In His Shadow

Red curls studies the black amorphous voids as he moves through his days, his fascination building....these shadows that follow us.....over and over the question, "What is a shadow?" Explanations come both scientific and artistic.....each one echoing back hollow....none satisfying his growing intensity for more....

Blue-eyes sits on the brick wall, a babbling of words, sharing his heart in the undertones, the explained in the unexplained of being. I see his self-inked "tattoo." I pray our King's cross is tattooed on his heart, not just his flesh; Red curls emerges in the shadow again asking....and suddenly, the Light became clear to the void....

How often the open spirits of children are used as a megaphone shouting His brilliance....this explained in the unexplained of being; humility training our ears to listen....

Red curls, this one who cannot be rushed....Red curls, this one who instinctively wrestles in order to understand....yes, Red curls needs an answer to shadow....my Teacher calls to me, 'let me show you'...Like a giddy schoolgirl, I race to the written-Truth asking the Ancient of Days to define shadow as He created it to be...

"And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the SHADOW of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion,'You are my people.'" Isaiah 51:16

"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will ABIDE in the SHADOW of the Almighty." Psalm 91:1

"Keep me as the apple of your eye; Hide me in the SHADOW of your wings." Psalm 17:8

tsalal (hebrew): shadow, protection, shelter

Abiding in the Shadow....we live in the protective shadow of the cross...God's light, His holiness is so bright we cannot come face to face, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live"....His presence must shine through the Way casting a beautiful protective shadow around us....

We are His people...we are the apple of His eye...the haunting, misshapen, changing shadows of this world, the what-if's, if only's, the shame, the guilt, the despair may threaten, but they cannot overtake us....His was the victory, and we rest in the shelter of His unchanging shadow....

tsalal: shadow, protection, shelter

tsalal rooted in tselem (hebrew): hovering over

When the Ancient of Days was establishing the Heavens, the Spirit hovered over the waters....this same Spirit hovers over our hearts keeping us in the rest of our Mighty Mediator's shadow surrounded by the glory of our God....

Spurgeon wrote, "The Holy Spirit consoles, but Jesus is the consolation. The Holy Spirit is the comforter, but Jesus is the comfort." The only Way to Life is living in the Truth-filled shadow of our Light's cross. Let us make Him the apple of our eyes through humilty and trust.

This is the Shadow, Red curls. Mercy and Grace fully lived; Bask in its glory. Remember where you stand. Love His Shadow