Title:- Intriguing Intercourse and God’s Mates Amongst The Masses
Genesis 22:12“Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Bible reading can just get so monotonous and boring can’t it? Don’t get me wrong, I have found it to be the most exciting book in the world and believe it to be the very Word of God. However, some days and they are far too frequent, it’s just another tick in my box of important spiritual exercises to complete. The Bible often becomes as dry and as palatable as old toast! What’s the problem here? Well maybe Tozer in his book ‘The Pursuit of God’ puts his finger right on it yet again! This is what he says “The modern Scientist has lost God amidst the wonders of His world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amidst the wonders of His
Word. We have almost forgotten that God is a person, and as such can be cultivated as any person can. It is inherent in personality to be able to know other personalities, but full knowledge of one personality by another cannot be achieved in one encounter. It is only after long and loving mental intercourse that the full possibilities of both can be explored.” I would only add that God is interested in more than mental intercourse friends, for He plays on the field of full and total social interaction. Every Biblical personage will truly tell you that God wants to know you and for you to know Him and of course, I speak in the full Biblical understanding of the word KNOW!God is not interested in how many chapters you have ploughed through today. He is not interested in your religious observances or your spiritual exercises. Maybe the dry toast nature of these things are making Him both bored and sick as well! He wants more. Consider this; God might just find you ‘intriguing!’ The all knowing God may want to so prod and probe the depths of your being just for the sole purpose of the excitement the delight and maybe even the disappointment sometimes, of simply getting to know you experientially. Have you considered this? That you, wore worth knowing.
Maybe God invites you to do the same. You know? To find Him in person, to be so intrigued by Him that today you will set sail on the sea of the infinite and find Him to have been there all the time, even at your very elbow. Vast and deep, He is by your side dear Christian, waiting to be discovered all the more. God, methinks, has His mates among the masses and these are the people who have taken the time to unfold their hearts to Him, and Him to them. Yes, they know one another and are glad.One day in the long ago, God poked Abraham and asked him to kill his son, his only son, whom he loved. When Abraham went to do this, God in fact stopped him, but in the stopping of this action already completed in the heart of Abraham, God declared “NOW I KNOW!” God EXPERIENCED a knowledge that He had not EXPERIENCED before. “NOW I KNOW!” I tell you, head knowledge is great, but experiential knowledge is better. Now tell me, when was the last time you poked God and said, “Ahem, excuse me but…?” I suspect that God would like our payers to be part of our spiritual formation and that our spiritual formation is to be like Christ, fully knowing the Father. The knowledge of God, is intriguing intercourse, intimate, inexhaustible, infinitely joyful. It is most certainly better, than dry old toast.
Listen:- And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3
Pray:- Father, let us begin today to know one another in fresh, fruitful and ever exciting opportunities. ‘Ahem, excuse me Lord but why, who, what, when, where and why?' Jesus, please begin a never-ending conversation with me today, ‘Ahem’ and amen!
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