Steep yourself in God-reality – Part 2

We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. The things we see here and now are here today and gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever. It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going.

Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been  miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God.

In other words, everything we need to live this life as Christians has been given to us. This is God-reality! God is so gracious in calling us to Himself. In purchasing our freedom He went for the jugular by sending His Son. He didn’t deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant.

In Jesus, He personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all.

He was supreme in the beginning and – leading the resurrection parade – He is supreme in the end.

Steep yourself in God-reality

This statement found in The Message has been with me for some weeks now and has served to constantly remind me that no matter where I find myself, He is ever present! This has increased my awareness of Him. “Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions…”

I had a look in the Collins Thesaurus and looked up the word ‘immerse’ and found ‘preoccupation’ and ‘baptism’ also included within the list of synonyms. I liked the thought of being immersed in God-reality!

The word ‘immerse’ best describes for me  what it means to be in union with Jesus. I am in Him and He is in me. These synonyms help  to further understand God’s nature and my relationship with Him. Our baptism signifies death, burial and resurrection living with Christ day by day! His grace draws us into this reality. Baptized into God-reality!

Our old life is dead. Yes. The reality is that as we see things from His perspective, all things become new and our perspective dies!

AW Tozer said, “We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God.” How profoundly challenging and yet living in God’s reality makes this all possible for us. Brother Lawrence wrote about Practising The Presence of Jesus with heart and mind wide open to the Living God even in the ordinariness of life.

This is our calling as believers to be drawn into seeing  life from His perspective and  experience the presence of a Higher Affection.