Since you came into my life those many years ago. It is hard for me to reflect back to those days when you did not have an influence on my being.
Like love at first sight, a lost love that lingers in the soul, yearning but unfulfilled. Can life truly be lived without this love. The painful expression of being the person that was rejected when the fullness of desire was being expressed and so freely given.
No counting the cost, only the heartbreak of rejection, the carried negativity of an ego that is bruised and dented with no remission.
It feels like a long time ago, however it lives in the present. Love given freely, rejected and still being given. Can the rejection ever break through allowing purity of purpose consuming and complete stand the test of time.
God speaks of Shalom it is completeness and wholeness, his passion, his desire to break through the thickening clouds that so obscure and deflect the completeness of love. Love that settles heart, soul and mind. Resting in Shalom, that supreme wholeness of God freely given, not as the world give but as God through Jesus Christ gives.
Shalom, is not peace. It is not that moment of relaxation when all is well with the world. This type of peace, 'all is well with the world' appears as a personal reflection, an understanding that at that moment, in that place a self centred peace pervades all that the individual is. It has no bearing of what is happening at any one moment in the world. The birth and death, the hunger and famine, the super rich and the super poor, death by bullet and bomb, tragedy and joy, the powerful and powerless. Geniuses and illiterates parading alongside the weak and the powerful.
Shalom
So what is Shalom if it is not peace?
When Jesus shared his human life with us he was sharing more than that which humanly surrounded him. He shares the whole of Gods kingdom values. Compressed down into the human shape of the man Jesus. Jesus gave many insights, he was a great philosopher, he healed many, stood up for injustice, railed against authority, Jesus was not necessarily a patient man, however he also knew the depth of patience. Jesus walked freely and called everyone to be children of the living God. Poverty and in justice he fought against.
Jesus was Shalom; that wholeness of God, the completeness of things that God intended them to be. When God created the world is was in perfect condition, at its final completion there was nothing that could be added, nothing to make the colours sharper and brighter, needs were met with food and water, the unbroken relationship between God and man was perfect. did man and woman created in Gods image realise that sin had entered there souls, that perfectness was broken, perhaps not. Jesus retains the perfectness that is Shalom and provides the antidote for all sin, Come to me he says and freely I will forgive your sin. Only the sinless could remove the sin. There was a cost and it was paid by Jesus, the great lover of sous, who never forgets never stops loving, who's love never grows old or dims.
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