How
desperate to know God, to know a new thing, a new revelation that is not of
me. God to know You, You must reveal
Yourself to me. I can no more conjure
You up than the atheist can rationalize You away. You have to be known by knowing You and You
have to create and give the knowing to me.
When I most seek to know You I am most left to my own devises as if I
were looking for light in the lint of my robe.
Your Word is forever and forever the first and most significant way by
which You will reveal Yourself to me and by which I can come to know You. But even Your Word sometimes leaves me dull
and dim and meaning that would confirm You are as elusive as the night
sounds. This dark morning I am left with
my coffee, my consciousness and the shallowness of my own thoughts. I am left alone with my own faith!
No…
“faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God.”
Even
in the aloneness of my faith I find faith because faith is not invented by my
own consciousness or sub-consciousness but is a gift from You through the
reading of Your Word.
I
turned briefly away from my computer and was confronted with an ebony blue of
early dawn. The color was so profound at
that moment that it confirmed all the above.
I was suddenly in the presence of God Almighty and was in great need of
praising and thanking Him. It is just
like God to find me dim this morning and reveal Himself in such stark truth, as
only an artist might understand. I AM
THEREFORE EBONY BLUE AM.
Something
uncanny, the moment I
acknowledged You were, regardless of all my current experiences to the contrary,
You revealed Yourself to me anew.
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| Thomas Cole's The Voyage of Life Manhood |
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