It’s great to remember to “walk by faith and not by sight” – a scripture sign that I saw in Ocean Grove NJ last night, along with beautiful light too… The light of living well (and abundantly too)… JOY…
At the shore escape, I sat on the beach in the shade reading… reading about Heaven (great little book by David Jeremiah) and reading about Fanny Crosby, songwriter and child of God. Truly Fanny Crosby, blinded as an infant, gained spiritual sight in INSIGHT of the HEART to be a poet and hymnist of the mid to late 1800s, living in the LIGHT of Jesus’s Way. These people in this era experienced faith in revival in the cities and here at the shore. Fanny, like me, like us, can visit and live in the experiences of the waves of God’s Love more numerous and powerful than the ocean waves. Waves of the ocean and of love, like we experience in Grace and Mercy. We must let it wash over us to understand.
Fanny Crosby wrote in an early hymn lyric:
“More like Jesus would I be.
Let my savior dwell in me.
Fill my soul with Peace & Love.
Make me gentle as a Dove.
More like Jesus as I go.
Pilgrim, in this world below,
Poor in spirit I would be –
Let my Savior dwell in me.”
And isn’t that the central core of LIVING BY FAITH? Less of us and more of Him. To be poor in our spirit ourselves and let Jesus lead the way. AND WORSHIP THE LORD because He calls us too – and because our Sprit aches for acknowledging Jesus.
Less angst, more acceptance.
Less worldliness, more forever thinking.
LESS US, MORE HIM.
Less demanding, more giving.
Less profiting, more prophetic.
Less put-off, more praise, even in pain.
“Be Joyful in Hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12
Jesus praised His Father as we should… The praise of the Spirit dwelling in us is greater than anything we could produce. Let us take the moment to embrace the grace, and sing out God’s Glory in song and spirit. Let us let the Lord lead our day and way.
Amen
Debbie Upper 