"Where have you gone? Why have you left me here alone and in the dark? Do you not know that I cannot survive without you? I feel empty and frightened without you by my side. I need your peace to get me through this night! Lord, I'm lovesick for you. Where have you gone?"
This... is the cry my heart so often cries. Yet I realized something the other day... and perhaps the best way to start it is with a flashback ; Here's a church sign I saw about 7 years ago in Alberta
"Godisnowhere"
Read it again...
Funny how our first thought is that God is no where to be found... the fact is is that He's ALWAYS right there waiting for us and watching our every move.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and him with Me." Revelation 3:20
So often do we ask where He's gone, but little do we know He's waiting for us to open the door. He WANTS to be with us...He WANTS to dine with us....He LONGS for our gaze to meet His. While our hearts are crying out "Lord! Why have you left me" His is crying "Beloved, seek me."
There are honestly SO many scriptures that I can just spew off about this right now that have made this message ever so clear for me. But here's two that seem to stand out incredibly strongly to me.
"By night on my bed I sought the one I love; I sought him but did not find him. "I will rise now" I said, "and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek the one I love." I sought him but did not find him. The watchmen who go about the city found me; I said, "Have you seen the one I love?" Scarcely had I passed by them, when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let him go." Song of Solomon 3:1-4
"You have ravished my heart, My sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace." Song of Solomon 4:9
We are a people created to long for God... a people of onething. No longer shall my heart cry "Lord where have you gone" but it will be replaced with a longing for more of His love. For more of His tender mercies.
"One thing I desire, that will I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple." Psalms 27:4
Finally do I realize that it was I that was lost. I never took it upon myself to seek my Love. I did not 'rise from my bed and scoure the city' for the one that I love, but instead waited. I have no begun to seek the Lord God Almighty with all of my heart, all of my soul and all of my mind - He has ruined me for nothing else. My life is now His and because I have caught a glimpse of His glory, tasted His mercy and felt only a portion of His love (for His love is as strong as death), I will never be able to turn away, when we experience true love and true sacrifice so pure as this....
"I have taken off my robe; how can I put it on again? I have washed my feet; how can I defile them? My beloved put his hand by the latch of the door and my heart yearned for him." Song of Solomon 5:3-4
Once we have shed our previous lives for one of purity and love....you look back at what you had and it seems incomparable to the one He has given you....once you wash your feet in His mercy ... how could you ever refuse Him? You can feel His every movement within your spirit .. within your heart. The longing for your One is so powerful and so tear - wrenching. ...
When people come up to me and say "I could never do it" I just look at them and say...I wish you could feel what I feel and you would know ... you just know.
I am urging everyone who has not felt thing longing to get out of the habit of dipping your toes in the shallow end and taking a running leap into the deep end. The only way to be with God is whole heartedly...neither hot nor cold (or lukewarm) but a full fledged flame is the makings of one that has only Onething on their mind. I'm seeing now that once my heart is set on this race ... all the small things fade away...nothing else matters.
==Love ya== Cee.Gee
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