Devotions Archive Archive: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 Search Archive Print This Article Glory streams from heaven above Wednesday, December 29, 2010 Luke 2:32 My own eyes have seen the salvation, which you prepared in the sight of every people, a light to reveal you to the nations. Healing, no matter where it happens, comes when I turn my eyes away from the filthiness of my wounds and rags toward the clean sweet light of love. Love is nothing if it is not unconditional. Love can be rejected, but the light of love never goes out. This "salvation" that Simeon calls Jesus even when he holds him as an infant frees his soul. There is nothing more to do. He has nothing else to wait for. His eyes need search no more horizons for a glimmer of truth. He holds truth in his arms. Simeon did not return to the "first" heaven, where Adam and Eve lived before the fall. Where did he go? Later Paul wrote of being taken to the "third" heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2). So there must also be a "second" heaven? When I go to the internet for a little insight, it takes me for a ride. When I look to God, I notice a twinkle in "his eye" as he pats me on the shoulder. "My thoughts are not your thoughts," he tells me for the umpteenth time. Heaven's geography isn't important. Simeon inspires me. I imagine being Simeon holding Jesus, and knowing he is the salvation and light of every person of every people. Don't drop him! All the darkness, every vulture of depression, any crease of doubt I felt before simply slips away, gone, unnoticed. This baby Jesus is all there is to see. He fills up my senses. All of them. Like a night in the forest, like the mountains in springtime, like a walk in the rain, like a storm in the desert, like a sleepy blue ocean JESUS, you fill up my senses, come fill me again. "; Add      Edit    Delete