Armload of God

Luke 2:28 -then he took Him into his arms, and blessed God and said 29)Now, Lord you are releasing Your bond-servant to depart in peace, according to Your word...34) And Simeon blessed them...

What a fantastic story, Simeon, a righteous, devout dude, eager looking and waiting for the Messiah, and the bible says and the Holy Spirit was upon him on top of everything else...moving, walking in the Spirit before it was 'popular' or Paul wrote to the Romans about in the 8th chapter....listening to the Spirit, trusting and obeying.... one day the Holy Spirit says Simeon, head on up to the temple, I've got a surprise for you...He gets there and looks and looks and it all seems so normal and ordinary until the Holy Ghost pops him on the head and says, perhaps sings :) "Do you see what I see?" and Simeon sees what almost everybody else misses 'cause he has Holy Spirit Spectacles...he sees the Lord and Creator of the universe in the arms of this young and nervous couple and just like anybody with those kind of spectacles would do he grabs and Armload of God...and begans to shout and praise God..."He's got the whole world in His hands" and every other psalm and songs of praise that he sang back in Sunday School...every bible verse comes flying out of his mouth...'cause he's got an armload of God. He gets to embrace Jesus before He is "Jesus" So my question at this point of the story is "who is holding who?" Simeon may be holding baby Jesus but Jesus, Lord of Lords and King of Kings is holding Simeon...blesses God and blesses people...people with an armload of God have a tendency to do those very things: Loving God in front of people and Loving People in front of God! Wow! sounds very familiar! (Thanks New Hope West Coast) Simeon says"Now I can go home to be with God...I've just seen Jesus and God's plan for Jews and Gentiles and I got an armload of God besides...

The Application is if we, like Simeon, are walking right before God, Going after His kingdom with all our heart-Devout and eagerly looking for the next thing God is about to do, we will not only get to see it but we will get an armload of God in the process and someone will have to konk me on the head to get me to shut up from shouting and blessing God(loving God in front of people) and when I get me an armload of God I will bless people(Loving people in front of God) because He does.

This is my prayer: Lord I want to take You in my arms (get my arms around You) Ha! I want to bless You and bless people....Give me an armload of God!!!!!