= Para Deleitarse en el Señor This morning I was reminded of a plan I had for this term - I'd decided I needed a particular focus for my spiritual journey with God, and that this term, I would focus on delighting in the Lord. The way I figured, it's just like rowing; you can only actually remember one thing at one time, so you focus on them all independently, until they all come so naturally that you can do them all together. Life is a lot like this - we have to develop skills individually, and only then can we make sure they work altogether. Well anyway, this morning we had the College CU prayer breakfast. We basically turn up on a Friday morning, somebody sorts breakfast for that week, somebody else a thought and we spend some time praying together generally and then sharing what in our lives we'd like others to share praying for; ourselves, friends, good things, bad things, etc. This morning, the thought shared was a section from a book called Incomparable by Andrew Wilson (which I have just ordered from Amazon to read over Christmas!), which was looking at Revelation 1.14-17. And it was talking about how if you ask a 3-year-old child to draw a picture of their Dad, they will draw a picture which is much more simplified, contains misunderstandings, has parts missing (it was always necks and ears that I forgot as a child!), is 2D, etc. And often, when we're asked to paint a picture of who Jesus is, we too tend to give an over-simplified version, one with misunderstandings and parts missing. We sometimes picture the baby in the manger (particularly THIS CLOSE to CHRISTMAS!!!), or the teacher on the Mount preaching to crowds of people, or the sorrowful face looking down from the cross. But Wilson points out; if we asked John, one of Jesus' closest friends who ate with him, rested with him, saw him in all his humanity - he paints us this picture. A man who's "face was like the sun shining with full force". The sun that is SO MUCH bigger than us; gives out SO MUCH more energy in each and every second than humans have made in the history of humanity; and that brings life where earth is cold and barren. And yet Jesus is even bigger than that, and gives out more energy than that, and brings more life than that. And this reminded me; how can I NOT delight in the Lord. So I've been feeling ill, and I have loads of work to do, and I am exhausted - but even just Jesus' face, shines like the sun with full force; in ALL its brilliance. In that I gain perspective; in that I gain energy; in that I gain renewed life - and in this I do delight.
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AuthorI'm a recent Cambridge Theology graduate now studying for a Masters in Biblical Studies and blogging about all sorts of things! I'm interested in faith, Church, theology, social action, the great outdoors and being creative, and all of those things - along with many more - come through in my posts!
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