A man describes a vision where Jesus enters chambers of his heart, asking permission each time. The darkest chamber represents unforgiveness, cynicism, defensiveness, and attachments to wealth, titles, and comfort that keep him in spiritual darkness.
I remember years ago, the Lord showed me a vision. I was standing at the entrance of a cave. On my peripheral vision, I could see a bright light standing beside me. I knew it was the Lord. And the Lord asked me, before we entered this cave, may I enter? And I thought that was interesting that he would ask my permission before we entered into these caverns. And so I said, yes, Lord, we can enter. We step into the first section of these caverns. And as soon as we step into that first section, his light filled the room. And I could see the cave cave-like walls and the rocks and the formations in detail because his light had filled the room. And then the Lord asked again, speaking of the next section of the caverns, where we entered the next chamber, may I have this? Can we enter here? And it went like this on and on for several minutes where we were going through the caves and the caverns and the sections. And each time he would ask my permission, we would step in and light would fill that section. And finally, we came to this certain section that was especially dark. I don't know how else to describe that other than to say it was a deeper darkness than the other darkness. And I hesitated, and I don't know why I did, but I hesitated. And the Lord said, may I have this? And there was this struggle, this tension, this reservation about giving this room to the Lord. And finally I said, Lord, you can have this section too. The Lord told me that this represented the chambers of my heart and the different sections that I would surrender. And he showed me that there are some areas of the heart that we just struggle to give him. This could be an attitude. This could be unforgiveness. This could be defensiveness, cynicism because you've been hurt. This can be a position or a title, success or wealth, a location you're in or a preference that you have, comfort, a pet sin, maybe even a relationship that you're trying to hang on to. And the Holy Spirit is saying, give that to me. And we're saying, Lord, you can have everything else. Just don't touch this. That is rebellion. That is idolatry.
