I wonder if when God created all the vast parts of the world, the depths of the sea, the peaks of the mountains, was it like play dough or an all of a sudden thing?
I like to view God in this awesome glory looking down on us as if a father should. He looks down and smiles, and I wonder if he finds humor in the way we live our lives sometimes. It is almost laughable. I wonder how frustrating it is to see young men go like an ox to the slaughter (Proverbs 7:22). I have been there, and I am sure you have been there where you sit and watch your friend, or maybe brother or sister or even a parent maybe, make just the most destructive decisions not knowing the consequences could very well take their lives. I know a man who is currently in that realm. He is going down a road, and every inch of me yells and screams that he is not making a wise choice, but I can do nothing. You see, this man is not a Christian. Even though he is married, he still persists to do these things. At the end of the day, it is not my issue to solve, but there are times like these that I look out and feel like Solomon did in Proverbs 7. I feel like I watch people make destructive decisions all of the time. They go into the vast darkness searching for anything resembling light, and yet they come out darker than the world they just left.
I think that God designed us for something bigger, something more. I think God designed us to live bigger than ourselves. I think that God designed us to live for what I call a standing ovation. I recall one of the first standing o’s I ever received. It was in a basketball game and I was doing pretty well. I was leading the team back to victory. In all of that “triumph” and “glory” I get caught up, even now, as to how much more incredibly amazing it will be to be in the midst of a God that surpasses that glory with just one breath He takes. I cannot get enough of it.
Today is kind of neat day for me. There is not much too profound going on in my brain. Simply put, I love Jesus, and cannot wait to be in His glory. Simply cannot wait.
leadershape 