One of the greatest challenges in the life of the Christian is continued reliance on GOD, especially when it feels like He is not reliable. This was written asking, if over the long haul, can we still bow before Him in loving devotion when the issues of life get extremely hard. Ultimately we are challenged to look beyond the present in order to see the bigger and eternal picture of redemption.
Can You Still Bow?
Looking back, back on the highs and lows, on the indescribably wonderful, and the unutterably, unimaginably painful; after life has set before you a smorgasbord of delights, and tried to force feed you the rotten fruits of someones sour attitude; after you held your babies and buried your sons; whether you've stood in the limelight or been shoved into the shadows; captured a dream of felt one oozing through your fingers; near the end of all this, all they call life, can you still bow?
If not, I dare say, you have accepted a view of life that is too short, too small, too earthy. For one day, in a moment, in the twinkling of your eye you will stand on the lip of eternity, and gasp at the view that puts all things in their proper place, on the head of a pin where a million angels dance in the presence of GOD. Where the best this life had to offer will be lost in the grandeur of HIS presence. Where the worst instantly becomes precious because it taught you not to lean too hard on what seemed solid, but wasn't.
In the light of the infinite, from the perspective of the never-ending, all this, all they call life, will be so small as to fit with room to spare on the head of a pin, where a millions angels dance in the presence of GOD. Now, near the end of all, all they call life, can you still bow?
Copyright, Gary Little, Dec 11th, 2007
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