Currently Reading/Read:

Face to Face with God by Bill Johnson

Finding Favor with the King by Tommy Tenney

 

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         So I’ve been reading a lot lately… these are the books I’ve been reading the last week… I’m on a quest right now, and everything I am seeking has to do with trying to go deeper… the quest?… Intimacy within the presence of God.  It’s a quest that will take a lifetime, so I thought to myself, “Self, we should probably start now…” And so now, off I am going. Wow, what a quest… There is nothing more important than this quest, as you’ve heard it said: “The greatest work God will do through you is the work He is doing in you.” 

We were created for one thing:  To love the King and be loved by the King.  This is why we were created, we don’t have to do it, but that doesn’t take away the fact that we were created for it…  We don’t have to eat, but we were designed to take in nutrition through eating… We don’t have to worship God, but without it our lives will always be a faded replica of the dreams that we were born with…

God has been giving me some revelation to ponder through, but I’ll post that as a separate post, here I simply want to encourage you to begin this quest for intimacy if your not already on it.  God loves you, and desires to dwell with you in an intimate relationship… God loves everyone equally but His relationships with people vary in depth.  You can love someone, say a baseball player, know everything about him, adore him, but never have a relationship with Him.  Relationship takes both parties wanting relationship with each other.  As you begin to pour more into that relationship, you will begin to reap more from it… more relationship, and in turn: Intimacy.

However, this isn’t a ‘nice’ quest…  It is the best, but it isn’t the ‘nice’ one.  The cost is clear, intimacy costs.  The ultimate cost is everything!  The cost of a life in God’s presence is reckless abandonment… Bummer?  No, not at all… Not only is the cost told to us, but so is the outcome:  the reward for this lifestyle is joy.  Joy is our reward for giving our all to God.  There is nothing greater than joy.  It is the currency of which God decides that we are to be paid with in return for seeking out God with all we are…

God wants us to seek intimacy with Him… He doesn’t want us to get scared when we have to begin it, so He enlightens us that it costs us everything… But He doesn’t want us not to pursue it, or give up, so He also reveals the reward for it…

If you aren’t already start seeking an intimate relationship with God… It is the reason you exist, and you know it, you feel it… He wants you, and all of you with no reserves, no fallbacks, no ‘but ifs,’ This is the quest for which we were born for, I’m already on it,.. and I can tell you… it is so worth it…

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