"Relational Presence..." - Daily Word #67
Have you ever been in a room waiting for some "dignitary" to arrive and suddenly when they "show up", the entire room is buzzing at a different level than before they came.
It happened to me about 10 years ago when a certain "Sir" we were all waiting for, walked into the room, and everyone behaved a little different. It was rather awkward. But I was brave enough to just walk up to him, greet him with a smile and a handshake, and started a cordial conversation, which he obliged.
As a Believer, I wonder if you have the same reverent feeling when the "KING of KINGS" graces the room with His Presence. And I also wonder if you would be brave enough to just enter His Gates with Thanksgiving in your heart and His courts with your Joyful Praise!
Perhaps you and I have forgotten the need to feel a certain way with GOD. Maybe we have grown just a little bit cold with our walk with HIM. Or it could be that we just don't know what to expect or feel when He comes in, as no one has taught us about His Presence.
Over the next few days, I will be sharing about "His Presence"...
As I feel it is so essential and it is the very thing that separates us from every other "Religion". Our GOD is so interested in us. Our GOD is so wanting to have a relationship with us and desires to show us His Glorious Presence -- so that our lives will never be the same again!
GOD proves all of this by showing us that He is interested in having Fellowship with us at the START and END of the Bible.
In Genesis 3:8, we see that God Himself walked with Adam and Eve in Eden (God's Sanctuary)
"Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day," Source
Fast forward to Revelation 21:3, it's a very similar picture but on a much bigger scale.
" And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." Source
It is an amazing and encouraging picture of how GOD Himself longs to have an eternal and intimate relationship with ALL of us, His Children. Such is our good good FATHER!
"The Presence" series continues tomorrow...
Blessings & Shalom.
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I suppose sometimes when we forgot how much He has done for us out of love, or how we lost that sense of gratefulness we tend to distance ourselves from the presence of the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
Sometimes I too shy away from His presence especially I unconsciously looked upon myself too much instead of beholding His love and His finished work; and that is when we tend to fall off into the darkness and struggle until we realise we truly need to dwell with Him and let Him dwell with us.
(Looking at Adam and Eve seems like a classic example)
Great sharing @seekgod ! I am looking forward for your series in the days to come!
Thanks @littlenewthings... it's true to every one of us isn't it. We often shy away just like Adam and Eve as they sinned against God.
I'm reminded today that God doesn't see our sins, He sees JESUS in us... that's why we are accepted and can STAND in His Presence.
Blessings!