Indescribable, Uncontainable, Amazing God
Day 259 of Photo Inspirations — Indescribable, Uncontainable, Amazing God
For the last three months, I’ve been privileged to be part of a retreat team that is working diligently on an October special women’s retreat. Weekly, we meet for prayer, study of God’s Word, and then it’s “all hands on deck” — to diligently work and prepare for the event. What a joy it is to know that we will be getting to take other women to a place of “green pastures” — to get away from EVERYTHING — families, work, electronics, schedules, routines and “to do” lists — to enter into a new or deeper relationship with Christ.. That happens when we go to that “Secret Place”. Psalms 91:1-2 “The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High, who rests in the shadow of the Almighty, will say to the Lord, “You are my refuge, my fortress, and my God in whom I trust!”
I’m baffled when I think that THE GOD of the universe is my loving Father and He knows me by name. His arms are outstretched to me/us 24/7. Shouldn’t we be the most excited people on the planet because His arms outstretched means PARTY TIME. The party begins when He is invited into the innermost recesses of our hearts and lives.
I want my passion for God getting stronger and stronger, and my light to burn brighter and brighter, and a sweet way of doing that is to REFRESH and RECHARGE at a retreat (a place of refuge and restoration). Some things with God are so personal, so intimate, that they cannot be described with words — they can only be felt with the heart. This is how true intimacy with God is; we feel that no one else can really understand the special bond that we share with Him because it’s altogether personal. But I assure you of this — that intimate place of relationship — removes doubt, worry, concern, and fear consciousness and replaces it with “Savior” consciousness.
This describes my relationship with Christ. He has comforted me as I have cried. He has directed me, taught me, reproved me, guided me and loved me. Only God knows us perfectly and intimately. He understands our desires, motives, and thoughts. Nothing about us escapes His notice. In fact, God knows infinitely more about us than we will ever know about ourselves. He not only knows all about us, but He will never forget us. He even keeps an account of the number of hairs on our heads. God promises in Isaiah 49:16 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands.”
Perhaps it’s not possible for you to go to a physical retreat location to find Him, but you can find a “hiding place” or a “secret place” where you come to know the indescribable, uncontainable, all powerful, untameable, uncomparable, unchangeable — AMAZING God…for yourself RIGHT NOW — wherever you are. His arms are outstretched to you…..and in case you haven’t been told ‘you are loved today’, through me…He is telling you now…..’YOU ARE LOVED’!
I love this song by Chris Tomlin. Maybe, right there at your computer or cell phone or iPad, you can find that secret place right now. Listen and know HE IS AMAZING GOD who loves you so much! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpLqAUJcUbo