Sunday night I witnessed a glimpse of heaven, a vision of the complete joy that awaits those who call Christ their Lord and Savior. Sunday night I travelled farther down this journey, this humbling road towards knowing God. To the lukewarm or the unbelieving Sunday night cannot be accurately explained nor can it be fully felt. It's like watching a foreign film you don't know the language of without any subtitles. It can be interesting or intriguing but, ultimately, the message is lost.
Sunday night I watched my sister in Christ--a woman I have loved and prayed for and suffered alongside and laughed with for the past two years--boldly proclaim her commitment to the Lord with palable conviction and humility in baptism. The anticipation I had going into the night and the joy I experienced because of it would seem insensible to anyone who hadn't walked this road with her. It probably seems nonsensical to some of those that have. What I do know is that the entire night I was teetering on the edge of my chair, wanting to jump up and down and shout, my arms covered in goosebumps, bursting with an inexplicable kind of crazy love.
Over the past seven months my life has been revolutionized by a love affair, and that is what this adventure into the blogging world is going to be about. Communicating a seemingly incommunicable message. Attempting to put words to paper (or computer screen) to describe the greatest love of my life. Because I cannot be quiet about it any longer. I want everyone I love and everyone who doesn't love me back and everyone I don't even know to be able to experience this crazy love.
It goes against science, against intellect, to the very inside of my self. It goes to the thread that links all humanity together. It goes to the hope, the prayer, that there is something more, something better, something that will make this present life worth it all in the end. As Paul says in his letter to the Church at Corinth, "If I have all prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing"--admittedly an absurd claim to someone who doesn't know love. What can possibly be worth more than all of the power and all of the knowlege in the world?
Simply: that someone who has all of these things freely and willingly laid them down for you and for me and for everyone else because He loves us so much. Crazy isn't it? Stay tuned for my real life glimpses of this crazy love. Maybe start looking around and see if you notice it for yourself. But be forewarned, if you do start looking for it, it's likely to catch hold and start changing your life.
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