Sometimes the Lord calls me to drop my backpack, which has really good spiritual tools, strategies and resources in it, and rest. He reminds me that I don’t need the backpack in order to walk with Him or to enjoy my fellowship with Him.
There is so much more to Him than my familiar ideas or words about Him. There is more to Him than my present experience of Him. Indeed, His greatness is unsearchable (Psalm 145:3).
That is why He invites me to drop the backpack. He wants me to see Him in a broader and fresh context. To hunger and thirst for Him and wait for Him to satisfy me with His delights.
To wait with hope. To wait with thankfulness. To wait with love. To wait in awareness of His presence with me. To wait, receiving by faith His never-receding affection.
To remember that He is the Living One and not just a collection of spiritual truths, inspiring rhetoric, or moral directives.
To realize that He knows my heart and all my longings are before Him.
To know that He knows and loves me with or without my backpack.
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