Tuesday, April 7, 2015

"Collisions................."

The world around me was grey and drizzly early this morning as I returned home from driving my granddaughter to school. Most cars still had their headlights giving better evidence of their approach and, inside mine, there was just me and the Holy Ghost. In Isaiah, it is written how God will “keep in peace him whose mind is stayed on you”, such verse coming to me after an old song sprung up in me as I motored down the road. Its lyrics were not remembered in their entirety, but that meant little to this old man. The melody came up out of my inner depths and, if only for a few moments, His Spirit and my spirit were one as whatever words were temporarily lost merely found themselves replaced by a worship that didn’t need “exactness” in its offering. “Why”, I wondered afterwards, “is it so with me?” My prayer-life is more known in “encounters” than in some attempt to find “contact” through some sort of scheduled position appointed to such purpose. While there is no doubt much reason to defend oneself against being lax in our relationship with Christ, with our possessing an “internal hook-up”, spanning the gulf between heaven and earth ought not be reduced to an assigned point in time where it seems like success depends on me overcoming my humanity in whatever manner it tends to hinder me in the process. If one’s thoughts are always, for the most part, like the dove released from Noah’s ark, continually returning to “home base”, to that One who knows us in an inner reconnection established through Calvary’s Cross as well as an Easter resurrection, then He is never very far from any of us; and finding Him here and there along the way in our daily life is but a matter of surrendering ourselves unto His presence as He so determines the when and where of its occurrence. I’m not suggesting that there aren’t those times when we need to seek His face concerning some cause or even to just express gratitude for all that He is unto us in this life; but to limit such blessing unto occasions we set aside for petition is to miss much in the merger we now possess……

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  1. Yeah, you just never know....

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    1. It seems to me that the Church, as a whole, does not teach it in this manner, but tends to create some formulated manner for our approach to God. If one keeps the inner oasis fresh, however, and is always sensitive to His Spirit, prayer becomes a matter where words are not necessary. Merger just happens as our own hunger and thirst to know it meets Him somewhere in the middle...

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    2. I agree that it appears that most people want formulas that work and run like hell away from anything that smacks of mystery.

      Though I do have to say that the majority of my encounters in the last few years seem more like me wailing, ranting, raving and gnashing my teeth and I imagine God quietly sitting back and saying: "K, I'll just wait until you take a little chill-pill."

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  3. I sure can identify with this, my friend.

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    1. What a pleasant surprise, Hope! I'm thinking this sort of prayer is more common to most of us on a daily basis and, if He is indeed kept "fresh" within us, then a prayer "closet" is reserved for those times of urgency on our part. Always, if possible, though, prayer ought to be a matter of "closing that internal connection with Him that we know within us as believers".... My theology, anyway....

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