Who is God to you?
A well-asked question to be searching my heart for. I'm glad this is what camp will be focusing about this year, yet I should figure that out for myself way before then.
What/who do I believe in, really?
Who is the one I call God yet shove away as if He does not already surround my whole being and existence?
Last week, I found Him again, but just as most of the other altar calls, after the emotions, come the reality of life. I know that God is here, always here. But then comes the thing which goes, I just can't feel Him! I can't feel or see Him working in my life! The head knowledge that He's God I know, and the heart knowledge that He loves me I know, but do I really have that strong, unwavering faith? The strength that God has to stand up against the hard knocks of life?
So I go down, down, down. Just like today when I focused on the wrong person. When will this focus ever remain on You without distractions?
When there's a will, there's a way.
But where there's none of Your strength, there won't be any strength at all.
Can I find that strength in you? Strength to do what? Strength to tap on, when?
I know He's saved me. I know He's died on the cross for me. I know that He knows me so intimately, inside out, and knows every fibre of my being.
But what has He saved me from? Has my sins been acknowledged? Like many say, you can never solve the problem unless you know what the problem is. If I don't believe in the first place that I have sinned, why would I believe I need saving? The problem of sin will never be solved unless you acknowledge you have it in the first place.
So then, who is God to me?
Certainly not an ATM machine, only to be used when needed. Certainly not a policeman or judge who sentences me to death without sadness, and simply because of the job description.
Called by many the Saviour, the Lover of my soul, the Light of the world, the Lamb who was slain, my strength, my shield, my fortress, my deliverer, my comfort, my shelter, holiness, peace, healer, love, best friend, rock, grace, mercy, creator...
So then, who is God to you?
What/who do I believe in, really?
Who is the one I call God yet shove away as if He does not already surround my whole being and existence?
Last week, I found Him again, but just as most of the other altar calls, after the emotions, come the reality of life. I know that God is here, always here. But then comes the thing which goes, I just can't feel Him! I can't feel or see Him working in my life! The head knowledge that He's God I know, and the heart knowledge that He loves me I know, but do I really have that strong, unwavering faith? The strength that God has to stand up against the hard knocks of life?
So I go down, down, down. Just like today when I focused on the wrong person. When will this focus ever remain on You without distractions?
When there's a will, there's a way.
But where there's none of Your strength, there won't be any strength at all.
Can I find that strength in you? Strength to do what? Strength to tap on, when?
I know He's saved me. I know He's died on the cross for me. I know that He knows me so intimately, inside out, and knows every fibre of my being.
But what has He saved me from? Has my sins been acknowledged? Like many say, you can never solve the problem unless you know what the problem is. If I don't believe in the first place that I have sinned, why would I believe I need saving? The problem of sin will never be solved unless you acknowledge you have it in the first place.
So then, who is God to me?
Certainly not an ATM machine, only to be used when needed. Certainly not a policeman or judge who sentences me to death without sadness, and simply because of the job description.
Called by many the Saviour, the Lover of my soul, the Light of the world, the Lamb who was slain, my strength, my shield, my fortress, my deliverer, my comfort, my shelter, holiness, peace, healer, love, best friend, rock, grace, mercy, creator...
So then, who is God to you?