God is Personal

God is Personal "The word of the Lord came to me, saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.'" Jeremiah 1:4-5 _____ In this passage God comes to Jeremiah because...because God has a job He wants Jeremiah to do. But I like the way, first, before getting into the details of Jeremiah's job description, Jehovah starts their conversation on a personal note, with a tender word of encouragement. Now I know that these words were originally spoken to Jeremiah thousands of years ago, but what they tell us about God...how He feels and how He deals with His children...these lessons are timeless and as applicable today as they were O-so long ago. Above and beyond anything else, miracle-of-miracles, God knew us before we were conceived or even born. He, personally, created us...and formed us in our mother's womb. Our birth was no accident anymore than our lives are a by-product of evolution. God decided He wanted us. God decided who and what we would be and personally hand-picked the talents, abilities, strengths and even the weaknesses that we would have and chose us...sanctified us...set us apart so that in the fullness of His time, by His grace, we would believe in His Son and belong to Him for all eternity. What's more He has a job for us to do, just like He had a job for Jeremiah to do. O we may not be prophets. We probably won't be, not in the Biblical sense. But God has prepared a good work for each one of us to do and has equipped us...given us everything we need to accomplish that task for His pleasure and glory (Ephesians 2:8-10). The point is...? God, our God, is a communicative God. He doesn't breath the breath of life into our nostrils and give us the precious gift of life and then turn away and leave us to go-it-alone. He doesn't save our souls...and after speaking the truth and filling us with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ...all of a sudden become disengaged, disinterested, and silent. Life is all about fellowship , sharing life with God, inter-course between God and you...and God and me, or at least it is supposed to be. You see God is ever-present and always will be with us. His Spirit dwells within all those who believe. You can't get any closer or more present and personal than that. It is totally illogical to think after learning all of that about Him, that, for some reason, in this particular dispensation, that He God, now chooses to be silent. If anything, given the personal and universal mess we're in as members of the human race, God's speaking words of truth into our minds, whispering words of light and life into our hearts...and speaking words of power and courage into our over-worked, overwhelmed, and oppressed souls...is more important now than ever before. God speaks! He has so many important truths He wants to tell us. But...the question is are we wise enough to listen to Him? Love in Christ, Patty Clark In all matters let us always turn to and listen to that One and only sacred source. fenelon