Over many decades, I have found that it is one thing to embrace at face value the truths expressed in Scripture and quite another to undertake only to rest before Him in silent and deliberative contemplation, allowing the Person and convictions of our God in this manner to become embodied within us. As we attend Him at the very foot of His "throne" while gazing deeply into His eyes and in observation of the very expression upon His face, our Father attends to our presence prone before Him while also quietly observing in minute detail the expressions of our heart. There is, in this case, no need for even a word to pass between Us for our God to express Himself perfectly in a manner that requires none of our pitiful capacities of evaluation. He cannot be, in his instance, less than precisely understood. Unlimited hours of reading, study, and evaluation cannot compare in precision or in compulsion to love and obey Him with a moment spent in contemplative observation of God when we approach Him silently, patiently, and come completely at risk to His utterly near proximity once He is recognized. In this manner, our Benefactor reveals to us His immeasurable capacity to personally and precisely define Scripture for us, or any other expression of Himself for that matter, when we determine to finally allow our most certain convictions to assume consummate vulnerability and subservience to His. This determination allows the actual convictions and sentiments of God, revealed individually to us by the expression on His countenance, to become embodied within us becoming exquisitely dominant to ours. It is only our truly pitiful expectations of the need of our God for our company and His insatiable eagerness for the intimacy of utterly perfect communion with us that usually defeats us before we get started here. Most often we have already concluded we need to bring what we believe to be our best to God when we approach Him. Instead I have found that our actual need is to bring with us only the naked and utterly needy individual we embodied in the moment when God created us. Come precisely in the state that we occupied at the moment of our birth bringing along only vacant individual destitution of means, merit. knowledge and understanding. Only then can we expect be in the least prepared to come before our God as participants in the unique Sainthood He has provided for us in a manner that actually befits Him.
What an amazing and inspiring article. 🙏 thank you.
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Thank you so much!
Over many decades, I have found that it is one thing to embrace at face value the truths expressed in Scripture and quite another to undertake only to rest before Him in silent and deliberative contemplation, allowing the Person and convictions of our God in this manner to become embodied within us. As we attend Him at the very foot of His "throne" while gazing deeply into His eyes and in observation of the very expression upon His face, our Father attends to our presence prone before Him while also quietly observing in minute detail the expressions of our heart. There is, in this case, no need for even a word to pass between Us for our God to express Himself perfectly in a manner that requires none of our pitiful capacities of evaluation. He cannot be, in his instance, less than precisely understood. Unlimited hours of reading, study, and evaluation cannot compare in precision or in compulsion to love and obey Him with a moment spent in contemplative observation of God when we approach Him silently, patiently, and come completely at risk to His utterly near proximity once He is recognized. In this manner, our Benefactor reveals to us His immeasurable capacity to personally and precisely define Scripture for us, or any other expression of Himself for that matter, when we determine to finally allow our most certain convictions to assume consummate vulnerability and subservience to His. This determination allows the actual convictions and sentiments of God, revealed individually to us by the expression on His countenance, to become embodied within us becoming exquisitely dominant to ours. It is only our truly pitiful expectations of the need of our God for our company and His insatiable eagerness for the intimacy of utterly perfect communion with us that usually defeats us before we get started here. Most often we have already concluded we need to bring what we believe to be our best to God when we approach Him. Instead I have found that our actual need is to bring with us only the naked and utterly needy individual we embodied in the moment when God created us. Come precisely in the state that we occupied at the moment of our birth bringing along only vacant individual destitution of means, merit. knowledge and understanding. Only then can we expect be in the least prepared to come before our God as participants in the unique Sainthood He has provided for us in a manner that actually befits Him.