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Have you really thought of what it entails to travel through the eye of the needle? Jesus spoke about this parable in Scripture.
Joey LeTourneau offers us great insight from a vision he had about this with much detail. You'll want to read through this slowly and carefully for sure, as it contains amazing nuggets such as:
We are entering a season that will not make sense to the world, or even the world's understanding of Jesus...
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The following is from a vision the Lord gave me back in 2004, but I recognized that it wasn't yet the right timing. However, during the last number of months as we've crossed into this new era, God has increasingly grabbed my heart with this vision and made it clear that it's now in due season. In fact, for the last couple weeks, every time I go back to the Lord to hear His priorities as we continue forward, He brings this vision to the forefront. I've only slightly updated the language and writing in parts since I first put it on paper sixteen years ago.
Vision: Through the Eye of a Needle
The Lord led my heart through prayer into a vision of some place new. I seemed to be in the middle of a giant wilderness joined by many, many others. My reality was transported to another land, an empty land. It was made of rocky, dry terrain and a giant canyon sat directly before me. But beyond the canyon were big, great mountains that towered into a beautiful sunset. They were surely a large part of the destination on the other side of this canyon. There were smaller hills on all sides of me, but nothing as dominant as what stood ahead.
The light drew me and I had to go. I saw a glisten spring up from the ground right at the edge of the canyon. The light was almost drawn to this small edge specifically; thus, I was too. I crept to the edge, looked down and pondered the unique object that sat before me. I couldn't help but laugh! It had to be a joke, yet the stark reality of this unlikely bridge across the canyon stared back at me.
"A needle and thread?" I thought to myself. "What kind of a path is this?" My answer sat right in front of me—a very narrow one. The path was indeed no bigger than a typical string of thread. Not only was this pathway unbelievably small, there was a much bigger bridge crossing the same canyon just ten yards away and headed the same direction. A second bridge was next to that one, only it was even larger. In fact, there was a cluster of different bridges across this canyon, and each one got bigger and wider. Who then would go through this gate, through the eye of a needle, with these more sensible options nearby?
"I might as well be riding a camel," I thought to myself—of course thinking of Jesus' teaching that it is much easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. I always thought of this story as an outlandish parable shared to illustrate the surrender of walking in the Kingdom of God. I later came to know its reality regarding "The Eye of the Needle Gate" of Old Jerusalem, and how a camel would have to be stripped down and unpacked from its long journey if it wanted to fit through.
What if this parable wasn't just a teaching, but a path forward? What if Jesus was shining light on a door that is open to us, an invitation onto a path that will look insane to try and cross? What if He was preparing us for the choice we would have to make to fully live into the Kingdom possibilities before us? Only moments later, after this parable, I remember Christ closed His story by reminding us, "...'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible'" (Matthew 19:26). (Photo via Wallpaper Flare)
If a camel can travel through this place then there must be a way that I can too. But why? How do I even start? We're talking about a needle, and it's not a big one. There is nothing abnormal about its size, nor mine. The path did not fit in this world and I definitely did not fit this path. But for some reason I was considering it. I could not get over the thought that Jesus was speaking of something more of Him for us to experience than what our eyes or minds could show us. Maybe the eye of this needle was not just a narrow path, but an even narrower view that provided vision for something else?
These thoughts, however, were not completely overshadowing my own fears, and the laws of nature didn't seem to be budging to fit me through such a minuscule place. Plus, everyone else crossing the variety of other bridges seemed just fine. Crowds of people were going about their own life's path across all of these bridges. I saw many people that I know, and even more that I did not... (continue reading)
