Eternity: God’s Call To Your Heart Is Himself
It takes a decent chunk of created time for God to reveal to each of us the precious value of people in the world in which we live. He reveals the value of the spiritual and the place in which will be our forever home. He changes our inward vision to see outward from His heart and perspective. Walking around this temporary world with such a big lens can feel very awkward and without the wisdom and guidance of God, could make it hard on us to speak when we try and relate that forever perspective. Even a little bit of God soaked in us can cause us to be awkward. Human skin is very frail holding so precious a spiritual treasure of a Living Being such as God’s Presence and heart. How do we relate this treasure when we look over and see a person and feel the heart of God for them? How do we even begin to tell them anything when we start to see the way God see’s them? If we are privileged to stay involved in a persons life over a course of days, weeks, months or years....you begin to see how God knows the time you’ll be around certain ones. He gives you a snapshot for shorter bits of time, a way of relating for those He knows you’ll be on the journey with for extended time. In all of this, it isn’t a matter of dwelling on the person themselves, but keeping our hearts and minds fixed on Jesus. Because if we start to think our frail skin has anything to do with the greatness of such Divinity, we will easily and quickly stumble in passing on the precious Life to another. We have such good intentions most of the time but we have to take what we feel, hear and see and give it to God and wait on Him for timing and the way to share or live a life in relation to others that conveys to them what He desires conveyed. And just when you think you may have a little bit of that down to a spiritual science, you may find out that most of what you see and feel is to be taken up alone with Him in prayer. You literally are a human being filled with all the fullness of God and hearing His heart wherever you look and yet, you have no permission to do or say anything unless He allows. It’s humbling to have and hold something of such eternal value and yet without the leading of your Good Shepherd, you continue to graze on His goodness and look to Him for full support just like everyone else. Every once in awhile, He will signal to your heart that it’s OK to move forward in this or that and you kick up your heels in the delight of doing so. Ah how his ways are so very different than ours. When all around seem to be free to express anything and everything and you, you are bursting with His radiant presence and yet it is all under His control. You want to burst and let it all gush out but God’s love compels you to be still before Him. How the fruit of self-control becomes such a precious fruit in seasons like this.
You sense. You hear tidbits from Him. You feel something is on the horizon or catch a glimpse like a tear in the fabric of the eternal. The brilliance reaches through and lightens everything around you. It fades for a time. It comes and goes. You sense Him and then you don’t. You feel so much but there aren’t quite words to express. Even if you could, no one would completely understand. Such is the paradox of life lived in fellowship with God.
You often think more should be happening than what you literally see. Sometimes you become impatient and try to step in yourself. Then you muck it up. Things seem to have taken two steps back. Then you pray and take a couple steps back yourself. Maybe you take several years of steps back and wait. And wonder. And wait some more. Then nothing for such a long long time. Meanwhile you don’t give up faith in your precious Savior. But deeply on the inside you struggle and wonder if you’ll ever be used by Him ever again. And in the quiet you learn that quiet and confidence is such a strength. It was a strength you never knew existed, let alone could be had. Oh these ways of God in the life of frail humanity.
So you take those rainy days, those cold days blanketed in snow, the changes of your life in growing older and all that that holds and withdraw into God until you find what you never realized you needed...Him to be your only joy and hope. And you find at the end of it all, that that was exactly where He wanted your heart all along. While we took our whole life to flail for this thing and that and all that we thought was so important and He took us in His love and wore it all down until He could hold us steady in His loving arms and turn our face toward His until our shifting eyes met and stayed....until we were so close we could feel His heartbeat and He feel ours and they become one. And the flailing ceases. And the striving to be someone is no longer important. And the voice of our Shepherd is the only one we recognize. His is a call to the eternal.
You sense. You hear tidbits from Him. You feel something is on the horizon or catch a glimpse like a tear in the fabric of the eternal. The brilliance reaches through and lightens everything around you. It fades for a time. It comes and goes. You sense Him and then you don’t. You feel so much but there aren’t quite words to express. Even if you could, no one would completely understand. Such is the paradox of life lived in fellowship with God.
You often think more should be happening than what you literally see. Sometimes you become impatient and try to step in yourself. Then you muck it up. Things seem to have taken two steps back. Then you pray and take a couple steps back yourself. Maybe you take several years of steps back and wait. And wonder. And wait some more. Then nothing for such a long long time. Meanwhile you don’t give up faith in your precious Savior. But deeply on the inside you struggle and wonder if you’ll ever be used by Him ever again. And in the quiet you learn that quiet and confidence is such a strength. It was a strength you never knew existed, let alone could be had. Oh these ways of God in the life of frail humanity.
So you take those rainy days, those cold days blanketed in snow, the changes of your life in growing older and all that that holds and withdraw into God until you find what you never realized you needed...Him to be your only joy and hope. And you find at the end of it all, that that was exactly where He wanted your heart all along. While we took our whole life to flail for this thing and that and all that we thought was so important and He took us in His love and wore it all down until He could hold us steady in His loving arms and turn our face toward His until our shifting eyes met and stayed....until we were so close we could feel His heartbeat and He feel ours and they become one. And the flailing ceases. And the striving to be someone is no longer important. And the voice of our Shepherd is the only one we recognize. His is a call to the eternal.
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