When He Returns

I know I look through this "glass darkly" and "soon" Christ will come for me. Now I must live all to the glory of God, completely, with every breath.

I wrote this letter for Jennifer and Andrew on their Wedding Day.

December 27, 2008 at 11:00
Jennifer and Andrew Dixon made a Covenant to Love each other.

Dear Andrew and Jennifer,

I remember when I met you about a year ago. You both were new in attending our singles care group. You had visited a few months and then shortly after was the break up. Jennifer, I know you were dumbfounded and spent hours either in your room sulking, reading your bible or praying to God. Many times I remember hearing you talk about how you believed simply that God always had Andrew for you. Even though this break was complete at the time, it was like nothing had ever changed in Jennifer’s mind; you loved Andrew the same and months later. Andrew, you were spending your days sitting at the feet of Jesus, surrendering yourself to the hands of God with much prayer and that was your focus.

Jennifer, I have always felt very comfortable and at home with you. I have appreciated the time we have spent together, talking over coffees at Liquid Highway, sitting at the pool, and walking outside...you are like friend that I never lost time to pick up where we left off last.

Andrew, I have always considered you like a dear brother. You have a passion for God and live it fully, here, and now. God will use you to spur others in the truth (continue to have passion for knowing and studying God’s Word carefully). You are a affecting the lives of those around you even now. I believe God wants to use you in a wonderful unique way that others will not be able to. I love the watching the testimony of CHANGE that is blaring in your life today. You shine brilliantly in the contrast of knowing where you came and who you are in and because of Christ. Thank God for the power of this testimony to believers and unbelievers.

We have good memories to look back on this past year. Fall hikes, amusement parks, playing games, singing Masquerade professional opera style, Roman studies, and care groups. These will be treasured memories.


My prayer for you...
God as Jennifer and Andrew begin this life together. We acknowledge and rejoice in your work that you have a purposefully brought them together. Thank you for Andrew and the powerful testimony from his life and Jennifer the opportunity she now has to follow him in serving beside him. I pray for Andrew as he loves Jennifer, as Christ loves the Church, that Jennifer will feel his pleasure. I pray for Jennifer as she loves Andrew that, he will feel her pleasure. I pray that you will give them a selfless for each other and a love for You God above all else. I pray that you will use Andrew and Jennifer to draw men to your wonderful gospel, your name be glorified. In Jesus Name.
Amen.

I love you.
Wendy

no comparison to seven miles deep

Rom 5:20 "Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord."

"our effort to taste, to see, to enjoy, to admire the glory of God now is like taking a a little thimble to spoon out the Pacific Ocean, if you enlarge the thimble to the size of the Pacific Ocean, it would still be a thimble compared to the Ocean of the Glory of God which has No shores and No bottom."
John Piper

Infinite duration to taste and see the glory of God....