Into His Marvelous Light (Lord Of All 2018)
This article was published in The Lord of All on February 2018, the official publication of the Cathedral Church of St. Michael - Kalibo, Aklan; Philippines.
On January 17, 2018,
I found myself tweeting this:
“Feeling a certain kind of love that does not come from
any particular person today. It’s the kind that warms my heart and fills me up
with light and makes me smile like a total weirdo. This is You, noh? <3”
Have you ever
experienced that before? There you are, going about your daily activities and
all of sudden – boom – a surge of love just fills you up and you know in your
heart that it’s Him.
I am grateful for
those moments. Those little glimpses of God’s great love being physically
manifested in us.
I used to never feel
things like that before. You see, I tweeted this a few weeks after the
installment of the Primate – who, for the sake of those who do not know yet,
happens to be my dad.
When I heard about
this a year before, I wasn’t in a very good place in my relationship with God.
I did not know how to process this new development in my dad’s life, and I did
not know how this would shape my role in this journey.
But God IS God. He is
sovereign. He sees, hears, and knows everything, including my heart. Every
little bit of it, its glimmers of light and streaks of darkness, its truths,
its scars, its triumphs, downfalls, and fears.
Through my period of
unrest, I knew He was there. But He was never obtrusive. I focused on dealing
with everyday mundane things and welcomed the familiarity of what I felt was
normal and ordinary until the days leading to The Event drew closer.
And then one day this
word was planted in my heart. “But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a
holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness
of God, for he called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.” (1 Peter
2:9, NLT)
You are not like
that.
You are a chosen people.
The King James
Version even uses “A Peculiar
People.” Different from the usual.
It was never going to
be a “normal” life and I knew in my heart that I just had to embrace it. Slowly,
ever so gently, He ushered me out of that place. I started saying “Yes” to Him
again and He showed me in His great, wonderful and loving way how obedience, choosing
Him, choosing LIGHT, will bring blessings to your life.
“Therefore if anyone
is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold the new has
come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Sure enough when the
day came, I was able to enjoy the event and bask in the many supernatural
things that happened. He changed and prepped my heart and has even planted
desires in it that I never thought I had.
It scares me, but it
excites me.
I am letting God be
God in my life and because of this, every now and then He graces me with little
sweet surprises such as the one I mentioned in my tweet.
“I am the light of
the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness because you
will have the light that leads to life.” (John 8:12)
There is liberation
in choosing to be obedient to God. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who
lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)
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