Sunday, 20 January 2008

• Solace.

  you stretched out your arms
  over empty hearts
  said let there be light
  to a dark and hopeless world
  your Son was born
  
  Hey friends.
  
  It's pretty late to be writing a xanga post, but I feel like doing it anyway. I'm going to write something short anyway.
  
  It's all about the Father's love.
  
  Jesus and the Holy Spirit are both perfect expressions of the Father's love. But for me at least, the Father was somehow the most distant. I grasped [not understood] the concept of the Trinity, the Godhead, and that the three were one but at the same time unique, distinct entities.
  
  And I was good with Jesus, and good with the Holy Spirit, but somehow, unconsciously, the Father was never really the one I talked to. And this can sound strange or silly, but it was important. Because there is something the Father gives and does that the others do not, even though they are all one. Because they're all different at the same time.
  
  It's common terminology to talk about "the Father's embrace" or "held in the Father's hands."
  
  But have you ever experienced that? Ever had it revealed to you? Or is it all information, and that's just what you've become satisfied with?
  
  I have so much more to say and share with you. And I want to hear what's going on with you. In short- I want us to build each other up and be strengthened.
  
  We are in a season of extreme growth. It's time to length your cords and stretch out your tents and prepare for increase. There is a revelation of the Father's love that is being poured out, even now. And here's the crazy part- you don't have to strive for it. He's absolutely overflowing with desire to show Himself to you.
  
  He's been chasing us forever. He's been passionate about us long before we knew anything about  Him.
  
  It's when we stop running and trying and striving and actually become still enough to listen and wait-
  
  And He comes in a whisper, knocking on the door. He won't force Himself on anyone. C.S. Lewis, a little roughly quoted says, "He does not ravish His lovers- He only woos."
  
  We're very good as basing our relationship with Him on sacrifice.
  
  But that's filthy rags. We have access because of His name's sake. We have access because of Him, not because of us. That was the whole point. Jesus endured the cross for the joy set before him.
  
  That joy? Was you.
  
  I'm going to bed now. I can't wait for it to be warmer. I want to go somewhere when it's warmer and watch the sun come up.
  
  Your humble servant,
  -Ethan
  
  [and my heart
  burns
  for You.]
  
  

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