Encouragement
There is a divine echo in my heart.
Like the disciple who first refused to have his feet washed by the Lord, so am I, when confronted by so great a love, grace and mercy that I am, at once, both confused and then frightened by its unworldliness.
Like the same disciple who was asked three times: "Do you love Me more than these..." I too am grief-stricken by so grand an eternal preoccupation, even almost an obsession, for my place in His plan.
I am no one unless I am one in Him. In my short-sighted, hyper-active mind I am no one. In His mind I am everything...more glorious than all the galaxies, stars and planets combined. In the order of the machinations of the universe I am a cog in His gear, by His ordinance.
I have no rest until I find my place as His cog. It would be sufficient to be the space between the cogs. This is where I will be content.
But my desire to be in that place is like indifference when compared to the divine desire He has to place me there as His cog.
He will win!!
There is a divine echo in my heart.
My identity is in Him. It was placed there before my birth, even before the world's founding. It was realized after my second birth. The more I know Him the more I know my place.
Encourage me to walk away from this truth and I may--for a while. But eventually I must return because it is the home and heritage I cannot deny and He will not revoke.
It is here I am unique. It is here I am radical. I can do nothing but relish it and be enamored by the difference in me. I find I've gone beyond believing my loving Jesus. I know Jesus. I find then that I love who I am and what I'm becoming. I love Him for who I am and will be.
So there is a place for me where I have yet to go while on this earth. I have resisted, either because I have refused to go by unreasonable confusion and fear or because of distractions that were not for me. It is here I have slapped the face of God.
Yet His face is toward me still, living and hungering-even panting for my success. I can sense this in the the echo of my heart. His desire will be my desire-His plan mine!!
By Him I will know who I am, what I am about as I walk in His plan. This is all I know and that in order to see the Plan I must pursue the Planner.
This is the divine echo in my heart.
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