Our Beginning.

When we come to our beginning with Christ Jesus, all seems vague. Our immediate excitement of having crossed from death to Life, propels us to an otherwise impassable sea. We have no fear of our end then, but give it a few weeks or years, and the spontaneous excitement and trust is tested. The storms of life come to us as if to swamp us and drown us, even as Jesus looks on.

NO! He is but cleaning out our closet full of 'stuff'. He is stripping us of everything that would take our eyes off of Him. Yes, even the 'good stuff'.

The Path Never Ends

What lies before us is an eternal life of seeing Him in all His wonders, always before us, living in us, even through us. We enjoy the scenery of His transformation of this life and the Life to come.

Once the closet is swept clean He takes us within and we find our prayer room prepared for us. That secret place where we come empty, inept, needy, and hungry for Love. Here we but ask for the Perfect One and we revel in His being there. Later, things may come: service, riches, influence, even miracle power, but we do not seek for these nor desire to store them. We need only the 'Right Stuff'. 

Service

Yes, we become priests to God. We serve His bidding. We do His will. We rest in His rest. By coming to the Truth about God and us, and to the open, street level Door, always to Calvary, walking in His Way, not ways, we come to the End. This End is His in us for others. We too get to live and die for others.

Impossible! Yes. Even though our calling is high our End is but that same Beginning. We are in the Ark of Life and beginning right now we join His program by being humble enough to simply watch, proclaim what we see, and humbly stay before that Life Giving Cross.

Jesus, my Shepherd, Husband, Friend.
My Prophet, Priest, and King,
My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End--
Accept the praise I bring.

Poem by the Hessions WWSJ pg 84