The Remnant

I read an interesting study about a population of trees that had migrated to a different country, yet still thrived in the new environment. They actually not only thrived, but contributed to the wholeness of the whole forest. But how?

“The old trees remembered their ancestral homeland.”

They brought the culture of their homeland to the soil they were now planted in. They operated in remembrance and brought life to a dry, arid climate.

What we are able to do as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness.

We were birthed out of Yahweh Himself. This is our true beginning. Our homeland being the Father’s arms. If we dare to be still and know, we will remember. The love, the belonging, the oneness. What we’ve had all along. Union.

And when we remember, everything changes. Because He first loved us, the ground we plant our feet on shifts as we permeate the earth with the culture of heaven with every step.

Because He first loved us, we inhale His Wind and exhale His fragrance, bringing a cosmic love into the atmosphere.

Growing up, I’ve always heard the phrase “last days remnant”. I believe the last days began after the cross, when we entered into a new age/covenant of justification and grace. It’s a finished work. For the rest of our days, it has been done. We are reconciled. So if we all a part of this new age, then we all belong to this remnant.

A remnant remembers. We are all a part of this remnant, as we are all a cosmic family of sons and daughters. It’s not a select group or a spiritually elite circle of people. It’s those that remain in remembrance, something we all have access to.

And what if – just what if – it doesn’t look like wars and battles, doom, gloom and despair, but an earth so permeated with the love of heaven that we carry, that we can no longer tell the difference between the two? I dare to believe that the good news really is that good.

The trees are showing us. They’re telling us just how good it is. For us to wake up to who we are and where we’ve come from. That remembrance will change our lives, the earth and the cosmos.

With Christ in our DNA, the hope of glory, we have the power to make the earth look so much better. But first, we must remember just how good the gospel is.