MORNING
GLORIES AND THE MORNING STAR
Every day when
I come home from work I need to go outside and water my morning glories and
other flowers. In these over-100-degree temperatures, by the end of the day
they are sagging, the leaves wilting and generally looking sad. But about a
half hour after giving them water, they perk up. I need Jesus at least as often
as my morning glories need water.
Psalm 42:1
says: “As the hart [deer] panteth after the
water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.” I’ve certainly felt
that way lately.
I wake up sometimes early in the morning when it’s still dark, crying
out in my mind, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.” I long for His intervention, His
answers, His presence. Just calling out His name, I have comfort. I know He’s there, and I go back to sleep easily.
With the many disturbing, confusing and crazy things going on in our
world and even in our private everyday circumstances, it’s perfectly okay to
cry out for our Lord Jesus. Quantum physics has proved that an atom, not part
of the atom, but the whole atom can be in two places at once. If a physical
atom can do that, what about God Almighty
or our Lord Jesus Christ?
The Psalmist asked: “Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither
shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art
there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there” (Ps. 139:7-8).
If you need
Jesus and I need Jesus, and 150,000
people need Jesus all at the same time, and He’s also sitting down at the right
hand of the throne of God (Heb. 12:2) at the same time, how do you think this
happens?
One reason God
created quantum physics is so that He and Jesus can be anywhere and everywhere
they need to be. What an awesome thing that is!
Jesus has
already experienced every stressful, confusing, awful situation we encounter
and He can and will help us. He's also experienced every great thing we can
imagine and can make the most mundane experience exciting and wonderful.
I didn’t even
realize until writing this article that my crying out for Him, just even saying
His name a few times in my mind, really works. I don’t even have to say a big
long prayer or anything like that. Whether I’m just bored or worn out or
stressed or disturbed, when
I call His name, He’s there, and I’m okay.
My morning
glories wait for me to come home from work and give them their much-desired
water. A deer pants for the brooks and I
call out for my Jesus. Revelation 22:16 says Jesus is “the bright and morning star.” He has been
that for me in these recent traumatic times, and He will always be there for
us. Call on Him whenever you want. He can be in a lot of places at once!
Love, Carolyn
Photos – (my
morning glories thirsty for water) (a section of the reproduction painting I
did of von Vogelstein’s “Jesus and the Little Children)
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