In the night, when ego has fled, self sinks into bed and soul rises to its Keeper.
Motives awakened, He traces His fingers across dreams, morning separating night, joints from marrow, soul from spirit.
Is it strange that He gives talents and abilities then uses weaknesses, calls us from comfort into discomfort, gives us free choice then asks for surrender?
In frustration I stop, I have learned to sit still until my bones ache.
Squinting into the dark sky, I can just barely see one lone star. The Lodestar is distant, hidden and out of reach.
In shades of navy-blue transforming from pitch-black as the sun on its axis nears the horizon, I imagine a star-filled sky on a clear winter’s night and shiver.
Who can count the stars or cover them with a cloak? Who can see into the soul’s navy-blue or pitch-black and on this soul, reaching beyond the sky’s lofty beauty and the sea’s rumbling depths, trace dreams never captured, sins unknown, then sketch them into nature’s composition?
All will be brought into the light in His light. He is the Morningstar and the night’s bright light. He is the Lodestar.
While reading this message thinking of the Lodestar, (which I had to look up, by the way..LOL) I imagined seeing a seafarer navigating the deep blue sea, and even Moses as he led the children of Israel by night.
…I wondered within what it was like
traveling by night without a star in sight…
Long before the Sputnik era and GPS were ever realized, the Lord had an amazing and UNFAILING way of leading and guiding His people. Whether using a pillar of a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, or whether by tracking the movement of stars and knowing the positions of constellations, the Lord instilled within His people the necessary gifts, talents, tools, and abilities that they needed in order to get them where He wanted them to be…
And the beautiful thing about all of His amazing HIS-STORY, is that He still does the same, in and through us today..
The Lord used this message to take me on a journey to and through a passage I’d been meditating on a week ago or so… Hebrews 12:1-2…
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 LOOKING UNTO JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Just like Moses led the children of Israel and just like the seafarers of old traveled the deep blue seas, we too must look unto The Lodestar, The Morningstar, Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, for He is the Light of the World!
Beautiful Deb, I could almost feel the strings of our hearts responding. Thank you! Blessings.
Deb,
The message, the Word, the Faith and the masterful use of language makes this one an instant classic. I can feel your lifeforce throughout it. Kudos to you!
Sarah
This is so beautifully written with such a powerful message. Thanks for sharing.
Yes! So true and so poetically profound,dearest Deb! Beautiful as always! <3 <3
Beautiful truth, Deb.
Anthony, thank you for this beautiful blessing. You know what it means to me.
Bruce, thank you and blessings back.
Thank you, Sarah. You are always so generous with your words!
Thank you, CG. You are very welcome.
Lynn, always so glad to hear from you! Thank you for your visit and lovely gift!
Thank you, Mitch.
Have Your way in our lives Lord! Blessings Sis, and your messages to me!!