What are you doing to cultivate your
relationship with God? You and I must give thought to this. We should revisit
the question. We cultivate our hobbies with new equipment and training. We
cultivate friendships with shared meals and sports events. Christian belief
consists of relationship with the living God is how we describe our faith. What
are you doing to enrich the bond? It's a candid question, not meant to
criticize. I ask it because I know firsthand how easily presumption becomes
normative. We presume we are okay, we trust, we attend requisite meetings in
our churches. It becomes routine. Relationship we would agree involves
communication. Of course a relationship with someone who is unseen is different
from others. You are confident that God hears you whether you speak to him
aloud or silently. That's one aspect of communication. You are assured that God
speaks through the Bible of course, and through His indwelling Spirit in you,
and sometimes through expressions by other people. Granted, much about hearing
God speak in these ways borders on the subjective. But let's kick that aside
and get back to the question. What are you doing, or what can you do to
cultivate this relationship that you say you have with the Creator God who
spoke the universe into existence, who approved the perfection that
characterized all of his creation, who provided salvation through the
sacrificial atoning death of his incarnated son Jesus? It's a question. I am
not going to answer it for you. We gravitate to articles that advise us about
three steps to this or five key spiritual exercises. Fine, maybe they can
inspire you, but what are 'you' now going to do to cultivate your relationship
with God?
