too lazy to type on the computer anyway.
and it has rained all summer. everyday i think...
though all it has harvested in our yard is some monster weeds that are threatening to take over our home. unless i do something about these weeds. and if i am not getting up to type on the computer, do you think i am getting out to pull weeds?
i know that this season of rain and afternoons spent on the couch with my kids, spent at the beach house with my family, spent eating late night dinner and even later night popcorn with my teenagers, not doing anything of any importance may yield something...
hosea 6...
Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces
but He will heal us;
he has injured us
but He will bind up our wounds...
...Let us acknowledge the Lord;
let us press on to acknowledge Him.
As surely as the sun rises,
He will appear;
He will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth...
Also for you, Judah,
a harvest is appointed...
i feel like this spring was a tearing to pieces of some things in my life in a sense and now is a season of rain... and one day a harvest?
that is usually how God works. let me only press on to acknowledge Him...
that word "acknowledge" in the hebrew means "to know by experience". not to hear about it and know. not to read it and know. but to LIVE IT and KNOW.
and to "press on" is to pursue it, to chase after this experienced knowledge. TO RUN AFTER these experiences that cause me to KNOW that He is loving and He is good when all the things happening are contradictory to those conclusions. what?!?!? chase after THOSE experiences? for me it is more like drag myself reluctantly (is there a hebrew word for "drag yourself reluctantly"? it would be really handy for situations that i find myself in...)
a harvest is appointed for those who press on...