Monday, April 30, 2007

~Drawing Near~

Currently, I'm reading John Bevere's 'Drawing Near' after Pastor Benny's 'Good Morning, Holy Spirit', the reason for doing so is really to protect this hunger for God, and the things of the Spirit, that i once lost, yet found by the grace of God. And personally I realised that this is so so important, because our core motivation for being a Christian is not to attend church, attend Bible studies, to serve God in a ministry or to evangelise, even though all this things are important, and are absolutely necessary. But i say again that our core motivation is still to pursue after God. And when you have done so, the rest of the things that i just mentioned will naturally fall in place.

Friends, there is one thing that all of us must very sure of, and that is God is yearn for our communion and fellowship. In Rev 3:20, Jesus says that He is standing at the door of our hearts knocking, and who ever hears His voice and opens the door, He will come in and eat with us, and we with Him. In is much as this verse is always use to share with the unsaved about God's desire to fellowship with us, but if know the context of the Word, Jesus is speaking to His church. When Adam first sinned and hid himself from the presense of God, God's reaction is not, "COME OUT ADAM!!! How dare you sin against me!!! I'm going to strike you with a lightning bolt!!!" no, but instead God was saying to Adam, "Where are you? Why are you hiding from Me? I yearn for your fellowship!"

Let's hear the heartbeat of God...... It has been the same since the beginning of creation....... "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you......" Jas 4:8

If thats the case, why aren't people drawing near? Let me ask you a question, if you just had buffet for lunch, will you so desire for 10 course dinner? I don't think we will despise the dinner, but we definately won't desire it as much. Why? The lunch buffet had already satisfy our appetite. Similiarly, we won't be desiring after God if our spirit or emotional appetite is already satisfied by other stuff such as entertainment, leisure, material possessions, success in work and even other human relationship like our BGR and so on. I'm not saying that all these things are bad, in fact, we do need to enage in all these things in balance, to stay relevant and to impact the market place, but, what am I trying to say is that, all the things that I've mentioned above should not be the satisfaction of your souls. They should be things that we can do or to do without, cos they don't satisfy the desires of my soul, God does! Jesus You're more than enough for me...(sorry for the long lapse in the post, written the draft of this don't know how many hundred years ago, haha...)

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