Season 5: The Circle of Life
Rom 8:28 We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose. AMP
The circle speaks of eternity and eternal things. There is no perceivable beginning or ending in the geometric symbol of the circle, but the line which makes up the circle continues as it were back to where it started. It then continues past that point and completes another complete journey around the circle, reinforcing the existence of the circle, and also establishing its identity.
What was originally just a line, or a drawing in the sand, or a person heading off in a seemingly unrelated or not clearly defined direction, is surprised to find that they have arrived back at the point where they began or the line started to be drawn. There are two options at this point. A person can head off in a new direction or go over the same path again until the circle is established. Many people find that life is much like a circle and that circumstances or a power beyond their understanding brings them back to face the same situations or series of choices over and over again. In essence this is true, and I bring or allow most people to come again back to the place where they can have opportunity to establish their true Godly identity and purpose that I have chosen for them here on this earth.
This Circle of Life is an act of Grace on My part where I give My servants an opportunity to get back on track and conform to My perfect will for their lives. Many people confirm how they come to the place where circumstances and situations are similar to what they have experienced previously in their lives. They may then remember the choices that they took at that time that caused them pain, or were so difficult they did not have the courage to do or face the issues that were before them. However they find that the second or third time around they are different, and their response will now be more mature or reasoned, now seasoned with the wisdom of hindsight and meditation upon Godly principles outlined in My Word. They now see not only what they should have done, but are now able to make the correct decision each time this situation or calling arises in their lives.
The Circle of Life is your spiritual identity and as I lead you again and again to face the issues in your Circle of Life, you will be conformed to My perfect will for your life. As with My Circle of Love the way out of error and into conformity to My will is by confession, repentance, deliverance and healing over the points on the Circle of Life where you missed it or failed, by lack of courage to be obedient to the promoting of My Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh). It is common and usual that when confronted with issues and circumstances the first time around the circle, many of My servants are cowardly or fearful of what I am revealing to them as to the true identity of whom they are and the calling that I have put upon their lives. Many who are beginning to move out in faith and obedience miss Me or get puffed up with pride or arrogance.
In My great love I will bring them around again in their Circle of Life, until they can face their failures and fears and disappointments. I also minister life and healing as they are able to give up to Me their failures by simply confessing them as sin, and asking Me for My forgiveness, humbly acknowledging that they either missed what I was saying, took the wrong path or took the right path with arrogance and rivalry or contempt of others. And so I brought them around again until they had matured or I had taught them from My word principles that combined with more maturity and wisdom, then enabled them to take the decision that I had required of them.
It is not always that My servants fail as such, but often when I give them a glimpse of what I have called them to be they simply are terrified and cannot accept or be obedient at the time to what I have shown them. I knew this and My Circle of Life is and always was a process so that I could gradually show you the path that I have chosen for you and all of My children, bringing you around again and again, gently nudging you and directing you, training you and equipping you whilst you were being conformed to the spiritual identity that I had created you to be. All the while the wheel of your life has been moving in time and space, you are indeed upon a spiritual journey.
You are a wheel within a wheel moving in a direction pre-destined by Myself jointly fitting together with many other wheels, each with a peculiar identity meshed as it were as gears in a cog, each wheel having the wheel of My Circle of Love, rotating and revolving within it bringing life, health, peace, forgiveness, completeness and joyfulness, enabling your spiritual identity to be formed and reinforced, giving you the courage to face who you are and who I created you to be, your purpose, your mission, your vision and to become all that I created you to be.
Nothing is wasted in Me. All things work together for good to those who love Me. Doing things in your own strength, being blatantly rebellious will still turn out for good. I am absolutely and totally in control of the outcome and the process of forming you, training and equipping you to fulfill My plans and purposes. Some have fulfilled their calling not aware that I had directed their steps, because they were so stubborn and rebellious and intent on doing it their way, that I let them live in the delusion of their own grandeur, the greater ministry being unrecognized by them as even significant because they were so intent on doing My will their way. Yet their Circle of Life was complete and all the while I was directing them and My plans and purposes were and will be achieved, right on time and right on schedule.
Excerpt From: Thomas A. Petterson. “G.I.F.T Godly Insights for Today.” Australian eBook Publisher, 2014. iBooks. This material is protected by copyright
