I am currently reading the Charles Dickens classic, David Copperfield and there is a perfectly fitting section in it that describes Copperfield's first evening with Dora, his first true love. Copperfield says this, “The sun shown Dora, The birds sang Dora, The south wind blew Dora, and the wildflowers in the hedges were all Dora’s. I took Dora’s little hand and kissed it and she let me, and we all seemed to my thinking to go straight up to the seventh heaven. We did not come down again, we stayed up there all evening. At first we strayed to and fro among the trees. I with Dora’s shy arm drawn through mine and heaven knows, folly as it was, it would have been a happy fate to have been struck immortal with those foolish feelings and have stayed among the trees forever.”
How lovely a description of love isn’t it? Love that seems to lift you up to a higher level of existence. Though this describes a romantic love, a kind all together different from our Love of Christ, it does perhaps draw us back to the time when we first became infatuated with our savior.
A time when we were so overcome with the thought of forgiveness and salvation and the pure Joy that comes from knowing we are being kept by Christ that we could wish to be stuck in that moment immortal, that His assurance and joy would never leave us.
Meditating on this can very nearly get us to a state of pure Joy. My dear reader, remember those words when life feels overwhelming or when your walk with Christ feels inadequate.
How much sweeter would our lives be if we could stay in that moment, cling to that Joy and carry it with us.
How much differently would we face temptations or walk through trials if the sun shown Christ, the birds sang Christ, the south wind blew Christ, and wildflowers in the hedges were all Christ.
“And now little Children, Abide in Him.”
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