Hold on!

Hold on!

After you have suffered a little while.

I will establish, strength and settle you.

1 Peter 5:10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace [Who imparts all blessing and favor], Who has called you to His [own] eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will Himself complete and make you what you ought to be, establish and ground you securely, and strengthen, and settle you.

For this is the time of no returns.

For you shall not return.

There is no going back.

I have blocked your return.

You cannot go back to what was.

For what you hold onto is your future.

Embrace that which you cannot grasp.

Hold on to that which I have given you.

For my joy holds onto you.

My peace holds on to you.

My love holds on to you.

My delight looks upon you.

No turning back, just turning towards.

To have and to hold from this day forward.

You had no idea what was before you, yet you could nit hold yourself back.

It was my joy on display.

Compelled by joy, drawn to joy, moving forward with joy.

Is this not your story.

First the viewing.

Second the beholding.

Third the combustion of desire, the explosion of desire, the manifestation of desire.

Bowled over.

An unexpected delight.

An unexpected delight.

An unexpected delight.

Just minding your own business, possessing no expectation, yet you were captured in this moment.

The manifestation of my delight.

It was my love poured out before you.

Wave after wave of delight.

Overwhelmed by delight.

Barely able to stand.

For such was the intensity of your desire, it was like all your power had been released by desire.

Yet where is your desire now?

What is it that zaps you of your strength?

For you struggle to comprehend the depends of my love for you!

Overcome by the weight of it all.

Taking the strain.

Trying to hold yourself together.

Yet it is I that has called you by name.

It is I that has called you to be free.

Just lay down your baggage.

Put aside every weight.

For it is I that lifts you up.

For there is no returning from this point.

Try as you might, try with all your might, be overcome with all the “mights”, you know all that is required.

Just release yourself.

Stop restraining yourself.

You know how hard it is even now not to come close to her.

If it was up to you you would tie yourself to her, and never let go.

For my love compels you to come close.

My love beckons you to come close, to draw close.

You know you cannot stay away.

For she is your hearts desire.

For you have abandoned all, forsaken all, just to be with her.

There is no other love for you.

You can barely keep yourself together in her presence.

Overcome with desire.

Compelled to embrace her in all her fullness.

Some would perceive this as a great weakness.

Some would say, just get it together man, is she not your wife of 32 years!

Many have said, the honeymoon would soon be over and then real life would begin.

Yet for you, there is more desire than ever before.

To be with her is to be with delight, to be with joy, to be with majesty, to rest with royalty.

Yet is she not also your strength?

Always encouraging you to get up, to look up, to be lifted up, to hold up, to step up, to be up.

For with her the only way is up.

For you must come up higher.

Be lifted up.

For I say to you arise and be strengthened.

From your paralysed state, to leap up, to leap for joy, to stand upright as a free man.

For my love calls you up higher.

Come away with me, for your face is ravishing and your voice is soothing.

Settle this in your mind, you are loved, you are my delight, you are my hearts desire.