When you want to get to know that loved one in your life, what do you do?
You hang around them. You start to learn their likes, dislikes, and who they are.
This is how we build a relationship. If you have no time for your spouse or children, is that relationship strong? If you are constantly ignoring them when they need you, or want to be with you, is that relationship strong? If you took no time to know them at all, is there really even a relationship there?
Guess what? Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit know everything about you.
Oh that doesn’t bore them. They love you and have more time for you than you will be able to ask for. So in a relationship when two individuals are supposed to work on getting to know each other, who does that leave left between you and the Lord?
Yep! How much do we know the Lord? How much time do we spend trying to get to know the Lord? How much time to we give to the Lord regarding anything?
That’s how strong your relationship is with the Lord.
Here’s the good part. The more you earnestly seek Him, the more you find Him.
Matthew 7:7-8 – 7“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
If you’re doing it with a pure heart and really want to know your Lord, You’ll continue to find Him and know Him better.
You know why? Because He wants you to. This starts out as a pretty one-sided deal. He loves you from the very beginning and knows everything about you. For you it requires E-F-F-O-R-T. Do you think God cares about what effort you’re putting into your relationship with Him? Yes He cares that much.
So while we’re doing things that won’t make any difference tomorrow, remember what we could be doing. When we’re busy doing things that are contrary to what the Word of God says, get to know Him well enough that it bothers you that He don’t like that.
Relationship! The Lord wants a Relationship with you! Satan doesn’t want you to have a relationship with Him. Want to be rebellious to Satan, improve your relationship with the Lord.
When this war is over, you don’t want to be on the wrong side. Eternity is forever.