I thank you, God, that when you set us on mission we don't go alone! You have been faithful to me all my life. When I wasn't faithful, when I wasn't pursuing, when I wasn't loving, or believing... You kept your hand over my life. You sheltered me from danger. I am alive today, in spite of my enemy... Even in spite of myself because of your goodness.
If you were not good, the whole world would be evil. If you weren't divine, the world would lack inspired thought. If you weren't creative, the world would be cookie cutout copies of monotony. If you weren't a healer and protector I wouldn't be here, my sons wouldn't have made it and my mother would have died ~ten years ago. If you weren't compassionate, the cries of the hurting would go unanswered. There would be no desire for justice in our hearts... No understanding that it is even a divine need. Beetles don't need such systems put in place... Yet you even outdo yourself in the complexity of ecosystems and mechanics. You show up because you are faithful... and show off because you are able to do exceedingly more than our minds could even fathom! You make a way through shut doors, and spring forth leaders from closed wombs, you do it all from galaxies to genetics and aren't too proud to let us think we've "discovered or invented" something.
Rainbows in the skies and swirls of color in creatures' eyes. Dreams, thoughts and visions... Cellular division... Beating hearts and rhythms of the earth all tapping out a ballad to your ears. You are so invested, so interested in us. Tiny as we are... Each hair counted, each pore on our skin known... From head to toe... What don't you know?
The whole earth couldn't contain all the loving thoughts you have for me and all the ways you've jumped to my rescue or lifted me from the ground! I couldn't sing a long enough song or pen a psalm that could capture how you've captured me. I am totally yours, I was yours when you made me. But you didn't force me, you wooed me! You sang me to sleep in your arms.
You are such a good and amazing Father, such a defender and lover of my soul! You even love me enough to not do everything for me. You offer me joy and give me tools to take it... You offer me peace, and gift me with your Word as I study and commit to time in closeness with you, you don't spoon feed me wisdom... You let my bumps and bruises remind me of my limits. You map out a road for me but get tickled when I go in circles because I tuned you out. You hate seeing me on the floor defeated, but you won't always drag me toward victory. You say, "get up, come to me, remember... You and I have been through hardships before... Today I'm not carrying you, today I'm going to show you that my Spirit is in you and you can walk in my Spirit, and you can run and dance in my Spirit... And you can fly over this pit!"
You already know how great you are, but you love it when I see it! You aren't too proud to let me be oblivious of your goodness. You care too much to let me miss you being everything you are.
You can't stop being amazing, you can't stop being loving! How many times did I say I was yours - not realizing just how powerful and transformational being yours is?
And you let me learn more of it every day!
#JustWow!
