Symbol: Stone tablets
Hymns: "Trust And Obey"; "O Word Of God Incarnate"
I seriously don't know how I will ever catch up. Ever. With anything. I feel so far behind that I'm at the top of the hamster wheel. But I've been here before. Gravity will take over in a moment and slam me back to the bottom, where I will start running again.
I'm looking for peace, sustained peace, in a place that cannot give it, does not know it, will never have it. I am so prone to look to me, to my circumstances, to my life, my time, my stuff, my pursuits, my wife, my children, my job, my friends, to give me meaning, joy, purpose. I don't just look to them for it, I expect it, I demand it.
How do I so quickly depart from what I know to be true? Why do I keep trying to make heaven on earth with me as the Sovereign?
God gave Moses ten words to lead to life. Jesus distilled them to two themes: Love God, Love neighbors as you love yourself. These should not be beyond me. Except the depth of self-love runs so very deep.
But God knows that. Which is why the ten words are not the life themselves. They lead to life.
And life is in the blood. It's whooshing in and out through the placental bridge of that girl-woman riding the donkey, flowing through and from the gift wrapped in her. It's in the same blood that will freely flow down and stain the wood of the cross I helped slam into the ground.
Life and joy and peace and meaning and rest and life are in relationship with Emmanuel, God with us.
John 14:27–Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
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