The Valley of Vision

In the book of Puritan Prayers, the last entry is entitled, "Valley of Vision".  As I read the prayer, I was reminded of the last several months and how God has used low times in my life to see Him differently - bigger, grander, more beautiful, and somehow more ominous, also. Not that He doesn't have those attributes all the time, but that I fail to notice them.

I believe that great things are coming. What those are, I don't know, but I feel them nonetheless - pressing, enveloping, warming, enticing.  It's as if God is saying from behind the door as we wait in His waiting room, "What awaits is beyond your wildest imaginations. So, be the child I've called you to be: obedient, willing, eager, patient, humble, and loving.  Above all, trust Me."

Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly, You have brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see You in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Your glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be low is to be high, that the broken heart is the healed heart, that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit, that the repenting soul is the victorious soul, that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown, that to give is to receive, that the valley is the place of vision.

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