Boundless

Yesterday I was talking with Andrea about the concept of being. Allowing myself to be on the journey. 

Doing things on the journey, yeah, but not because those things will move me towards my ultimate life goal. Doing things because they glorify God and I'm meant to act out of love. Doing because I'm being a child of God. 

Being defined by God. Allowing myself to soak in the depth of pain and the fullness of joy that comes from true intimacy. 

God gave me a picture as we were talking:

A boundless blue ocean. I don't know that you could call it an ocean, because it never touched land. 

A person diving in from the sky. Someone who's given his life to Christ. He is now diving into God's love for him.

He is surrounded by something new and unfamiliar -- this ocean. God begins to give him the supernatural capacity to breathe in the depths. His lungs fill with water and he's afraid, but he begins to adjust.

He swims deeper and his ability to withstand pressure grows... simply because God is gracious and wants the man to experience more of Him.

I may never be in a perfect place with God on this landlocked earth. But I will always be swimming deeper. Why would I not want to experience the impossible? Why would I not accept the freedom that comes from trust in the all-powerful? Why would I hold on to what I can control -- my control is so constrained in comparison to that endless ocean. I can always swim deeper.

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

Ephesians 3:17-19