Encapsulated By God
How many times have you heard, "God is my personal Savior?" Yet, we don't really put that in action most of the time. We sometimes think of God sitting on his throne, on the stage of the civic center and we're just one of many screaming cheering fans out of the thousands in the audience. We read the Bible much like we just bought the latest Clancy novel; with little thought that it is exclusively written for you not for millions of book sales. When we pray we often pray to "God in Heaven". It is an abstract thought not related to the God that is inside your very heart and soul. He not only lays his hand across the multitudes, He lays it on your head - that is on your very own physical head as you would a child. We know He is our Father but we seldom visualize Him as this father who had anything to do with our birth, our growth, and our development. Technically, God is our very own personal birth father and He has had everything to do with your birth, your growth, and your development. We know we are a child of God but do we run to Him with our every hurt, new found idea, excitement and thought? Do we run to Him knowing He has the power to kiss it and make it better? If you don't have that kind of intimate relationship with God, you are distancing yourself from the very relationship God wants with you. Matthew 23:9 "And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
You can not have an intimate relationship unless you reach out and take His hand, you embrace Him in your arms in a bear hug, you look up into His magnificence with childlike wonder, you devour His scripture with knowledge there are instructions specifically written for your day, and you lay your head in His lap for the comfort of the perfect Father.
My father was not perfect and neither was yours. No man is a perfect father no matter how much we try. Then why do we not respond to God the Father in the way we always wanted in our relationships? Malachi 2:10 "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?..." Why do we keep Him at arms length or in the abstract? We are free and invited into this personal relationship. We accepted that relationship when we professed our belief in God through the Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:12-13 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." We accepted that our sins were forgiven (something you will never totally find in earthly relationships) and we were granted admission into His Heavenly Home. Christians need to put these things in the real and the now. You and I can have this gift of an encapsulated personal relationship with God by allowing it to happen.
Walk through the halls of your work today, through the rooms at home, inside the church walls this week knowing YOU are one-on-one with your Father. John 8:42 "Jesus said unto them, "If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.""
You can not have an intimate relationship unless you reach out and take His hand, you embrace Him in your arms in a bear hug, you look up into His magnificence with childlike wonder, you devour His scripture with knowledge there are instructions specifically written for your day, and you lay your head in His lap for the comfort of the perfect Father.
My father was not perfect and neither was yours. No man is a perfect father no matter how much we try. Then why do we not respond to God the Father in the way we always wanted in our relationships? Malachi 2:10 "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?..." Why do we keep Him at arms length or in the abstract? We are free and invited into this personal relationship. We accepted that relationship when we professed our belief in God through the Lord Jesus Christ. John 1:12-13 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." We accepted that our sins were forgiven (something you will never totally find in earthly relationships) and we were granted admission into His Heavenly Home. Christians need to put these things in the real and the now. You and I can have this gift of an encapsulated personal relationship with God by allowing it to happen.
Walk through the halls of your work today, through the rooms at home, inside the church walls this week knowing YOU are one-on-one with your Father. John 8:42 "Jesus said unto them, "If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.""
posted by Diane Gibson at
9:46 AM
