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1 | How can i MEET God? | Ps 132:1 | SMO | 149699 | ||
This is a long and complex question. Let me start by saying, I want to be with God intimatly. I have learnt a lot about God. About were He's been, what He's done, what He's like... but i want to 'MEET' Him. My spirit has been in a lot of termoil over this for quite some time now because, using the terminology of Tommy Tenney(author of a book called 'God Chasers'), i can't seem to 'Catch' Him. This Psalm 132 (and 130) i feel reflects my situation... i am so so so hungry for God. Yesterday i planned of fasting until God came to me (in a manifest presence), to show him the determination of my spirit to meet Him. But when talking about it to my Mum (who i assume is wiser than me, being older, and a Christian herself), i felt shot down. She explained that it wasnt a good idea because God doesnt really care if we fast or not. She filled my head with doubt as to whether He would come or not... and so on... Im not saying my Mum was wrong, but maybe i should be. I have done a course at my Church called 'Shape', (S is Spiritual Gifts, H is Heart, A is Abilities, P is Personality, E is Experience), and learnt that (as i always knew) i am a very naive and gullable person, much to my dissadvantage... i cant seem to make up my mind about where i stand. As you can imagine, this has added to my distress.... I need help. Does anyone have any advice or a Word for me...??? |
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2 | How can i MEET God? | Ps 132:1 | Aixen7z4 | 149887 | ||
I thought it was the best question, the greatest question ever asked. Surely, that is the biggest need of the human heart: to know God,and to fellowship with him. Without that question we find ourselves under this his indigtment: "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but ... my people do not consider" (Isaiah 1). We belong to God. If we are away from him, we are to seek him. We should not stop. "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near" (Isaiah 55). We should not accept denial. We should be like the blind man in Luke 18. "They which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more". Strange how the crowd sometimes tries to stop the seeker. They did it in Matthew 20. Two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, "Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David", and the multitude rebuked them. But they would not be denied. They cried the more. Even believers try to stop us. They shut up the kingdom against men (Matthew 23). I wonder if it is that they do not understand. They take away the key of knowledge (Luke 11). Little children were brought unto him, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them (Matthew 19). We should seek the Lord. That is what God has in mind for us, that we should seek him, and find him. Paul says that he designed it so "that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him" (Acts 17). He had promised that our seeking would not be in vain (Isaiah 45). He is near to us, and we can find him. Aside from the hindrance of the multitude, what makes it so hard to find God? There may be many things, but the situation can perhaps be summed up best by noting his his requirement, that we seek him with the whole heart (Jeremiah 24;Jeremiah 29). For a while, we may be like the lover in the Song of Solomon 3: "By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not". But that does not last. "It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth." David sings, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?" (Psalm 42). Again: "O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;to see your power and your glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary" (Psalm 63). It is the most amazing thing, to realize that the one we seek is actually pursuing us. The Good Shepherd (Luke 15), the Son of Man (Luke 19), is seeking that which is lost. We thirst for God. But also, in the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water'" (John 7). The good news for the person who is saved is the fact that God is actually already in us (John 14). When we seek him, we find that he is there, with us, and in us. But everyone, saved and unsaved, should seek him. |
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