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The Fog, There Was a Vision…
Vicky,
lift your hands.
Okay,
Lord.
Sitting
on the second row, a woman I didn’t know began to sob quietly and
mumble something unintelligible. With my hands lifted up, I
continued to sing as I stood before the small group gathered at that
weekend retreat in northern Missouri about seven years ago. The
fact that I didn’t know what the Lord was doing was not important.
What mattered was that I be obedient to what He asked me to do.
For
the sake of anonymity, I will call the woman Paula. When I was
able to speak with her after the service, she told me what she had
seen during that song.
She
said that when I lifted my hands, an angel stepped into the room
behind me. Looking up toward heaven, the angel also had uplifted
hands. The angel seemed to be holding something large and round.
As
I sang, the round space the angel held filled with a light fog.
In the center of the fog, a vision appeared in which a woman wearing
sweats stood before the throne of God.
Unwilling
to lift her head because of the deep shame she felt for the life she
had lived, the woman stood there crying before the King of kings.
She was deeply humbled as she waited in the presence of God, for she
was one who had been a prostitute, a drug addict, and an alcoholic.
Molested as a child and raped as a teenager and adult, she had gone on
to marry and divorce five men. She killed five of her babies
while they were still in her womb and didn’t bother to raise the
three living children she’d given birth to, leaving them with their
fathers instead so that she could do whatever she wanted with her
life. She had cheated, stolen, lied, damaged many lives, and had tried
just about every sin there was to try.
And,
although she had finally surrendered her life to God, loving and
serving Him for the rest of her days, the awareness of her sins left
her feeling completely undeserving of being in His presence. For
here in this place was the One Who knew her even more intimately than
she knew herself, and loved her still…
