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Nothing, and Everything


What if that which is central is not center, but more pervasively permeating and constant? And I wonder at the contrast of day, and light to night, to dark, to darkness, and to nothing. Have you ever looked and seen nothing, and within nothing, quantifiable darkness? Plain and measurable, yet complicatedly invisible, like the edge of a shadow on a bleakly dark-ashen day.

Now what of light? Does the former state have an opposite? Can there be a light that we know, and then a brilliance undepictable? Indescribable brilliance existing through and around the constrictiveness of dimension and time? Endlessly Everywhere, throughout everything, and diametrically opposed to the emptiness of Nothing? A nothing which cannot even retain light or darkness except in suspension?

Is it this contrast of Nothing and Everything to which our souls war and struggle? We know of requirements which must be met in varying measure to sustain us. We know of failures which can limit or constrain us. But what do we really know of Death, and of Life? Are there places of Nothing and Everything beyond the darkness and lightness of this world we know? Yes, there is Death Everlasting, and there is Life Eternal. We know this truth: God truly is central: truly by Him and for Him do all things exist. The heavens declare Him; by His artistry they were fashioned. It is by His breath and His will that we live and understand. It is in His splendor we find true worship, and in His Love we find salvation. We were made to love Him, to this end is the composition of all desire. When we pursue emptiness it kills us, but when we pursue Him, He can pour through us. And when we find ourselves before Him, and His greatness overwhelms, our separation from Him thins. We learn of His nature, and of His Love, and we are swept away. We were made for this: for eternity, and for Him. Nothing will never satisfy, and Everything is only found in Him.

Open, Lord, Your word to me. Pour out Your heart upon my own and heal my brokenness. Replace my shattered vision with Your gaze, and hold fast my course to You. Teach me Your friendship, and how the God of All Things is fully the Father, and the Husband of His bride. Lord, show me things I cannot fathom or hope to understand; show me who You are, and make me more like You. Change me every day, draw me closer, and closer still, until there is no mistaking Your light on my face or your mind in my heart. Touch the world by me, and lose myself in The Light. Change the world by Your sovereignty, and change all I am with the touch of Your breath, and Your hand. You are the way, You alone are Everything.

~JLB