THE ONE WORD ORDER
Kolyah
April 17, 2020
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“DISORIENTATION and REORIENTATION??”
Kolyah
Let me begin this teaching with a short word study of three terms … Disorientation, Displacement, and Transposition.
DISORIENTATION: The manifestations of disorientation are: bewilderment, confusion perplexity, bafflement, stupefaction, incomprehension, and uncertainty. Disorientation arises from a sense of displacement that can lead to fear or panic.
DISPLACEMENT can quickly disorient people. To experience displacement is to experience a shift … a dislocation … being dislodged … being supplanted … experiencing a transposition.
A TRANSPOSITION means that there has been a change in normal or in the expected. It can be a reordering of normal, or a recasting of it through a sudden change in circumstances that creates the question of “Where am I?” “How did I get here?”. A transposition involves a switch, a swap, an inversion, an exchange or a substitution … basically creating a rearrangement of life, so that normal as it has been, is now reordered, recast, relocated or shuffled to where it has become something it has not been before.
Wow!! Have we been disoriented, displaced, transposed recently? Haven’t we had our lives largely, unexpectedly, rearranged since early March!?? While we have been going through this covid-19 crisis, one very common experience for people everywhere, is a feeling of disorientation. Life has changed. One commentator stated that COVID-19 messes with human respiration, with the human mind, and with the human neurological system, but also with all of human social life. How true! For some people this has been an incredibly disorienting experience. It’s as if someone came along and changed “due north” on the directional compass.
What has changed or shifted:
** We are confined to our homes much of the time … even with people being required to work from home.
**Women are no longer applying makeup on a daily basis … some are no longer getting their hair colored or groomed. Wardrobe selections are irrelevant. There is no need to do those while staying at home all the time, and with no potential visitors dropping in. (My 89-year-old mother-in-love has been having her hair done weekly for 68 years. She did her own shampooing and styling for the first time, in all those years, a couple of weeks ago. She was both surprised and thrilled with how good her hair looked after she did her own shampooing and styling)
**Some homebound men are letting their beards grow … there’s no need to shave for work. However, some bearded men are being forced to shave off their beard, if they work in a job that requires a face mask full time. The beard can cause an insufficient seal between the face and the mask.
**Appointments of various kinds have been cancelled … dental and eye checkups, luncheon engagements, elective surgery, speaking engagements, etc.
**Cultural and entertainment events have been cancelled … concerts, plays, festivals, movie theaters are closed.
**Business travel has been cancelled. (I was scheduled to be traveling to Israel and to the UK from May 26th to June 30th. That all is delayed/cancelled at this point)
**Children are “doing” school from home through the internet. Graduation ceremonies have been cancelled, or turned into drive-by events to pick up a diploma. Graduation parties are being postponed to a future time.
**Weddings have been postponed, or conducted as a virtual wedding over the internet via Zoom etc. Summer weddings are doubtful at this time.
**The Spring holiday celebrations were cancelled. Summer parties are not being planned.
**Weekly family dinners, birthday parties, grandparents’ babysitting days are cancelled.
**College students have moved back home after moving out of their dorm rooms.
**Sporting events have been cancelled … professional and college basketball, baseball, etc … even tennis with Wimbledon being cancelled.
**Body contact has been curtailed … no hugs, no handshakes, no kisses for goodbye or hello
**Many jobs have been suddenly lost, and for some, personal and value identity have been misplaced with that loss of title or income. Anxiety is running high as the jobless rate rises with no clear end in sight.
**Vacations have been cancelled, and vacation pay has been required to be used by those still actively working, in order to keep an income coming in.
**When out in the public, to get groceries, etc., our faces are being concealed behind masks. Smiles are hidden from view, and hands are often covered by disposable gloves.
Life has changed! The daily schedules and routines … many appointments pre-set on the calendar … have been shut down. This has caused people to be confused and forgetful about what day it is when they get up in the morning. Some people are deeply disoriented and not knowing what to do with their time, as they are restricted to their home, day after day. Constant contact with in-house family members … being confined in the home with each other hour after hour … has caused domestic violence to increase.
Some of our expectations, which were taken for granted as being our very certain future reality (before the appearance of COVID-19) have now vanished. Many of the plans, surrounding what we were to be doing right now, have been canceled … or those plans have taken a very different form in our present-day reality. Major social changes, restricting our movements and activities, came crashing down upon us without warning. Who would have dreamed that we would be told to stay at home for weeks on end, or to keep 6 feet of distance between us and others? What grandparent ever dreamed of be unable to visit or to hug a grandchild? Just two months ago, how many successful, productive, businesses ever thought of having to close their doors suddenly, or laying off their most faithful, long-term employees? Who ever dreamed that we would be walking around like the people of China during the SARS epidemic; wearing masks in public. Who ever dreamed that we would be waiting 6 feet apart, in lines outside grocery stores; waiting to be allowed to go inside to get our food? Who would have imagined empty grocery shelves and hunting to find toilet paper to buy?
All these shifts that have altered normal life have caused us to feel a bit disoriented. Where are we and how did we get here? Is this really happening to our western civilization … to our world? These major changes have caused many to consider where we might end up when/if this is over. While this pandemic took us by surprise, it did not surprise YHVH. He has allowed this to give us an opportunity to re-evaluate how we have been living, and what we have be holding on to as our truth and security. This major, sudden, life shift has begun to dissolve some of the false beliefs we’ve been operating in without thinking beyond them. The false beliefs … suggesting that we are able to keep ourselves safe, and that we are free to determine our destiny, and that through hard work we are entitled to have success … have begun to crumble. The delusion that the Lord would keep us from ever facing this kind of a challenge (because we’re the good guys) has been shattered. For that matter, we are now seeing that perhaps there are people wielding power in, and over, our nation that are NOT the good guys; but rather are those, who are working for our total destruction. Some of the Trojan horses are now being seen … those rebellious, dangerously ungodly elements, values, and practices that have been sitting front and center in our culture, undetected, but perpetually influencing our perceptions and corrupting our conclusions regarding reality without our knowledge. Wickedness in high places of business, institutions, etc. … many operating as Deep State networks of global, Luciferian, evil operating throughout the world … are being exposed to a degree; but most still hide in the shadows. Wow … have we needed a wake-up call to see the true reality operating beyond the presenting, mesmerizing, surface, matrix in which we have been living!
Some of the beliefs that we’ve been operating on needed to be challenged for us to see the truth that NOTHING is certain, except for the realities pertaining our God. But, of course, initially, we don't realize what our false beliefs are, nor how they affect how we see and understand the world. When our stupor is challenged by a crisis, and when we stop long enough to hear what the Lord is saying regarding how we’ve been living, the truth can come as a shock.
A few beliefs that needed to be re-oriented in the Body:
**Christians/believers won’t have to go through tribulation times (Not true … He brings us through for His glory. Very often after losses, receiving the Lord’s 7-fold restitution is the way we grow in authority)
**If you have enough faith you won’t get sick (Not true! We believe and ask … HE decides. Sometimes He asks for demonstrations of His truth, provided to the world through our lives … such as, “His strength is made perfect in our weaknesses.)
**God’s provision/love for us means granting us our desires … not just our needs. (Yeshua is to be our greatest desire, and in Him, we have all we need. He will provide our NEEDS, according to His riches in glory! Yes, He wants to bless us with some “wants”, but only when we are in a content and secure place of soul without them. Most of what we have is purely His generous mercy.)
**God wants us to be comfortable. (No … not all the time in this life! He wants us to be blessed, not necessarily comfortable. Sometimes the more comfortable we are, the less we think we need Him. Blessing comes from dependency, and from living in a deep relationship with Him. Discomfort draws us to Him. He is closest to those, who are suffering so that He might be glorified. Sometimes our discomfort can alert us to the fact that we need to make some changes.)
**We deserve ____! (No! We deserve nothing but hell. His mercy and salvation are generous gifts … not earned or deserved. Our Father gives gifts to us generously, because He loves us; not because we deserve these things.)
**The level of blessings we have is reflective of our goodness, and of God’s approval of how we are living. (Nations are judged and the weight of that judgment is felt by the righteous as well as the unrighteous. Sometimes we receive His mercy, as reflected in blessings, when our behaviors, attitudes, and actions are not worthy to receive blessings.)
**The pain in our life is from our own sin. (Not necessarily … this is a fallen world … the sin of others will impact us painfully at times. Sometimes generational sin, curses, and unholy covenants come to bear on our lives from our ancestors. Sometimes the sin of national leaders, releases pain as the Lord expresses disapproval of the course a nation is going. The Lord is with us in our pain. He makes us more than conquerors and He frees us from our bondage in the midst of pain.)
**Israel is of no consequence, and no longer holds any special place in the heart and plan of YHVH. The Jews lost that when they rejected Yeshua. (Absolutely NOT! Jeremiah 31: 36-37 reads:
35 Thus says the LORD,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;
The LORD of hosts is His name:
36 “If this fixed order departs
From before Me,” declares the LORD,
“Then the offspring of Israel also will cease
From being a nation before Me forever.”
37 Thus says the LORD,
“If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel
For all that they have done,” declares the LORD.
In losing the veneer of our faulty beliefs, we can lose our habitual way of understanding and interacting with everyday life. We have been operating in comfortable, entitled, mindless, ruts much of the time when it comes to conducting our daily business, and for establishing expectations of what the future will be. Suddenly now, we don't understand what we are doing, how we are to interact in life (and with each other), or even how to think about how to proceed from here! Will we ever return to what was normal? Actually, we are now needing to consider what normal should or will be?
This recent transposition and displacement of normal life can be very disorienting, and for some people, very distressing. What was certain in the natural is no longer certain. Without a grip on something that is certain, people can become very frightened. What will be next? Who can you trust? What will happen to me and to those I love? Who is really in charge and in control? An element of disorientation surely is normal, given the sudden appearance of this pandemic and the alterations of life that we have had to deal with as a result of it. However, we cannot remain in this state of disorientation, in which the spirits of Havoc and Chaos are busy creating destructive playgrounds. We must come to a new, fresh, awareness of who we are … what is vital … what we are to be about … where we have missed the mark … where we have been deceived … what needs to be changed … what needs to be challenged, etc. in order to get back up, or to stay up, on our feet.
I suggest that we now need to make a spiritual shift in order to glean the blessings offered to us by this downturn in the physical state of life. We need to step back from the polluted values of the popular culture to look at our past responses to life as we have known it. How should have we been responding to the rebellion in our social and religious systems? What are the indoctrinated beliefs that have skewed our understanding of what is real, what is important, and what is vital? Our "eyes" need to be adjusted to see what is real according to the focus and view of the Lord. If we don’t engage now with the reality formed from a Kingdom foundation of clarity and truth, we will likely slip back into the erroneous ruts that deny the Lord His glory due Him, as we live our lives for Him … when we are operating in eternal reality, and sharing His truth … investing each day into that which is far beyond this crisis.
Our growth and forward movement will be inhibited if we try to hang onto the carnal beliefs we’ve accepted, instead of adopting the Kingdom reality as our new way of life. We have to make a spiritual shift that will enable us to become fully operational in our expressed citizenship in the Kingdom of YHVH. If we try to hold on to any belief, any focus, any expectation, or any activity that does not have the blessing of the Lord, we will be pulled apart like a wishbone. Kicking against the goads, and trying to accommodate, or to tolerate, any standard that is counter to YHVH’s word, will and character, will throw us into a serious dark night of the soul. We will go from disorientation to blatant instability due to our double-mindedness. If we are so committed to believing, or maintaining the wrong things as truth … things that we may have been taught to believe and told to practice, we will be sent into a tailspin; going nowhere. The pride within each of us wants to keep believing or operating in what has been comfortable, and whatever has appeared to work for us. But after this kind of a major reset … after this kind of a “wake-up” call … we need to move into what the Lord is revealing to us. We need to go back to His word, and take it seriously (rather than considering His laws as being mere suggestions). We need to embrace His correction, His standards, His truth, and His course for us with a full heart. We must let go of the false and the compromised, as we confess the sin of having embraced these wrongful things. We need to declare Him faithfully and openly in our world … no longer cowering or catering to a post-modern, politically correct template. Through opening up to the Holy Spirit, we can come to realize the true absurdity of believing in something for the sake of believing in something. We can take a focused look on where the compromises have been taking us, and see what a dangerous position we have been in, as a nation and as a people, all along. When the truth of the Lord … when the calling of the Lord becomes our foundation and the lens through which we look at others, and at all of life, we will become much clearer in our understanding about the life we’ve been given, and how to live it out to the glory of the Lord. We will see our destiny in the light of His truth, and it will be amazingly exciting.
So, through this time of major uncertainty in the natural, we can come to a far deeper certainty about life present, and life in the future, when we seize the opportunity to reorient; seeing these things through Kingdom eyes. We will recognize the mercy of the Lord found in this COVID-19 pandemic. We will understand that we are truly in the midst of a major spiritual war that will bring forth both the anti-Christ and the returning Messiah. We will come to understand that every day is precious and that few days remain, regardless how old we are. We can reorient to the reality that what is unfolding is far bigger than we are, but not even remotely bigger than the Lord. If we stop and use this time of confinement as an opportunity to do a spiritual inventory, a spiritual house cleaning, and a reset, we can come out on the other side so much stronger and more righteous. Great things await us as we re-orient to the deep things of the Spirit unfolding in these end time challenges.
And in the midst of all the swirling changes in our daily lives, we must switch our focus away from all the losses and disappointments … away from all the fearsome reports and negative expectations. We truly don’t know what is going on and where this is going to end. However, we DO KNOW THE LORD, and have free access to Him at all times. We need to re-orient our focus; putting it completely ON HIM. HE KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON! He knows what is required. He knows when this will end. He knows, who has perpetrated this evil. He knows if the reports about efforts to rescue the helpless are really taking place, and whether the global elite are being pursued by secret armies for a takedown. He alone knows. Therefore, we need to FIX our attention and our gaze upon YHVH. We have needed to be focused on Him all along, but have neglected to do that consistently or completely. Now is the time to make the change. Look at these texts to help us:
Psalm 141:8
8 But my eyes are fixed on You, O GOD, the Lord. In You I seek refuge; do not leave my soul defenseless.
Psalm 57:7-11
7 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!
8 Awake, my glory!
Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.
9 I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.
10 For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens
And Your truth to the clouds.
11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.
Psalm 112: 6-8
6 Surely, he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever. 7 He will not fear bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. 8 His heart is assured; he does not fear, until he looks in triumph on his foes.…
Eccl. 12:11
11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
I particularly love the analogy in this last text … the words of the wise “are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd”. That was the text that I put in for forward of my first book, THE WHISPERS OF THE SHEPHERD. The wisdom of the Lord is a strong nail, pounded into a solid, strong place, which we can securely cling to, when we are at the end of our rope. With our eyes fixed upon the Lord, and with our minds and heart steadfastly trusting in Him to be our security, everything shifting around us becomes less significant. We have Him … He has us! I praise YHVH for this amazing time designed for going deeper, and for rising higher in the Spirit. Re-orient us, Lord! Position us for Your strength and for Your glory.