discover

Recently I have had these urges to get out and go. I don't know where and I don't know how. But I want to just go. I feel like these feelings come from time to time in my life, especially whenever I am bound by responsibility. Responsibility is a great thing, and I am really glad God chose to entrust us with it. But there is something enticing, something compelling about the desire to discover. You know what I am talking about. It is this thing inside of us, this enigma in the human spirit that beckons to be free. It cannot be satisfied by a paycheck or quenched by the confines of materialism. It is just there. You see it at its prime in the heart of a child. Remember when you were young, when you started up at the moon wondering why it followed your parents car as you drove into the stillness of the night? Or has the sea ever taken you captive on a moonlit evening? There is that point where the water fades into the horizon that seems to beckon to be explored.

I think God put the desire to discover in us when He made Adam. He told Adam to work the land, name the animals, and have dominion in the garden. He gave Adam the entire earth. It was his. All of it. I think God is funny like that. God is indescribable, incomprehensible, and indiscoverable. Yet He chose to reveal Himself to us through creation and though the Son. I really think Heaven will be an endless pursuit of the glory of God. We will want more, and more, and more of Him for all of eternity. And we will never reach a point where we have all of Him.

I am one of those who believes and hopes that God will give us the Universe to explore for all of eternity, and bodies that will not be bound by physics. But until then, I would love to take a few months and start walking. A stick in my hand, a pack on my back, and a friend by my side. We would journey to discover. More of the world, more of ourselves, and more of the heart of God.

Its funny, because the feet of a carpenter from Nazareth walked a path by the sea, even though He created it, He walked. The path He walked took Him to His death. But it also took Him to resurrected life. He walked so I could walk. He walked so you could walk. May we walk on with Him together, on this endless path of glory.


JN