He is Truly with Us
As if laying down his life for us isn’t enough. As if giving us the holy spirit and only son isn’t enough. Now, God goes beyond all comprehension and stands there beside us, all the time. Why does he do something like that?
Moses was 120 years old, and one fine day God told him he will NOT be following his people into the promised land. Can you believe what went through his mind at that time? After the lord got him to lead his people? After giving his life to the service of god for 120 years? After all he has abide? But as his last words to the people of God out poured from the mouth that God used to speak to his people, Moses, instead, whispered words of plentiful assurance. “He WILL never leave you NOR forsake you.” Imagine a man told that he would NOT set foot into the holy land. Where is the anger? Where is the anguish? None. Because Moses knew, that for 120 years of his life on earth, his heart holds the truth about the God he serves. He never leaves, his words never fails, his love never changing. For 120 years all the way till his death, Moses lead a life WITH God. He knew he was nothing, but God was everything. God did not forsake him. I believe that his task for God ends there.
Do we not want to learn from 120 years of experience? That albeit all circumstances that can unfold, neither death nor anything else can ever separate you from God unless you choose not to follow. He has the authority, seated high above the throne, and yet he chose to give us freewill. What says he, lord of lords? “Seek and you WILL find.” He stands, waiting to be sought, to show his tremendous power and grace to you, if only we might search.
Man knows b sight, hearing, taste, smell feel.
Who but you knows before?
Man pass judgment perceived and gained.
Who but you look into the heart and give mercy?
For man treat gold as he sees and filth as he sees,
But you find dirt and deem it treasure.
Then what part of you is not love?
What things you give is not grace?
Praise to the lord! Who deems me fit for his kingdom!
Praise to the lord, who wants me for his kingdom.
For he who loves me, will he abandon?
For he who wants me, will he bear to hurt?
But should he not put me in fire to mold me,
Nor pain and sorrow to see value in joy?
Praise be with you, who hardens to give me new life!
Then new life given, it shall be as he wills.
Let only you be sovereign to put flowers and needles in my garden,
Let you be my only light.
Let me harden the walls to all things else,
but vulnerable to all of you.
And here I declare to Lord most high:
That as his will hath gave me choice,
My choice to bide his will.
Praises to El Saddai!
