Day 11 deep :: 2019 FMF 31 Days Writing Challenge :: Going With God

​One of my favorite places to go since moving to the East Coast is Ocean City, New Jersey on the Atlantic shore. As a Midwesterner I’ve had the chance to see Lake Michigan in Chicago and Lake Superior in Duluth, MN. But there is a difference standing on the eastern shore of this country looking at the horizon, where the sea and sky meet.

It is there other worlds appear.

In my natural state I can touch their surfaces, but if I tried to venture deeper into the ocean below or the sky above I would need to be changed.

I wouldn’t survive in the deep sea unless I was equipped with gear that handles the changes in the pressure of this new environment and gives me fresh air to breathe. The same holds true for survival in deep space. As I am, I could not exist in the deep places unless I adopt the proper means of modification. 

So, safely I stand on the edge and observe.

What does it take to go deeper with God?

When God brings us to the end of what we know and shows us there is more beyond our understanding do we shrug Him off and cite the reasons why it couldn’t work? It is easy to limit God to our known boundaries and expect Him to abide by them. So safe. So routine. So wrong.

God has other worlds to show us. Places where His Grace shines in ways we will never see in our comfortable spot. Territories in which His attributes take on a fuller range of meanings beyond our childish definitions of them.

“5 Your lovingkindness, O LORD, extends to the heavens, Your faithfulness {reaches} to the skies. 6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are {like} a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast. 7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. 8 They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights. 9 For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light”                Psalm 36:5-9 (NASB)

Go deeper with God. Ask Him to help you trust Him.
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What about you? How have you gone deeper with God?

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