Two Sundays ago I felt God speak a special promise over my life. It was Psalm 22:14, "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. " Not necessarily something you tell all your friends and celebrate over, but I knew what God meant. He meant that He was growing me into the person who could fully be His tree [see Dua Fe]. He was making me into someone who was capable of being fully given for God and for others, to the point where it ripped my body to shreds. And as unappealing as this sounds to the flesh (who, in its defense, will be the most directly affected), this is my greatest desire. Don't ask me to explain why, because the only answer to that question I have is that God put that desire within me when He spoke that promise.
Anyway, as I was thinking of the previous post, it occurred to me that God is so big He would destroy me if He tried to fit inside of me. I would burst. The it hit me.. if that happened my bones would be out of joint and my blood would be running everywhere.
Is it possible that God asks us to take in so much of Him that it literally destroys our flesh, but in the bursting of that flesh His glory is revealed? It's an interesting thought - one that is threatening to burst my brain!
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