I was home alone in my office doing UX research for a design of a new application I am developing at work. My whole house was quiet and I had fallen deep into creative thought. The only thing breaking through the silence was the gentle whirring of the ceiling fan above me.
I was so deep in creative thought, that I did not even hear the side door open and close, nor did I realize that someone had entered my house. Then I smelled it. The soft scent of Victoria’s Secret Heavenly filled my senses. Immediately I was snapped out of my creative trance. I whirled around in my chair and there she stood across the room. The most enchanting woman I had ever seen. Every time I lay my eyes on her, I am spellbound by the captivating essence that radiates from who she is. As I took in the completeness of her beauty, I was reminded of the countless moments we have shared, and the depth of our connection becomes even more profound. Our eyes locked and for what seemed like hours we said nothing to each other. I got up out of my chair, our eyes remained locked as I walked across the house. I could not get to her fast enough, because at that moment I just wanted to be in her arms.
Embrace.
I wrapped my arms around her, and breathed her in. I love the way my wife smells, there is something about it that is intoxicating and irresistible. We just stood there frozen in that embrace not saying a word. Nothing needed to be said because we both knew what each other was thinking, “there is no other place at this moment in time I would rather be.”
After a few minutes she looked up at me with those big beautiful brown eyes and softly said “I love you my One.”
I replied, “I love you too my One, infinity times 2”
If you're wondering what that means it means She is my One and only and I will love her for infinity and when infinity comes to an end multiply it times two. After 24 years of marriage I love her more now than I ever have.
The next morning in my time with the Lord, He brought back this moment with my wife to my thoughts. He spoke to me and said
“It’s the incense of your worship that fills the corridors of my throne room and I immediately know that you have entered my presence. Even before you and I even share an intimate embrace the smell of your unique worship is what draws me to you. I can not get across the room fast enough to be with you. You may crave me but I crave you even more. I love you my One, infinity times 2”
Embrace.
I felt the arms of my Heavenly Father wrap around me and pull me close to him and he just held me. Tears streamed down my face as I melted from the touch of my Creator. We didn’t have to say a thing because in that moment I knew exactly what God was thinking, “there was no other place He would rather be in that moment than holding me.” This is his desire, this is all he wants is for us to surrender to his love.
No matter who you are or what position you're in there are times that all of us do not feel clean enough, worthy enough, or significant enough to receive the embrace from our Heavenly Father. However I have never experienced a time where I have come to him where he has pushed me away, been to busy, or told me I was not good enough to come to Him. There have been times where I have sinned against Him and called out His name and there He stood with open arms, eyes locked on mine and could not get across the room fast enough to hold me in His arms to love me. In those times He affirms my identity as His child, strengthens me, corrects me and establishes once again His peace and direction over me.
We all walk off the path but the great part about our God and Father is that He walks off the path as well calling to us, searching for us beckoning to us to walk with Him once again in the cool of the day. If we keep walking and ignore His call He will let us go and not force us to do anything we don’t want to do. However the second we open our mouth and begin to worship Him He smells the incense of our worship in the room.
Embrace.
I love the way the Message Bible translates Romans 8:38-39
“I’m absolutely convinced that nothing- nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable – absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.”
There is so much more than just being in His presence and seeing Him across the room, yet that is where so many of us live and fail to receive the intimacy of who He is.
Embrace.
To be enveloped in His arms, lay back against Him and breathe Him in. Hear His heartbeat and melt in His peace and listen to His voice as he whispers “I love you my One, infinity times 2.”
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