Through the grace of simplicity, dignity is bestowed in the command “Stay“.
Stay hems in safety and provision. It comforts, nourishes, bolsters.
Stay calms.
Yet…there are times the boundaries of stay mock the ever-turning engine of a wild heart and glare into the face of my own true motion. In split-second will, a heart domesticated by Grace, still chooses to toss the blessing and run with unbridled abandon. As if never having known the extravagance of tame.
This heart kicks up dust and dirt in the face of others…
and leaves me pretty gritty sometimes.
Until I upright myself yet again, enough to hear the whisper of wind carrying the voice of my God, calling my name.
I lean in. That voice, it woos me.
I move closer, returning to Stay in the loving arms of mercy.
It’s all grace.
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! Romans 7.23-25