98: Get Clear about What You Desire

 My Heart’s Desire

 

Then I will give you the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your new wine . . . .(Deuteronomy 11:14).

 

Rain signifies life for a seed germinating underground.  Just like that seed, the new wine [your heart’s desire] in a new wineskin [your soul] must receive that which will make it grow or mature.  This is called the clarification process; and it involves a lot of filtration to make new wine free of any impurities:

 

Once fermentation is completed, the clarification process begins. Winemakers have the option of racking or siphoning their wines from one tank or barrel to the next in hope of leaving the precipitates and solids called pomace in the bottom of the fermenting tank.  Filtering and fining may also be done at this stage¹.

Troubles may come, but they don’t last always; in time, they pass.  In other words, troubles are the pomace that are meant to sink to the bottom of the “barrel” so that the new wine can be perfectly clear.  Let that pain in your heart go through forgiveness in order to rid your wine of unwanted pomace—impurities that will render its taste terribly.  Your wineskin must be re”new”ed so that your new wine can be carried in it.  Otherwise, as the Bible clarifies, Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined.  But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved (Matthew 9:17). 

 

A new idea or thought or dream/desire must go through its processes in a re’new’ed soul—a soul free from the troubles or contaminates of past sins or guilt or regrets or simply put, any memory of pain.  Old pain cannot be carried or stored in a life that is preparing for something new to happen.  Your heart’s desire is that something new in you not yet fully seen or materialized, but is in the process of becoming something wonderful to behold publicly. 

 Let your troubles be washed away by the rains right from the start of its inception (early rains) and just at the end of its preparation process (latter rains).  You are about to burst out fresh and delicious! The harvesting of your fruit(s) has been hand-picked or chosen by the Lord.  His indwelling Holy Spirit has crushed and suppressed any urgings for furious fights of the flesh because you have fermented your wine in His holy word.  It is by staying in and doing God’s Word that gives clarity, or makes your heart’s desire absolutely clear to you.  Of course, others can never understand what the Lord is preparing in you.  He does something unique in all of us who yield to His perfect will.  It is God’s grace that filters out all impurities and sinks all your troubles to the bottom of the “barrel” so that your new wine can be made ready in its vessel of honor.

 

What is it that you want?  What is it that you desire to become real in your life?  Get clear about it now.  Write it down in full detail and description.  Leave nothing out.  Throw away whatever can distract your desire from coming true.  Reject and destroy anything that causes you pain.  Move out of the way of anyone that causes you pain. “Pomace, you’ve got to get out of my wineskin!”  Embrace who you are and what God is making you to become.  He loves you like none other.  You are the apple of His eye; and He’s cheering you on!  You’ve got God-power to trample that trouble and come out purified!

 You are no mistake.  Your life’s mission is no mistake.  The desire(s) of your heart is no mistake.  All are ordered by the Lord (if only you believe).  But you must be patient waiting during the time needed for the process of clarifying your heart’s desire to come to completion in order to enjoy its fruition.  Wait for the season of this miracle. Do not rush, and do not slumber.  Stay vigilant and on course each day taking the right steps as the Master Winemaker does His work in you.

  

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1. Reference for the processes of making wine: www.worldsbestwines.eu: A Detailed Guide to Winemaking.

 

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