Stranger.
Talks to me!
Asks me for a drink.
Eyes that see beyond plain sight.
Knows those things I’ve hid from light.
I’m exposed.
Thirsty.
Every day
Brings me to this place
Tells of water ever flowing,
Prophet, this, who is all knowing.
Kind to me.
Master.
Speaks of God
Just as if he knew Him
Is this the Messiah here?
Holds me with his gaze so near;
I must tell them!
Running.
Leave my pot;
Quick before he goes
Hurry fast it’s not that far
Have to find them; there they are
“Come and see!”
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Great - love the way it makes me see the event with new eyes!
To the forgiven sinner, ‘forgiveness’ is a humbling, overpowering, captivating word. Nowhere is this more highlighted in our Lord’s encounter with the “sinful woman” in Luke 7:47. The extravagance of her devotion to the Lord acutely embarrassed Simon the Pharisee, Jesus’ host. Jesus’ response is one that ought to humble all of us: “He who is forgiven little, loves little”. The depth of our love to the Saviour is in proportion to the depth of our experience of and appreciation of his forgiving grace. It cannot be said too often that the primary pulse-beat of the gospel is the love of God. It was God’s love that caused him to send his only begotten Son to be the propitiation for our sins. It is God’s love that caused the apostle John to exclaim, “Behold what manner of love is this, that we should be called the children of God”. John’s language is filled with unspeakable wonder. He can hardly take in the grace that is revealed in the Father’s love – “From what country is this love of the Father?” His love is literally out of this world. There is nothing clinical or cold in John’s language; rather, it is the language of overwhelmed wonder.
Is it not true, however, that many of us who call ourselves “Reformed” have lost the “sense” of the sheer wonder of this amazing love? Before sovereign grace is a truth to defend, it is a captivating truth to glory in.
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