come and listen...

People make God out to be so "high and mighty". Yes, he is an infinite omniscient, omnipotent being, but he really longs to be part of us, just one of the crowd in a way. That's why he is a 3-fold personality. He is GOD. He is the Holy Spirit (the guide that lives within us). He is Christ. He sent a part of himself to us as Jesus Christ, fully man and fully God. It was his way of showing us we could be human and live for God at the same time. Jesus was an ordinary man, a carpenter. He lived, he breathed, he bled. He wasn't the CEO of a large corporation, the Chief of State, the President or a King of a large country.He wasn't above the reproach of the law and didn't evade his taxes. He was a working guy. Trying to make it, just like the rest of us, setting an example of how God wanted us to carry ourselves and present ourselves. So, what then, does he want with us? RELATIONSHIP! He wants to be included, give advice, listen, hang out, sing with you in the car (good or bad), hug you close in bad times and rejoice with you in good times. But in order to get intimate with God, you have to know who he is and what he is all about. The Bible lays that out for us and I could talk all day on that subject alone, but I feel that this is the scripture for today and it says more than enough. We all have to start somewhere....

Isaiah 55
1 Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

3 Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you...

6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.

9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
which will not be destroyed."

God created you for a purpose... he did not create you in vain. Seek a relationship with him and he will begin to show you where to go. No matter where you have been... good, bad, or ugly, he can and will use you in his kingdom.