australian sunsets... and answered prayers...

saw the most amazing sunset the other night... like none other so far...

maybe 'cuz of the sun itself? ... huge, fiery... bursting and beaming with a kaleidsocope of devastatingly rich, bright and luminescent colours spraying across the sky...

maybe 'cuz of the view? ... beautiful homes staggered amidst exotically outstretched non-north american trees that dotted the hilly horizon...

maybe 'cuz of the warm golden glow bursting through that picturesque visage? ...

or...

maybe 'cuz of what sits just below that hill...

the place where i was standing... walking...

or...

maybe it was where i was going that very splendid evening...

or...

maybe it was even the company i stood amongst...

hey... maybe it was a mixture of all those things...

or then again...



maybe it was just 'cuz of the SON after all...



GOD answers prayer...

the fervent effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much... what makes us righteous?... there is nothing about me that is righteous period... so then, what makes me the righteouseness of CHRIST?... being washed in the shed BLOOD of JESUS CHRIST on the cross alone...

GOD answers prayer...

GOD answers my prayers... BIG ones... little ones... old ones... new ones... DEEP ones... BEAUTIFUL ones... very BEAUTIFUL ones.

there were others answered that day and night as well... i wish i could tell u more about them... but i just can't right now, it's just not time yet...

but know this...

i was sorta caught off guard by my reaction... sorta in delayed and quiet awe, sorta at a loss for words... even thoughts... sorta in delayed disbelief, yet sorta non-reactive, yet sorta relieved by my non-reaction... yet sorta no big deal at all... like, as if i was just told a secret that i have known all my life... if that makes sense... sorta pondering news that i was expecting all along... sorta like, oh yeah i think i already knew that... no duh. just sorta cool.

sooyoo (aussie for so), i have a feeling, just a sense... of what is to come... stay tuned... it's gonna be awesome... it already is...

like i said... GOD answers prayer...

Jude 1
1-2, Jude, am a slave to Jesus Christ and brother to James, writing to those loved by God the Father, called and kept safe by Jesus Christ. Relax, everything's going to be all right; rest, everything's coming together; open your hearts, love is on the way!

GOD answers prayer...

and so i finally got my australian sunset, part of it anyway...

the australian sunset i have pondered pointlessly... or so i thought... the one i have imagined and waited for... the one i had longed to see and feel the warmth of my whole life... and sporadically spoke of since my earliest of moments... never even really knowing why???... until now.

and the best part is... there are so many more to come... sooo much more to come... actually, the very best... is still yet to come... my portion is HIM... it has been declared... it is mine... it is finished... i am in awe...

so i hope you can see, that it's not even about the sunset really... it's what the sunset represents... the promises of GOD.

...

and yet...

even as i write this, i am convicted and feeling hypocritical... so, knowing this very fact... knowing this very truth... why don't i pray more?!? what stops me? after all it's not about a special place or a special time or a special style of speech...

it's about constant communication with our CREATOR... the LOVER of our souls and the LIFTER of our heads... the BRIGHT and MORNING STAR... the ALPHA and OMEGA... THE BEGINNING and THE END... the most FAITHFUL, BESTEST FRIEND ever ever ever!!!

communication like that of family member... a best friend... a partner.

think about it... think about your relationships... the best ones are the ones where consistent and healthy communication is evident... you know the other person and they know you... to share what's in your heart and to receive what's in theirs... it doesn't have to be spoken in shakespeare-ian english either... it's not one sided... it's give and take... listen and talk and listen... like normal people do...

so, why is it then...

that we do the things we don't want to do...

and not do the things we do want to do???...

even paul struggled with this... so, guess i'm in good company then... comforting to know...