24.10.06

Revelation

I was lying in bed, falling asleep and listening the the devotional worship web stream from IHOP-KC , and I was thinking, "I get so frustrated with myself. I don't take the time to study the Bible like I want to. There are so many things I want to know, I'll die and I won't have even begun to get into them." When it hit me: well, duh! The Bible isn't something you master or outgrow. (And is it even possible to pray, "enough"? What would that look like?)
You never reach a point in your relationship with God where you go, "Ok, that's all of it. I'm bored now. I've reached the highest possible place we can go in this relationship. There's nothing else."

On the contrary, He is unfathomable depths and it is my pleasure to sound those depths and be forever frustrasted with my finitity, looking forward to the day when I will, "Know fully as I am fully known."

So that being said, I am relaxing in the joy and comfort of knowing that this insatiable desire for more of God will be with me always, so that no matter how much I study, I will feel it's not enough; a holy unsatisfaction and longing. And so I'm encouraged to keep going on in the Lord; knowing that I will get to do this for the rest of my life and then forever in eternity.

Ecclesiastes 3:11-15
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. 12 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; 13 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil--this is God's gift to man. 14 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him. 15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

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