Matt. 8:8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
I don’t deserve His coming, but He has chosen to come into my life. He has made His home with me and He has invited me to make my home with Him. In this place of intimacy and innocence there is nothing that I am not allowed to ask. It is from our home together that He speaks and others are healed. His coming has changed where I live and those with whom I share life. I no longer need to be afraid.
I don’t deserve it but I now live in restored innocence, this is the sweetest, most glorious reality of His coming. I choose and I continue to live in His coming. He really is fresh every morning. I chose to make innocence my home, to think from this place, to speak from this place, to live out of this given innocence. It was and remains a hard choice due to my insecurities. I some times want to be a part of a world that controls, and rewards me based on whether I am good or bad.
But here in this restored innocence I am discovering my “sacred self,” the me who was formed by the very One who has now come to give me back that original innocence that allows me to be with Him without fear.
He came and He still comes to me revealing that in His presence I am His innocent child. I don’t need to be afraid. I don’t need to worry about the next ten or twenty or thirty years! The media no longer frightens me, the prophets of the end no longer cause me to shake. I can relax and be where I am, with Him. I can listen, I can watch, I can live in this moment aware, confident, that I am not alone, but with Him who called me to live as a child of God.
