Day 359- Holy Smoke
📖Daily Reading
Revelation 15-16
🎥 Video
Join me on my morning walk as we rise and shine together by walking through the Bible daily and learn a practical applicable coaching nugget from the ultimate life coach - our creator (whatever that means to you). No judgement zone here, all are welcome, we are all on a spiritual journey because we are after all spiritual beings having a human experience.
📝 Reflection
Revelation 15: 2-4, 5-8
“I saw before me what seemed to be a glass sea mixed with fire. And on it stood all the people who had been victorious over the beast and his statue and the number representing his name. They were all holding harps that God had given them. And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb:
“Great and marvelous are your works,
O Lord God, the Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
O King of the nations.
Who will not fear you, Lord,
and glorify your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before you,
for your righteous deeds have been revealed.””
15: 5-8
“Then I looked and saw that the Temple in heaven, God’s Tabernacle, was thrown wide open. The seven angels who were holding the seven plagues came out of the Temple. They were clothed in spotless white linen with gold sashes across their chests. Then one of the four living beings handed each of the seven angels a gold bowl filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. The Temple was filled with smoke from God’s glory and power. No one could enter the Temple until the seven angels had completed pouring out the seven plagues.”
Many mornings this year as I have headed out to my local park which has a small lake, I have been blessed to personally and quite literally experience this vision. Many mornings the lake at sunrise 🌅 reflected in the lake looks like a sea of glass mixed with fire. I am sometimes so filled with gratitude my mind feels detached from my problems at least momentarily and I have so much peace. Inside I could feel as if I am standing on the lake and holding a harp and singing a song of awe filled wonder at what my senses get to feast on in those moments.
It is Christmas today as I am writing and I was caught up in this metaphor and of the holy smoke that is fills the temple. Holy smoke is a term that has its origin in the Bible and the practice of burning sacrifices and the holy smoke that emanates. Over the years it has worked it’s way into our common venacular. But it is a saying that conveys surprise happiness and excitement.
As I was further pondering smoke, it is the element of something once solid being broken down into tiny particles and then mixed with air. It makes what is normally unseen; air, become more visible by mixing with something that is the result of something real being burned by fire and converted into a new substance. This metaphorically is a lot like what God does with us, when we surrender and humble ourselves to his awesome reality. Our substance gets mixed with His to create something new.
He is more real than anything, and yet we are easily deceived by our senses and our logical brains. Let us throw open our hearts wide open and be filled with the Holy Spirit. He humbled himself and came to earth to show us the way. We can experience a peace that surpasses all understanding, when we willingly enter into His temple by realizing that we are His temple. Within us we have the capacity to live in a state of awe and wonder and feel like we are standing on a sea of glass mixed with fire living in harmony with God and nature. Letting our life be sacrificed and to be a like a fragrant holy smoke, die so that we may fully live.
Merry Christmas, 🎄! Treat yourself in the coming days by going to visit a nearby body of water at sunrise or sunset and experience this wonder for yourself. Be in the moment in harmony with your soul, with God’s soul, with nature. Go see a sea of glass mixed with fire, see it with new eyes, hear the sound of harps being played all around you by beautiful sounds of nature singing songs of praise. There is always always always something to be grateful for. Gratitude and joy throw the tabernacle of our heart wide open even when we feel like we are being plagued. We can transform our plagues into holy smoke with the attitude of our heart.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Treat yourself in the coming days by going to visit a nearby body of water at sunrise or sunset and experience this wonder for yourself. Be in the moment in harmony with your soul, with God’s soul, with nature. Go see a sea of glass mixed with fire, see it with new eyes, hear the sound of harps being played all around you by beautiful sounds of nature singing songs of praise. There is always always always something to be grateful for. Gratitude and joy throw the tabernacle of our heart wide open even when we feel like we are being plagued. We can transform our plagues into holy smoke with the attitude of our heart.
📖Tomorrows Reading
Revelation 17
Coaching Opportunity
My inaugural OWN IT! For Good! group & 1:1 coaching is well underway and it is amazing. The participants are absolutely loving it and experiencing major aha's, break throughs and life changing mindset shifts. Please let me know if you are interested in experiencing this as well, I am considering kicking off another group in January of 2023. Let's make 2023 the year of YOU by laying a solid foundational mind set! The world needs what only you have to offer! Give yourself the best gift ever, the best version of you is ready to rise & shine!
Book your free📞Wake Up Call today to learn if this is what you have been waiting for!
If you have stuck with me this far, then you are not reading this by accident, I believe God has a plan for you and is calling you forward!😉🤩
CONNECT WITH ME
Subscribe to Rise & Shine✨Together Daily Encouragement
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/felecia.b.holmes (personal)
Rise & Shine Together Private Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1093183278239989
You Tube: Rise & Shine Playlist
|