“And without faith it is impossible to please him...”
One of the treasures of a
daily time with God in his word and prayer is the experience of finding gems of
wisdom and knowledge that are exposed simply because of digging where we left
off the previous day. When a new jewel is found, and placed in the mosaic of
treasures already collected, each gem seems to increase in the depths of its beauty.
And so it is that this
treasure, that without faith it is impossible to please our Creator, has become
a gift of grace that is bursting my heart with wonder that something could be
so gloriously beautiful as that.
What this reveals to me,
in the treasure chest of all the surrounding gems, is that our Father in heaven
is most pleased in his relationship with us when we want to be with him. That
is what faith is, the settled desire to be with God.
That being with God our
Creator is even possible is reason enough for joy unspeakable and full of glory.
However, that there is the distinctive color of the spectrum in these treasures
that he WANTS to be with us is the gift that leads us into his presence where
there is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore.
Today, my digging in the
quarry unearthed a jewel that became brilliant in its beauty as it shone in the
light of the whole gallery of gems. It was the simple realization that the
truth of God WANTING to have children began before time was created. Somewhere
and somehow in eternity, the Triune God shared their desire to have children.
However the eternal God interacted together, they designed and determined the
only way it would work.
When I look at the whole
beautiful description of creation, and the unfolding plan of redemption, and
the victorious work of Jesus our Savior, and the good news of great joy that
calls sinners to repentance and faith, and the Spirit of the Triune dwelling in
the people of God, all to bring us into a faith that wants to be with them, I
cannot deny the evidence that our Father who is in heaven wants to be with his
children on earth.
It is amazing how this
realization washes away the attachment-pain of people not wanting to be with me
(a work in progress). It is amazing how considering this brings such a peaceful
desire to be with God as our Father in heaven. He is not an angry God I need to
appease by my good behavior, but a desiring God who WANTS me to be with him. It
pleases him when I delight myself in him so he can satisfy me with the very
thing my heart most desires, to be attached to my Creator.
I share this because I
want everyone to know what it is like to spend time in God’s word and prayer
like a quarry full of treasures just waiting for those who will ask until they
receive, seek until they find, and knock until these doors of delight open to
them. The God who created us wants to be with his children. And he wants us to
find our greatest joy in wanting to be with him.
God’s promise to us is
that, “he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good
things.”[1] If you see in your heart any longing for your
Creator at all, open the quarry of his word, the life-giving Book we call the
Bible, and let him satisfy your soul as never before.
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Unless
otherwise noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by
Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.)
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