Today, while working outdoors at the climbing towers, I began to realize new things and see other things in new and different light.
As I stood in the sweltering heat of the day, its muggy misery making making me drip with sweat, I could not help but see only beauty in 't.
How great God's love that he would set me in my element, that he would give me work out of doors, outside, in the green, in the natural air, in the suns glory! How "infinitely sweet" that he would treat me to the songs of the birds and the chorus of the cicada. How gentle is He that He would open the skies to send soft breeze to cool my brow, how great His love that He would send a cotton-light cloud to shade my exposed neck. How good that He would send the sun's heat to draw wet toxin through my skin.
Then came the storm. Just as my life has had storm after storm as of late, it began to rain. But how glorious! As I stood with my arms outstretched, my face turned toward the heavenlies, fat raindrops on my fell over my burning body, spilling onto my face -- the sun shone. The sun shone gloriously, brilliantly, beautifully. In that moment, God whispered to me. "This is what I have been doing, this is what I am doing with you now". Woah. "Though it is raining, though your life is a raging storm, I am still here shining my glory down on you". He said just as I have been killing away the Old Self, He is now washing it away, and washing all blemish and hurt away, renewing my heart. As the Old Self was falling away, my New Self was being washed clean, renewed and strengthened.
It was incredible what all He revealed to me in that moment. Just as life's storms have been raining down on me, God has been shining on my soul. His radiant glory is growing in my heart, making it new. Shining in my spirit as the sun shines on a flower, making me flourish as budding rose. How He shines in me! How great is God that he would reveal to me in example exactly what He has done and how He is working in me now! He showed me how I need the rain like water to grow, and the storms to become strong so I can flourish, not just be worn with the elements, not just so I can survive - but so I can stand tall and weather any intensity that comes against me. But He showed me without the sun's rays, I cannot survive. With the sun, I flourish. With this metaphorical sun, the representation of Him, God's glory shines on my soul. Because of this glorious sun God shines on me, my spirit glows with His glory!
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