Thursday, January 15, 2009

On the dock with Jesus

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lay down at the end of a dock to stare at the Stars on a clear night with a real live breathing Jesus laying right next to you admiring them too?

I hadn't even fathomed this thought tell I read it recently in a book I have been reading called "The Shack". I can't give away the plot but I have to say that this thought of a simple time admiring the beauty of a clear night of stars with God in the flesh next to me sounded wonderful.

I love nature and love how it just proves to me how beautiful God must be to have created it. The thought of a live living breathing Jesus to hug and smile right in the flesh next to me sounded like such a treasure. I wonder what it must have been like for the apostles who got to hug Him every day.

The touch of God can be so real sometimes it feels like it is in the flesh but there is something to that warm feel of a hug from a person. I think God must use people to be His arms here on earth but I still think in awe of the thought of what it would have been like to get a human hug from an earthly Jesus right here on earth.

It is like friends that are far away. You can talk on the phone but it is something more when you can look into their eyes so that you can see into their lives and hearts.

I know that Jesus isn't far away even if we can't physically touch Him. Yet I still think it would be nice to be laying down next to Him staring at the stars and asking "so why did you create that one?" or some other silly question that He could smile and answer with "because I am God".

Fruit: JOY
Song in my head: Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay Lyrics - Otis Redding
Verse:Psalm 46: 10 "Be still, and know that I am God;

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Reminds me of the song "God of Wonders" - "God of wonders beyond our galaxy - you are holy, holy ... Lord of heaven and earth." Also, another song I know by Wes Terasaki, called "He is God": In the quiet of the night
Ev'ry star shines with the warmth of its Creator
Echoing His perfect light
All the universe is smiling, He is God
2. From the moment of His birth
While the stillness of the wind salutes His coming
Merging heaven with the earth
So the world can know this day that, He is God.
3. Seems so beautiful to me, with colors you can see
He'll paint your heart with golden love
Peace I hardly understand, like waves upon the
sand
He covers me with love
4. All of life at his command
Every bird shall come to rest upon His shoulder
Trees reach out to touch His hand
And they tell me He is master, He is God.