The Pledge

"The Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession." Ephesians 1:14 (NIV)

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I began this book confessing I did not know You.

I end it knowing I have only just begun, that fifty entries could never exhaust a love this deep, only point toward it.

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You have been a deposit this whole time, not the full inheritance, only the pledge of it, the ring before the wedding, the down payment before the house.

And if the deposit has felt like this, patient, near, fierce, gentle, groaning, rejoicing, teaching, comforting, then I can hardly imagine what the fullness will be when redemption finally comes and the pledge becomes the possession.

I called this journey finished.

It is only the beginning of knowing You, and I intend to spend the rest of my life, and then forever, still discovering the God I never knew.

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So this is not goodbye.

This is only where the letters pause, until the wedding day when the pledge becomes the marriage, and I finally see in full what I have only known here in part.

Spirit who is the pledge, keep me until that day, and let this love affair only deepen until then.

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A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank You, Holy Spirit, for being the pledge of a wedding day still to come.

Thank You for a love affair that began before I knew Your name and will not end when this book does.

Keep me faithful until the day the pledge becomes the fullness. Amen.

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