My roommate left this morning about 9 a.m. We had been in a discussion about the book "In His Steps" and what it was going to mean to each of us in our lives. I was also working on my bible study at this time (week 6 - day 1), which was aimed at communication with God. After David (my roomy) left, I finished my bible study and went into prayer by giving thanks to God for all he has done for me (this is the way I always enter my prayer sessions, through Jesus). At this point, God spoke to me saying, "My son, you must no longer cloud my life within you by using drugs." (He meant the pills I was taking for pain). I asked the Lord to talk more with me…that I was listening.

I was lying on my cot, in the jail cell he had provided for me, with no one else around. My eyes were fully open but I began to see crops of corn in field after field…all perfect down to the very last kernel. Then, there slowly came a bad crop with a few bad stalks of corn in it. However, none of the other stalks went forth to purge the field of these bad stalks for they had reconciled that they were few and harmless. Soon, most of that field was bad and other stalks in neighboring fields became infected and fell to the sickness. It was as though years were flashing before my eyes and soon all the fields were stricken with the sickness. None left were pure. Frightened, the stalks searched for a cure and cried out for help but the disease spread faster than the word of healing.

At this point, I went off on a tangent…a dream-like state…of my past in which I was soon confused and lost as what to do. Feeling hopeless to find help in this dream, I cried out for help. I began to panic as the darkness closed in and my heart quickened and leapt into my throat.

Suddenly, as if to pull me back to reality, the pure fields of corn started to slowly re-appear and my feelings immediately changed to calm surety and peaceful thought. Then, just as suddenly, the ceiling of the jail re-appeared before my eyes. I did not have to open my eyes…they were already open…it just came.

I knew immediately what was said in my vision: The Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost) are as pure as the fields of corn and of one belief. It meant that no matter how confused, lost, poisoned or diluted our beliefs become, God is still that pure field of corn! All we need to do in order to be in that field is think pure of thyself and act pure towards others. By doing this, our fields of corn around us will not decay.

This alone was profound enough to make me shudder and relive what had just happened repeatedly for the next hour. The "Vision" (at least I choose to call it this) was not to be fully developed and revealed though until I started my daily bible study. Today my reading was in Nelson's "Illustrated Encyclopedia of Bible Facts" and the chapter was "Worship Rituals". On page 402 under the heading of "Cereal Offerings" I read, "…cereal offerings…similar to that of burnt offerings - except in the case of the "corn" offering, which was linked to the offering of first fruits (Lev 2:14). The offering of first fruits seems to have been intended to sanctify the entire crop. The "corn" offering substituted for the rest of the crop - emphasizing that all of the crop was holy unto the Lord."

I sat in awe for a long time marveling at the divine plan the Lord has started in my life and wondering in what direction and for what purpose His next visit would be. I praise the Lord and marvel at the way He works! Amen.