Your house, God... Your house is great! All I want to do is go there. All I want to do with my life is be with You in the place where You are. My heart starts beating faster and my feet just automatically starts dancing at just the rumor that You could be near. Mention being in Your home, and I just fall over! I feel like I’m going to die if I don’t get there!
The little birds, even as they make homes for themselves with little sticks and dryer lint - they make their homes in Your home. The little birds, even them! As they make safe places to raise their young, its always where You are. They don’t know anything, those brainless tiny beasts, but they choose Your home. Because everyone who lives with You is crazy happy. Everyone who lives IN You can’t stop grinning. The joy surges through them and pops right out of their mouths - and it always comes out as a passion-filled song!
Those people, those ones who find their inner strength in You - now THEY are the fortunate ones! Their hearts are highways to Zion. Their hearts are like the well-paved, well-worn, often-traversed path to the Presence of God. Their hearts are the road with no stoplights, no intersections, no stop-and-go traffic, no diversions. Their hearts are a straight shot to You! No messing around, no tricky turns. The highway is paved smooth, well-marked, and easy to speed on! It’s the fastest way to get to You!! Nobody could find a shorter, more reliable way to Your Presence than in the hearts of these guys.
Those people might walk weeping, but their tears turn the desert into an oasis. Their tears make springs of life appear in the driest places! They go from strength to strength, no turning back for them. Every last one of them appears before You in Your home. Not a single one is left behind, not one is rejected upon arrival. They all make it to You, safe and sound!
Oh God, lend me Your ear. Hear me out on this one! Listen to me here. Look, I bear Your mark... cast Your glance this way!! I WANT TO BE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE!
Because I know that a day with You is nothing like a day anywhere else. Name it - name any other place and it won’t even compare. The contrast would be so stark that I couldn’t even write their names on the same piece of paper. The best the world has to offer is like a sick joke compared to a day at Your house! Look, God, I would rather spend 24 hours sitting at the end of Your driveway than 24 lifetimes as the queen of the hippest party in Hollywood.
You are a sun and a shield, God. There is no night in You, not a smidgen of darkness ever. Not burning doesn’t even cross Your mind. The most epic events for millions of human beings is Your mere inhaling and exhaling. You are impenetrable, God. Nothing can get past You, nothing can ever weaken You. Favor and honor are Your favorite things - You give them more readily than the guy who has just scored the girl of his dreams buys drink for his buddies! You can’t even imagine holding back anything remotely good. You never hide the candy in the sock drawer, there’s no secret goodies that You keep from the ones who live in Your house. All the bounty of Your home is within an arm’s reach.
Oh man, oh man, oh man - those that trust You, their lives are crazy blessed.
02-03-10
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