Intimacy With God

Nov 15, 2005 21:38


I have been guilty of keeping God at a Heismans pose distance away from me. It's like I give Him the stiff arm to keep him away. This is actually old news because recently I have just allowed Him to collide with me as much as He wants to. Recently my favorite verse has been Revelation 3:20 "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him and he with me."

This is God being transparent with us. He is telling us that He desires to be invited into our lives. So many times, I forget that I am in a relationship with God and it just seems to be more of a religion or a study of Jesus or really whatever Satan can use to divert my attention to get my mind off my relationship with Christ. Recently, I have realized how casually respectful I have treated God. I have politely told Him that I have something better to do than read His word or pray or just spend time with him. I have really struggled but for the past few days, amidst all the stuff going on, I have experienced true intimacy with God. I have found that God is not always into fixing our problems and serving as our good luck charm or magic eight ball, He just simply wants to be included in the trial. I can relate this to a father who loves his kids. He loves every second that his kids say to him 'daddy, I've got this problem and I just want to talk about it with you.' Not that He can fix the problem but that you are willing to spend the time and lay yourself out open to him. I got to thinking about it and we call God the author and perfecter of our faith but what kind of author has never seen his written material? In a sense, we are the book that God is writing and we are trying to hide his work from Him.

John 16:1-4 (kind of a heads up) I have told you this so that you will not go astray. They (referring to religious people) will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not KNOWN the Father or me. I have told you this, so that when the time comes you will remember that I warned you this at first because I was with you.

Instead of a relationship characterized by intimacy we often choose religion which allows us to treat God respectfully but not intimately. Our religion turns into a substitute for the relationship. Religion is about harnessing the power of God and not about the personal connection that He so desires.

I think the most penetrating thing I have been seeing lately is the importance of mutual submission. The submission between two people, man and God, whatever the relationship may be requires mutual submission. It's like God has just slapped me in the face telling me you know me but I want to go further. I want more. He has shown me that He took the first step to submitting to me. He stepped way out of His comfort zone and allowed His only son to die for me. As you can imagine, this hit me like a ton of bricks.

now it's your turn to speak because i wanna hear what you have to say and I'm curious to see who actually reads this thing.
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