MORE ABOUT GOD

There is an unusual thread running through churches these days.  All are clamoring to know more about God. 

Mental assent coupled with obedient effort has always been our way of giving God attention.  Yet the absolute head-over-heels in love with Him has not been a priority or even a thought for many of us.  Love God and keep His commandments has usually drawn commandments emphasis.

A sway has developed away from man's rules and regulations which kill the hearts of the innocent.  Writers as Beth Moore, Henry Blackaby, Henri Nouwen, Brennan Manning and Philip Yancey did not discard the biblical call for obedience.  What they have done is introduce us to relationship; that significant element the Pharisees ridiculed as liberal.

The reason praise and worship has become so much more prominent in our assemblies is due to the hunger of the soul which desires to connect to the Creator of it.  From my earlier perspective I hated to let earth go in exchange for heaven for I felt heaven would be nothing but enlarged and ever-so-mundane church....which, by the way, came only in various shades of floatatious gray.  It seemed to me there would be no color in heaven for nothing this boring could dare have color.

Too spend time here and timelessness there praising and blessing the living God will smack of heavenly reward because we actually and simply love God.  We don't love Him for what He can do and where He can go or how He thinks.  We just love Him!

For man so loved God that He would give His only begotten Son for us that we will hunger and thirst to be in His presence that none of us should perish from getting to simply look at Him in complete awe and wonder!

May we be more about God in the days ahead.