I’ve been watching myself squirm in this time of seeming blindness. While trusting God I occasionally find myself wishing I could see a little further down the line. As I settle down I remember that “seeing” comes to me in His time. He brings truth and unveils the answers to the prayers that lay hidden within me.
Seeing clears the path between the inner kingdom and the outer world. It is the evidence of our relationship – the fruit of our union. I follow in the dark until the light shines. I want to see…and each day a little more clutter is removed from my view. As I go, my opinions fall away. Letting go of old thoughts is like breaking out of a cage. I am my own prison and He’s here to set me free.
He removes the deceptions that I’ve perceived as real. He molds my desires in conformity to His will and brings me to full agreement with Himself. He constrains my longing heart and noisy head. I find my desires and trust them to be His will. He reveals the snares, their roots, and the wisdom for chopping them down. I can rest…He is perfecting that which concerns me!
I just saw these words as interchangeable as I was reading your post…you wrote “I find my desires and trust them to be his will,” and surely, at the same time, we have found his will and trust it to be our desire! Because he has inscribed his word, his will, on our hearts–truly it is what we live for…or better put, it is what makes us alive. Apart from Christ…NOTHING!!! For me lately, and with seemingly nothinng spurring it, I have had a strong connection in my mind as to how short this earthly experience truly is. Why we are set apart…because our life is not about our time on earth, that is only a mili-fraction of the whole story, much of what began before us and the rest of which continues for all time and eternity. Our life is not about the temporal realm; it’s about the kingdom that does not pass away. It makes it so much easier to trust God because he is my home. Home is in me, yes. The kingdom of heaven is in me, yes–but the King is in me. His will is my desire and my desire is his will. And you are true to remind us that, indeed, he reveals the snares and roots, and reveals the wisdom for chopping them down. We love him as one!
Hi Dink,
I’m not sure which daughter of Susan you are, nevertheless, both are precious.
I love what you wrote. I needed to hear this ‘today’ . . . The other day I took a picture of my sister and brother-in-love, Linda and Leo. When I uploaded it to my computer, and at first glance, I was stunned at the realization they are in the ”winter of their lives’ . . . Both approaching their 70’s in a few years. It made me weep, the realization that I cannot take their presence here for granted. They will not always be here, next door!
Sometimes because the visible is so evident in our face every day, we need His WORDS OF LIFE equally in our face to remind us . . . “our life on earth, is only a mili-fraction of the whole story.’
Yes, truly God is our home, without beginning and without ending. So much more to ‘live’ . . . and our ‘living’ is not really about this earthy life but . . .
In Him we live, and move and have our being!
Thanks for your post!
Claudia
Oh! And Susan! LOVE YOUR PICTURES! ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!
I saw the new ones you posted of you and Michael. Love those too! Keep the flow going. . .I so enjoy it.