Prophetic Lesson: Stalks of Corn
Prophetic Lesson
Sometimes things are just not as they appear at first glance. We need revelation from the Holy Spirit!
The other night I had a spiritual dream.
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It was an undefined void I found myself standing in. As I glanced over to the side, there was a greenhouse filled with luxuriant plants and radiant colored flowers. The stocks of corn were so unseasonably large that they nearly blocked the other plants from sight. As I viewed the thriving plants within the greenhouse I felt like I had been living in deception.
Sadness gripped me in the morning as I considered the dream. I thought I was doing well spiritually, but I had to come face-to-face with the realization that maybe I wasn’t ok. Someone else had planned ahead and their growing had far surpassed mine. I was behind spiritually.
Later in the day I went into my closet—literally my closet—to pray. In my closet I keep a folding chair and a small light for prayer time. The darkness and seclusion is just the right ambiance to help me focus. After I had my prayer time and was getting ready to leave, I felt the Lord nudge me to stay just a little longer.
This time, as I sat in His Presence, He initiated the conversation. “Take another look at the corn,” He said. As I glanced again at the stocks, still vivid in my mind, I was startled; they really weren’t stocks of corn after all. They were some sort of bizarre mutant plant masquerading as corn. They didn’t have ears either, which they should have had for their size.
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The plants weren’t corn and they had no fruit!
Now my dream became clear. But had I not entered my closet, I would possibly never had understood it correctly. My mindset would have continued that I was behind in my walk with the Lord, I wasn’t really pleasing Him, and I wasn’t where I should be spiritually.
A few insights from this dream:
Often we are comparing ourselves with something that isn’t real—at least the way we are evaluating it isn’t real.
If we compare ourselves with another person the Bible says we are not wise.
Unless the Lord brings illumination we don’t see it accurately.
We, the body of Christ, need the gift of discerning of spirits. (Note that it is not the gift of discernment—it is the gift of discerning of spirits, whether human spirit, demon spirit, angelic spirit, or Holy Spirit.)
There are impostors in the church. The Bible talks about them in many places (2 Peter 2). We must be willing and bold enough to call things as they are. Love does not blanket everything in niceties.
Only staying close to the Holy Spirit will enable us to live in such a way that we don’t buy into mutant masqueraders of light, but are in reality quite dark.
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