This word is submitted by Jeremy Smit [jezer@iinet.net.au]

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                   The Breaking of the Glasshouses!

On my walk today I saw a vision of a glasshouse. Inside I saw strong
healthy tomato plants filled with red fruit soaking up the climate
controlled atmosphere. I saw some plants had even grown so large that
they had hit the top of the ceiling and had stopped growing. I saw dark
red tomatoes rotting on the vine. I saw fruit falling to the ground and
being wasted on the ground. Outside the glass house I saw people starving
in the cold, staring through it and looking for something to eat.

I began to see that the very environment the tomato plants had grown in
had left them to wallow in there own climate control comfort. Although
they showed that they had fruit, they rarely gave it out. There were
scared of the temperature outside... they were in different states of
denial about the outside. There seemed to be an attitude that if the
glass house was opened up and it gave out what it had, there would be
lack, coldness and exhaustion. The plants had grown tall, but they had
not grown out. I saw some plants had tried to push through the ceiling
and through the cracks but the glass house had resisted there moves.

I saw the enemy chucking stones at the glass house. When the glass
shattered the temperature plummeted. Some weak plants just withered up
and died instantly. The stronger plants broke open the bags they were
planted in, and their roots started to penetrate the soil below them.
Those that relied on the glasshouse died. Those that put there roots
into the ground survived. A winter came and many perished. The strong
ones survived by putting their roots even deeper into the ground. The
dead and dying fuelled the growth of the living, helping them to grow
even stronger.

Then the Lord said to me: "Are you a planting of the Lord, or are you 
a planting of the glasshouse? Will you find yourself planted in Me when 
the glass house breaks! Will you let your fruit rot on your branches 
when the glass house resists your growth! When will you realize that 
I gave you My fruit to share with a dying world? When will you press 
through your structures, and begin to rely on Me? Am I not the steak 
on which you are built upon? Am I not your vine, and you My branches? 
Connect with Me and break out!"