This morning, during my six-mile run at about 5:00 a.m., I had an experience of God's "polarity" - that is - His capacity to contain or be expressed through things that we tend of think of as polar opposites. In this experience, His polarity was expressed as His capacity to express Himself through what WE refer to as sacred and through what WE refer to as secular. This is how it happened.
As I was running, I was listening to my ipod, as I always do. Two songs played, back-to-back and they brought me that moment during my run that I'm always waiting for... when the voice of the Lord speaks to my spirit and gives me my encouragement and direction for the day ahead.
The first song was a "church" song, "Our God Is An Awesome God". It's one of the great praise songs of the last decade or so, and as I listened, it lifted my spirit, and I was reminded, in the deepest reservoirs of my being, that God is beyond all of my challenges, problems, agendas, ambitions, and even fears. Although I was running, in my spirit, I knelt down in humble adoration before my God who "was, is, and is to come"... the Alpha and Omega... the God who - as the old folks used to say in my childhood, "sits high and looks low".
When the first song finished, the second song broke my moment of meditation...at least that what's I thought at first. It was a secular song...downloaded simply for the burst of energy that I hoped it would give me during my moments of extreme fatigue. But I waited, because I heard these words: "hold on, I'm coming"! Wow! My spirit seemed to explode out of my very body to the heights of Divine joy! I can't justify this to my "holy" Christian friends; you must forgive me; but when I heard those words, "hold on, I'm coming", I knew it was God speaking to me, giving me my encouragement for the day.
Yea! God first came to me as the sacred God... Holy, Awesome,...Transcendent! But He also spoke to me through a secular song, written by people who probably didn't even have God in mind when they wrote the song. First, he overwhelmed me with His glory, and I humbly surrendered, and when I surrendered, He used an "earthen vessel" (as the Apostle Paul would put it) to thrust me forward into my day with a WORD of power, peace, and passion. "Hold on," He said. "I'm coming"
By the way, he also gave me my direction for the day... He told me to tell you that He says to you, too, "Hold on, I'm coming."
"Amen. Come, Lord Jesus" (Revelation 22:20)
*(If you want to hear the song, check it out on itunes. There's a good version by Dave & Sam, and I particularly like Michael Bolton's version.)
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