24
Jan
2007
A Religion of Rumour
I have recently heard of the term that christianity has been labeled the ‘Religion of Rumour’. Do you spend more time listening to Fellow Believers talking about God?, or do you spend more time in that intimate place – one on one with God?
God desires to know us, He already Knows all about us, all the facts and the figures but thats not what God wants, desires and longs for, He Wants Relationship, He wants ‘special time’ with You. Is your belief second hand? I remember and thank God for my upbringing in a christian home, but the one big thing that I struggled with in the first 5-10 years of being a christian was getting it into my head that this relationship with God had to be ingnited by me, that I couldn’t depend on my parents relationship with God for mine to be a good one, but I had to invest my own time, my own energy into this relationship, I had to come to a point of realising that this relationship was personal, that it was intimate and that it was a relationship that I had a major role in maintaining, You see While God desires relationship with us, He doesn’t force it upon us!
Ben is a scream at the minute, so many questions about God, Its class just to be able to sit beside him in the evenings and try to answer His questions, to listen to Him pray, while often He asks for instruction I’m trying to make it as simple as possible by telling him that its very important that Ben gets to know God and that He needs to talk to God and pray by himself, just like Daddy needs to. Ben Loves to spend special time with amy and me on different nights, whether it be playing a game, watching a dvd, reading a story or building a jigsaw, but thats just a picture of How God wants us to create the space in our life to let God work and move and to let Him get to know us, and for us to Get to know God.
Today I hope your relationship is not dependant on your pastor, or cell leader, your wife, husband or friends etc, My prayer is that You have found God for Yourself, that your beliefs are not second hand but rather, that they have been found in the pages of scripture for yourself.
