Thoughts for another day

September 23, 2008.

Today's verse: Ps 26:8. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

In an intimate moment with the Lord, a man asked, ‘Lord, where do I begin and where do I end in You?’ For a moment, there was no answer. Then the man looked up into the sky. The clouds had shaded the sun, so that on one side it was dark and on the other, bright. But there was no real demarcation between light and darkness. They seemed to merge, yet were separate. The man got His answer. There can be no real distance between God and His creature; all that can be, is a temporary barrier.

From the beginning, man has been created to commune with God, because God is his sufficiency and all. With man’s fall, that union was lost. Yet, deep inside the heart of every man is this great pull toward God, however dormant it be. The essence of a man is what decides where he goes: into the world or into God.

The best is when a man can from His heart declare the above verse as his own. When I see the verse, I see a person so engrossed in God, that God’s habitation is his love. He takes that place as something sacred and great and at the center of his own existence. In such a person will we find the confidence of a son toward a father. Reflecting perhaps God’s filial association as ‘Abba’ to us, His children. In such a person is there, a calm not evinced elsewhere. In his tent is a peace that cannot be described. Tempests may blow and hurricanes may have their show, but they can’t dislodge a person rooted in the heart of God.

Sitting on earth, but perched on the windows of heaven is wealth beyond compare. Greatly blessed are they who live under the shadow of the almighty, because it is from here that you can see your eternal destiny as melded to the One who created you to be eternal. Not all can understand the mystery of God, being human, but someday, in the thread of time, His wisdom will shine upon the eroding gray cells of his creature: man, and then will man know the splendor of dwelling in the tenting place of the Lord – the abode of the Most High – the reservoir of His honor and glory.