A huge hug, a beaming smile and a look of sheer delight in His eyes. Is that your concept of God when you draw aside to talk with Him? Well, it should be.
Some reading these last few weeks, may say, “What about a diligent pursuit of holiness?” My friends, I have spent 43 years in that pursuit and it is no less intense today. But the big difference now is that it is a passion and a delight.
We awake each day with such gratitude and appreciation for such an unreasonable love (considering all we know about ourselves) that we delight to find ways to please Him and make Him smile.
Life becomes a joyous adventure! No longer to be lived as an endeavour to achieve, a striving to be good enough, a discipline to do the right thing, but the bubbling over of one that awakes to that day knowing that they will spend it with the One who loves them! Loves them so unconditionally, so fervently, so predictably, that it energizes their own heart with passion and anticipation.
Life will still be life. We live in a fallen world. Storms will come and tragic events will occur, unreasonable accusations and the fruit of fallen nature will invade our days. We are human and we live in a world that has rejected His love.
And then there is the working of the Master Potter upon our clay, moulding us for an eternity of rule and dominion as co-heirs; preparing us for an indescribable authority to commence expression here and now but continue for eternity in the creations to come. Like the skilled hands of a physiotherapist, the unravelling of the knots in our humanity can hurt at times.
It is true that life contains that which we do not understand.
But, my friends, when the revelation of His indescribable love floods our hearts and we daily acknowledge the reality of His warmth and affection, our hearts become indestructible. Life now is something you do as one energised and strengthened by the song that bursts forth daily from within, “He loves me! Me, yes, me! My Father loves me!”
I think of that joyous song from the musical, “South Pacific” which has the line, “I’m in love! I’m in love! I’m in love! I’m in love with a wonderful guy!”. Friends, that’s what it is all about.
