Going Deeper with God: Lesson 7
It is refreshing to know that God can and wills to be close to us, and we to Him, when we seek God in the familial bond of a kindred relationship. Through an honest God-revealing heart and soul evaluation, we are able to see our heart. We will discover if it beats for God and sings His tune.
To begin this spiritual awakening and closer walk with God, if we are gut-honest serious about this, then we will turn ourselves in a new direction. We will pivot in place as we regroup, reorient ourselves, and begin to seek more of God, His love, forgiveness, compassion, and life.
It is then that we come to the door. It is a door that only we can open. The Someone has been waiting for us on the other side of the door, waiting for us to be ready to enter His living, spiritual journey. It is decision time. God waits for us. He does not pressure us or cause us to panic. He does not forcefully convince or manipulate. He waits, and waits for however long it takes. And He draws us, seeks us, and doesn’t give up on us.
We soon know it is true; there is only one way to get through the doorway. Only we can open the door and take our first step into the light, which will set us on the path to our freedom. Should we open the door, the door of seeking God to find Him as our new reality, it is then that we know we are ready. It is something we know as we do it, not before we do it.
Our Creator waits for us to come to Him with our personal desires, with our passions, with our deep-felt belief in His goodness. He has open arms that long to embrace us with His loving grace, to bathe us in His comfort, and to encourage us with His truth. Then, as the door swings open and we step forward into the Father, Son, and Spirit’s plan for us, His life floods into ours. We know there is a spiritual need being met deep within our soul. It takes great sincerity to look into the mirror as we see the truth revealed concerning our own soul.
Life becomes new in a strangely beneficial way. We begin to increase by God’s strength entering into our human strength. The process has the feeling of a domino effect—Christ’s life in us, God’s life in Christ and in us, the renewing and restoring ministry of the Holy Spirit (John 14)—and thus begins the transforming of our souls with the hope and truth found through the ministrations of our Creator, Savior, and Healer. It is then that we realize all our previous acts of obedience and acts of self righteousness are unimportant and small next to the beauty and reality of God’s loving intention for us.
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