THE MASTER'S TOUCH

Back on July 5, 2006, I wrote an entry for our journal and it fits with today's happenings.  We lived in Arizona at the time this was written and Arizona rarely gets rain.  But, once and awhile it does rain and freshens up the summer, which is hot, really hot down there.  So, sit back and imagine, really hot weather.  But first, hear a word from Hosea 6:2b and 3.  "We're ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge.  As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is God's daily arrival.  God comes as rain comes, as spring rain, refreshing the ground."  Israel, on that day, finally returns to their loving God, and the people exhort their readiness to be His!


"Yesterday it rained in Mesa.  Most of the morning it rained, first just a sprinkle, then solid rain.  Everything became fresh and sweet.  Newly potted flowers perked up their heads and even the tormenting sun that followed the rain didn't bow them down again.


"I felt the same.  It was new life.  I love the rain, even thunder and lightening.  There is power in rain and its accompaniments.  And there  is power, too in studying God.  Not just studying about God, but studying God. I hunger to know God in person and the Son He gave up for us.  I am eager to know more and more.  I see God in the lives of others...."Hello!  I'm Jesus with skin on!"  Still I am eager to see Jesus-God face to face.  Perhaps even in eternity we will not see God's face but I believe God's light will be seen as well as felt, everywhere at that  time.--that auspicious time.  I am eager for God's touch, finger-tip to finger-tip, if nothing else. O God, my God, when I die may I be in You.  Amen."


That was then, and now?  I feel just the same.  Awaiting the results of an MRI for a troublesome shoulder, I walked Max just before the rain started here in MN. Soon, I will make some lunch. And while looking out the window, chewing a sandwich, I will watch the  birds at the feeder.  They are now a bit frazzled and pecky from the rain, but gobbling up that which has been prepared for them. And that is still a favorite thing for me to do...gobbling up that which has been prepared over the centuries for me and others like me, hungering for that which has been readied for us, the Word of God.


I hope you, too, are reading what has been prepared and sopping it up like the flowers do the rain and the birds do the food in the feeder.  He is equipping us for the days ahead.  Thanks be to God.


Jo INMN