God doesn’t rule primarily by judging and condemning but by watering us.
After TNC I went for a short hike with my SFC brother and sister. We decided to take the Johnston Canyon trail, it was nice and I learned a lot from my hiking buddies.
While walking and talking to my friends I cant removed my eyes on the flowing water and be amazed on it. Then I remember one of my favorite tagalog song entitled “Awit ng Paghahangad” this is the first stanza:
O Diyos Ikaw ang laging hanap,
Loob ko’y Ikaw ang tanging hangad.
Nauuhaw akong parang tigang na lupa
Sa tubig ng ‘Yong pag-aaruga.
I always reflect on this song every time I am down and I feel that I am dry and longing for something. I am the dry soil who need his love and presence. Because of busy schedule in my social, personal and community life I feel so drain and I wanna give up, so seeing the water flowing I was reminded of Gods flowing stream of water of life and He rules in us by watering us and giving us to drink. It is his flowing LOVE that makes me going and removed the feeling of being a drought. But the feeling of being dry and down means that I know someone is always there ready to water me and make me a healthy soil that other can grow in me (like a plant growing on a healthy soil).
Heavenly Father,
What a mighty flowing out You are. You flow throughout the ages! You flow in many stages and in many ways to reach me. O, Lord, keep me drinking on You. Keep me in the divine stream of your LOVE.Supply me the water I need every time I feel dry and make me a healthy and fertilized soil so other can grown on me. Lord, praise You for the divine stream in which I drink.
AMEN
Mark Mirano