After God? (Pursuing God)

These are the things that have brought me to closer to God and thankfully God’s word has mirrored these truths through scripture.

So what do I want you and everyone else to get out of these truths? My hope is that you will experience more of God and the more you become closer to God the more you will experience and live in God’s hope, peace, and joy. You will not just be looking into God’s love but be living in God’s love. And meditating and growing in these riches -your life can’t help but glorify the Lord and share His love with others.

Write these truths down and meditate on them as often as you can throughout your day.

These truths are:

1. God is love. (1 John 4:16) His Love is Faithful and Unfailing. (Psalm 31:7 Psalm 100.) Nothing can separate us from God’s love. (Romans 8:38) God’s love perfects our love. (1 John 4:17)

2. A Humble and Contrite heart and Respect/Reverence for His Word. A heart that is broken for Jesus Christ. A heart and mind that his surrendered to God and His will. A heart this is sensitive to the will of God. Think of your heart as a bone that is broken- you sense and feel every moment or touch. That is the way our heart should be towards the Lord. A heart that is surrendered, humble and contrite to God can’t help but be obedient to God’s word because you are living in His wonderful truths. (Isaiah 66:2) (Numbers 12:3-8) (Philippians 2:3-11) (1 Peter 5:5-7)

3. Renewing our mind: Who is God? God created the heavens and the earth. He made us to be vessels of His love. He is a faithful, unfailing, merciful, gracious and JUST. He is a jealous God who loves us. He desires to be close to us and He never lets go of us. (Exodus 34:14 ) (Genesis 1:1) (Psalm 89:11) (Isaiah 42:5-6) (Psalm 75:2) (Hebrews 1:8-10) (2 Chronicles 30:9) (2 John 1:3)

4. God inhabits our praises and thanksgivings. He emerges and manifests himself in our praises. He manifests himself in direction and “God” focused or honed thought. (Psalm 22:3) (Psalm 73:1,28) (Psalm 100) (Psalm 116:5) (Acts 17:27-28) (John 14:21) (James 4:8) (Matthew 5:3) (Luke 17:21)

Christians since you have given your life over to Christ Jesus. God is within us. He is within our soul.

Jesus (when speaking about the Kingdom of God) said "You won't be able to say, 'Here it is!' or 'It's over there!' For the Kingdom of God is among you. New International Version says "The Kingdom of God is within you and under further examination into the Strong's concordance it means "in your midst" but more then that "it is within you/ within your soul."

Christians…. since we are made right with God through our Lord Jesus Christ why do we try to get close to God by climbing some legalistic approach or understanding? Doesn't that come from some pridefully thought of our own? Recognition from God isn't based on our own ability to get some place or somewhere but us drawing near and living in God's grace, mercy and love.

Why do we try to reach or blindly run? Why do we think we have to reach some point or spiritual pinnacle only to come short and frustrate ourselves? Why do we have to be rescued by God in order to find Him? So let us not be stubborn or “into” ourselves in “our” approach to drawing near, living in and experiencing God. God is already near us! You have the Holy Spirit- HE is already in you and He wants you to experience more of Him. Ask God to give you the heart and mindset that He needs for Him to work inside and with you.

“For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:8

There in the humble, thankful, surrender, and quiet tenderness of the heart–we enter into the courts of the Almighty.

Oh the joy that awaits!