Richard Maisenbacher
I recently had a vision with little blue angles suspended in midair. I heard God’s voice say, “I am going to give you My angle on some things.” Then I saw a distinct blue right angle with a few little right angles around them and heard, “I am also going to give you the right angle on some things.” After some meditation I realized the word or picture of a angle meant perspective. Blue usually means revelation. I sensed that even though He said He was going to give me revelation with the right perspective, we as a body would also receive the “right angle” on some things.
I perceived that the relationship with God and others in covenant is a major part of the right angle. In fact, covenant making is the foundation on which the Word of God is made known to us. The Semitic lands understand covenant, but it is very foreign to us in the West.
The covenants are meant to be the vehicles of the expression of God’s will and purpose for man. This expression is of love and trust to establish a binding relationship, usually between stronger and weaker parties. Guess who might be the stronger party when we accepted God’s covenant that we enter when we are first born again?
In making covenants with others or with tribes particularly in recorded history, there was an exchange of gifts, blood, clothes, weapons, and names. When we accept the covenant that God has offered, we begin to exchange names, position, character, nature, and responsibilities. Making covenant with God becomes an ongoing relational exchange of all that I am for all that He is.
The purpose of entering covenant with God is to be one with Him and know Him intimately. It produces peace. Isaiah 54:10 says, “For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but my lovingkindness will not be removed from you. And My covenant of peace will not be shaken, says the Lord who has compassion on you.” A few synonyms for God’s peace are safety, security, strength, prosperity, health and increase.
God doesn’t just give us righteousness. He causes us to become righteous by His grace. Being transformed into the image of Christ is not about changing ourselves. It is about cooperating and responding to God as He exchanges Himself for all of us…as we become more like Him.
Arthur Burt would say, “If God in His wisdom permits that which He could have prevented by His power, then it was for a purpose. That we would bow on our knees and say yes and amen!”
The Hebraic angle (perspective) is that we pray that our heart will be transformed in such a way that we will be fully prepared to accept what God has to offer. Lord, we thank You for changing our hearts and allowing us to see the right angle so we can walk relationally with You in your covenant as we receive your peace!
In His Covenant Love,
