Good morning…
We are a skipping stone. Skimming across life’s smooth surface. In constant motion. At break-my-neck speed. We feel in control as we fast-forward to our goal. For a while.
Newton famously says, “An object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” An external, more powerful, unbalancing force.
Acted upon by God’s invisible gravity, we begin to slow down, to be pulled, to sink deep. Instead of straight forward, we begin drifting down, down, down, down-to-the-bottom of our murkier parts. Murky messy. Settle still. Deep dark. Stationary stone.
What we fear most, we eventually release. We let go. We let be. We melt into the mush of infinitely more.
Thomas Kelly says, “It is an overwhelming experience to fall into the hands of the living God, to be invaded to the depths of one’s being by His presence, to be, without warning, wholly uprooted from all earth-born securities and assurances.”
When we drop beneath all of our earth-born securities, we motionlessly melt into the assurance of endless love.
What happens next is God’s thing, not ours.
Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, so that at the right time he may lift you up (1 Peter 5:6, CJB).
…Sue…
