Mystical Majesty
Earlier this week on two different days I saw the numbers 2-6-9 and knew that Father was showing them to me. But I didn't search them out...until Thursday morning after a discussion on Wednesday night with friends about how wonderful it is that He is in everything everywhere and makes His presence known to us in everything everywhere. We enjoyed resting in the fact that He is so kind and gracious and that He wants to be known by us.
Why would anyone who loves God and wants to spend their life pursuing Him fail to appreciate the myriad of ways He expresses Himself in their lives? Psalm 24:1 says: The earth is the Lord's and everything in it; the world and all who live in it. He is all around all the time expressing Himself everywhere. I want to see Him and know Him so I watch. And listen. And meditate. And ponder. And smell. And sense. And my spirit communes with all that He is all around me. That is very mystic-sounding! Does that classify me as a mystic? I hope so! At least according to the definition from the Greek word mystikos that defines a mystic as someone pursuing or achieving communal identity and/or conscious awareness of God through direct experience, intuition and insight.
Thursday morning I was outside before dawn marvelling at the big lazy moon hanging in the western sky as clouds passed in front of it and caused its face to blur and its light to diffuse through them. I smiled as I talked to Father about the amazing beauty and peace of that scene. When I went inside and got out my Bible I heard 2-6-9 in my mind. So I knew it was time to search it out. My Bible opened in the book of Job so I began the search in Job 26:9 - He covers the face of the full moon, spreading His clouds over it. My searching ended there. I smiled and cried at how sweetly He'd drawn me to Himself with seemingly random numbers, the beauty of His creation, and His words from the life of Job. How could any of that been anything but Him?
The conversation with my friends on Wednesday night eventually began to turn from this topic of Father in the midst of everything and our delight in finding Him there. But before we moved on to a new topic we talked about the fact that our ability and our desire to experience Him in all things is because He delights in giving us the blessed revelation of Himself. Jeremiah 31:2-3 says it like this: They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! (The Message)
Isn't that delightful? Isn't He delightful? I am going to keep watching and listening and meditating and pondering and smelling and sensing and I am certain I will experience more of His mystical majesty in this world. And from those blessed revelations I will know Him more and love Him more as I see more of His love for me! Will you join me?
Job ends chapter 26 with these words: And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power? Job 26:14
Hearing the whispers and waiting on the thunder,
Amy
Why would anyone who loves God and wants to spend their life pursuing Him fail to appreciate the myriad of ways He expresses Himself in their lives? Psalm 24:1 says: The earth is the Lord's and everything in it; the world and all who live in it. He is all around all the time expressing Himself everywhere. I want to see Him and know Him so I watch. And listen. And meditate. And ponder. And smell. And sense. And my spirit communes with all that He is all around me. That is very mystic-sounding! Does that classify me as a mystic? I hope so! At least according to the definition from the Greek word mystikos that defines a mystic as someone pursuing or achieving communal identity and/or conscious awareness of God through direct experience, intuition and insight.
Thursday morning I was outside before dawn marvelling at the big lazy moon hanging in the western sky as clouds passed in front of it and caused its face to blur and its light to diffuse through them. I smiled as I talked to Father about the amazing beauty and peace of that scene. When I went inside and got out my Bible I heard 2-6-9 in my mind. So I knew it was time to search it out. My Bible opened in the book of Job so I began the search in Job 26:9 - He covers the face of the full moon, spreading His clouds over it. My searching ended there. I smiled and cried at how sweetly He'd drawn me to Himself with seemingly random numbers, the beauty of His creation, and His words from the life of Job. How could any of that been anything but Him?
The conversation with my friends on Wednesday night eventually began to turn from this topic of Father in the midst of everything and our delight in finding Him there. But before we moved on to a new topic we talked about the fact that our ability and our desire to experience Him in all things is because He delights in giving us the blessed revelation of Himself. Jeremiah 31:2-3 says it like this: They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! (The Message)
Isn't that delightful? Isn't He delightful? I am going to keep watching and listening and meditating and pondering and smelling and sensing and I am certain I will experience more of His mystical majesty in this world. And from those blessed revelations I will know Him more and love Him more as I see more of His love for me! Will you join me?
Job ends chapter 26 with these words: And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power? Job 26:14
Hearing the whispers and waiting on the thunder,
Amy
This reminds me of that Galatians passage.
5:22-23But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
23-24Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.
25-26Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original.
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You are one of His gifts in my life! Love you.
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