I AM SEEKING WHERE YOU ARE STAYING

All too often I get caught in the mire and muck of living and I forget the MYSTERY of who You are and who I am in You.  You lovingly created me in Your image and all You ask of me is to love and enjoy You and to love and enjoy all that You created.  I get focused on the tree of knowledge and lose sight of all else that You created that comes freely from the tree of Life.  The knowledge of good and evil doesn’t feed me and nourish me.  It doesn’t satisfy the longing in my heart, soul, mind, and body for Your Presence.  It clouds and clutters my mind and tires my eyes and blocks my ears.  It adds to my pride and subtracts from my meaning.  I lose the MYSERY and I am left with an empty form.  “It’s magic and you don’t want to know just how it works it will ruin the show.”

Your Presence is enough for me.  I want to bask in Your closeness and feel your pulse beat.  You will teach me enough just to know You and that is enough for me.

“One thing have I desired of the Lord,

That will I seek after;

That I may dwell in the house of the Lord

All the days of my life,

To gaze upon the beauty of the Lord

And to inquire in His temple.”

Psalm 27:4

And where is that temple?  “And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.”  Revelation 21:22

There are times that I get distracted and unfocused.  I begin thinking about whether I should be doing something, moving somewhere, or joining some group.   So I begin searching while all the while unsure of what I am seeking.  I explore my leads and they leave me unconvinced.  It always boils down to this response…”Why are you seeking the living among the dead?  Remember how I told you…”

Then I remember that moment in time when God Himself made His Presence known to me on that Palm Sunday afternoon in 1973.  Then I remember how Jesus Himself made Himself present as I read the Scriptures for the first time with newborn eyes.  Then I remember Him being my All-In-All and knowing I was His and He was mine.  That is the place I always return to again and again when I get off center and off focus from time to time.  He draws me back as I remember the love that I had at first and He calls me home to that place in Him. 

“Jesus saw them following Him and asked, ‘What are you seeking’?

They answered Him, ‘Where are you staying?”

John 1:37