I love this picture:) My heart jumped out when I first saw it. Something moved in me and... I loved. In this I saw the heart of Jesus. A man who loved.
A man of faith, he defied what those in his day said could not happen. Especially the religious.
A man of hope- his words, his eyes, his very presence, and even his laugh swept over us a Spirit of encouragement. There is hope. Though all that we see with our very eyes is blown away like chaff in the wind, all is temporary, chaotic or messed up. There is something moving in the unseen realm.
A twinkling light. *
Even if that light seems small, it is as if that doesn't matter. This light is not drowned by it's surrounding darkness, but the light, it absorbs, it consumes, it grows. The darkness is fleeting, it cannot stay in the presence of light. The light has spilled forth.
Jesus looked over the crowds of people and his heart jumped out. His heart reached out of his yearning, his longing, his love for the people.
Jesus followed after the heart of God. He made the Lord's will his. He did nothing out of selfishness. He had an understanding of this world. He had an understanding of His Father. He compared the two. God's came out on top.
Fulfilling. Wholesome. Risky. He broke out of the mold, he blazed a whole new narrow path. A path that could be followed by anyone wanted to follow. A path that could be followed by anyone who let themselves be engulfed by the heart of God and let his own will be altered by a higher greater will. This heart, the LORD'S, willed salvation and Jesus carried it through. This heart willed completed and united souls and Jesus sent the Holy Spirit. He longed for lives fulfilled and lives lived abundently, in goodness, and he provided the way.
A man of faith, he defied what those in his day said could not happen. Especially the religious.
A man of hope- his words, his eyes, his very presence, and even his laugh swept over us a Spirit of encouragement. There is hope. Though all that we see with our very eyes is blown away like chaff in the wind, all is temporary, chaotic or messed up. There is something moving in the unseen realm.
A twinkling light. *
Even if that light seems small, it is as if that doesn't matter. This light is not drowned by it's surrounding darkness, but the light, it absorbs, it consumes, it grows. The darkness is fleeting, it cannot stay in the presence of light. The light has spilled forth.
Jesus looked over the crowds of people and his heart jumped out. His heart reached out of his yearning, his longing, his love for the people.
Jesus followed after the heart of God. He made the Lord's will his. He did nothing out of selfishness. He had an understanding of this world. He had an understanding of His Father. He compared the two. God's came out on top.
Fulfilling. Wholesome. Risky. He broke out of the mold, he blazed a whole new narrow path. A path that could be followed by anyone wanted to follow. A path that could be followed by anyone who let themselves be engulfed by the heart of God and let his own will be altered by a higher greater will. This heart, the LORD'S, willed salvation and Jesus carried it through. This heart willed completed and united souls and Jesus sent the Holy Spirit. He longed for lives fulfilled and lives lived abundently, in goodness, and he provided the way.
In freedom.
In grace.
In truth.
The light of this hope stretches out to every dark corner of this earth,
to the farthest reaches of our hearts, of who we are.
In this we are found.
This is true joy.
Let the fire spark...
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something more...
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