Not my most revealing...
Not sensational....
Nothing special......
But this morning I think upon what is truly important and the words, I don't know much but I know I love you... Kept coming to mind.
I loved Linda Ronstadt was I was younger... and upon a search on YouTube I found it...
http://youtu.be/gTMaCHvep_8
And then Paul's words circulated in my head.... I count it all loss..... that I may gain Christ.....
It doesn't come down to anything else but that.... that and that alone....
This season has taught me to be blind to all else but Him.... Leaning upon His strength.. partaking in the aroma of His life, His death, His resurrection.... tasting and seeing that the goodness of the Lord prevails....
Then last night as I played that song... I stepped into a vision and a hand was being held out and a request for a dance.... and my head found its place upon His chest and my ears heard the beating of His heart... and again... I knew nothing... I don't know much but I know I love Him and that truly may be all I ever need to say.....
His compassion is endless...
His mercy amazing
His grace abounding
His strength
His passion
His affection
His....
We are His........
Being held by Him... being wooed into His presence... into His reality... into His life....
The reality that the days are coming that there will be a Bride and there will be a Groom and there will be a table... and there will be a dance and a celebration... And then we will know as we are fully known... and still Love will be that which saturates all that there is to behold.....
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision; for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh, although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more: circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.
But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, beingconformed to His death; in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to whatlies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude,God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
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