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I wanna sit at your feet Drink from the cup in Your hands Lay back against You and breathe Feel Your heart beat This love is so deep It's more than I can stand I melt in Your peace It's overwhelming HI! leaving for tokyo in seven hours time, waking up in 4 hours time. funny, im not even close to being excited about the trip. my sister's so excited she kept pacing up and down the house refusing to sleep. i've been warned how it's gonna be so crowded and crazy. not really my kind of thing because i love to chill and relax but with family, i dont think i'll do that very often. hope i'll make some advances with the book im bringing. i loved nagoya and im gonna be positive about tokyo, disneyland and mt fuji here i come! yesterday was one of the first times i had the worst headache of my life making decisions. deciding to buy boots or buy sneakers was literally driving me crazy, i know insane right? this is me. i hate making decisions, i hate choosing, i hate weighing the consequences time and time again, over and over again in my head. it's like torture. when i look and stare right into the whole thing, i cannot help but get confused, get upset, get nervous, get fearful, get panicky and all. but the thing is when i set my eyes on Jesus, when i look at Him, when i come to the throne of grace, when i begin to be aware of His presence and goodness, everything else begins to become like a tidy stack of papers, like it never went messy, like it never toppled. there's an assurance i cannot explain, a knowing i cannot even begin to comprehend. what if i decide to give up? He says His arm will sustain me. what if i go to a lousy place? He says all things work out for the good of those who love Him, He says He is my Abba Father. i met lynette the other day and she said sometimes we dont need to know the outcomes before making any decision. sometimes we just cant know! we just cant see but who do we look to then? who do we rely on then? all the more we need to look at Him, we need to rely on the one who is Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End, the One who has seen my future and says it is good, the One who made me and has a good opinion of me. it's true, i want to look at the outcome and then choose but i dont need to because His hand will lead me, because im yoked with the Righteous One, yoked with the Stronger One, surely He'll take me to places. that really takes the burden of me. Mary was right to do what she did when Jesus, the King of Kings came into her house that very day. she just sat and drew and drew and drew from Him. she just sat there, amazed and so drawn into His presence, so drawn into what He had to say. it must have been such a comfort to just sit there, enjoying the presence of a King, not busy serving or asking people about Him but having Him in your house. what an honour, what a priviledge, what a joy it must have been for Mary. it's so sad that Martha was in the very same place as Mary but she completely missed the point, she completely missed out on that "one thing that is needed" even though her intentions were good. you see good intentions does not mean they are God-intended. God does not need us to serve Him, He does not need us to fill Him, in fact He loves it when we draw from Him, He loves it when we just sit and enjoy His presence. i pray we will always fight to sit and draw from Him who is never empty. seeyou in nine days! |