Wait for God.
Wait for Hope.
Do we know this kind of love? Acts 4:32. "And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul." They were not entertaining jealousies, stiff-arming, distance driven. They were not holding back something for themselves like Ananias. They were looking for Christ. They were not living in the world; Christ was now living in them. "The sacred moments, the moments of miracles, are often the everyday moments, the moments which, if we do not look with more than our eyes or listen with more than our ears, reveal only...a gardener, a stranger coming down the road behind us, a meal like any other meal. But if we look with our hearts, if we listen with all our being and imagination...what we may see is Jesus Himself." Frederick Buechner
Am I living to experience God rather than to reveal Him? Will I see this day, these moments, as holy? Will I look through the eyes of my heart in this circumstance I face?
PRAYER FROM PSALMS
Dear Father, When my heart pounds, when my strength fails, when the light of my eyes fades...LORD, I will wait for you. Wait, o my soul, on my God Alone. Psalm 38:10, 15
I read this Bible of mine and think---well, I'm flabbergasted. I never saw such things before. How is it today I know a little Something More about God, about why I'm here, than I did yesterday. This Word is so alive to me. I'm in awe. I've spent way too much of my life trying to figure out God, figure out life, figure out my kids, figure out why my friends are so absent . . . No More! God has so changed me; is so changing me; will so change me. Just in awe over here on a freezing cold afternoon. That's all.
ReplyDeleteThe early church had it right. They shared everything and took care of each other. They saw miracles, and revelations. They experienced Jesus on every level. Not living for the experience but living within the experience of lives looking upward. Reason and things making sense had little place in this world. They didn't have to figure it all out to know that His Hand was on them, and the Promise was manifest.
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