Do You Recognize Him?

Throughout the scriptures God has appeared in a way that was not expected. Abraham expected God to show up in his prime; He showed up in his utter weakness. Joseph was all set to enroll in the local “Prophetic Protocol Workshop” and receive pain free impartation; God enrolled him in his favorite college, The University of PIT—“prophets in training.” After David had slew Goliath, he surly figured he had found a way to get “a head” in life; he soon found himself as head pastor of the “Church of Adullam.”

Jesus always comes in a way that can not be recognized with the natural mind: “He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not” (John 1:10-11). Man, when it is all said and done, is nothing more than a handful of dust. It is simply not within his ability to receive the things of God: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Corinthians 2:14). You can sooner teach a worm to pass trigonometry than a natural mind the scriptures.

After his resurrection Jesus did not appear in recognizable forms. To Mary he appeared as a gardener; on the road to Emmaus he was an ordinary traveler; on the seaside he was someone who had cooked fish. There is a great truth we must see here: It is never after that which appears to the natural eye that we will discern his presence. It is only when you look past that which is seemingly ordinary will you see the extraordinary Christ! You must through the Spirit of God look past what everybody else sees, and perceive what God wants you to see. It has always been this way: How easy it would have been for King David to say of those discontents that came to him at the cave, “This sure isn’t Abner and Jonathan!”

In this last hour it is imperative that we discern the true body of Christ. This really should not be that hard: It will always be that which aligns it’s self in total agreement with the Head!! It will always be according to the scriptures!

Jesus is once again coming to his temple in the form of a common place gardener, will you recognize him?