After leaving Paradise, back up north, I woke up the next morning and I found myself again thanking Him, when I thought to ask, “Why was it different there? Darling, it actually feels different there than it does here. While down south, I felt so at peace, so different than I do here. It’s really not the feel of the city at all, though snowbirds do flock there more than they fly down here.” Then He said, “Because here, you’re at war.” Well, gosh, I can tell you it sure has felt like that. Being shut up, not going out, after He explained we were at war, it all began to make sense. And for some reason, calling me to live up north meant He’d called me to go to the frontlines of the battle.
That morning while having our coffee with just the light of the streetlights coming in the window, I began to see myself in Spain and remembered being so blessed when He led me to take a tour bus to the Rock of Gibraltar on my way to Tangier, the northern tip of Africa. While there, we were able to tour the tunnels used in WWII where General Eisenhower set up his headquarters (he later became and was the President when I was born—which gives away my age, so now you know I finally am an older wise woman :).
Churchill had Eisenhower set up his headquarters “in a small chamber, in a tunnel in the heart of the Rock.” In his memoirs General Eisenhower wrote, “The subterranean passages under the Rock provided the sole available office space, and in them was located the signal equipment by which we expected to keep in touch with the commanders of the three assault forces. The eternal darkness of the tunnels...did not noticeably respond to the clattering efforts of electric fans...faithfully but drearily [we] ticked off the seconds of the almost unendurable, wait which always occurs between completion of a military plan and the moment action begins.” I was amazed when I later read this account because so much was happening in my life—even the fans I keep going due to the noise!
How I came to discover what was said by this General then President, and most wonderfully where I had actually been and experienced years before, could have come from no one but God. How I had been shut up, waiting, planning with my Ministry Team Members to carry out His plan for our new ministry year.
“‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’” Isaiah 55:8–9
And again it says in the Message bible, “I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work. For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.”
Think of it, these headquarters were IN the Rock, not just building on the Rock. Maybe this is a symbol of how we as wise women, who have become His bride, should make our way inside the tunnel of the Rock and make our headquarters inside whenever there’s a battle raging that He will fight for us!
“Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today..." Exodus 14:13
“You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf . . . Do not fear or be dismayed . . . the Lord is with you.” 2 Chronicles 20:17
At the time I wrote this, I had no idea, none of us did, what “hidden” battle was about to break out around the world. COVID-19. Yet HE knew, and HE made sure we were all prepared. We were safely IN the Rock, many workers@home and the rest yearning to be a workers@home and using this for good to make that happen.
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for GOOD to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28
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