One More Thing

Last night Jed and I went with the Russian couple to have dinner with Art and Inger. Art was asking the couple about how they came to the Lord and the husband was translating for his wife and also telling his own story in his slow, broken English. By the end, we were wiping our tears -because his life story was so compelling and awe-inspiring. He himself was so choked up he could no longer speak. How sweet to never lose that sense of wonder at the mercy of God toward us unto salvation. To see that sort of tenderness toward Christ and to barely be able to speak of ourselves as a "son" without it breaking us even in the speaking is a gift in itself. Forget all that macho, super Christian attitude - - show me a broken and contrite heart who knows the blessedness of gratefulness - THAT is what I long to attain to! O Lord may we plumb the depths of the Cross and know the richness that belongs to us in You. We dare not think we may know You from our own initiative - we are desperate and longing for You to give us the will and capacity to know you. Save us from our evil presumption - that lurking thought that the cause lies in us. The cause is in You alone. Bless the Lord O my soul!