Delight, oh pure delight. Watching this little man; one day
to be a big man, gurgle up uncontrollable laughter as his father tickles, throws
and dances him round living room floors! Words are not enough.
Do You feel this way about me, the way I feel about him? Can
you not get enough of me, of my laughter? Do you study me the way I study him,
dreaming dreams for him and You for me!? It’s so amazing this love.
I was listening this morning to a song that came on Pandora
called “Amazed”. This was actually a song played at our wedding and the words,
oh the words are so wonderful, wonderful because they’re true! Not empty
sentiment but filled, filled to the brim, filled with our Abba’s heart,
overflowing!
You
dance over me while I am unaware,
You
sing all around but I never heard the sound
How
wide…how deep….how great is your love for me (Nick DePartee and Phil Wickham)
Does my son know that our greatest joy in his laughter is
him? Does he know that we are taking him in, drinking him up? I don’t think he
does and I think this correlates to how the Lord feels towards us.
Every day He tickles us with beauty, every day he orders our
steps, every day He gives us breath and sustenance of some sort no matter what
we face and much of the time; while His delight over us is in abundance, we
respond to the product but not the producer, not to the one who breathes life
but the breath, not to the one who clears the thickets and brings the comfort
but the open space and the shelter.
Oh but what happens when our eyes lock, when we look back
and laugh, when we look to Him and acknowledge? The sparks fly, our hearts
collide and we are all wrapped up in Him! One of my favorite quotes is by John
Piper who states “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in
Him” (Desiring God). I always feel like my Father is saying “Look up!” “Look up
little one!” Look up into the eyes of the one who sustains; look up into the
eyes of the one who is your comfort, look up to the one who will bring you
through, look up to the One who delights over you!
Zephaniah 3:17 –The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who
saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke
you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Today Lord I want to meet your eyes as you extend to me, I
want to see you in it all, help me to “Look up”. You are the beginning and the
end, all there is to want is in you.
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