Wonderous Beauty

I'm amazed and delighted how the Lord reveals Himself to us. I see Him everywhere, in everything. His precepts, His love, His truth are written upon the leaves of the trees, in the rushing waterfalls, in the love of a family. My heart beats at His will, His word is the air my soul breathes.

To view my daily life without Him is like forgetting to put on my glasses. I cannot see things as they really are. I am blinded by the illusions of the enemy, by the veils of deceit he casts before me.

Everything is about Him. There is nothing in life, NOTHING, that can be contemplated accurately without Him.

I've often thought that the underlying truths of life, of God, are glimpsed only momentarily because that is all I can handle. I wonder if my Father allows me only a little peek because they are so deep, so profound that I could not get my mind around them if I were to be able to look at them for very long. Recently, however, a friend gave me a little different perspective.

These truths are there, in plain view, for all to see. Sometimes we don't WANT to see them, because of their implications in our lives. Sometimes we don't have the ability to see them, because we are looking only with our human eyes.

The ability to see them, the inpiration to understand them, is given by the Spirit of God. As we become filled with the Spirit, as we breathe the word of God, as it gives us life, transforming us into the image of His precious Son, we begin to see with His sight.

I still think that the reason I can see only in glimpses is that it is all I am capable of handling. The truths of God are incomprehensibly deep water. I am only human. They overwhelm me at the same time that they thrill my heart. I want to drown in them, yet I am terrified of their power. Their beauty is excrutiating. I long for them, and they are too much for me to behold.

As I yearn for the wisdom to understand and the strength live by His truth, my heart trembles with the knowledge these things are not easily attained. They are striven for, earnestly sought after, as His word tells us.

Prov 2:3 "and if you call out for insight, and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Oh, but the beauty, the wonder, the peace and the love that is but a foretaste of what we will find when we are home with Him. The more I find, the more I long for Him. Anticipation of heaven, of eternity in His glorious presence makes me hunger for His truth even further.

This life becomes an adventure, a training, a search for treasure to be cherished on the journey to joy beyond measure, beyond comprehension. If we really understood what heaven meant, how differently we would live every moment.

Our challenge, then, is to not only seek it out, but to live the beauty, live the vision so fully that our lives become the mirror through which others may begin to see the glimpses of Him.