I was doing the mundane housework when I heard the Lord say “Mirage.” Not really a word I come across often. Since I did not feel it was a personal word of any type I had to sit with it for days pondering. Only 2 places is the word found in the scriptures..nestled where you must dig for it. Some days later as I was reading the Word again and again this poem came.
May we see clearly…and may we know that the hope of protection from illusions and deceptions of subtle kinds lies in us walking very closely with the Lord as His ransomed people (Isaiah 35).
Make sure you set aside daily time with Him to learn well His voice…that we would not awaken to find ourselves in the midst of a mere “mirage” rather than a true reality..and remember the Spirit of God is necessary to teach us, grow us, and change us. Should we deny Him full access to our lives…we may find we are those referred to as dry bones..be very careful of the “parched places..” for death is rarely recognized among the dead.
There is a parched man walking the desert
Toward a pool and a spring.
He sees the fountain of water
Sprouting so high it sings.
The sound is beauty and allures him
He hears it as a waterfall
Step after step he is closer
Yet day after day the sun falls.
Another walks towards a lush garden
With fruit so tasty and free
The vines are full of seedlings
Causing his taste buds to seethe.
Soon both men become weary
And others soon follow indeed
Thirsty and hungry and desperate
The mirage allures them to sleep.
The deserts and wastelands full of dry bones
Yet death it is a scorching haze
For life evades in the Spirit
Where springs are illusions of graves.
(September 7, 2015)
The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing.
John 6:63
MIRAGE
me-razh’ (sharabh, “heat-mirage”; Arabic sarab, from verb which means “to go forth,” “to flow”; hence, “flowing of water”): “The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water” (Isaiah 35:7); the King James Version has “parched ground” and the Revised Version margin “mirage.” The same Hebrew word is also used in Isaiah 49:10, “Neither shall the heat (margin “mirage”) nor sun smite them.” These are the only uses of the word in the Scriptures, although mirages are very common in the drier parts of the country…
We must strengthen the people…
Isaiah 35
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly,
and rejoice even with joy and singing:
the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon,
they shall see the glory of the Lord,
and the excellency of our God.3 Strengthen ye the weak hands,
and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart,
Be strong, fear not:
behold, your God will come with vengeance,
even God with a recompence;
he will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart,
and the tongue of the dumb sing:
for in the wilderness shall waters break out,
and streams in the desert.
7 And the parched ground (mirage) shall become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs of water:
in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way,
and it shall be called The way of holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those:
the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9 No lion shall be there,
nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there;
but the redeemed shall walk there:
10 and the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
and come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads:
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
