Something more
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." C.S.Lewis
You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body. C.S.Lewis
We know instinctively that there's something more. It is written in the pattern of our DNA and it haunts the shadows of our dreams at night. It is the distant music for which we can never quite recognize the tune. It is in the feeling of restlessness that disturbs our leisure and in the the dissatisfaction we feel even in the face of our greatest success.
We know there is something more. Why did our ancestors leave safe homes and families to travel west in search of better lands and richer valleys? We are always moving but never arriving, always hungry but never satisfied. This is the nature of man. Have you ever wondered why? It's because we know, even though that knowledge has long been deeply buried in our hearts,mankind knows there is something more.
We were not made for this place, we are created for a purpose different from what we see here. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." Romans 8:17 KJV We are spirit beings--God breathed spirit into man and he became a "living soul", Gen.2:7. We don't really have the slightest grasp of just who and what we are or who God really is. The Bible speaks of this in 1 John 3:2 " "Beloved,now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:but we know that, when he shall appear,we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is".
C.S. Lewis (my number one favorite writer outside the Bible) says that "Humans are amphibians-half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world,but as animals they inhabit time." We struggle with the animal/human part, while the spirit part reaches for that eternal world.This life passes so quickly at best, we move from cradle to the grave in a flash of light. Nothing would make sense, there would be no meaning to life at all if there were not something more. When we are armed with this knowledge life takes on a totally different atmosphere. Things that once seemed so earth-shakingly important hardly hold your interest anymore. "Stuff" loses it's appeal, it is temporary, l am temporary. We can take nothing with us to that "other Place' except the precious souls of those we influence along the way.
Listen closely friend, in the morning when the day lies before like an unopened book. Listen in the evening when weariness overtakes you pull sleep like a blanket over you for the night. Listen during quiet time when you pause to meet Him in his word. Listen, and you'll hear melodies just out of reach of the conscious mind, they are immunating from your heart..They are echos of another world.-Jireh"s Girl
The Sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing-to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from-C.S.Lewis
I Want To Fly
by Jireh's Girl
I want to fly-I want to glide upon the pathways of the wind.
To scale the mountain's dizzying heights.
To stand upon the icy precipice high
And track the endless channels of the night.
I want-to touch the stars, to reach the cosmos where the Angels are.
I want to fly-to forget the pain of loneliness and loss-
To leave the dreams and disappointments here
And raise unfettered by my tears.
I want to shout and have my voice be heard
Above the hubbub of the noisy crowd,
To hear the echo in the whisper of the wind
Above the mundane cry of yesterday.
To emerge unshaken from the womb
Of death's new promise,
To raise forever as I was ever meant to be.
I want to grasp the unseen hand and move up higher.
To reach higher and enfold my soul
In heaven's warm embrace,
I want to stand tip-toe and touch the stars.
To see the world at last in heaven's light.
I want to stand wrapped in the velvet coverings of the night.
Full-hearted, loved and secure.
That I, battle weary but no more alone-
Might reach upward and kiss the face of God.
You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body. C.S.Lewis
We know instinctively that there's something more. It is written in the pattern of our DNA and it haunts the shadows of our dreams at night. It is the distant music for which we can never quite recognize the tune. It is in the feeling of restlessness that disturbs our leisure and in the the dissatisfaction we feel even in the face of our greatest success.
We know there is something more. Why did our ancestors leave safe homes and families to travel west in search of better lands and richer valleys? We are always moving but never arriving, always hungry but never satisfied. This is the nature of man. Have you ever wondered why? It's because we know, even though that knowledge has long been deeply buried in our hearts,mankind knows there is something more.
We were not made for this place, we are created for a purpose different from what we see here. "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God,and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together." Romans 8:17 KJV We are spirit beings--God breathed spirit into man and he became a "living soul", Gen.2:7. We don't really have the slightest grasp of just who and what we are or who God really is. The Bible speaks of this in 1 John 3:2 " "Beloved,now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:but we know that, when he shall appear,we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is".
C.S. Lewis (my number one favorite writer outside the Bible) says that "Humans are amphibians-half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world,but as animals they inhabit time." We struggle with the animal/human part, while the spirit part reaches for that eternal world.This life passes so quickly at best, we move from cradle to the grave in a flash of light. Nothing would make sense, there would be no meaning to life at all if there were not something more. When we are armed with this knowledge life takes on a totally different atmosphere. Things that once seemed so earth-shakingly important hardly hold your interest anymore. "Stuff" loses it's appeal, it is temporary, l am temporary. We can take nothing with us to that "other Place' except the precious souls of those we influence along the way.
Listen closely friend, in the morning when the day lies before like an unopened book. Listen in the evening when weariness overtakes you pull sleep like a blanket over you for the night. Listen during quiet time when you pause to meet Him in his word. Listen, and you'll hear melodies just out of reach of the conscious mind, they are immunating from your heart..They are echos of another world.-Jireh"s Girl
The Sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing-to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from-C.S.Lewis
I Want To Fly
by Jireh's Girl
I want to fly-I want to glide upon the pathways of the wind.
To scale the mountain's dizzying heights.
To stand upon the icy precipice high
And track the endless channels of the night.
I want-to touch the stars, to reach the cosmos where the Angels are.
I want to fly-to forget the pain of loneliness and loss-
To leave the dreams and disappointments here
And raise unfettered by my tears.
I want to shout and have my voice be heard
Above the hubbub of the noisy crowd,
To hear the echo in the whisper of the wind
Above the mundane cry of yesterday.
To emerge unshaken from the womb
Of death's new promise,
To raise forever as I was ever meant to be.
I want to grasp the unseen hand and move up higher.
To reach higher and enfold my soul
In heaven's warm embrace,
I want to stand tip-toe and touch the stars.
To see the world at last in heaven's light.
I want to stand wrapped in the velvet coverings of the night.
Full-hearted, loved and secure.
That I, battle weary but no more alone-
Might reach upward and kiss the face of God.