![]() Dear Friend, How are you? Hope you had or are having a good day today? In the winter, 2020, I signed up to Brother Chris Berglund’s class on Ascending Zion. In his class, he mentioned threshing floor. It was quite interesting to listen to his teaching on threshing floor, as I can’t remember listening to sermons on threshing floor in the past. Brother Chris mentioned threshing floor is where grains from harvest are detached from husks. The purpose of threshing is not destruction, but detachment. He shared David’s setting up an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24, 1 Chronicles 21). King David paid the full price for it, saying he would not offer burnt offerings to the Lord that would cost him nothing. Brother Chris shared how the word of the Lord comes to us in forms of testing and threshing floor transactions and said these invitations to transfiguration have the potential to detach us from our old way of thinking and conform us to the image of Christ. I pondered his teaching on threshing floor and transfiguration. I wanted to see how the threshing is done. So I searched it online. Though I dream of farming, I know I’m so ignorant of the process. Searching and watching it actually gave me both practical and spiritual teaching. Interestingly enough, I happened to read some articles in Succat Hallel website and found out Pastor Rick Ridings and Sister Patricia Ridings posted their writings on “The Season of the Threshing Floor and the Coronavirus Plague” that was posted back in April, 2020. I found it interesting to read and hear on the threshing floor often in that season. I’m sharing the link of the article, as I would like to encourage you to take some time to read it. It’s still up to date during this pandemic and it speaks truth that we should ponder. We are always around tough people to work with or to live with. Even if you would pray not to meet those kinds of people in your life, you should know it would be impossible. No matter where we work or go, we always meet difficult people to be with and challenging situations to deal with. It’s not because our Heavenly Father enjoys watching our pains or He doesn’t give his eyes and ears to us. But it’s because He wants us to be refined and purified. How would it be possible? If only we could allow Him to take His place in His throne in our hearts. I often ask our Father to give me His heart, as I feel it’s hard to love others with my own effort. I think if I could have His heart, it would be just natural that I could see others with His heart and His eyes. I pray that I crucify myself on the cross and only Jesus lives in me. Friend, I’m not writing this as if I have already reached the point where I should be. Even yesterday, I had an unpleasant phone call with someone I know for business. He is a Christian and very demanding and difficult person to work with. I was not in a good mood at all after the call. Yet, I chose not to slander or backbite him, instead, to pray for him and forgive him. I think I’m in the middle of being trodden on the threshing floor. Friend, I pray that you and I come out purified in this season and fruitful for His Kingdom in Jesus’ mighty name. Have a bliss! Yunee His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:12) Comments are closed.
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