unstopable reliance

I'm starting to learn that I can't do things alone. I need God. I feel safe in Him, like the lies that the world tries to sell us all, lies that make us sin and seek after 'less-wild lovers', lies that corrupt and kill and destroy instead of woo and whisper and caress: those lies are null here in the Shadow of The Hound of Heaven, The King of the Great Romance.

I can think clearly here. I can see the world as it is, not the fake life the world, the flesh, and the devil try to sell us, that which brings death instead of life.

The way of Jesus brings safety in the midst of incredible danger, it brings triumph in the midst of incredible suffering. Jesus' way brings life from the midst of death. It makes us alive in a dead world. It wakes us up from what we think we know into what we are finally starting to learn: life, gulped cool and sweet from the fount that is the mouth of our God.

This way is the way of reliance. If we practice relying on God, no matter what, contiually practice that sustaining, life-giving presence, then nothing can stop us. Without God we are nothing, with God our soul soars as all things become emminently and doably possible. This is where our story begins and ends, in the neediness of God to show us who we truly are.

Daniel