“To live how you were intended, to interact with God’s creation in ways that were His breathings, brings life. Real life. Not just tedious existence, but life that breathes like a tree by a cool river with the grass of Eden stretching broad and embowering under limb. It is beauty. It is bending in the breeze, arms wide, leaves dancing. And to live in ways that twist and distort His creation brings death. Real death. Not just the redundant (none of us are getting out of here alive) burying of corpses, but the walking around kind that tastes of dust rather than the Maker’s exhale of love. It is repulsive. It doesn’t hold together. It is not the genesis shape imagined for a human.” -David Crowder, Praise Habit p.47
Is there a way to live fully in the moment of God while still yearning for what is to come and not lose the joy & satisfaction of the now?
Can you do both at the same time?
Do you need both, so that the weight of the other is not lost?
