I think it was in a Spurgeon sermon I was reading recently where he said, “Let God’s love melt you.” I think he was talking about letting God’s love melt a heart of stone. But it also applies to what we have been talking about with trying to get out of a freeze state in terms of fight, flight, freeze. In my previous post, we were working with the imagery of being in God’s presence…seeing ourselves surrounded by His healing light. And when Spurgeon said, “Let God’s love melt you,” I started envisioning God’s light melting that frozen energy. As that light shines on the frozen dysregulated energy, it transforms it into a peaceful, gently flowing energy. And then the light of God’s presence sustains you after that ice melts. That’s important because what has happened to me is that I will get stuck in a cycle of that energy starting to unfreeze, but it’s too dysregulated, so it compresses again and refreezes…and I feel like I’m going to collapse. But if God’s light penetrates through the iciness of that frozen energy and transforms it, then when it unfreezes it is regulated and flowing and able to be processed. And the light of God’s presence continually sustains you.

I posted a hymn on here called “Jesus I Am Resting, Resting” by Jean Sophia Pigott – Learning to Live by Faith. The 1st verse says, “Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what Thou art.” I think I’ve talked on here before about how helpful it is to meditate on God’s attributes — His goodness, omnipotence, omnipresence, righteousness, holiness, and other attributes. We’ve also talked about the importance of getting to a place of stillness before God…to be able to rest in His care. So Jean Sophia Pigott is saying, “Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what Thou art,”…she is resting in who He is…the Almighty God who is loving, kind, gracious, merciful, holy, righteous, and good. By spending time communing with Him, she is getting to know Him more and more and is finding out the greatness of His loving heart. I am currently working on balancing my heart energy — the energy of my emotional heart. I spent time thinking about what Jesus’ heart energy would be like and how it would feel for Jesus to pour a healing energy into your heart. And that’s when I remembered this hymn and listened to it again. Think about what the greatness of His loving heart must be. It is beyond our comprehension. And then look at what she says next, “Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee, as Thy beauty fills my soul.” Jesus wants us to spend time gazing upon Him. And as we do that, His beauty will fill our soul. Envision His beauty pouring into and repairing your emotional heart energy…nurturing you…restoring you…healing you. The next line says, “for by Thy transforming power, Thou hast made me whole.” Note how she says “Thy transforming power.” When you spend time in God’s presence, He transforms you. You are changed by spending time with Him. He makes you more and more like Him. So as you are listening to this hymn, sing it to Jesus. Say the words to Him. “Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what Thou art; I am finding out the greatness
of Thy loving heart. Thou hast bid me gaze upon Thee, as Thy beauty fills my soul, for by Thy transforming power, Thou hast made me whole.” And feel yourself being transformed by His presence. Remember how in the Old Testament, Moses’ face would shine after he had spent time with God. Our faces will not shine like his did…but we will feel transformed and our hearts will glow…not in a way that we can visibly see…but in a way that we can feel. We will feel His transforming love in our hearts. And then His presence will continue to sustain us as we go throughout the day. See if when you are using this imagery in your meditation time you are able to get to a point of feeling like you are resting in the joy of who Jesus is…and feeling like you are able to rest in His care for you. See yourself walking along the pathway to heaven with Him, learning more and more to trust in His guidance and to truly rest in Him.