Why is this recorded here? Why do I need to be teased - haunted - with the painful reminder of Your pleasure and love for Him, Your Son (I love Him, too) in light of my knowledge of who I am and how short I fall of being anything near like Him? Of being something that You could take such pleasure in?
I long for these words to be said about me. (Mark 1:11) I long for You to take such pleasure in me. I long to be the one that You are proclaiming Your love for, to be the one whom You love.
This longing, this desire, already pierces. Why, then, do I need to know how pleased the Father is with the Son?
It's more than affirmation that this IS the Son, so that there can be no doubt - although it is that, too. But that's not enough for me this morning as I wrestle with this pain that You want me to feel and wrestle with, so that You can remind me that
I am in Him. (2 Cor. 5:17, Gal 3:26-27).
I am in You.
Because of what You did for me, I wear your righteousness. I am "clothed" in You. By faith, I am in You.
And everything that You do, accomplish, ARE - is done for me and is true of me, because You are standing in my place and I am in You and that means
that I am in the middle of this beautiful relationship of love and pleasure that is poured out on the Son and is also flowing over me because I am in You.
If the Father is pleased with the Son, He is pleased with me. If He loves the Son, He loves me.
Forgive me...
I know that it's a light and momentary trouble. (2 Cor. 4:17) I know that I am in You, and all the love flowing around me - the love and pleasure of the Father and the Son that I can participate in even now - is forever. Help me to fix my eyes on what I cannot yet see - but know is eternal even now.
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