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How great would it be...
...unto jealousy craves the breath who's inhabitation is appointed in us...
It would seem possible that we (humanity) inherited the God-capacity for jealousy. Not only is God jealous for us, but designed in us the solidarity of focus to fulfill singly His love. How we have fallen! We still crave and yearn to our purpose, but have neglected Him. So we brood malice and ill-will against all but our misaligned objects of supposed value; we hate our brethren for they are not as us.
How great would it be to focus our face again upon our purpose and the true God: for our jealousy to be lost in His love, and His jealousy to find no home?
How great would it be to know God the way originally intended, to walk with God always, to be consciously accustomed to His presence more greatly than our own?
How great would it be to be full of God so that God pours out of us, covering inside and out, so that ever our view of others is bathed in the purity of God as the pouring envelops, and even reaches to them.
How much more deeply are the lowly covered than the tall-standing proud, how much more fully immersed? And what of the broken, whose fragments easily lift up in the pouring?
How great would it be to know life as it is written, and touch the author's hand as His love scribes each moment?
Melt time away, its limits bound not love! By God Himself is our breath given! Any breath I lift in praise, all I can voice in Holy acclamation, all I can sing, is just a portion returned. So in life, voice is not enough: the heart must join. The heart must breathe His praises, the heart must love Him, and all must worship.
How great would it be when our spirit's craving does not rule us, but in Presence is longing surpassed.
~JLB
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