An airport is such a good place to see how people's faces mystically change before and after they see their loved one. Before, frankly, all you see is a set of features: a nose, two eyes, a mouth and some hair. You would never think there is anything distinctive or interesting about this person. But after: alive, and vibrant, each face transforms with vitality and warmth. You want to know who is inside this face.
What happened? Love, of course. They met up with the person they loved. It filled them up with life. Every face was flat before, yet every face came to life after it saw the one it loved.
I was reading Psalm 42 this morning. The psalmist was going through a terrible time, and sharing honestly about it with God. He sounded genuinely depressed, but he remembered in the midst of his very real sadness that God was not leaving him. "Why are you downncast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God."
The psalmist was just like the people in the airport, with the flat face and heart. His life was sucked out, waiting to be filled with his love for God. I'm sure I look the same: Fill me now, Lord! I'm ordinary and just a bunch of features. Make me what you want and need me to be for your glory.
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me--a prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 42:8
This was a GREAT post! Love it!
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