What do you want out of life?
Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort...For You are my hope; O Lord GOD, You are my confidence from my youth.” (Psalm 71:3,5)
What do you want from God? What does God want from you? In modern days God has revealing Himself in a fresh way. It is a new day but God remains the same. He is immutable. His methods to draw us have changed but His undying love for us remains the same and His desire for intimate relationship with His people only deepens with time. As God pours fresh oil upon us, we sense God's love and presence as we humble ourselves before Him and we change as a result of his drawing. What is enthralling to me is that the posture in worship seems to be not so much what we can get from God, but what we give to God in true adoration. I am convinced that every person desires to experience the divine. So many search for something more than the immediate present of the day to day connundrums of life. {insert link here to read further on blog page]
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How can we experience nirvana within the Christian experience? He has done so much for us already that our posture should be that of showing love to the ultimate lover our souls. During this latter rain, God will indeed fulfill His promises to us, for as the preacher said ―A Promise is a promise, is a promise. As we await and prepare for the manifestation of the promise, let us bask at His feet as He fills us, changes us, molds us, builds up some things and casts down others for the enhancement of His reputation in our lives. This opportunity to experience intimacy with God is available to us because God, as the initiator of worship, continually calls out to us to be near Him and commune with Him. The believer chooses to worship God as a response to that call. The Bible ensures that "none come unto God unless the Spirit draws him."Amidst all that is going on in the world, it is God's delight to have an intimate relationship with His people. As far back as the Garden of Eden, Adam is said to have communed with God every day in the "cool of the day."
Throughout the Bible, we see God's plan unfolding to draw us back to Himself and to have a people that will allow Him to be the focal point of our worship and much more, the focal point of our lives. With God's provision, however, He does not coerce or force us to respond. Instead, it is a discipline in which we reverberate, "I WILL bless the Lord at all times, and His praise shall continually be in my mouth." When we sit and pout, refusing to give God glory, we are simply refusing His invitation to us. As believers, we unwittingly shun His love, mercy and grace that He has freely given to us. God is calling us to worship Him privately and corporately. He wants us to move beyond the exhilaration we feel in worship and worship because we love Him beyond compare and want to fill our hearts with an intimacy that no one else can –to touch us in the secret parts and be made whole. Each believer must make a conscious effort to worship when we feel like it and when we don't. This discipline is an act of obedience to our Lord. While the feeling of worship can be breathtaking, the discipline of worship should not be ignored.
Oh Lord, May our fellowship with You be our continual habitation.
