Our lives ebb and flow. We routinely go through routine and there are few times when we break out. Our days become monotonous and we pass through each day without truly stopping. I have found the balance of being disciplined and overly structured to be difficult. This morning I read my Bible, like I do every morning as part of my routine. I drove to Caribou and turned some Jesus tunes on Pandora. I opened my Bible to Hebrews and began reading. Jeremy Camp's song "Give me Jesus" came on and I was tempted to give it a thumbs down. For some reason I didn't. The words of a song I don't like began to hit me in a way that I never would have expected. My heart began to yearn for more of Jesus. As I read God's word, I felt like I was being drawn into a divine dance. Jesus was just waiting for an opportunity for me to turn my heart towards him so he could reveal his majesty and love. My soul felt the deep implications of these truths in Hebrews:
- There is a rest that God gives that is unlike anything else
- Jesus is a forerunner for us. He goes ahead and makes a way for us to enter a place we are too blemished to see for ourselves (6:20)
- Jesus is a priest forever
- Jesus is the guarantor of a better covenant (7:22)
- Jesus intercedes for us (7:25)
- He is perfect forever (7:28)
- Jesus is the new covenant in which all people can know God (8:8-12)
- His blood secures an eternal redemption (9:12)
- Jesus enters heaven to appear in the presence of God on our behalf (9:24)
I can't help but sit in this moment. If someone had asked me if I believed all the things I just listed, I would without a doubt agree. There is something special, however, when God whispers them to your heart. It is a divine moment, a divine dance. It is a time where I can sit at a huge wooden table with others surrounding, staring out the window at a snowy day, and be alone with the one who created it all. I want to cherish this moment and carry it with me.
The verse I have been memorizing and meditating on the past two weeks is 1 Corinthians 13:12, which says:
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I see in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
I can only wait in eager anticipation for an eternity of divine moments.
