Received on April 2023

Sarah

His glory is weighty. His holiness fills and consumes all that He settles on. A word for this is – SATURATE. He saturates! The definition is: holding as much as can be absorbed; no more can be added; no further increase is currently available. It is likened to pure colour – no white is added to water down the intensity.

Its hard to understand that we can be filled to the point that nothing more can be added. Not because He has a limit, but because our capacity cannot hold any more. So no further increase is currently available. This is the standard. That we be a people so filled with His presence and glory that nothing is watered down. That we carry the full intensity of who He is, holding as much as can be absorbed. That we are saturated!

Picture a tea bag soaking in water. We can thoroughly drench it for hours OR we can dip it in and out quickly. We can behold Him, abide with Him, pause enough to hear His voice, thoughts, and feel His emotions. We can immerse ourselves in Him like a tea bag. As leather soaks in oil, which makes it flexible and durable, we soak ourselves in His oil and it changes us.

Mark 2:22 says that leather will burst if new wine is put into old wineskins. I believe this isn’t speaking of age, but of essence and nature. When we dip ourselves in quickly, a quick prayer thrown at Him or a song sung distractedly, our leather becomes stiff and cracked, unable to carry the intensity and fullness of His glory. We’d burst if He were to pour His fullness out.

May we be stewards of His presence; a people that are saturated with the fullness of His glory and holiness! That we would be pure vessels; revealing Him rightly. That we may carry His fullness with us, dripping over each person we meet and place we step our foot. That the world will see a light that shines in the darkness, a light that cannot be put out.

Compare the state of your spirit to that of a wineskin – Do you feel dry and cracked or saturated and filled? Make space to be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him (Ps 37:7) and be filled up to all the fullness of God (Eph 3:19).

Colossians 1:19 ESV: For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.