Just like God intended, God had spoken through his creation, and his words were unmistakable: "I am here." But that wasn't all God was saying to me in that moment, for because I had read the words of a much older book, I also knew that the God who exists is also for me.
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Regardless of you may be gearing up to receive the next 366 days (I love extra days), I would like to encourage you enjoy every moment of it. Like children.
"Truth is still truth no matter whose mouth it falls out of. Had Hitler stood up and proclaimed, 'Berlin is the capital of Germany,' he would have been right, and to argue with that fact just because Hitler said it would be asinine."
"If you were to let the tidal wave of divine love knock you over where you stand, releasing in the rushing water all your sin and regret and guilt and shame, assured that God sees all that is in you yet rejoices that his Son Jesus willingly stretched out his arms and bled and died in your place to make a way for you to come back home, then you'd finally be in the one and only position in which loving others in that same way is possible."
"God may utter his words at a given time, but his words are unlike our words that slowly get dispersed as they reverberate through the air and eventually cease. When God speaks his words, they continue to resound into eternity future. Just as God exist in the eternal present, so do his words."
"It was me and a dog on a leash traipsing down the sidewalk on Yellow Bucket Street. Me and a dog and the almighty Maker of heaven of earth, that is. He stooped low for those few moments; I felt him, and my mind turned to all the questions I wish he'd answer."
Can the future cause the past? When we view God as the Author of the universe, I don't see why not.
I hadn't asked to be told. I wish I didn't know. But I do. And I admit it hurts.
Jesus said to his disciples that the secrets of the kingdom of God had been given. And I'm under the very strong impression that Jesus is still in the business of opening eyes to see and ears to hear these very same mysteries.