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1-8-2020 – A Word to the Wise – Have your ever felt so loved that it took your breath away?
To be loved by the Lord, that is truly breathless. It is only on occasion the feelings wash over you. I know how often we long to have that moment by moment. Yet it may not be. The awareness may be with us or perhaps a passing remembrance. Yet at other times it is such an intense experience. Sorry, but our emotions just are not able to experience it but in short burst.
But you see it is just those moments that make up for all of the hectic times in our life. Times when we must deal with the mundane things of the world, or struggle with life’s circumstance, or on occasion temptation.
As one reads John 13-16 one may see this up and down movement in Jesus’s emotions. On the one hand leaving the disciples whom He loved, the other trying to comfort and warn them of the coming tragedy. At the same time one may see the disciples struggling with the fearful future, then setting it aside to ask for things for themselves, and then at the most precarious moment, sleep.
So it is with our own daily struggles. One moment we seek the Master’s presence, the next concern about worldly things. Yet it must be remembered what those few intimate moment with the Master are like for we need them to meet the struggles of the day.
Is that not how it is for you?