43. Drawing Heart and Heart

© Daniel Yordy – 2021

In these two chapters we are looking at two specific things, to draw and to join. The drawing must happen first and the joining second, although both are a process.

As you can see, we are referring entirely to romance.

The marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has prepared herself. And it was given to her that she should be clothed in fine linen, bright shining and pure. For the fine linen is the just innocence in all actions of the holy ones (Revelation 19:7-8).

Union with Christ is romance, it happens only by the drawing of love.

Union with Christ is a means to an end, however, and that end is Father together with one individual person becoming Father through many.

We are not here concerned about the many, however, for there is no many except there be one and one and one. Many moving together is the normal and expected outcome of many ones in the first place.

This is so cool. I started this chapter thinking that I had no idea what this drawing and this joining actually is, that is, something far beyond my own abilities, something I have always been unable to do. Then I bring in the Word God speaks and I look at that word and suddenly it all comes into place, suddenly I have some inkling of drawing and joining.

First, let’s position the Son and the Father in this drawing and joining.

Here is the end purpose of the Son. –  Then the completion, when He shall give the kingdom to Father God. – Now, when He [Father God] shall have placed all under Him [Christ Jesus], then also the Son Himself will be placed under the One having placed all under Him, so that God may be all inside of all (1 Corinthians 15:24 & 28).

Jesus wins our hearts so that He might join us together with the Father. For that reason, we could position Christ Jesus as the drawing and the Father as the joining.

Jesus comes into union with us in order that we might know the Father.

And, of course, when we say “Jesus,” we mean Spirit and Son always together. The Son comes only by the Spirit and the Spirit comes only to show us the Son.

In order to understand what is happening here, let’s look at its opposite. –  And [most everyone] hid themselves into the caves and into the rocks of the mountains, and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall upon us, and hide us away from the face of the One sitting upon the throne and away from the opposition of the Lamb, because the day of His opposition has come and who is able to stand?” (Revelation 6:15-17).

In the “marriage of the Lamb” verse, two things are in play, love and purity. In the “wrath of the Lamb” verse, ideas invented entirely inside the hostile imaginations of those hiding from Jesus, two things grip their fear – “I am hated, and I am unclean.” Or rather – “I am hated because I am unclean.”

Now, every part of John’s vision comes under John’s gospel, and serves only to clarify and to make real. At the same time, John’s gospel stands as a true second witness to Paul’s gospel. For that reason, we see EVERYTHING in Revelation as subordinate to Paul’s gospel, serving only to make the wondrous realities of our Salvation to be vivid and clear.

What is the single reason why a dear believer in Jesus does not accept a Jesus coming into union with them as we have come to know as the obvious meaning of the gospel?

“Jesus does not love ME, because I am unclean. He expects me to clean up my act, first, before He will marry all that I am.”

That’s it. And those words are nothing more than a personally real paraphrase of Revelation 6:15-17, the mind that turns the surpassing, beyond-all knowledge of the love of Christ, and one unlimited sacrifice for sins, into “the opposition of the Lamb.” – He’s against me, I must hide.”

And that is where almost all of our Christian brethren live. God calls it hades.

“Jesus can’t come into union with ME (that is, love ME) because I am unworthy, because I am a sinner.”

Notice that I have enlarged the “ME.” This is for two reasons. The visible reason is that, contrary to Caleb in Numbers 13, this is a magnification of “me.” But the more important reason is that I mean it to say, “every aspect of the human me.”

You see, most believe that “God loves me,” but in a clinical sort of way, that is, as a general idea, but not that He loves the way I am. When I say, “Jesus loves the way I do things, Jesus loves my up and down emotions, Jesus loves all my foolish mistakes” most call it unacceptable falseness.

And so our ministry, then, is to say, “Jesus comes into union with you because He loves you in all that you are, and He is free to do that because every particle of your humanity is pure and holy and clean.” Or – we could say the same thing this way – Christ lives inside of your heart through faith.

Notice that in both parts of the vision, John saw a “Lamb.” As such, the Spirit of God is referring entirely to the truth best expressed in Hebrews 10 – one unlimited sacrifice for sins – sprinkled from an evil consciousness.

Yet when I recently presented the sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb, as “Jesus out to win your heart,” my words were thrown to the ground with, “NO. The Lamb is the expression of wrath.” That is, “God’s wrath against iniquity, for we are NOT clean.”

That she should be clothed in fine linen. – This is the Greek word periballo, made of two parts, “to throw,” and “all around.” It means to enclothe oneself with a garment. As such it is fully synonymous with enduo, that is “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

The difference between the two words is small, enduo means an active sinking into the garment as into the covers of one’s bed, whereas periballo is a slightly more aggressive action of placing the Lord Jesus Christ upon all that we are, the ONLY garment of purity on offer.

Jesus cannot force anyone to put Him upon themselves, that is something we must do ourselves, and we do it entirely and only through faith, through active believing that it is already true.

– Jesus loves you and wants to wrap all your humanity with His own purity. –

It really is as simple as that. Nonetheless, we must also place this line – just innocence in all actions. 

Whatever is not of faith is sin. Those who “try to obey” are deceiving only themselves.

It has been almost eight years now, that I have never once known “hiding” from God. Most of my prior “Christian life” was all about hiding from God in one way or another.

Whenever I FEEL faraway from God, I stop immediately and I deliberately place Father with me (periballo). I then say, “Father, this is You, sharing all my humanity with me, and You and I together turn our shared agony into blessing and goodness for others.”

Through this faith alone, then, are all my actions just innocence. And even when I make stupid mistakes, the outcome always is turned into benefit for others – because I call it to be so. And thus my whole way of thinking has become “Father with me for your sake.”

“Father with me for your sake” is the completion of union with Christ, the end result of the marriage of the Lamb. And my confidence in God is the only proof needed that it is true, according to the writer of Hebrews.

The ministry of Jesus, then, which is our ministry, Christ as us, is as the in-between, as the one carefully drawing this one human heart, AND carefully drawing the Father’s Heart, that the two might approach one another. Or we could say it this way – God has set forth and placed inside of us the Word of reconciliation and reconnection with God (2 Corinthians 5:19).

In essence, Revelation 6:15-17 is the mind inside of which our fellow Christians live, the bars of that “mind” being entirely of their own imagination, for nothing in that fear is true except for all the internal horrors caused by the false fear itself.

In the Shadowfell story, Neryn visits the four Guardians in order to learn how to call in an effective way. Two of those Guardians, first the Guardian of Water and then the Guardian of Air, taught Neryn to perceive the heart cry of one tiny little individual person and to devise a call fitted specifically for that little one to keep it safe and to draw it out from great destruction.

The Guardian of Earth, however, taught Neryn how to reach deep into the heart of a Guardian where she eventually discovered the ONLY way by which she could heal his heart.

The thing that this story does for me, then, is to give me a simple and clear picture of what it means to reach into the heart of one lost Christian soul, to hear that one’s pain, to keep that one safe, and to nudge that one, to call him or her, out from the imagination of a “Lamb of wrath” and into the knowing of a “Lamb of romance.”

And then, far more astonishing than that, the story gives me the picture of reaching deep into the Father’s broken heart and discovering the one way that His Heart can be called into the desperate need of this one lost Christian.

What is it that draws both? – Our words. The right words spoken in the right spirit. – Words of reconciliation.

Let’s consider first the words that we might speak into this one frightened and lost Christian, words that would win his or her heart away from wrath and into the romance of Jesus.

And here is where I have no skill or knowledge or ability. I have no idea, that is, I have never been capable of reaching into someone’s heart (that is, someone who is opposed to a Lamb of romance) to draw out from them their deep concerns or to speak the right words that will set them free. This is a gift not found in Asperger’s.

I can speak good words into those who have embraced what I teach, but as far as the other gift I do not have, I depend upon those who do have that gift to know what to do.

For seven years, I could not talk to Maureen, even though God had spoken to me so deeply that she would be my wife. And it was entirely a miracle of God that moment, after seven years of grief, that I could ask her a question, “What classes are you taking this semester?”

Yet our disabilities are our glory, for if we were all capable in everything, what need would we have for one another. And as we have seen, God is the most disabled of all, for He has no body through which He can step into His creation to be seen and known by all. – God needs us.

While I can give little that is practical, I can give perspective, that is, how those who do have this gift can understand and make use of their gift.

At Graham River Farm, when Dan Kurtz spoke into me, “Christ is in you,” while I was still twenty, and when Bill Ritchie spoke to me, just after I had turned twenty-one, “Daniel, I’m so glad you are here,” those two tiny little words have stood through all the years of time and have done more to win my heart to Jesus than all the thousands of hours of preaching against sin ever could.

But the critical point from the story of Neryn is that each individual, no matter how small they might be, is first, different from all the others, and second, of utmost value and importance.

Yet to understand individual people, we can consider some in similar ways. For instance, there are hungry hearts who long to know the Lord, but have never heard of Jesus coming into union with them. To these, we gently guide them to know that every part of their life IS the Lord Jesus sharing Himself with them.

Then, there are those who seem angrily opposed, yet they are that way because of a great internal and unhealed hurt. For these – what do you want, that is, going deep inside to find the real reason of their pain, must happen first.

Let me give an example. I had planned, when I arrived at my last encounter with my brother Franz in my life story, to set him before God as the first one God would give me to seek and to draw into the love of Christ. Yet in his final years, my brother was all angry opposition. In myself, I knew that for me to seek out his heart would require a gifting I do not presently have.

Then, a few days ago, Franz came to me in a dream. Now, I am not saying that it actually was my brother, who passed away several years ago, but I do say that I believe that it was. We do not “visit” with those who have lost their physical bodies, but our connection with things of the heavens is only increasing.

My brother Franz came to me in great agony of heart, and he said to me, “Daniel, please pray for my children.”

That’s just what I have done since. I am not a big pray-er, but when I do, I place each one utterly inside of my Father with great certainty of trust. And so I have prayed for each one of my brother’s four children, with their spouses and children, though I don’t know all the names. But as I have continued, I have found an anointing of God to hold each of Franz’s children inside the same anointing and expectation of God in which I hold my own, and I know that this will continue through the duration.

Then I realized that in the resurrection, I will ask God for my brother, and I will have already won his heart.

This is how we draw the hearts of the wounded.

There are two other types of people that I have no ability towards, those who desire to manipulate God’s people in some way and those who are steeped in the mental theology of the serpent’s gospel which they have built carefully over many years.

And the truth is that Jesus didn’t really know how to deal with these types of people, either, except to lay down His life for them.

As I wrote the first chapter of Symmorphy VI: Mankind, I discovered something incredible about human “nature” that I never knew before.

Let’s put three verses together. Who indeed among men knows the things of the man if not the spirit of the man that is inside of him? Even so also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God – He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him – I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh (1 Corinthians 2 & 6 & Acts 2).

From the first line, we gain this understanding, that both God and man are a story of words inside of a spirit self-awareness. From the second line we understand, then, that the spirit self-awareness is a Spirit we share with God. And from the third line we understand that this same anointing comes upon all, regardless of the “things of man” in their mind and heart.

Think then of this progression. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7). – Let this same heart-mind be inside of you that was also inside of Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).

Here is what I wrote in Symmorphy VI, 1.2 Focus and Layout. – What is called “human psychology,” then, is the study of the confused and endless patterns of the potential, in symmorphic humans, of many conflicting identities swirling together. What story do you tell yourself about yourself? What and who do you think you are? – As a man thinks in his heart so is he. What we think we are, then, is the only “human” the Spirit of God can anoint with self-knowing. –

The Christians in Revelation 6 sit side by side in the same pews with the Christians of Revelation 19, looking upon the same Lamb together. One sees a Lamb of wrath from whom they must hide, the other sees a Lamb of romance, joined utterly together with them. The “person” inside of each of these two is anointed by the Spirit of God in self-awareness, according to the story each has chosen. The first becomes ever more contrary to the Lamb; the second becomes ever more like the Lamb.

What you are REALLY IS the story you tell yourself about yourself, for that is the only self-awareness you can have. You cannot be aware of a self you do not know.

As I have put the Lord Jesus Christ upon every moment of my history, bringing it all into Him, the good, the bad, and the ugly, so my whole life has become to me one seamless story of Christ. And as I have called every present moment, “Father with me for the sake of others,” so my awareness of myself has continued to change.

I remain me, the Daniel I have always known, yet the me I know has become a very different sort of person than the person I once imagined. The me I know now is only and always a son of God.

Yet this is where I was incapable before the hard forehead of “correct theology.” The truth is, the only true outward response would be to bypass all that and to show the person, over and over, that Jesus already shares the depths of their own personal person with them.

But this is why we have gone through this extensive study of words, for changing the words of a person’s self-story is the entire task God has given to us. – Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. – Change how you think about yourself and God.

As I think about it now, I realize just how much I owe to Joel Osteen, for it was he who carefully taught me to stop thinking false thoughts and to think only thoughts of God-with-me.

It is always the Holy Spirit who alone does the drawing, yet the Holy Spirit works only out from our authority. For that reason, our gentle words and our kind actions play an equal role in the drawing of each individual heart into the love of Jesus.

Now, I want to look again briefly at drawing the Father’s Heart towards this one who is so in need of the knowledge of Salvation, for this is our task as callers as well. And when I say “caller,” I mean the New Testament “prophet,” whose task is to join Christians with the Spirit of God in the understanding and thinking of their heart-minds.

Consider human reaction the first time God entered our world through His mono-Image. – He came to His own and His own did not receive Him (John 1).

Humans utterly rejected God as He is.

Now that mono-Seed has become many, the Church, you and me. And God is once again set to enter our world through us. Humans will react the same this second time as they did the first.

And yet, part of the problem is that God spoke the Gospel with all of its ruling verses into the Church, yet for almost 2000 years, those verses have meant little and accomplished little. Why?

It’s almost as if God has been asleep. What is it that will “wake Him up.”

And I am using this picture from the Shadowfell story as a metaphor, not to define God, but to understand Him. Neryn was given the task of awakening the Guardian of the North out from his self-imposed slumber. He had placed himself into such sleep because of the great pain and sorrow he had suffered. Yet she would not just command him to come out of sleep, which she had the power to do. In her mind that would have been a disrespectful, even wicked thing to do.

After weeks spent searching out his heart and mind, Neryn realized that only one had the right to awaken the Guardian, and that was his wife. Yet she did not know where his wife was. For that reason, she searched for her inside the Guardian’s mind and heart, and when she had found her, she called the wife to come to her husband.

It was the wife, then, that awakened the husband out of sleep.

I am convinced that this is exactly how we open the doors of our hearts to allow God to enter our world. – We bring Him His bride inside our own hearts.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns. – I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth (Isaiah 62:1 & 6-7).

“Give Him no rest.” – Wake God out of sleep – with the need to establish Jerusalem, the Church of Jesus right now all across the earth, the revelation of His glory.

Here’s what I’m saying, here is what God is looking for. You and I are part of that Jerusalem, and as such, as we walk in this romantic union with the Lord Jesus, so we also have the right to awaken God ‘out of sleep,’ to call Him into our world.

We come before Him to convince Him that it is safe for Him to reveal Himself through us, and He asks us, “Where are you? And where is your brother and sister who just offended you?”

And we answer, as Jesus answered, “Here am I, my Father, here inside of Jesus, I and this one who offended me. I set my brother free into You with all joy. Father, reveal Yourself through us together.”

At that moment, as we do that, carrying all our brethren, each one with whom we interact and all the Church together in our hearts before God – Look out! For God is coming through into our world.