The older I get the more restless I am. For something more, something deeper, something that will fill my soul. There is a reason for that restlessness.
God created men and women specifically to have a
relationship with their creator. In fact, it says that in the cool of the
evening God would physically stroll in the garden with Adam and Eve. He took
great pleasure in their company. The popular view of God for many, including
Christ followers is that we should be afraid of Him. Yet, the creation account
would indicate that God delights in the fellowship of His created.
Remember that God is three in one: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. They, as One, experience perfect relational peace with one another. In
the same way, God created Adam and Eve to experience that relational peace with
Him. As the Father delights in fellowship with the Son and the Holy Spirit, so
He delights in the fellowship of those He created. In fact, he created us for
fellowship with Him. Until they disobeyed God and understood what sin was, Adam
and Eve simply took it for granted that they could commune with Him. It was
natural, unimpeded, and just as God created it to be.
Here is the mystery of God’s heart: That he would want to
create us in order to have fellowship with us. In order to love us and be loved
by us. He delights in our worship of Him and he delights in showing His love to
us. It was to men and women that God gave the capacity through our souls to
have a relationship with Him. Of the created order, only mankind has this great
privilege! It is no mistake that Satan went for the juggler with Eve: he
specifically tried to sever and destroy this relationship that they were made
for with God. In doing so he went to the very core: the fellowship and
relationship between the created and the creator.
We often think that we have an obligation to spend time with
God. That somehow by doing so we gain God’s favor. Here is the truth: God
delights in our presence with Him. It is hard to understand but He, complete as
He is in Himself, loves to be in our presence. This is the lesson of Mary and
Martha in the Gospels. Martha was full of doing (obligation) while Mary simply
sat at the feet of Jesus to listen. Jesus said to Martha, “Mary has chosen what
is better and it will not be taken away from her.”
It has been said that there is a hole in every human heart
that only God can fill. It is why mankind seeks in all kinds of ways to
discover the transcendent and relate to God even when looking in the wrong
places. The reason for this is that our hearts were designed from the beginning
for relationship with our creator. We were designed for Him! It is integral to
being made in His image. That is why the longings of our hearts are never completely satisfied by anything
else – or anyone else. As image bearers we are never complete until we are
connected in heart relationship with the One who created us and the closer that
relationship the more complete we become.
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