This is something I wrote a couple years ago that I found stuck in an old Bible this week. Thought it’d be nice blog material.
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Language is a blessing from God for it is one of the ways we bear the image of God. It is the substance of thought. Language makes relationship possible. It allows us to express ourselves to each other. Anger, fear, love, joy; our emotions are brought to life in communicable form through language. Language is truly a blessing.

For all its attendant blessings, language still fails at some level to truly articulate reality. The most beautiful sunset, viewed from a lofty mountain perch, setting the sky ablaze in a marriage of hues – red, orange, pink…even these words can but attempt to describe the glory of God’s creation in such a moment. Have you ever been in love with someone and the words “I love you” just weren’t strong enough to describe what you felt? These are the times when your heart swells with such emotion that there aren’t enough words in the world to tell your beloved how you truly feel. Have you ever tried to describe God? Where do you begin? What do you say? The best words we’ve come up with are words like “holy”, “loving” and “Father”. What a disservice to God! Any attempt by finite human tongue to describe the infinite nature of God will fall miserably short! We cannot begin to understand, let alone articulate, even a portion of the glory of God!

And yet…

There is a knowing deeper than words. There is a transcendent language, one we all understand. We’ve always understood it and we always will. It is the eternal language of love, the language of the heart. It is the language of the written Word, pointing the way to the Living Word. It is the language of Father, Son & Spirit. It’s spoken by a Creator God, acting not out of need but out of love. It’s spoken as the Christ is born, at the marriage of divinity & humanity. It’s the language of the Spirit crying out to something deep within us when we hear the old, old story. It is our native tongue. This is the language that breaches the boundaries of race, sex and age. It is the language of One, the language of THE ONE, speaking to your heart in the language of eternity.

Almighty Father of All, speak the language of love in our hearts this day. For today is the day of salvation.