There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:4-6
“I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting. This afternoon the possession of God has caught me up with such sheer joy that I thought I never had known anything like it. God was so close and so amazingly lovely that I felt like melting all over with a strange blissful contentment. Having had this experience, which comes to me now several times a week, the thrill of filth repels me, for I know its power to drag me from God. And after an hour of close friendship with God my soul feels clean, as new fallen snow.”
Frank C. Laubach (1884-1970) in Letters By A Modern Mystic (Feedbooks: 2009) letter entitled, “The possession of God has caught me up.”
The writing of Laubach continues to resonate with my experience of God, especially in my travels.
Let me explain. I dropped in bed last night in Warsaw exhausted. I prayed for 8 hours sleep after getting only a couple hours of rest the night before in my crossing of the Atlantic.
But I knew I had work to do in the morning, writing and some complex situations to sort.
So rather than fret or worry, I asked God for the rest I needed and entrusted to him the writing and complex situations. When I woke, I determined to go to the treadmill to walk and pray.
I felt it was more important than diving into work. Two things happened.
I experienced Him in a powerful way as my possession and I felt He gave me clarity on the situations I had to sort beyond my ability.
What’s my point today?
The most generous thing we can do, may not be to get up and work, but to give ourselves to God afresh and from Him get more than we need to sort our responsibilities.
And I can relate to the word picture of new fallen snow. See it in the header photo.
It snows 11 months of the year in Denver. I love it when it snows. Like a blanket over everything. Then the next day the sun shines and it’s gone. But few things are more beautiful and pure to see.
Sit with this post today. As God to help you taste the thrill of blissful contentment with God as your possession.