Happy hump day!! ...did you know the Camel holds the key?!
Growing up in the church I heard verses sometimes over and over and over again. But sometimes, when I EXPERIENCED a passage, my understanding has gone to a whole other level.
Like when I went to Israel. So many things, just made so much more sense to me!
What if it was all meant to be that easy? What if, we’ve been invited IN to an experience with the Father where He shows us exactly what He wants us to see?
What would happen if we asked not "how does this verse that I’m reading apply to life today?" ...But rather, "What did He want to show us about this verse…back THEN?!”
What do I mean?
Well, let me share a quick story, of a very moment like that a few weeks back. A friend texted a photo in relation to a passage I have heard over and over again my whole life, and suddenly it HIT me so differently seeing the photo. What once felt so mysterious and hard to grasp…became so CLEAR!!!
What was the photo? It was a photo of a gate, in Jerusalem - ‘The eye of the needle’
What was the passage related to it? Matthew 19:24 - “And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the reign of the Elohim!”
A passage that when you first hear it, feels quite mysterious! At least it did to me all growing up! The many times I just heard it.
But when I saw the photo, and suddenly exclaimed to my friend “WAIT!!!! The eye of the needle is an actual place?!?!?”. I was flabbergasted.
What was the ‘eye of the needle’ in those days? It was where a camel got into gated cities!! In order for the camel to get into the gate it had to take everything off and kneel down. Like you can see in the photo it’s so small you can’t get much through it! A camel PACKED and fully LOADED with things, it’d be impossible!
As I stared at the photo it suddenly hit me, “That’s the disposition of SURRENDER!!”.
When you get to a place of surrender, what position are you in? - you’re on your knees in total humility!
When you do surrender, what is happening? - What you are carrying FALLS OFF!
What would need to fall off a camel to pass through the eye of the needle (gate)? - ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!!!
And then it hit me, when have I experienced the biggest shifts in my own journey? When has what I wanted to change, finally changed or gotten on the right track that led it there???
The answer - every single time, came right after I surrendered, something I was battling.
When I surrendered my own fears of what others would think of me.
When I surrendered my own mistakes of the past.
When I surrendered the need to have it ALL figured out.
When I surrendered my own limiting beliefs about HOW to do it!
When I surrendered the things I treasured most!
When I surrendered my own desires for what I thought I wanted.
When I surrendered whatever I was currently carrying!
When I surrendered me. And realized it’s nothing to do with me at all…I just wanted more of Him.
It’s all about SURRENDER.
It's not an easy place to get to. But when we do, every single time and season that we do it, when we do…we ENTER into the space and place He has for us next!
What if THAT is the key? Are you willing to let it all, fall off?
I would LOVE to hear what dreams you have for the other side of that gate friend!