ENJOYING GOD

Something is missing from our lives. It is the enjoyment of God as our supreme treasure, our "Pearl of Great Price."  Something is wrong with our approach to life. It is our foolish determination to enjoy something else, some paltry thing of this momentary pilgrimage on earth, as much as only God can be enjoyed, and to value our pleasure more than God’s glory.  Experiencing God is in itself a source of greater pleasure than experiencing anyone or anything else. If we could taste that intimacy, if we knew what it is to draw near to God and to feel Him draw near to us, if we realized how we are the ones to whom the Father and Son through the Spirit reveal themselves and in whom They make Their home, we would keep the “Better Life of Blessings”, the addiction of our old nature, in its place as a lesser thing, never demanded, never desired as a first thing passion. The knowledge that God and man can live in fellowship is hidden in Christ. It is too wonderful for sinful, corrupted human nature to discover. But we have, in Christ, the way into God’s presence without fear. Those who enjoy this communion are gloriously united to God through Christ and share in all the glorious and excellent fruits of such communion. The Spirit is inviting each one of us to walk a very different path, to embark on a radically different journey.  We’re bidden to come as we are, boldly, without fear, even though our souls still sometimes seem a cesspool of foul muck with no living waters in sight, abandoning ourselves to God for whatever He chooses to allow, waiting for Him to reveal how near we are to Him already in every circumstance of life, and to then draw us nearer still. This is walking in the Spirit, where the supremacy, majesty and sovereignty of Jesus is the fulcrum on which all else is balanced, and to love Him with the Father’s love is our only desire (Jn. 17:26).