Do you have one? A relationship with God? You do, even if you don't feel it or think it. The nature of God is such that He has relationship with all His creation. The question of importance is what sort of relationship do you have with God? In the heavenly records is your name listed among the rebels from or the citizens of God's Kingdom?
We get to choose whether we will be servants of God or enemies of God. It's an interesting thing that the God of the universe who has all power at His fingertips has decided to leave that all important decision up to us stupid humans who have a hard time not burning our Pop Tarts. We fill our bodies with poisoned food and fill our minds with poisoned ideas and let our spirits starve but God believes we're equipped to decide our eternal destiny. I suppose if He believes we're capable than we must be capable and there is some comfort in that. I suppose also that if He think's we're capable of deciding our eternal destiny than we're capable of deciding our day to day destiny.
If we can choose to live in fellowship with God after we die we can choose to live in union with Him before we die. And there is even more comfort in that. It means that I have the choice of deciding whether today I will drink of the life giving salvation that comes from right relationship with God. So what is incorporated in "right relationship with God?"
What is included in a right relationship with God?
I don't know. Not specifically. I do know that no two relationships are ever exactly the same. It's dangerous to read biographies of great Christians and seek to emulate them too closely because even if they got their relationship with God exactly right, it doesn't mean that your relationship with God should be that way.
I also know that having a relationship with Jesus isn't the same as having a relationship with God. Jesus doesn't represent the entirety of God. I heard growing up that you need a relationship with Jesus. "Do what Jesus would do". Why didn't I also hear "Do what the Holy Spirit would do?" or "Do what the Father would do?" Obviously the point isn't to toy with semantics. The point is to live life the way God created us to live. To do that we need to be in relationship with Him and something I've been realizing recently is that fellowship with God includes intimacy with His Spirit. Evangelical Christianity generally speaking talks much more about Jesus than about the Spirit. This makes sense because Jesus is the one who died for our sins, not the Holy Spirit. However the Holy Spirit is the one that makes living as a Christian possible. Jesus went to Heaven and is at the right hand of the Father. The Holy Spirit resides on earth in His temples that are believers. I've just recently needed to reanalyze my understanding of the Holy Spirit and am currently doing alot of reading, praying, soul searching trying to figure out what intimacy with the Holy Spirit looks like. I am excited to write more as God has mercy on me and allows me to fellowship more and more intimately with Him in the days and weeks to come.
I have been enjoying this song while writing this. Have a great day :)
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