come!" To say it along with the Spirit, and to mean it. The revelation is this: every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Christ, but not all will say, "Come!" I want to invite, I want to ask in.

love.