My Morning Tapestry

I love the imagery of God constantly weaving a tapestry before my eyes so that whatever I am going through is incorporated into whatever he is speaking to me about so I can clearly know his will, at least for the moment of my present experience. 

Here are some snippets of the threads God wove together this morning: 

We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,
    in the midst of your temple.[1] 

Steadfast love is the Hebrews word “hesed”. It is synonymous with the Greek “agapè” love of the New Testament. God brings us into his temple (both our own bodies and the body of Christ) to continuously think about his love. 

In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.[2] 

That is just one of the many thoughts of God’s agapè-hesed-love, that it originates in God and was settled in his will before creation. But that reminded me of what Paul said to introduce this paragraph: 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,”[3] 

I smiled as I realized that what Paul was doing in Ephesians 1, things I have read so many times, was calling us to: 

Walk about Zion, go around her,
    number her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
    go through her citadels,
that you may tell the next generation
  that this is God,
our God forever and ever.
    He will guide us forever.[4] 

What Psalm 48 was picturing for me of Mount Zion on earth helped me to see what Paul and the other apostles and prophets were doing to help me picture the Mount Zion of heaven.

 

Which then wove into my starting place from a number of weeks ago: 

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.[5] 

All these threads tell me to remember who and whose I am, and to let my mind walk around Mount Zion marveling at the citadels and fortresses and strongholds that all express that God himself is our refuge and strength, our very present help in trouble.[6] 

Even in grief and sorrow, and even in the horrible mess of this evil world, I am to set my mind on things above while knowing that God is fully attached to what I am going through as he leads me into what he has planned for my good.

 

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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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[1] Psalm 48:9

[2] Ephesians 1:5-6

[3] Ephesians 1:3

[4] Psalm 48:12-14

[5] Hebrews 12:22-24

[6] Psalm 46:1