An observer of the Asbury Outpouring asked of another who wrote about it like a farmer measuring rainfall, “How do we discern true out pourings. Is it only subjective/emotional? Many are commenting that the reality of it will not be evident for some time to come. Just curious. Your father used a rain gauge, what is our measurement?”
Here is my own observation in that regard:
( It is)….the daily measure of a life lived in the Spirit….. What am I able to show at the end of each day as a libation drink offering poured out to God for what I thought and how I responded in bringing His Holy Spirit to a dry, thirsting world (even if the field it is poured out on is my own parched and dessicated soul!) Maybe the Holy Spirit’s outpouring latter rain has been being stored in us. Do we catch it for ourselves, cover and protect each drop for a drought or do we lavish it out on the earth upon the fields where we travel? God pours into us….. are we a cistern or a gauge, daily looking for, delighting in, and carefully pouring it back out, God’s Spirit gift, on the fields we have been given to sow? I can only measure and report in my fields…. but as the Good News of the generous outpouring is shared from sower to sower, field to field, farm to farm we are encouraged in continued watching and waiting for the harvest.
Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
“My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
