My wife Linda and I recently attended the Minnesota State Fair, it is our annual date together where we hold hands and spend the whole day together visiting the exhibits, the agriculture and Eco experience are two of our favorites, we look forward to that annual date every year.
We had never visited the butterfly exhibit before and I felt led to do that this year. As we entered the building there were many butterflies of various colors flying, resting, sitting on some of the people there. I said a silent prayer that they would land on my wife and myself so that we could experience that. I thought after a while that that would not happen, only for a second or two and then just believed that it would, a complete stranger exclaimed excitedly that there was a butterfly on my back, she was smiling as were her children. Shortly after that more butterflies began to land on me, I had one on my hand, my arm, my back, my wallet, and then the biggest butterfly of all landed right over my heart. The Lord showed me that in all of the commonality of people experiencing this wonder of his creation they were kind to each other, helping each other, (as in strangers helping children to correctly handle the butterflies so that they could experience an actual butterfly on them) speaking to one another even though they had never met before, with smiles, that this is how it will be in the new heavens and the new earth, a place of friendliness, joy, peace, love! I began to tear up right in that place and as I did people were smiling kind smiles. I felt the great love and kindness of the Lord through that experience! That big butterfly over my heart remained there the entire time I was in there, and I was reminded by the Holy Spirit that my Lord spoke to me last year that as I followed him he would create in me a pure heart and renew in me continually, a steadfast spirit. That big butterfly over my heart is like the Lord covering and protecting your heart from slings and arrows that cause harm to that pure heart. Do you want to experience the loving kindness of your Lord and savior Jesus and your father in heaven? Then dedicate everything to God, your life, your finances, your house, your family, read his word daily, pray to him daily, talking to him about your concerns, your needs, your very heart in all matters, and the Holy Spirit will guide you, counsel you, show you wonderful things as you begin to see in the spirit. He loves you even if you do not know him. But as you begin to know him by his word and by talking to him in a real way and opening your heart to his Holy Spirit you will feel and know his great love and kindness in a personal way! There is nothing greater than that.
Ephesians 3: 14-19 For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
