As I read this, it stopped me in my tracks.
So I read it again. "Enjoying the sought after blessings of God is sometimes confused with enjoying His person."
Is this me? I spend so much of my days searching and hunting and chasing the wonder of these grace gifts that are all around me. But have I forsaken my First Love? (Revelation 2:4) In the midst of seeking His graces in the material world, have I abandoned the seeking of His person?
May it never be so.
These gifts of grace are alluring and breathtaking and fascinating and bewitching - but they will never take the place of the Person of God in my life. I cannot substitute His blessings with the constant discovering of who He is.
And is not that why He gives us these grace wonders? In order to draw us closer to His person?
If I forget this, my pursuit of grace is in vain. I forget this and all I've learned is but dust.
We must never stop learning more and more and more about the Person of God. His gifts speak but a fraction of all the glorious righteousness of who He is. They are an imperfect reflexion of His perfection.
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