One night this winter I stood on a deck over-looking Possum Kingdom Lake, and looked up to see a sky that had almost disappeared behind the density of stars in constellations above and apparently around me. For the first time I felt as if I were truly in the midst of the Milky Way galaxy, and I wanted to stay there. I couldn’t remember ever having seen the sky like that, but it felt entirely familiar. Identifying Orion and others helped with that.

The day is yours, and yours is the night; you established the sun and moon. It was you who set the boundaries of the earth; you who made both summer and winter. (Psalm74:16&17)

When Paul heard the voice of Jesus calling him, he answered, “Who are you, Lord?” as if the voice was familiar, but completely new at the same time. (Acts 9:3-5).

When Moses walked toward the burning bush he walked toward something familiar, the bush, and at the same time something completely new, the fire and the voice.

When we open the Bible to hear God’s voice we open a very old and familiar book, but if we read it without agendas, certain that we can hear Him, the old old book leaps into life and delivers an altogether new message to us. The Spirit of God looks for those who persevere in reading His book. For the eyes of the Lord search back and forth throughout the whole earth to strengthen those whose hearts are set on Him. (Second Chronicles 16:9).

There is no clearer sign of our hearts being set on God than the desire and the resolve to spend time alone with His word. Standing on the deck looking at the Milky Way made me feel as if I was in an entirely different place from my everyday life. I believe that when God finds us in His book He sees us in an entirely different place, and it pleases and sometimes might even surprise Him.

Love in Him,

Prue