The Drawing

From this passage we read that God desires a relationship an intimate relationship with His creations. I believe that we forget that we were created for the Lord and that He desires to have fellowship with us. We are the apple of God’s eye, His one true love.

My heart has been so heavy toward my relationship with the Lord, and the relationship that the body of Christ has with Him.

The Lord desires us and the same commune and fellowship that we enjoy every day with friends and family. The one that sticks closer than a brother, the one that we call Abba Father desires the same fellowship.

God’s heart is yearning for His people. How it must grieve Him to know that His children only seek Him for an exchange of demands that bring instant gratification and personal gain.

Our walk with God should be much deeper than our wallets. What has happened is our daily lives and our daily walk have become confused with one another; we carry the burdens of our lives into our worship and devotion to God, church is now work, our relationship with God is work! Praising and worshipping the Lord; work, praying; work, fasting; work. Anything that is to build a relationship is work and imposes on our time. What has happened to this generation, where is the desire?

The Lord desires us and He wants our affection to be toward Him the Bible says: Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. David said in Ps 27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek. Ps 42:1 As the hart (deer) panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Ex 34:14 (KJV) For the Lord to be jealous there must be a love for us and a deep desire. This is His unwavering desire. It is He that has issued the invitation, for He longs to be known by His children. Since the fall of man it has taken thousands of years, intricate preparations, and a huge price to open the way for this kind of close relationship.

Adam who knew the Lord openly walked and talked with God in the garden enjoying the very presence of God, but that relationship was severed by an act of rebellion and now sin destroyed a once beautiful relationship that would be carried over to all mankind. Now men and women cannot see or know God as Adam and Eve once had.

The Lord however was not so easy to give up on His Love for us, but was determined to bring back that fellowship so with great passion and compassion the plan of redemption was put into action.

At the price of His son Jesus, he would lay down His life so that we can be reconnected to the Lord. He paid the price that would liberate us from darkness and bring us back to His marvelous light. Paul said it best in 1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s

John the beloved disciple and close friend to Jesus recorded Christ as saying: No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. John 1:18 (KJV) John 14:7 (KJV) 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. John 14:11 (KJV) 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: These verses are saying that Christ stands in the most intimate place with God and it is through Christ that the Father can make known the same intimacy with us.

But I must say that we don’t hear much from our televangelist about relationship and intimacy with God but rather only on His blessings and what God can do for us on behalf of our seed offerings. Don’t get me wrong I believe that God does reward them that give and will bless those that do so. According to scripture we are to give cheerfully and gladly, I believe that if our hearts motive for given is right and it is truly unto the Lord, He will bless his people.

This junk I see on TV where these “saints” give $1000 and suddenly God turns around and gives them $100,000, makes God out to be a profitable pyramid scheme, and gives better odds than Vegas.

This neglect to mention to people that God not only saves and blesses His people but longs for a relationship with them; it is this teaching that is hurting the body of Christ. It is a costly and disastrous decision on every minister and child of God that never experiences or tells of the desire of God’s heart to have each of us near Him.