Something I read from the book “Through Painted Deserts”.
“I was raised to believe that the quality of a man’s life would greatly increase, not with the gain of status or success, not by his heart’s knowing romance or by prosperity in industry or academia, but by his nearness to God. It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple, but this is the gate, the trailhead. Ironing out faithless creases is toilsome labor. God bestows 3 blessings on man: to feed him like birds, dress him like flowers, and befriend him as a confidant. Too many take the first 2 and neglect the last. Sooner or later you figure out life is constructed specifically and brilliantly to squeeze a man into association with the Owner of heaven. It is a struggle, with labor pains and thorny landscape, bloody hands and a sweaty brow, moments of ache and desire. All this leads to God, I think. Perhaps this is what is on the other side of the curtain behind which the Wizard of Oz pulls his levers. Matter and thought are a canvas on which God paints, a painting with tragedy and delivery, with sin and redemption. Life is a dance toward God., I began to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing our practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because it’s steps are foreign.
There is nothing I’m missing. I have everything I was supposed to have to experience the magnitude of this story, to dance with God.”
I used that as a devotion this last week. I was reading it and it just hit me. We often forget that God is desiring us just as much as we desire him. And we step on his feet far often that he does ours. And he always looks down and smiles and continues to lead us his is graceful stance.
Something that was said to our group by my brother Jeremy was breath taking. He was talking about John laying his head on Jesus’s chest and hearing his heart beat. I mean can you imagine being able to do that? To literally hear and physically feel our saviors heart beat? That is what we strive to do. We want to echo his heart and beat with it and once we have felt that we will have no other wants or desires. As he was saying that I was literally tearing up. I had never heard it put that way. It was awesome. That was on the morning of our fast and I know it was meant to be on that day.
So with that we are going into another week of the DR. We have extra time to venture out and follow where we feel God leading us. Thank you all for following my journey.
I have been getting so many words spoken over me about leadership. I am so ready for God to unleash that upon me! So be praying for that too! I am so blessed here. I am coming into myself by letting my old self go. Hard but easy at the same time.
lovelove
