The Columbian cold

Proverbs 20:24
A man’s steps are of the LORD;
How then can a man understand his own way

Romans 8:26-27
the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Jewels are formed through pressure, being in the earth, before they are cut. The substance of them is in the earth, and over time and with pressure, the actual gem itself is formed. Then it is cut and designed. Firstly, in Christ, we are given His talent, which is as the substance of who we are in Him, and this incorruptible. The talent is symbolically the knowledge of God. After we have been enlightened unto the knowledge of God, we have to go on to having our soul established on earth as it is in heaven. Having this, we can not fall away, and have the surety of having our promises, that are eternal, having His kingdom on earth- our inheritance on earth, in heaven's type, before all is made new. This is the pressure, in the likeness of us becoming jewels- the race to enter in. Firstly, in being enlightened unto God, there is repentance. Going on from this, there is the entering in, which is through His death, as we walk as He did, and lay down our physical lives. This is as the pressure of the gem being formed in the earth. Once our soul has been established on earth, the gem is formed. Our souls are containers and vessels for our heart and spirit. The soul, in this way, is represented by a gem, while it's substance is as the heart and spirit (in symbol). Having the gem extracted, and cut, and designed is as having the body receive His life. The first part of our soul is our personality, and this is described as the 'nephesh' in the Hebrew, which also means 'life.' Our personalities are present both at first, and are 'cut' and designed over time, as we walk with the LORD. The next part of our soul is the breath of the LORD, which connects together every point in us. After that, there is our will, and then our mind, and then the imagination, which is in agreement with our heart and spirit. Our personalities is where our happiness and well being comes from. Our breath is where our power comes from. Our mind is how our personality is connected into our body, through the love that is in our spirit and heart. The will is what carries out the present illumination of our personality that is in the mind. Our mind also contains the full amount of our personality as a whole, though resting and through our conscience; while the present illumination of our personality in our mind, by our will, gives life into our body. Paul praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation is a prayer that is specifically for us to continue to have our personality be illuminated. The illumination of our personality is as the sparkle of a gem. The imagination is what connects us unto the knowledge of how we are being designed. When we have worked, as in the parable of the servants that worked, and then served their master; then we are as Ruth coming unto Boaz, and waiting as his feet. When we have worked, and then He serves us, it is as Boaz securing Ruth's inheritance. We work, and then serve Him, as we cultivate to have our minds illuminated. Then we work, to have our wills be given life into our mortal flesh. And then He serves us, as we have joy and rest in the Promised Land. What we can pray, to have our wills give life into our mortal flesh (as the testimony of Ruth and Boaz are shown above), is what Paul spoke about in Romans 8, regarding the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Firstly when we are working, and then serving Him, what we are doing is bringing ourselves into the obedience of Christ. This means that we are being transformed unto Him. Then as we work, and He serves us, He is filling us. At first we fill Him, and then He fills us. And before we fill Him, He had already loved us, and we love Him after He first loves us. And He has always been calling unto us, and in His foreknowledge preparing us. As we come unto filling Him, we are to seek Him wholeheartedly, and His word says that we will find Him when we do so. When begin to work, as He fills us, after having already filled Him- we only have the fruit that we reaped from when we at first filled Him. So at first through the be-attitudes we are very much so hungering and striving. And then once we have filled Him, and go on working, having Him fill us, we are very much so cultivating with what we have reaped, even unto the point of only going with what we have reaped in Him. Throughout these things, there is the happening, regarding the verses above, where we don't see the whole picture. We can go to and fro between seeing what we do see, of the whole picture, and then also concentrating on the specifics. The definition for the cleft, is us not knowing the whole picture, but then also having what we do know. And we are to continue to look for Him from the cleft. When it is time for Him to serve at the end of all of our work; as it is His covenant to do so- then we are able to contain the knowledge of the whole picture that we couldn't before, and need not labor any longer.