How blessed is the state of my heart this week that I feel
inside it a continual peace and joy. It is firm and honeyed, occupied with that
sunlight that emanates from the glorious thrones in heaven. I have no earthly
reason to live in such a bliss, consuming nothing that is to my advantage,
namely, no prestige, wisdom, power, money, fancy, and so on. I am but weak,
failing man, hardly owning anything to call my own, yet I am the happiest of
all the green flowers. I may not look it at times but truly in my soul is a
heaven upon earth. The cause for this bliss is really owed to this, namely my
early rising to pray focusing on the works and power of the Holy Spirit. At six
my alarm awakens me and in duty, although of a willingness of heart I pray on
my bed because I feel too cold to ascend, but in my heart I pray. As I pray I
am left with an abiding presence of sweetness and joy. God does rise in my soul
being glad that He has made my heart his temple. I am humbled, for as God
saturates my heart with his holy incense, all of my sins, those that arise from
the remaining flesh disappears. I am left with holiness, desiring only the bed
of Christ. Such is the sweetness that Christ has tipped in my heart that all
things have become to me a luxury, thanking God always for all that He is for
me and being content in my position. It is an awesome thing for one to have
their heart in Christ and it is doubly awesome for Christ to have his heart in
theirs. I cannot wait until that glorious day when finally I shall meet my
Christ face to face and have the redemption of my body.
K.Oni
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