divine collision
I just concluded our weekly Celebrate Recovery meeting. An amazing intersection occurs when the power of God is experienced in the midst of the broken. It is at that intersection where we see the mercy, love, and grace of God become incarnate in our very presence. There were no great miracles tonight. Nobody was cured of blindness nor deafness nor lameness. No light shone from heaven and no tongues of fire set upon the people of God. Truly there was no aspect to this evening that distinguishes it from any other Celebrate Recovery night. Yet, tonight God gave me eyes to see the ways His people become His words, His hands, and His love as they care for each other in compassion and kindness.
Certainly this is no divine revelation. Rather, this is just a message to encourage you... wherever and whoever you are... to see with the eyes God has given you. He who has ears let him hear and he who has eyes let him see what God is doing in our presence. Seeing with the eyes God has given us is more than receiving optical messages from lens to lobe, but it is perceiving that which is the miraculous ordinary.
I think there was more to God's message to the heavens when He commanded there to be light than what meats the eye. He wasn't merely flipping the switch. I think He was, and still is, beckoning all creation to tune in and take notice of the great things He was going to do. More importantly, He was beseeching us to focus our eyes to the wonder of His being.
God is the miraculous ordinary. He is phenomenal and familiar. He is beyond conception and immediate in perception. God is all around us. Open your eyes and see.
Behold His form. Take it in as best you can as you meditate on His nature. Soak in the presence of the King's majesty. See how lovely He is as you experience Him in every breath... in every smile... in each helping hand... in the day's fragrances... in the vast palette of human emotion... in the rich textures of speech... in the most fundamental fabric of life itself...
Be ravaged by God as He wants to be seen.
Certainly this is no divine revelation. Rather, this is just a message to encourage you... wherever and whoever you are... to see with the eyes God has given you. He who has ears let him hear and he who has eyes let him see what God is doing in our presence. Seeing with the eyes God has given us is more than receiving optical messages from lens to lobe, but it is perceiving that which is the miraculous ordinary.
I think there was more to God's message to the heavens when He commanded there to be light than what meats the eye. He wasn't merely flipping the switch. I think He was, and still is, beckoning all creation to tune in and take notice of the great things He was going to do. More importantly, He was beseeching us to focus our eyes to the wonder of His being.
God is the miraculous ordinary. He is phenomenal and familiar. He is beyond conception and immediate in perception. God is all around us. Open your eyes and see.
Behold His form. Take it in as best you can as you meditate on His nature. Soak in the presence of the King's majesty. See how lovely He is as you experience Him in every breath... in every smile... in each helping hand... in the day's fragrances... in the vast palette of human emotion... in the rich textures of speech... in the most fundamental fabric of life itself...
Be ravaged by God as He wants to be seen.
posted by Gregg @ 8:14 PM
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