As a parent

They spoke against God, saying,

 ‘Can God spread a table in the wilderness?’ Psalm 78:19

 

Read Deuteronomy 8:2—5

Let me remember the path I have walked today. Let me remember it as a long way. Let me slow it down as though I could spread it out something like Israel remembering forty years of wilderness wandering. Do I think I see the hand of God in this day? Did he somewhere humble me? Did he sometime test me to know what was in my heart? What was? What was in my heart? Did he find faithfulness to him? Did he let me hunger in some form? To show me what I really hunger for? (I’m thinking symbolically, but these thoughts can be real before God.)  And, especially, what word has he spoken to me today? What word?

 

Lord my God, the heart of yourself that you reveal is the heart of the Parent. The heart you cultivate in me is the heart of the child. You would have me learn. You would have me learn your character, your nature, your purpose, your promise. You would have me learn from this day and its events. Out of that reflection you would have me correct my way. You would have me hunger for you, thirst for you, attend to you, find that my walk with you is actually fulfilling, and know you to be utterly desirable. You would have me as your own, Father, dear Father.