Well the sense of the winter months ahead are here with the time change it is getting dark way early and yet it is nice to have it brighter in the morning. Not completely sure what that has to do with anything really just looking ahead... But really it is a reminder that darkness is just a shadow.
I am working through some things in my life at the moment and was awakened about 4 AM the other morning; way too early for me... as I prayed and wrestled with going back to sleep the words of Psalm 23 came to my thoughts but not the usual way. In my almost back to sleep place the words just wouldn’t come out right, I knew there was more but I just couldn’t get it out.
The way it came out in the end was: ‘The Lord is my Shepherd—yeah though I walk through a valley called Death it is a shadow, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’ In that early morning hour I came to a place of peace and rest that I pray will go with me through the rest of my life, for I realised that God really is my Lord, and my Shepherd, I am his and he is MINE even when the day comes that I may walk through a valley called death the good news is with God in the person of Jesus it is merely a shadow, it is not real in the way it looks from here because as I go out the other side I will awaken to find myself in the presence of the Lord to dwell with him forever.
As we know from a life time of saying the 23rd Psalm, there is in this life the promise of the green pastures, the still waters, the rod and staff of the shepherd, the tables prepared for us in the very presence of our enemies. These are good and welcome as they come but really having God as my Lord, my Shepherd and getting to go into forever being with him in the House of the Lord is enough.
Looking ahead,
Rev. Jon Bergen
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