The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
"Swiftly"
"The God we trust as believers transcends our highest thought, our deepest contemplation, and our keenest awareness. We know some, and we can know more. But in both time and eternity, we can never know all."
Physical light, created and sustained by the God of Scripture, moves at the unfathomable speed of 186,282 miles per second. Spiritual light, the very Person and being of the God of Scripture, moves in terms even more wondrously rapid.
"God is light" (I John 1:5).
"He sendeth forth His commandment upon earth. His Word runneth very swiftly" (Psalm 147:15).
We live our lives in physical light, but rarely think in direct terms about its necessity for our existence. Far more, we live our lives in the spiritual light of God's self revelation in all things. However, even the most godly and spiritually astute among us see little compared to what actually shines forth.
"The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and godhead" (Romans 1:20).
"If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know" (I Corinthians 8:2).
What are we to do amid the reality of a Light that runs more swiftly unto us and around us that we can imagine, but which we just barely recognize and to which we presently respond in such limited terms? The first answer is that we simply acknowledge the truth that the God we trust as believers transcends our highest thought, our deepest contemplation, and our keenest awareness. We know some, and we can know more. But in both time and eternity, we can never know all. Certainly, every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ acknowledges this truth of transcendence in terms of principle. However, it must become intensely personal in us all. A prevailing repentance must also course through our spirits, acknowledging, "Heavenly Father, I cannot begin to know all of You, or the full measure of Your truth. But I could know so much more than I do of the Light in which I live, and the Word that runs so very swiftly unto me in the grace and truth of the Lord Jesus. Forgive my lack of response, and move within me to draw my heart unto the Light."
God desires to be known. By you, and by me. Long into eternity, we will still feel ourselves to have just begun the journey into His immeasurable glory in Christ. We feel this way now, and also with the present awareness that we have not availed ourselves of much that ought be known. Both sensibilities must guide our quest to "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18). Yes, the Word of God runs swiftly to us at a pace far beyond the speed of physical light. Let us therefore expect to see, and look forward to the illumination that will beckon us to come further, ascend higher, and dive deeper to behold that which fills our hearts with wonder, and promises far more "wonders without number" in this day, and forevermore (Job 9:10).
"His greatness is unsearchable."
(Psalm 145:3)
"Thou wilt show me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."
(Psalm 16:11)
Weekly Memory Verse
"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith."
(I John 5:4)
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