What a Privilege!

Psalm 27:8
    "8 My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.”"

I found this verse in the course of my daily readings, and it called to me! It invokes a picture in my mind, a picture of a young child feeling lost; a parent calling them back home and the child's joy at being found. A picture of a lover in a garden, who senses her true love is on his way and runs to meet him. Or maybe just the joy of my heart hearing my God and knowing that all I have ever wanted it to be with Him! Sometime in the late 90's there was a song on Christian radio that expressed this feeling for me, it was called What a Privilege, by Cheri Keaggy. My sister and I sang it at church a time or too, and it comes back to me on days when I feel like I am in desperate need of just sitting in the presence of my God.

I've expressed my love of talking on more then one occasion in my blogging, and how I have tried to learn to be still in His presence. While I still believe that is my goal, it's so nice to see in His word that he enjoys listening to me. This verse invokes a relationship picture too, not just one way communication thing. I think I've also blogged about my love of Disney as well (if not, you can see it here in my sometimes blog Disney Fan) and one of my many favorite Disney movies is Aladdin. There is a scene in that movie where the Genie is explaining what he'd wish for if he could have a wish. I think we sometimes view God in the same way that Genie's masters have viewed him. He say's he'd like Not to have to go "Poof! Whaddaya need," "Poof! Whaddaya need," "Poof! Whaddaya need?".  How often do we view God in that manner? The magic Genie of the great beyond? I know I've viewed prayer in that way a time or too, God give me this, God do this for me, God I want, I want, I want. But that is NOT how God longs for our relationship to be with Him, He wants to sit in that garden with us and talk, an implacation of TWO way conversation!

Thinking of my relationship with Him in that light gives me a whole new persective on my relationship with Him. I wouldn't want a relationship with any human where it was all about them, what makes me think that God would be ok with a relationship with me that was all one sided? It makes it feel easy, to converse and be at ease. The second part of that verse says And my heart responds, “Lord, I am coming.” When I read those words, I feel the longing of the Psalmist to be with our Lord and sit for awhile. I sense these feelings strongly, and maybe that is because I feel them too. I feel my heart responding the same way "Lord, I am coming!!" as I run to join Him. I had intended to write about two other verses today as well as this one, but God had other plans for me. Enjoy your time with God today...sit and talk with Him for awhile!