The godly meaning of this word is so accurate in describing my experience this afternoon, my epiphany. Now to most it might not seem as extreme or wondrous but to me, in that moment it was like a light bulb being switched on and more than that a relief.
Sitting and chatting to my friend over spontaneous coffee and cake we reached the subject of faith. Perhaps a subject that is discussed and pondered by many which makes it ordinary, nothing to write home about and in that I started sharing about my journey over the last two weeks and more so the loss that I have experienced. In that I found my revelation.
I asked dearest Alet, how do people who don't believe cope with grief? How are they consoled without believing in the Saviour and more than that that we are saved ? I have reached rock bottom and I had my faith and hope in my heavenly Father to cling to, how much worse is it not, to have to go through all that without anything to pull you out of that hole that grief creates.
And enter my epiphany... I have taken my faith for granted and not realised how privileged I am to have a relationship with a God that is in control of everything. He has been there through it all, and I didn't even think twice about it. I was enveloped in His love and it didn't surprise me, I expected it. My revelation lay in the fact that I took my Abba's unrelenting love for granted, that there are people who are missing out on all that and that they have to go through life without Him there to enfold them as He has enfolded me. They have no one to call out to or to rely on for unwavering forgiveness and more than that love.
My epiphany revealed that I am loved and that I am privileged to know that I am loved. I am privileged to have a God as great as mine. I am privileged to be supported by Him and blessed by Him. And more than all this I am privileged to know that my God personally, because all the above He does for every person upon this Earth, the only difference is that not everybody knows it.
So today I appreciate my relationship with my Abba, I thank Him for his nearness even when I push Him away and I thank Him for his unending love and eternal grace, because not everyone knows it as well as I do.
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