Guided By A Glacier

This morning as I sat on the hay loft steps out in the barn, I contemplated the words of a trusted brother in Christ, who spoke to me the other day about the “glacial movement of God in our lives…very slow, very incremental, but inexorable.”

I thought about the attributes of a glacier. A glacier is huge—so huge that when you stand upon it, you can’t see where it begins or where it ends from your vantage point. You can’t see it moving or feel it moving, it just seems to sit still. You can’t tell what direction it’s moving in, you can only see where it’s been. You can only see the path it has cut by the sheer force of its magnitude, weight, and inevitability.

Truly, there is an inevitability about a glacier that should quiet our soul, while at the same time, cause us to stand before it in fear and awe. You cannot stop a glacier. Just the thought of such a thing is beyond absurd. Your will and your opinion and your emotions have absolutely zero bearing upon the movement of a glacier. That glacier is gonna go where it’s gonna go, regardless of any human’s attempted influence. Therefore, the only human choice that matters is whether we want to stand upon it and go where it goes, or to not stand upon it and be left behind.

The only thing we can really do when we stand on a glacier is wait on it. But still, we choose whether we want to stand upon the glacier and wait as it makes its way, or if we’d rather jump off because we’re tired of waiting and want to make our own way. And even so, choosing our own path is futile, because it’s going to be pulverized by the eventual and inevitable movement of the glacier anyway. The only two real options are to be on the glacier and wait, or to be off the glacier and pulverized.

Jesus is going to return to this earth, and I’m telling you right now, there are a lot of people who think they are ready, but they ain’t ready. He is returning to this earth to judge it and to rule it. This earth will be judged and then ruled by Jesus Christ. And the only thing that is going to matter in that moment—the moment when everything changes, the moment when that becomes our new reality—is where you are standing. On the glacier or off it.

(Luke 20:17,18) But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’? Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

(Revelation 1:3-7) …the time is near…Grace to you and peace, from Him Who is and Who was and Who is to come, and from the seven Spirits Who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him Who loves us and released us from our sins by His blood—and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.

(Posted on Facebook 12/8/2020 Talitha Koum)