Connecting

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prayer_hands_foldedI’ve lived too many days on my own.  I’ve had my family and thankfully my friends to keep me company in various ways, but at the end I have been on my own.

What do I mean by that and how do the rest of us relate?

I go back to Eden, as I’ve found myself doing almost on a regular basis in the past two years.  I go back to Eden because I’m looking for a picture of the way things were supposed to be before our relationship with God was broken.  And when I see Eden, I see that it was man and God being together, enjoying each other’s company, sharing in the administration of creation.  Unfortunately, when I look back at Eden, I also see where the pattern of our solitude, our ‘aloneness from God’ begins.  And ofttimes, instead of being with Him, we are hiding for various reasons.

Today we hide because we have work to do, we want to be the boss, we’re scared of His demands.  And we can’t help but carry the emptiness of our decisions into our everything that we do as long as we choose to live independent of Him, however long we choose to do so.

This is what I experience too often.  And I feel it.  But, to be honest, I only feel when I’m disconnected from God because I know the joy it is to be connected with Him.

I will paraphrase Max Lucado in saying that we should treat prayer not as an activity but an awareness, a state of mind that we can walk in at all times.  He is so right.  When our intellect and our emotions acknowledge Him - give Him the time of day and the breadth of thought - we are connecting with our Maker and living Eden’s life in the 21st Century.

I connect to God most by talking to him - I believe the best words that come out of my mouth are not when I am preaching but when I am in personal prayer with Him - and by writing, in which I try to avoid as much cliches in my journalling as possible.  Both of these activities bring me to a place of raw honesty, where without fear of judgement or condemnation I can say how I’m honestly feeling and bring those items together with what I know to be God’s truth and love.

Others have other ways of connecting to God: nature walks, intense intercessions, times of silence, meditation, regular periods of fasting…I believe there are many, many ways for each of us to connect with God.  And when I speak of connecting, I speak of those times when we know deep in our hearts that we are touching God, and He is touching us.

To use a modern illustration, connecting with God versus ‘marking time with Him’ is the difference between high speed internet and dial up.  With one, you are able to effectively soar and thrash through information and along the way to broaden your mind and perhaps even gain a fair bit of inspiration unimpeded while with the other the access is strenuous and frustrating.

We go through hard times, but the gateway to God’s heart is always open; the line of communication to the throne of Heaven is always busy and yet it is always open - simultaneously.  That’s how great God is.

So my prayer today is that we who are followers of Christ indeed find ourselves connecting to Him - hearts intwined, emotions engaged, love discovered.  I don’t think there is any greater thing we can do in our day.

February 13, 2010 | Filed Under Weekly Word |  

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