Early I find it, filigree in the fog, night threads beaded with heaven’s breath. I bend low, patron hushed in the gallery.
My feet are wet, bare and hallowed, and I hear music. Sequined web sings pearled notes slipped on rising scale and for a moment, a day, an eternity, morning’s world shimmers, orb silvered in delicate strings of song, and the grass, the trees, the long, rolling fields, they all blur, lost in spangled carcanet.
The world’s roped. Sitting on terra firma, I can see: all the blades, all the leaves, all the stems, wavering, trembling, weeds lashed to the holy. Can I be bound?
Early, I find it, filigree in my fog, web of words intricately spun, tethering me to the Center. Scripture, it’s these lines, gossamer of sheer jeweled Light, filament mooring us to God. What else ties this world to the Other World, the real Real?
Photo Credit: Hope Voskamp
So we wake from night weavings, and let our lives be strung on lines of God’s Word and into real reality. We pick up the Book not to wrap a bit of God around us, not to draw God into acting in our lives, but we pick up the book to twine our lives into the lacework of God, to draw us into God, to be a string fastened to the Center. For the web is His and we are not the main character in the story of our lives, but He is, Him wreathing all radiance.
Why Read the Bible?
1. We read the Bible to really live, to stay in the web of real existence:
The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ~John 6:63
2. We read the Bible to bring true design and right, beautiful formation to our lives:
"... until Christ be formed in you." ~Gal. 4:19
3.We read the Bible, a book of revelation, not to learn more things, but ultimately to see more God:
The Lord appeared... by the word of the Lord. ~1 Samuel 3:21
In early light, I touch skin to silken web and the dead bones jolt.
He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "Master God, only you know that."
He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones: 'Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!'"
God, the Master, told the dry bones, "Watch this: I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life. I'll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and you'll realize that I am God!"
Related: Stay in the Story
Every Wednesday's post focuses on how to Walk with Him and currently the series explores how to "eat this book" --- how to live in and on His Word.
Next Wednesday: Would you prayerfully consider posting in your place: "How I Eat This Book" -- how do you read, study and endeavor to live the Bible --- and I'll see if I can figure out how to tuck a Mr. Linky in this corner, and we, as a community, can read, edify and encourage each other. I'd so like that --hearing and learning from you! I look forward to your sharing and ministering....
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