Me and God

I'm still in the desert and I am surprised by how much I like it because I thought it would be terrible: lost, thirsting, miserable. Instead I'm wrapped up in God.

I have been pulled away from my friends a bit, fewer "chance" encounters with people on campus, just seeing people when exactly necessary for comfort or to pass along a word of notice. I even avoid my MP3 a bit more, looking for the silence; but I'm not hiding in the chapel on campus. Instead I am sitting on park benches re-reading Hosea chapter 2 or browsing through the psalms.

God's teaching me, speaking to my heart often times without my realizing it. I've noticed that God is teaching me some things, speaking to me because I'm more accepting of some ideas that I would have balked at just days ago. He is showing me how I can be more than just His servant.

This time alone with God ... if I can be forward, I'll characterise as courtship? wooing? I only answer in the affirmative.

I like this "alone" time so much that I don't want to tell anyone anymore. I like it being just God and me.

We're a team
Me and God
-- Josh Turner, Me and God

Murphy's Law

Since she has not known

that it was I who gave her

the grain, the wine, and the oil,

And her abundance of silver,

and of gold, which they used for Baal,

Therefore I will take back my grain in its

time

and my wine in its season;

I will snatch away my wool and my flax,

with which she covers her nakedness.

So now I will lay bare her shame

before the eyes of her lovers,

and no one can deliver her out of myhand.

I will bring an end to all her joy,

her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths,and all her solemnities.

I will lay waste her vines and fig trees,

of which she said, "There are the hire

my lovers have given me";

I will turn them into rank growth

and wild beasts shall devour them.

I will punish her for the days of the Baals,

for whom she burnt incense

While she decked herself out with her rings

and her jewels,

and, in going after her lovers,

forgot me, says the LORD.

Therefore, I will hedge her in her way with thorns

and erect a wall against her,

so that she cannot find her paths.

If she runs after her lovers, she hall not

overtake them;

if she looks for them she shall not find them.

Then she shall say, "I will go back t my first husband,

for it was better with me then than now."

So I will allure her;

I will lead her into the desert

and speak to her heart.

From there I will give her the vineyards she

had,

and the valley of Achor as a door of hope.

She shall respond there as in the days of her

youth,

when she came up from the land of Egypt.

On that day, says the LORD,

she shall call me "My husband,"

and never gain "My Baal."

Then will I remove from her mouth the

names of the Baals,

so that they shall no longer be invoked.

I will make a covenant for them on that day,

with the beasts of the field,

with the birds of the air,

and with the things that crawl on theground.

Bow and sword and war

I will destroy from the land,

and I will let them take their rest in

security.

I will espouse you to me forever:

I will espouse you in right and in justice,

in love and in mercy;

I will espouse you in fidelity,

and you shall know the LORD.

On that day I will respond, says the LORD;

I will respond to the heavens,

and they shall respond to the earth;

the earth shall respond to the grain, and wine, and oil,

and these shall respond to Jezreel.I

will sow him for myself in the land,

and I will have pity on Lo-ruhama.

I will say to Lo-ammi,

"You are my

people,"

and he shall say, "My God!"

Hosea 2:4-25