I Will Seek You In The Morning?

I have just rediscovered a bit of the joy of my first love, how great it is to start my day on my face, rejoicing that God has chosen to let me have another day on this planet He created in the Milky Way galaxy.

Loving to sleep in, and being a night owl too, always trying to squeeze in another task or read the next page or chapter, does not lend itself to living life as bounding out of bed daily, as 260 lbs generally just doesn't bound, but that is a work in progress (thanks to the treadmill I now plugged in by the freezer in our garage, having icy pops available within arms reach in the Oklahoma summer is a lovely thing!)

Several years ago in my Christian walk, I was struggling with when to schedule my daily quiet time, and the immediate answer to my prayer was for radio station to break out in Rich Mullin's Sometimes by Step.  The familiar chorus "I will seek You in the morning, and I will learn to walk in Your ways, step by step you lead me, and I will follow You all of my days", to which my immediate response was like Indiana Jones seeing the snakes in aircraft as we were introduced to Indy's phobia of snakes early on, "Morning?!? I hate getting up early , and even more trying to read and absorb early in the day, what a sense of humor our Creator has. 

Now , my favorite time with my Lord is in the shower, reminding me that Christ's finished work on the Cross has made me clean indeed, as I have bowed my knee and asked Him to be Savior and Lord, the Lord part coming on 01JAN1989 , following the Savior profession at the age of 6 .  I kneel in the warm comfort of water massaging tired, almost 52 yr old neck and upper back muscles, and profess how thankful that my standing with my Lord is not based on my ability to perform, but a free gift, that I cannot buy, earn, or deserve, but is graciously given, even at a time when I was not called friend of God, but one who like Peter, denied Him daily.

Today, I am reminded of Rich and Beaker, sitting together I am sure , under the starry night or hundred in a grassy place in Kansas, loving their Creator and wondering at the words and chords coming into this world for the first time, and am thankful that I can offer their efforts to my Lord as my own " and I will follow you all of my days, I will follow you all of my days, and step by step You lead me, and I will follow you all of my days", that is my prayer, moment by moment, to walk like Jesus did, step by step where He saw His Father at work in the lives of whoever was brought to a daily path in a place where the same stars shone one night upon the baby in a manger, Creator of our Universe, coming to offer a chance to be clean to any who will bow the knee, and confess, Oh God, you are my God, and I will ever praise You. 

Some day I will sing this with Rich and other brothers and sisters in Jesus, and hear a hammered dulcimer once again in the hands of a ragamuffin, brought to praise by the awesome, furious, raging fury we call the Love of God.