What Zion really is…

When you think of Zion you think of Israel or land or some ideal. What I would like to suggest is that Zion is the place of His uninterrupted Presence, where His Kingdom actually is incarnate! We are looking for Zion in one another and on the earth.

Zion is, historically, the place He chose to Lay down His Name or Being on earth. (Through David, and then the Jews, and even the christians later were called sion) But in us, it is the place where God is allowed to move and be, and make us more our true selves. Where His Actual Presence is allowed to break in, and form us into what we really are.

Zion echoes with the voice of His Love, and from this Voice alters us into our true contours. So, when we are looking for Zion to come in one another, we are praying that His Kingdom would more fully come in ourselves and those we encounter! We are praying to be in Zion already, together.

What it looks like to restore Zion on earth in one another! Zion is an image of wholeness and integration unity in scripture. But we labor for it for one another as well! When the full Presence of God enters, things are un-interrupted. They become whole and pronounceable by God! That’s what we are working on, restoring zion on earth. We are walking towards Zion, as the old song rightly sings!

From an article I’m working on about the Zion in each of us-the place of wholeness…enjoying working on this idea of Zion in each of us! Zion of course was both the city of God and the place in us which is resonating in this city already…both the place where there is uninterrupted Presence, and the city we are walking towards…

Thinking about Zion, not just the literal land and city, but the spiritual reality of the place of His uninterrupted Presence. Where things are fully themselves. That to me is Zion-where everything is fully in His Light, as St John describes the future at the end of The book–all is Day, and The Father and Son are both with us again as in the garden, but now it is a gardened city! If Zion has already begun to break in, how can I walk through its gates, and call forth and polish its golden streets in others that I meet! How can we walk more in Zion already, down here!

The Zion in us still wants to be pronounced! I work daily on the zion in others. I want to see them restored, made whole. Pronounced. That’s my passion. And that space We share. Trust is the start of pronouncing one another names well. Trusting Him to fully inhabit what is already His. In this way, we usher in His Kingdom into one another! We look for Zion in one another! This is not just true for nations, but for each person whose face we are willing to behold into being.

Are we ministering from and into Zion in one another?! We can expand the kingdom in one another, even through a loving gaze.