LOVE. It is scary. Real, TRUE love will take you into the depths and heights of the unknown mysteries and ecstasy beyond what we can see.  It will bring you to surrender, giving up the things of this earth that define you. Yes, we are human, but we were made for MORE. I want raw, bold Love.  Just as the infinity of the stars and deepness of the universe have no end, so does God’s love.

Growing up, I yearned to be an astronaut.  I wanted everyone to know my love for outer space and to someday become an astronaut.  I also have an infatuation with the stars, but what it boils down to is: I love to observe the stars. Looking back on my humorous ideas of astronautical escapades or my obsession with stars, there remains one problem: the thought of actually GOING into space scares me to no end. Outer space is a mystery, a complete unknown-yet glorious.

I also have always had a love for the beach and anything ocean.  However, when I go to the beach and hop in salty water, I only go as far as I can touch or hurriedly swim to the sand bar. And to be honest, the time I spend in the water produces an underlying sense of vulnerability and an eerie feeling of the unknown of what is going on around me.  If I were to go into the depths of the ocean—miles down—I would literally die before I even reached “true depths”. 

Here’s the kicker: God’s Love is DEEPER than any ocean and HIGHER than the highest heavens (psalm 108:4). But this IS how terrifying His love is.  It is utterly life—heart  piercing—changing. Our hearts were CREATED for this Love and nothing less.

Jesus, your Love has NO bounds. I am BOUND to Love.

You see, God doesn’t operate in our reality.  His deep love begins past the skies and even deeper than the unknown areas of the ocean.  We love to observe scripture and observe God’s love, but do I take the Word as living and breathing and let His Love literally consume me?: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only.” (James 1:22)

 “Salvation is free but living for Him will cost you everything”. 

Unprecedented.

Def: 

Never done or known before.

New.

Revolutionary. 

Epoch-making. 

Unparalleled. 

Out-of-the-ordinary. 

I am unprecedented.

The God I serve operates in unprecedented encounters. 

I want unprecedented Living Water to rain on us!

I was listening to an audio CD from Jennifer Miller (missionary my age). 

She had a dream of Jesus taking her to a clean, pure body of water which represented His Word.

He said to her: 

"I have many children who believe that they can wash themselves in the water of God's Word and they will feel clean. And I have many children who can drink the Word and it will strengthen and satisfy, but I have very few children who believe they can actually walk on the water."  

As He says this, He walks out into the middle of the water, looks at her and says, "Come out here." 

She said, "But i can't walk on water!" 

"Forget about the water, look into my eyes."

She was consumed by who He was and began declaring God's character out loud; as she spoke, she found herself standing in the middle of the water with Jesus. 

He wants to take us into the unknown!