And I don't get it.
I can make conjecture after conjecture for why He has maintained this unchanging faithfulness, but I have no need to be intellectual about this ineffable divine attribute. I only have to have the mind of a child when it comes to this explanation:
"Jesus loves me,
This I know,
For the Bible tells me so."
But it's not even the Bible that tells me. (Yes, it definitely does mention God's love for humanity time and time again, but that's not the point.) I know this love not merely by words. I know it by experience. I know it when I go down to the waterfront on a mid-August night. I know it as I feel the mist blow off the tide, as I watch the various night lights zig-zagging-venture through the foggy air, and as I listen to life being lived.
Thank you Lord.
Life is so beautiful when I close my eyes
and shut up.
Blind stillness
feels
Your loving caress.
I love the last line: "blind stillness feels Your loving caress". That is beautiful, profound, and true. Sin has handed us humans so many distractions.
ReplyDeleteI was just pondering to myself how I would like to go back in time, like Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, and watch the pivotal moments in my life all over again; the small and the momentous. I was thinking how I would realize how unfathomably good God has been to me all these years if I could see my life as a whole. If I could see the hand of God answering my prayers and guiding me along and whispering his love in my ears....
I think we all could stand to be quiet more often. Thanks for this.
no prob...
ReplyDeletesometimes i found myself sick of music and noise and all that at night when i'm driving home wicked tired from some place. so, and this might not be the smartest thing because at those points i am so tired but, i turn the radio off and just listen to the world zoom by me. and i enjoy life to its full then.
imagine if we could time travel? that would be insane. i wonder if we'd all think ourselves disgusting at moments and completely superhuman at other moments?
maybe i'd wish just for a better memory so that i can learn from the past. that's all. no need to relive it. just discover what it's taught me.