Only the Best!

Song of Songs 7:5 (MSG) The feelings I get when I see the high mountain ranges —stirrings of desire, longings for the heights— Remind me of you, and I'm spoiled for anyone else!
When you know the best, why settle for less than this? Now that I have found my God as He wanted to be found, not as some religious leader told me He was, but the loving, ever present God, why would I leave?
If at the core of my being is a heart open to truth, His truth then I will be totally satisfied. However, if I control truth by my broken experience then I have distorted it.
Last night I watched a portion of an ABC show on the life of Gandhi. He was a rebel with a broken experience. Inside of him was a fire of rebellion against injustice. However, he interpreted the truth by his experience.
At the base of a stature of him in the home where he was born was a plaque that stated truth, truth drove him but did he find the author of truth? If I stop short of meeting the one who created truth then I will take bits and pieces and not the whole.
In my effort to set captives free I must use nothing but the best, the purest, that which will make them whole. I cannot draw them to myself because I am broken but if I draw them to the author then I take them to wholeness, there is only one fountain.
I grieve for the broken and wounded but what I do is important. Who can heal? Who can deliver? Who puts the light in their eyes?
When only the best will do I will choose my God every time. Amen!

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