December 14, 2017
God’s voice is the only sound we need to listen for in the midst of the turbulence of the world. His voice is the voice of truth, the voice of love, the voice of comfort and the voice that calls us to come and listen to what He has to say. When all other voices of worldly authority plant fear, shame, guilt and promise more of the same with words that fall like fool’s gold from their lips. We are filled with fear and loss of hope and trust in a world we once embraced. We have been betrayed by life itself, finding that our dreams and fantasies are just that. Hopes are dashed against the stone wall that slowly built around our hearts as we shut out not only the voices of the world that have betrayed our trust but we shout out the voice of God as if he were a part of the pack. The God who created us with love, for love, to be loved and to love him in return. We have now betrayed our God, our only source of pure love, the only one who truly cares beyond the caring of the world. In our pain and anger instead of turning toward him and laying our weary heads upon his breast, we have pounded upon him with our fists asking why he has done this to us. As we vent our anger and pain, he pulls us closer to his breast and enfolds us, putting his head against our own as if to commute his thoughts without speaking, for his voice has not been understood. Our thoughts have not been his thoughts, therefore our ways have not been his ways, and so we have found ourselves lost in the wilderness of our own making just because we would not believe in his love toward us.
Love is the answer to all hurt and pain, love covers all wounds and forgives all transgressions. Love heals, and build up the heart, the mind and the body to its former beginnings in God, which is to say “perfection”. All of trials, hardships, even the deepest pain experienced are the trails of being made perfect in God’s sight. Look into the mirror to see his view of you, and since He created you in his image and likeness, he sees and says, “Perfect.” The mirror is his eyes and He see’s his reflection in yours. This is perfection.