Heart Tracks - What If?

     What if Moses deep desire spoken in Exodus 32:18, "Please Lord, show me Your glory," became ours as well?  What if the words of Psalm 81, "O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!  Your glory fills the heavens!," became our testimony?  What if we had the heartset and mindset at all times that He is able, in every situation to deliver, heal, or resurrect, but even if He does none of those things, we will not cease to believe and trust Him?  What if our prayer became a cry for Him to open our eyes to the reality of His glory, to the splendor of His loveliness in every life situation we face or walk through?  What if we no longer read His Word with what Mark Batterson calls "old eyes," seeing the words themselves, but not the glory of His life and presence that fills each one?  What if we began to live our lives for His glory, discovering that we can then live in His glory, and go from glory to glory?  What if we sought for Him to stretch our minds that we could take in all that He is, and to enlarge our spirits to respond to and receive all that He gives?  What if we allowed Him to remove the wall created by our sins, fear and shame, so that with all our hearts we might desire to enter into His glory, to stand in His presence, to love HIm and be loved of Him?  To come before Him with all that we are, and bow before all that He is...in His glory?  What if we stopped believing that such a life were only possible in eternity, and started to believe that eternal life begins for His people, now?

What if we stopped asking what if?
    So much of the "believers" life seems to be theory.  We believe the theory, but that theory seems so little proved in our day to day lives.  We believe in the glory of God, but we rarely see it appearing in our daily lives.
Somehow, all the wonders of who He is are reserved for our enjoyment in the future, not the present.  In the present, we need to get about the business of life, of providing for our families, raising our kids, finding a marriage partner, and yes, building a church or ministry.  We may do all of it in His name, but so little of it in His life, in His glory.  We believe that He's there, but somehow, we never seem to "see" Him.  There's an inner yearning for something much greater than we have and are living, but we never dream that that yearning can be met, not in full, but in a great part, right here, right now.  So, we live in the theory, but wonder, at least to ourselves, what if the theory were to become reality?
    I've grown weary of the "what if's," of living in the theory.  I want the reality.  I want all of me to enter into all of Him that I can.  I want to see His glory, live in His glory, and go from glory to glory, and not any of it for my glory, but for His, no longer asking what if, but living in what is.  How about you?

Blessings,
Pastor O