David and I always read something and pray before he goes off to work and this morning he read a page out of “The Shack Revisited” C. Baxter Kruger. It brought a special moment I want to share with you.
Let me quote a
little…
“life is all about hearing Papa shout our
name. It is truly no more complicated than that. When we hear Jesus’ Abba shout our name, it baptizes our inner
worlds with unearthly assurance. In the New Testament this unearthly assurance
is called confidence, freedom, boldness, assurance. We are so made as to live
our lives baptized in such assurance. That is how we are wired. We have been
designed, so to speak, to hear Jesus’ Papa. And when we do, peace happens,
assurance settles our souls, unexpected joy fills the room of our broken lives.
We see with new eyes, and we see glory everywhere.”
After reading a bit more
we paused to pray… and David became tearful. Then he said, “It was as if I heard
the Father say, “Well – Eleena Dawn Wells – here you
are.”
How wonderful!
“I believe the will of the Father,
Son and Spirit for us is that we would know what Jesus knows, that we would see
what Jesus sees, and that we would experience what Jesus experiences when he
looks his Father in the face.
Think of what Jesus feels when he
looks into his Father’s eyes and hears, “You are my beloved Son, in whom my soul
delights.” I dare say it is not sadness or fear; not anxiety, dread, or
hopelessness. I think Jesus’ soul is baptised with unearthly assurances, with a
freedom and confidence and hope that are born in his Father’s heart. Jesus gets
to live life in the joy of that baptism, in the freedom of the Spirit. The dream
of the blessed Trinity is that we will, too. We will get to be mothers and
father, friends and neighbours, golfers and poets and gardeners, ditch-diggers
and teachers in the assurance of Papa’s voice. This is life, this is
heaven.”May you know his loving smile today.
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