You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
- Jeremiah 29:13
- Jeremiah 29:13
I wonder how many people see God a bit like a kid with an ant farm. God sets up the world, puts us in it and then sits back and watches what happens. I wonder how many hold to some form of Deism - that God made the world and got it started but is no longer directly involved in the creation, leaving it to run on its own. I have to say that based on the biblical witness, and my own personal experience, nothing could be father from the truth.
Looking at the biblical record, can we say that a God who walked in the garden in the cool of day to engage with Adam and Eve, who would directly intervene to rescue His people from slavery in Egypt and personally lead them as a pillar of fire and pillar of cloud, who would become flesh and make His dwelling amoung us, to be Immanuel – God with us, who would take our place and bear the punishment for our sin, who would give us the presence of His Holy Spirit to dwell within us, and who promises a future in which God will be with His people and wipe every tear from their eyes, can we really say that such a God is distant and uninvolved? The reality is that God longs to be intimately involved in the lives of His people. Through the death and resurrection of His son Jesus He provides a means to be brought back into relationship with Him, and He invites us to continually and personally engage with Him through worship and prayer. We are invited to know about God, but even more than that to know God in a personal and intimate way. So let our lives be ones of vibrant prayer, worship, fear, and trust in our God who is actively involved in the world.
Looking at the biblical record, can we say that a God who walked in the garden in the cool of day to engage with Adam and Eve, who would directly intervene to rescue His people from slavery in Egypt and personally lead them as a pillar of fire and pillar of cloud, who would become flesh and make His dwelling amoung us, to be Immanuel – God with us, who would take our place and bear the punishment for our sin, who would give us the presence of His Holy Spirit to dwell within us, and who promises a future in which God will be with His people and wipe every tear from their eyes, can we really say that such a God is distant and uninvolved? The reality is that God longs to be intimately involved in the lives of His people. Through the death and resurrection of His son Jesus He provides a means to be brought back into relationship with Him, and He invites us to continually and personally engage with Him through worship and prayer. We are invited to know about God, but even more than that to know God in a personal and intimate way. So let our lives be ones of vibrant prayer, worship, fear, and trust in our God who is actively involved in the world.
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