Hosanna Restoration Church

It is not always easy getting comfortable with unknown places, but we all do it on a regular basis. We are born into an unknown place as infants and it just never stops. Even the things we think we know from time to time change on us and we are forced to move through another unknown. Our ability to adapt to the unknown has a huge influence upon our life experience.

Adam and Eve were born into a wonderful unknown, and it ended badly when their trust in God was compromised. Abraham entered into an agreement on a promise of a place that God would show him. He believed God and it was accounted to him as righteousness. Jesus has promised us a kingdom that we receive by faith which enters us into the unknown, but not really, because He came and revealed at least a glimpse of that unknown! The question is; are we going to settle for a cup of the unknown, or fill up on the overflowing promises of God.

As the Lord has taken me back to a dream from two years ago, He reminded me of the tunnel that I first saw as I found myself in an unknown place. There was a brief look at it and then we moved on to a structure that could be explored.

He reminded me of how it was a completely unfamiliar and unknown place and a new set of circumstances. As I said before, we are continually being exposed to something unknown. That is why we often hear people say things like, “that is just the way it goes,” when in fact they have no idea how it went that way. We also hear people implying that it was God’s will and plan when something goes wrong that we do not understand.

If we will only take the time to know the unknown we will not be so inclined to just throw out statements that seem to make sense but are in fact so far from the truth.

The anxiety I felt when I first entered the place in the dream could have easily been an excuse to try to escape and run, but the feeling that God was bigger than the place and that there must be something good there allowed me to discover just how good the place was.

Every new anxious moment, quickly provided a new revelation and greater comfort. Even though the moments of anxiety seemed to drag on, the moment the revelation came it was obvious they were only for a moment. Then after only a couple moments of relief producing revelation, I found that I expected the solutions before I really gave much thought to the problems that presented themselves. Now it seems that God is taking me back to the beginning of my arrival and that tunnel that we only glanced at.

How we see the unknown of the Kingdom of God and what we expect from the life that is in Christ Jesus, directly affects the amount of the Kingdom that we experience.