Just Step In.

We had a meeting for small group leaders on Wednesday, and a girl from City Church came to share her insights after years of working in their ministry. Of all the things that she shared, what struck me the most was how much this girl really got the love of Christ. It shone through her...radiating...permeating everything she said and did. She showed me that kind of love is possible.

And I began to think about what it takes to walk in that kind of love. Why sometimes if feels hard, or far away, or even impossible. Because what I actually want is to live life positively swimming in that love.

The Lord gave me a beautiful image of the possibility of this way of living and being:

It was a picture of walking along the beach right on the waterline. The sand is soft there, and walking at that place for miles is tiring. The calves begin to burn, and it takes longer to get where you are going. Every so often, the foamy tips of the waves spill over your toes. For a moment, the sand is stiffer and your feet are refreshed, but it doesn't last as the water sinks deeper into the sand. It's like that in life, too. We can walk one way, and every so often we're touched, inspired, and refreshed as we experience the overflow of God's love, but it's only a moment. What we often fail to realize is that there is a whole ocean waiting for us to simply turn and just step into it.



Holy Spirit...teach me how to plunge with abandon into the depths of your love. Show me how to live and love from that place. Let your love flow through me to others. Change my heart and change the lives around me. Your love transforms. Your grace frees.