still working, slowly and thoughtfully, through dan allender's "sabbath". today, reading about how our sabbath is a very small picture of the life to come when we enter eternity with Jesus, allender writes:
"The Sabbath gives us the opportunity to stand before the endless outpouring of superabundance and fill up our thimble of faith with a drop of the bounty ahead."
and in the same stream of thought, he writes of a friend who had recently passed:
"She is home; I am not. She is glorified; I am far, far from it. I can only cry; she is laughing, dancing, wildly free, and beaming with the roaring wet glory that has enveloped her being. I need music. She is music. She sings to Jesus, and he is dancing with her in his arms. The party has begun.
"Sabbath raises a small thimble to glory and says 'Thank you, thank you.' Grattitude is our only response to what pours out on our behalf. We have tasted his love for us amid the heartache of this world, then we can let him sing to us as we sing him as the only song that can fill us."
