Walking with the Lord grants so much freedom, especially when you have absolutely nothing to distract you from walking with him.
Along with that freedom comes many many blessings!!!
Here, it is incredibly easy to understand the small things finally mean something. For instance- this weekend we get to go into a Walmart, and everyone is excited. I am as well. But living in what we call ‘the real world’, I would have thought that was just another Saturday. But it’s a huge blessing that we can!
God’s blessings are so abundant every single day and He never fails to show us His goodness. Whether it’s dancing in the rain in the middle of a gravel parking lot, or having your team leader fall out of a tree without a scratch on her, my eyes have been opened to see the wholeness of God in everything.
It could be just sitting in your hammock with the Lord and having a photoshoot with him, or it could be sitting in a conference room with your team chatting and having a great time and being content for the first time in your life. God is so good to have lavished these blessings on me in my life and for the first time, I am realizing that they’re coming from Him and He enjoys giving me these things.
Having the whole entire God of the literal universe love you and tell you that He enjoys giving you these amazing things is really something that’s humbling but also is just something to enjoy. I used to think that I never deserved any of these things because I wasn’t worthy– but I am. My God has decided that I am and that’s all that matters. Spending my every day with Him has made me someone who delights in the Lord just like He delights in me.
A few nights ago we did worship under the stars. A perfect opportunity to look at the sky and marvel in God’s glory. While He taught me some cool things just during that fourty-five minute worship session, He also heard my heart and blessed me with something I have not ever seen before in my life (in person).
I didn’t even ask him. I wondered, in my head, but I didn’t even ask the Lord, but he heard it anyway and blessed me with that. Under that canopy of stars, I wanted to see a shooting star.
I didn’t even really think about asking him, either. It just didn’t occur to me. But with a gentle nudge and pointing to the sky, the Lord said to me, very excitedly, “Look!”
And there it was- a shooting star, leaving blue light in its wake and winking across the sky just for the smallest of seconds. And then- gone, but I had seen it, and I had understood just for a moment that the star had been excited to show the glory of God.
Can you imagine being a star and being excited to shine for the Lord and spend your whole life doing nothing but that? Neither could I, but that’s exactly what I’m here to do.
What makes this situation with the star even better is that we had just finished talking about how creation still bows to the Lord. Like literally a millisecond before had we just ended the conversation and just to reinforce those words, the Lord was totally just like, “Hey, in case you didn’t realize the fullness of my majesty over everything– I just made this star fly across the sky. Just for you, to know that I am good. To bless you with that.”
Like, what the heck??????
What do you do with a God like that??
I don’t even know. Love Him?
The argument is that we are not good enough to love Him, we are too small to give our love to a god like Him, but in truth, that’s not what He thinks of us. Of me or of you.
I mentioned that He and I did a photoshoot in my hammock earlier. But he was just lavishing his love on me, telling me that I am beautiful. So we took photos of each other. Obviously this is difficult with an incorporeal God, but it worked out– I pressed the button and He told me how to pose and where to put the camera and it was just a really nice time.
So at the end, I said that if He was taking pictures of me, then I was going to take pictures of Him. There’s about ten photos in all, but I’m only going to post a few on here.
Your question is, how does one take photos of an incorporeal God? The answer to that is you photograph the beauty around you. All of nature screams the name of God even if you’re not listening. It’s hard to look out at the trees and sky and everything around you and not know that it’s just a reflection of God.
So I took some photos of God, and it was really cool because He made some leaves fall and the sun hit the camera just right and everything was really pretty. And the thing is, He enjoyed spending that time with me. Like He could be doing literally anything but chose to spend time with me taking some photos.
So at the end He told me to post them. And I did, even though I hardly ever take photos of myself and post them. I was going to caption the post with something along the lines of ‘God is super pretty and I guess I am too’ but nope! Not going to fly with Him. And He told me this:
“This nature around you is a reflection of myself. I have created all things in Heaven and in Earth, and I have created you. Even compared to this nature around you- compared to Myself- you are still the most beautiful thing I have ever created.”
And if that doesn’t hit different, I don’t know what will!
