Burden the Sky

Burden the Sky... this is one of those profound, possibly life-changing revelations that wake you up in the middle of REM sleep (which, contrary to popular belief, i can enter almost immediately upon closing my eyes). That is exactly what happened. i had just drifted off to sleep for a few seconds, and i was immediately awakened with this phrase coming out of my mouth. i'm sure there was more to it in my sleep than i can remember, but the phrase itself has stuck with me, branding its home in the back of my mind... and i guess that's the most important part. i heard someone say that if you can't remember your dreams, it probably wasn't God talking to you. all i can remember is 'burden the sky.' i don't fully understand the meaning yet. don't know if it was a command, or some sort of mission i'm to complete, or just a cool name for a band or ministry... who knows? it could become the focus of my entire life...

in thinking on this, trying to decipher some relevance and meaning before i totally forgot the idea, a couple sccenarios or images came to mind. one thing really struck me in church this week when the pastor was praying for God to 'put the full weight of Heaven' behind the sermon. i was immediately distracted by the phrase he used, which i had heard plenty of times before. this time though, my visual brain, whatever side it was on that morning, started picturing things related to the full weight of Heaven. i saw all this heaviness, which i guess could be God's glory or His love for us, just pressing down on the Earth, kind of like placing something in a bench clamp. it was almost like the earth had a little emoticon saying 'this is too much pressure. i'm going to be crushed.' it was also a lot like the process of coal being formed into diamond; such relentless pressure and high heat... really brings up a lot of ideas of how God may be using us to change the face of the world.

another concept is from the other direction, with God's people offering up their praise and prayers to Him, almost as if the sky were acting as mediator between us and God... of course, this is not true. Christ is our Mediator, and our only way to the Father. so, the sky is receiving all this pressure from above and below, all the while still maintaining its status as our protector, shielding us from all the 'bad' things that could harm us, whether they take the form of UV rays, extreme heat, attacks from the enemy, or the wrath of God himself. Christ is our spiritual sky, and he has already bore our burdens. in this regard, we do burden the Sky. and in the same way, we are to continue to do so, by lifting up our praise and prayers; though this is a burden i know He will gladly bear as our Intercessor.

there are many more ideas i would like to discuss on this subject, but i'd rather not ramble. if anyone out there has an idea or a comment, feel free to post it. let us continue in God's love, encouraging and building one another up. let us live out the lives He has called us to. let us burden the sky. God bless.