The Daily Affirmation Prayer references 1 Cor 2:16. But, I decided that reading all of 1 Cor 2 would be a good start. When I got to 1 Cor 2:10, there were words that I knew that honestly I didn’t know what they meant, and had no idea why they were there – “for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God”
The Holy Spirit gave me an experience that is hard to describe, sort of exhilarating, or the feeling that you get when you come to a point where there is a new and beautiful vista, and also elements of a eureka moment. I was immediately reminded of Ps 127:1 (Unless the Lord builds the house), and I was also reminded of how irritated that I get with religious people that characterize God as someone who wants us to get all of our ducks in a row, and play the academic/scholars/theologians game. Today, reminding me of Ps 127:1, He showed me that we have search tasks, some of them in scriptures, and others in other deep things of God, but His goal is fellowship not scholarship. I know the fellowship that He is talking about (in Ps 127:1), having observed it in my own son, as well as in the children of others. He involves us, because we want to be with Him. We want to help. He does the heavy lifting. At the same time, He enjoys being with us, and the “together time” that we have in various tasks. And, He has together time with academics, scholars, and theologians too. And I have some unhealed wounds, or a false identity of “not enough” that I carry into academic and scholarly spaces.
So, that is really exciting to me. It also built on what He was doing yesterday, while I was working toward my Catalyst goal, with Him. He showed me the relational side of Psalm 37:23–24, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 20:24 (all dealing with God ordering our steps), and Psalm 139:16 (dealing with His book of my days). He said “What you are missing is that your steps are like those of a little child with your hand in Mine. And the (Ps 139:16) book isn’t an observation, as much as, it is what you would relate to when a parent says to a little child, ‘We are going to the water park tomorrow’. The child doesn’t know the things the parent will pack, or the obstacles they may have to overcome. The child assumes, a relationship experience that is hard to put into words (but not into memories), and it involves steps or plans, of which we only may understand a small part. But to the child, that doesn’t matter because love and trust are there.
From the perspective of people familiar with The Immanuel Approach and Life Model Works, I see something in Ps 139 as something that strongly contains times of fellowship which are or will become appreciation memories. It made me wonder if the use of the word book, might be also rendered something along the line of catalog, or amalgamation, of a lot of experiences of the joy of togetherness.
Jesus Day by Day 