So, I always need to remind myself that through my wife, God has given me a foretaste of my final and ultimate reality, which is to be with Jesus forever when he appears. I know that this is the deepest longing of my soul. At the present time though, this side of heaven, God gives me many glimpses of his glory, the closest of which is likely my marriage and friendship with my wife.
]]>Psalm 42:1-6 “1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4 These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. 5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and 6 my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon–from Mount Mizar.”
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