You are the constant in my sometimes shifting life

I am convinced that God is longing and desiring to reveal Himself to His creation in the most beautiful ways. There are so many things that God has whispered into my spirit in the past few weeks it seems a bit daunting of a task to even start typing. However, it is with joy that I write this piece to you in complete confidence that you will today have blinders removed from your eyes.

I was riding down the road a few days ago and I began to talk with God… it’s never really formal, I just start talking with the surety that He is near… so close. From time to time He answers with such heavy words that I feel as if I have to tell someone quick or they will crush me with the weight of their beauty. This day was one like that. I was riding and asking God why he came to me in waves… You know what I mean? Like we have an awesome experience in Gods presence or in our devotional lives and for a few weeks or days or months we feel like we could just reach out and feel His hand reaching back… then at times it feels like He is a million miles away doing His own thing with no care for His creation. I know, though you know it’s not true you have felt that way… and from God none of our thoughts or emotions are hidden. So I found myself in one of those moments driving down the road speaking to God asking why he comes in waves close then far, close then far, far then close…then all of a sudden He hit me with sobering revelation… It’s as if God in some way whispered… “You do! I am unchanging, constant and longsuffering. I have been here from before time began and will be here when it is no more”. God showed me in just a few minutes that He really is constant in our lives. That he is right where we left Him last. We are like the waves of the sea and he is the shore. He never moves from loving us and desiring intimacy with us. We on the other hand take the role of the waves as our way of life. We flood into God with all of our might and then when we have had enough, when we are at the point that he asks our lives from us. We rush back out into the ocean of a world and blend back into the vastness, into our same ole way of life… where everything is as it always has been. Some on the other hand decided not to be as waves of the sea tossed to and fro but to cling to the grace and mercy of God so richly demonstrated on the cross. Some may be familiar. Paul, James, John, Mathias, John the Baptist, Martin Luther, Charles Spurgeon. I an convinced the list is not as long as God would like it to be… He wants to add your name. What will be your resolve? I would that everyone who reads this find themselves face down today praying this “God make me still, make me constant, make me yours… free me from my life of coming to you in waves…flood me now in such a way that I can’t escape… I love you”.

Simple, honest and real are the prayers He loves the most… I’m sure of it.