Kneeling

I'm totally borrowing this quote from Elizabeth Fitch's wonderful blog:

In vain we search the heavens high above; the God of love is kneeling at our feet.

-- Malcolm Guite


At the judgment, it is said that "every knee will bow."  It's so easy to interpret that as a threat before a wrathful God.  But I wonder if we will then see that the Judge, the Servant King, has been kneeling by us all along.

I think I know how we develop a vision of God as Zeus with lightning bolts.  I'm not so sure how we stop believing that (at least in the back of our minds).  But Jesus said, "if you know me, you know the Father."  Or, "you've even seen him in me."

And when we see the Father in the Son, we see:

the God who kneels,
the God who opens his arms,
the God who runs to us when we're a long way off,
the God who forgives for he knows we don't know what we're doing,
the Good Shepherd who looks for every single one of us,
the God who pursues us, loves us, embraces us,
the God who provides for us, heals us, and gently guides us,
the God who encourages us to be unafraid,
the God who never shames us,
the God who makes all things new.