Melissa Runcie | Madabella

Find & Seek :: No. 3

“Find & Seek" features beauty captured that inspires me to seek God's Word.

 

I find.

I seek.

I ponder...

What is beauty?

God saw Israel as despised, abhorred, and cast off. Loathed and abandoned, she was destined for wrath, appointed to death. Yet, He chose her, loved her, adorned her with precious stones and affectionately said "Live!" Now, a royal priesthood, Israel was given to captivating beauty, clothed with exquisite magnificence and lavished with abundant jewels of grace upon grace.

I ponder.

I seek.

I find...

Beauty is this magnificent exchange. 

No longer am I wearing torn, filthy rags of rejection, wrath, death and ashes. He has dressed me with fine gems of acceptance, mercy, kindness, and life. 

It is His beauty that embellishes me. 

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Find & Seek :: No. 2

“Find & Seek” features beauty captured that inspires me to seek God's Word.

 

I find.

I seek.

I consider...

The work of His hands, His heavenly handiwork canvased in brush stroked clouds. The work of His eyes, His heavenly vision to see beauty in ashes. The work of His voice, His powerful, tender, whispered, written voice speaking grace. The work of His ears, His inclined ear to capture every syllable and sentence, spoken and unspoken. The work of His heart, His bleeding heart of reconciliation that settled it all. 

I consider.

I seek.

I find...

In paused awareness of the senses, He is my delight. My song. My Savior.

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Find & Seek :: No. 1

“Find & Seek” features beauty captured that inspires me to seek God's Word.

 

I find.

I seek.

I wonder...

Is God's Word really precious to me that I can echo the poetry of the Psalmist? Do I spend time daily soaking up the goodness found in only the pages of scripture? Do I seek other words to fill me? Do I desire words made with human hands? Are His Words enough to fill my soul?

I wonder.

I seek.

I find...

He is enough. His Words are enough. To satisfy. To breathe into me. To enliven.

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Today's post inspired by Imperfect Prose, a collective of stories written on redemption and grace.