Food for thought...

Today I heard a lady on the radio - don't know who she was and can't remember what she was speaking about except for this statement:

"What is the point of being a Christian if you don't hear from God?"

That's it isn't it. God created us to be in relationship with him. We were separated from him by sin. We, now tainted by sin, could no longer exist in the presence of a Holy, Perfect God. Being an unsatisfactory state of affairs to God, he made a way for us to be reunited - there is nothing that we could do of ourselves. Jesus was perfect, pure, divine, but because of his love for us, the Bible says that he actually became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). That is amazing. It took Jesus' gruesome death (and his powerful resurrection) to reunite us with the God whose original purpose in making us was to be united with him.

OK, so hearing from God... prayer is our communication with God, an essential part of our relationship with him, and something I do not do enough of. Ideally it includes listening, and allowing God to direct and instruct us by his Holy Spirit. God loves us and wants to speak to us. I believe he really wants us to enjoy our relationship with him.

Today I want to change... to spend time with the God who loves me, learn from him and enjoy it. I have some reservations about what it might mean to completely submit to God, and wonder if it is even possible. As for the fear, the Bible says "perfect love drives out fear" (1 John 4:18) and I know that my God loves me... perfectly!