"About ad 500 a book was written by a mystic or group of mystics called
the ‘cloud of unknowing’, which talks of the mystical nature of belief, a sort
of working in the dark.
Do you feel that the heavens are opened for you, or are they closed and
dark?
They were for Jesus, that was the whole point of this story. In
everything this incomparable Person was and did. Jesus’ life and death embody
the opening of the heavens. After this his life is transformed, he goes out
into the world healing preaching and loving all those with whom he came into
contact. His life was motivated by heavenly love and despite all the hatred and
temptations to power that came his way, heaven remained open to him.
Interesting isn’t it, that when we think of the heavens being opened for
us, we think of the effect of that being a new batch of miracles that take away
the pain of the world around us, but for Jesus, the heavens being opened was
about how his life became moved by the power of love and the goodness of God.
For us the heavens are never now closed. Never! In Christ and through
Christ they are open! Our feelings do not determine the status of the windows
of heaven. It has been determined in Christ Jesus. The Word and the Spirit flow
free and are among us.
When the heavens are open, anything is possible."
http://www.bruceprewer.com/DocB/BBAPTISMOFJESUS.htm
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