Into Me Not Intimate with Me…
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 (New Living Translation)
12 And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.
13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. 14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.
I remember when I was younger, I was a cheerleader. My story was not typical, because I was not in the elite crowd at school, as many cheerleaders are and were; I was sort of the middle of the road. I did not have a lot of friends, just a few close friends, and they were not people I went to school with. But it was strange, because when basketball season came around and I was an active part of cheerleading it seemed as if people I went to school with paid more attention to me and guys that would normally over look me, were “into me.” But it was those true friends that I had that knew before and after cheerleading that kept me grounded and focused. They knew me intimately. They saw me on good days and bad, and everyday in between. They loved me in my clothes that were not fashion worthy and when I sported that short cheerleading skirt. They knew me by heart, they knew me by spirit and that was what held our relationship strong through the highs and lows and changes we all encountered over the years.
As I thought about this era in my life, I could feel that God wanted me to see something, about how we treat Him. You see it is fashionable to confess being a Christian; it is acceptable in the world’s venue to say that “Jesus is their Lord and Savior, without any intimate knowledge of who He is. You see for so many of us church is something to do on some Sunday’s when it does not conflict with our sleep pattern, our schedule to hang with friends and family, or when we feel that Sunday is significant ( like Easter, Christmas, Mother’s day, Father’s day ). Many of us are still hanging on to that same scripture we heard Grandma recite over and over at Family functions, or that verse we had to commit to memory for Sunday School so many years ago. Even worse still, are those of us who sit in church Sunday after Sunday and still have not let God in, and allowed him to get close enough to love us into obedience, His truth and His will. We know of the word, we live parts of it that suit us, but we do not get real with God or allow Him to get real with us.
As you bring this work week to a close, ask yourself this question, how intimate am I with God? Have I let Him touch me in my secret places, and love me in a way that rocks my very existence to a place where I would rather die than to hurt or disappoint Him. Do we know Him, in such a way that I can feel His heart beat so close to mine and feel the sweetness of breath upon my life, or am I looking at Him as one who is far away, or He is just someone you read about. Or is God the one that Grandma told you at the kitchen table as a child that you never bothered to really know for yourself on His terms not your own. It is time to strip down and bare it all. It is time to be naked before God and let Him see all that you are and you to see all that He is; for us to connect with Him to the point where we do not know where he begins and we end. It is time to stop being “into” God and get “intimate” with Him!
No comments:
Post a Comment