Day 4 My Covering
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Ezekiel 15-16, Psalms 70, Revelations 6 So I wrapped my cloak around you to cover your nakedness and declared my marriage vows. I made a covenant with you, says the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine. \\\"Then I bathed you and washed off your blood, and I rubbed fragrant oils into your skin. Ezekiel 16:8-9
Even when life is good, we still are naked without the covering of Christ. My internal need as a member of mankind is so great that only a great God could have the power, the intensity to meet my need. God wants to wrapped us in Himself. He declares covenant promises to us. He not only washes us from the filth of the world and our own shed blood, but He anoints us with His fragrance...with His oil, His presence.
Yesterday, I tripped over a raised crack in the sidewalk and fell in the midst of my morning run. I sat/laid flailing on the sidewalk in pain from the removal of skin from my knee and chunks of meat from my hands. \\\"Helplessly kicking about in my own blood\\\" Ezekiel 16:6 As I got up, I yelled at God because I was angry that this would happen to me...God was patient. He reminded me that somehow I had been thought to put a paper towel in my pocket before leaving the house. I pulled it out, tore it in half and with great gratitude I thanked God for the paper towel. I absorbed the blood, folded the towel, shoved it in my pocket and continued on my run. When I got home some 45 minutes later, my daughter cleansed my wound, I bathed and though the oils were not literal or physical in nature, the lingering fragrance of having been lifted by a real and living God remained. My humility and vulnerability were painfully visible with the huge patch of missing skin and even with the enormous bandage that was applied. I was visibly frail all day yesterday, and in reflection it was a real image of the truth of humanity. Whether I am conscious of my need or not. I need God. Thankfully, He knows and He wraps me up, washes me off, and anoints me with Himself.
Lord, you are a very great and personal God. Your word vividly expresses the outpouring of your heart over all mankind. Forgive me today for my self sufficient heart and let me receive your grace in my need. Thank you, Father, for your love and for your presence. May I choose today to allow my frailty to be covered in your presence. Would you wrap me again today? In Jesus\\\' Name, amen.
Even when life is good, we still are naked without the covering of Christ. My internal need as a member of mankind is so great that only a great God could have the power, the intensity to meet my need. God wants to wrapped us in Himself. He declares covenant promises to us. He not only washes us from the filth of the world and our own shed blood, but He anoints us with His fragrance...with His oil, His presence.
Yesterday, I tripped over a raised crack in the sidewalk and fell in the midst of my morning run. I sat/laid flailing on the sidewalk in pain from the removal of skin from my knee and chunks of meat from my hands. \\\"Helplessly kicking about in my own blood\\\" Ezekiel 16:6 As I got up, I yelled at God because I was angry that this would happen to me...God was patient. He reminded me that somehow I had been thought to put a paper towel in my pocket before leaving the house. I pulled it out, tore it in half and with great gratitude I thanked God for the paper towel. I absorbed the blood, folded the towel, shoved it in my pocket and continued on my run. When I got home some 45 minutes later, my daughter cleansed my wound, I bathed and though the oils were not literal or physical in nature, the lingering fragrance of having been lifted by a real and living God remained. My humility and vulnerability were painfully visible with the huge patch of missing skin and even with the enormous bandage that was applied. I was visibly frail all day yesterday, and in reflection it was a real image of the truth of humanity. Whether I am conscious of my need or not. I need God. Thankfully, He knows and He wraps me up, washes me off, and anoints me with Himself.
Lord, you are a very great and personal God. Your word vividly expresses the outpouring of your heart over all mankind. Forgive me today for my self sufficient heart and let me receive your grace in my need. Thank you, Father, for your love and for your presence. May I choose today to allow my frailty to be covered in your presence. Would you wrap me again today? In Jesus\\\' Name, amen.
