Conversations

"We should be seeking Him because we love Him."

I HAD this idea when I was younger, and for a majority of my life, that God was difficult to contact. Not that He didn’t hear our prayers. I knew He did. But it was like there was airspace between the physical world and the spiritual one. (Bangs Bible on desk. Hello? God?) As in something even He couldn’t overcome. It was why we only hear three words: “God just said ‘pizza’ ‘seasoning’ and the word ‘new’.” I know. Dumb, right?

The Word says, “Nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37).” Leaving off the alternate word meaning interpretations, let’s take this literally. Nothing means nothing. That eliminates the airspace of communication. We are not talking to God using paper cups. He lives in His children.

This is a deeper thought than we know. He’s not in us, unreachable to us. He didn’t just recreate our inner man, our spirit, and leave us with a power charge. The Holy Spirit is a person. He is the communication center of the universe. (That should echo.) Having said that, I must point out, He IS NOT an automaton. This has been incorrectly said. The verse which causes it, John 16:13, simply says He, the Spirit, hears all things and can be trusted. He isn’t selfish and out to get His own glory. He would not be God if that were the case. That He IS God makes Him just, makes Him love (God is love, 1 John 4:8), and all the characteristics of love written in the Scriptures.

He speaks in sentences. Conversations. And yes, it’s amazing, and sometimes powerful, but it does not require hours of fine-tuning your antennae. Beedle. Beedle. Nor being physically overwhelmed first. It doesn’t end with strange behavior either. We should be seeking Him because we love Him and not because we need something from Him or want to see a physical-slash-pseudo-spiritual experience. He can do that, but probably, if we’re “in the flesh” locked into our carnal thinking, He won’t. Nobody wants to be wanted for a performance, especially not God. He IS God—big and awesome, Creator of all things, the Life of every being—and we should remember it.

There is always talk of “a move of God”, of “revival”, and certain “seasons” we’re in, but these words make Him impersonal. What happens in the church sanctuary only happens because we’re seeking with a sincere heart and allowing Him to do what we need and not necessarily what we’ve designed. It all begins with relationship, and given I thought communication was hard to do, staticky if you will, how many others think the same? How many hear only those three words or none at all?

He's friendly. He’s funny (as in laughter). He’s soft-spoken. Yeah, He can be loud, but it’s devils that do too much talking. They talk every breath. He speaks when spoken to. When He has something to say. What He says doesn’t fit our expectations sometimes. Here’s what we must remember: We must stop making Him think, act, and react like a human. Human made gods have human behaviors. They are opinionated, critical, arrogant, and self-seeking. The living God is none of those things. He changes us to think like Him, not the other way around. We have to “lean not on our own understanding (Proverbs 3:5),” but trust His. I always say to Him, when that happens, “There’s something about this thing that I don’t know and don’t get, so help me know it.” By keeping myself submitted to Him as the Higher authority, as God, I learn what I need to know. I always assume I must be wrong instead of blaming Him.

But I don’t let who He is as God frighten me out of conversation. He enjoys talking to me and supports me throughout the day. I speak in spiritual language or in English. He responds in both and I know what’s said. He provides interpretation. This only came through doing it and setting down what I’d been told in the church. My human-designed image was nothing like Him. When I replaced the judgmental, warring God seated in heaven, which IS where God is, with a loving, more personal Friend who lives my daily life with me, I found peace. And joy beyond imagination.

“Keep an open conversation with God and talk with him about everything,” (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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