Scripture: Isaiah 40:12-31
Journal: Who is God to you these days?
How has he revealed himself to you lately?
Reflection:
But who is this Lover of mine? Is He the Father, whom I approach through His
Son? Is He the Son whom I ask to bring
me closer to His Father? Do I open myself
to the breath of the Spirit blowing through me, carrying me before Him as by
storm of grace? Who is this Person into
whose arms I run?
Before me there is a
whirlwind, and the center of the whirlwind is a still, small voice, saying, I
am.
I am, before the world was
made.
I am, that to which all the
world is striving, the love to which all eros drives, the food for which all
hunger reaches.
I am, the shepherd on the
hillside, bearing you up in My arms.
Loving Ephraim when he was a
child.
Giving my angels charge over
you, to keep you in all your ways.
Letting them bear you up, lest you dash your foot. Letting you tread on the lion, the adder, the
young lion, and the dragon.
Telling you to untie your
sandals, for the place where you’re standing is holy ground.
Leading you beside still
waters.
Tipping the pitcher and
dousing your head with holy oil.
Better one day in My courts,
than a thousand in the tents of wickedness.
At the heights, this is how
He speaks, not only to Moses and the prophets, but to us. He asks us to cut loose, to be His, to be
unbound, attached to nothing but heaven and him. He asks us to unravel everything that binds
us, everything that holds us in the here and now, to come as we are, now,
without a change of clothing, without looking back, on a way from which there
is no turning back; a strange and unconsoling path along a hidden and
unglamorous way. (Clinging by Emilie Griffin)
Prayer
Closing
Prayer: Help me to know you, O Lord, to truly know
you. But how can I? How can I possibly know you, unless you
reveal yourself to me? Come, Lord Jesus,
and show me the Father. Have mercy on
me. Amen.
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