The Footstep of God upon me ~ a higher place! 3/11/08
The view from my heart is clogged with seedy looking weeds.
Magnificent fruit abounds all around me, but the view..the view.. it is blurred.
This inability to see can cause great agitation, great friction.
The need to trust further, to believe for more than we see ~ is here now.
In this position ~ this place of magnificent fruits, blurred vision and the agitating need to see ~ create in me a positioning to receive. I stretch out my spiritual “bones” and rest. Rest. Nuah.
The touch of His foot upon my heart is comforting.
More intimate than skin-on-skin, the soles of His feet embrace my soul.
Show me Your ways, O Lord.
Teach me Your paths.
The tread of His foot leaves God-shaped pockets of peace, of joy and deep satisfaction within me.
Irritating weeds of doubt, suspicion, fear and anger, cannot linger long on any path He treads.
The more He walks within me, the more the weeds of fret and worry are torn ~ no, worn ~ away.
Extinguished and ground to dust, the fretful doubters have no ability to reseed themselves, no opportunity to blossom. Soon, His “walkway” is absolutely cleared, cleaned of all foreign growths.
This result is not from what I have done to remove them; but by repeated contact with His Presence. Like grass giving way to dust under a favorite swing, like a manicured lawn enduring a smooth dirt path that gracefully leads to the gate of a friend ~ no one plans for these paths to appear.
They just do.
Stripped of harmful potency, the weed particles have no choice but to mingle with my substance. In this position of “rest”, the very thing that looked harmful and alarming has become excellent “fodder” for my spiritual growth. It is here that my faith explodes! In this position I grow closer.
His step carves a trail out from the wilderness of my heart, my head, my emotions ~
a ready-made path of peace on which to travel.
The attitude of contentment, of satisfied rest, while on this trail is amazing.
Nothing shatters it. Security.
No news from abroad or news from home can penetrate the awesome hush of peace that eminates from it. Love.
No amount of fussing, whining, demanding or fretting tarnish its smooth pace. Faith.
This ribbon of peace exists in my life because He is.
All the attempts of the enemy on your life this season,
attacks of stress, of disease, of unrest, of dispute ~
all the accusations, all the suspicions ~
all the people he has used to limit or push, control or condemn ~
all the imps he has employed to harass and deceive ~
all his attempts to cause friction in your eyes, your mouth, your ears, your mind…
these come to nothing: as long as you stay on your own unique, tailor-made, God-breathed, path.
It is a higher place. IT IS A HIGHER PLACE.
Nothing can separate me from this love of Christ!
To walk in His very footsteps is my highest aim. It is a higher place!
To know Him like I never have, to see Him where I don’t expect, to love Him in new ways…
Hebrew ~ Way ~ “derek” ~
way,
path,
road,______________
highway,
distance,
journey,___________
conduct,
condition,
destiny,__________
POWER, RULE.
1st occurrence ~ Gen 3:24 and He placed a flaming sword to “guard the way” of the tree of life.
(keep your eyes open for repeated occasions of the flaming sword!)
Isaiah 55:8, 9
For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
My ways higher than your ways and My thought than your thoughts.
These soles of Father’s feet on my heart have become my strength.
Don’t ask me how He does this; like an American Indian, He silently glides through the glen of me.
It is His way to do this.
The Footstep of God upon me ~ a higher place! page 3 3/11/08
Outer space (today’s 6th grade science lesson)
Earth is surrounded by atmosphere, which becomes thin the higher you go.
You enter the exosphere and can travel for miles without encountering another molecule.
At 300-900 miles up, even these last lonely molecules are gone.
Space ~ is a vacuum ~ containing no air or other molecules.
Friction is the force that resists motion.
Turn off your car and you soon stop because of the friction
caused by air molecules colliding against your car.
But in outer space, your car would travel on indefinitely
because it is “unimpeded by friction” !
Kid’s song…
Somewhere in outer space
God has prepared a place
For those who trust Him and obey.
